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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2"¢ S, Nog, Fen, 29. °56. 
it is true, but still in one indigenous (may I call 
it?) to Britain. There is an ancient British word 
orch, or ore, signifying outward, extreme, border- 
ing on. Also gard, or garth (Celt.), is the Ang.- 
Sax. geard. Thus orch-garth would mean the 
outward garden, or enclosure, which in fact an 
orchard generally is. We can imagine this com- 
pound word becoming, in the course of time, cor- 
rupted into the modern pronunciation. A.C. M. 
Exeter. 
William Sancroft Holmes (2"4 §.i. 74.) — The 
inquiry of R. J. has only just met my eye. As 
Mr. W. 8. Holmes was well known to many who 
habitually read your paper, I have no doubt but 
that R. J. has received the information he re- 
quires. But as Mr. Holmes was a relation, and a 
very intimate friend of mine, I send some par- 
ticulars ; and for further information would refer 
R. J. to Mr. Holmes’s cousin and executor, the 
Rev. E. Adolphus Holmes, St. Margaret’s Rectory, 
Bungay. Mr. William Sancroft Holmes was the 
only son of the Rev. Jno. Holmes, of Gawdy Hall, 
in this county, by a daughter of W. Whitman, 
Esq., of Hastings (the present Countess of Wal- 
degrave is another daughter). He was born in 
August, 1815, and was educated at Harrow, and 
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He married, 
in Feb., 1840, Hester, daughter of Davies Gilbert, 
Esq., M.P., President of the Royal Society, by 
whom he had one son and four daughters. He 
died in the autumn of 1849, at Berne, in Switzer- 
land. Mr. H. H. Pierson was with him at Har- 
row, and also at Cambridge, but at Trinity College. 
ALFRED Master. 
Norwich. 
This gentleman was of Gawdy Hall, in Reden- 
hall, Norfolk. He died at Berne, in Switzerland, 
September 11, 1849, aged thirty-two. He was 
lineally descended from a brother of Archbishop 
Sancroft. Further information will be found in 
the obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine, xxxii. 
(N.8.). The beautiful quintett in the Oratorio 
of Jerusalem was composed by Pierson as an ad- 
dition to the work, in honour of his friend’s me- 
mory. G. A. C 
Suffolk Genealogies (24 S. i. 94.) — The MSS. 
of the late D. E. Davy, Esq., added to Mus. Brit. 
in 1852, are rich in genealogical collections relating 
to the county of Suffolk. G. A 
Norfolk Pedigrees (1* §, xii. 327.) —If F. 8. 
will inform me the names of the families connected 
with Harleston and Hingham, of which he re- 
quires particulars, I may be able to furnish him 
with some information. G. A. C. 
Cromwell (1* S. xii. 205. 353. ; 24 S. i. 101.) 
— The probability of the truth of the accusation 
brought by Cusrrisnsis against the character of 
. 
the usurper, is confirmed by the fact that there 
was published in London, in 1731, a book with the 
following title, Life of Mr. Cleveland, natural son 
of Oliver Cromwell, written by himself. I once 
saw a copy of the second volume, but am entirely 
ignorant of its contents; and having never seen 
the book either alluded to or described, do not 
know how far it may be regarded as authentic. 
W. D. Macray. 
New College. 
Physiognomy and Chiromancy (2 §, i. 55.) — 
Lowndes mentions three editions of this work by 
Richard Saunders, 1653, 1671, and 1672, all in 
folio, and published at London. The title is — 
“Physiognomie and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie: the 
symmetrical Proportions and signal Moles of the Body, 
&c. Whereunto is added the Art of Memory.” 
The best edition is that of 1672, with portrait by 
T. Cross, and cuts. A copy of the edition of 1671, 
sold at White Knight’s sale for 19s., and another 
copy of the same edition, with two portraits, bound 
in russia, by Roger Payne, with his bill, sold for 
31. 13s. 6d., at Hibbert’s sale. W. H.W. T. 
Somerset House. 
Passage in General Thanksgiving (24 S. i. 121.) 
— Iam much obliged to H. D. N. for his notice 
of my Query, 1S. xii. 405. The passage which 
he cites is certainly one of anomalous construction, 
but in other respects it can hardly be considered 
of the same construction with the passage in the 
General Thanksgiving. I believe that the usage 
of be as a subjunctive mood, without the auxiliary 
may, is not uncommon; but I do not recollect 
any parallel passage to “ Give us that sense,” &c., 
“that we show.” Besides, in the General Thanks- 
giving, the several verbs are referred to different 
nominatives ; whereas in the Litany they refer to 
the same noun. A pronoun, indeed, is placed in- 
stead of the noun in the second clause, and this 
slight change in the construction seems to have 
caused the addition of the auxiliary may. 
In short, the passage cited by H. D. N. may be 
considered one of unnecessary, but not ungram- 
matical, addition; whereas that in the General 
Thanksgiving, if not, as I believe, ungrammatical, 
is one of very unusual omission. 
If such a passage as the following could be 
found, I should feel less doubt about the use of 
show without may. “ Hear us, that those evils,” 
&e., “no longer afflict us.” No one, I believe, 
would have written these words without the in- 
sertion of may before the words “ no longer.” 
The author of the General Thanksgiving de- 
cidedly appears to have written may show. The 
omission belongs to the corrector. E. C. H. 
Collections for County History (2°° S. i. 75.) — 
I am making topographical collections for the 
Hundreds of East and West Flegg, in which I 
