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advantage, that it could be retailed at fourpence a 
bottle! NowI strongly suspect that more than 
half the champagne (owing to the failure of the 
grape crops, and the vine disease) imported into 
this country and sent to America, is made from 
rhubarb; and I should like to be enlightened on 
the subject by some of our continental tourists 
and residents, as well as by all honest wine mer- 
chants. At the same time, perhaps, some of your 
informants will be kind enough to send you the 
recipe and directions, if the wine is (as I fancy it 
is) made in France, in order that we may try our 
hand at it in this country. Js. Bruce Nein. 
Family of Dallawage, co. Devon. — In 1575, 
John Dallawage, a cornet in the army of Queen 
Elizabeth, and the Earl of Essex migrated from 
Devon to co. Antrim. Can any of your readers 
inform me from what part of Devon he came, or if 
any trace of the name or family remain in that 
county ? Aurrep T. Lee. 
Peverill of the Peak’s Bones. — In the Rambles 
round Nottingham, five parts of which have now 
appeared, the writer suggests that an extraor- 
dinary sarcophagus, about eight feet long, and 
bones of a skeleton which must have been seven 
feet high, were found at Lenton Priory (March 12, 
1849), and the latter transmitted to Dr. Hood of 
London. From the position in which they were 
found, they are conjectured to have been the re- 
mains of the founder, William Peveril, bastard 
son of William the Conqueror. Can Dr. Hood 
give any account of them? S. M. D. 
“View of the Highlands.” — What is the com- 
plete title of a tract, A View of the Highlands, Sc. 
The preface is dated, ‘ Richmond, Surrey, April, 
1754,” and, together with the introduction, makes 
up Ixx. pages. The work itself consists of 80, 
and there is an appendix, paged continuously with 
the work, of 53. WELee: 
Edinburgh. 
Roper and Curzon. — Burke says : — 
“Henry Francis Roper, fourteenth Baron Teynham, 
assumed the additional arms and surname of Curzon, by 
royal license, upon inheriting the estate of Waterperry, 
co, Oxford.” 
He inherited that estate by descent from Fran- 
cis (? Henry), nephew of the eleventh lord, born 
1767. 
Can any of your readers inform me how this 
Francis (or Henry) became possessor of that estate ; 
especially whether he intermarried into the family 
of Curzon? Collins says of him “ who has taken 
the name of Curzon for the estate of Waterperry ;” 
and again, “ Francis Roper, son of the Hon. F. 
Roper, has taken the name [of Curzon], and in- 
herits the estate.” J. I. 
The College, Ely. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[29d 8. No 15., Aprin 12, 56. 
“The right man in the right place.”—At a- 
recent meeting of the Administrative Reform As- 
sociation, a speaker is reported to have said, that if 
the Society had only originated this famous maxim, 
it would not have lived and worked in vain. The 
assertion that a truism like the above is of such 
recent coinage is simply absurd; but I doubt 
even if the Society has any fair claim to the 
honour of bringing it into vogue. Can any reader 
point out the jist expression of the idea in its 
present form ? V. T. Srernperc. 
HHMinor Queries Mith Answers, 
Daniel Pulteney. —'The parliamentary debates 
of 1722 to 1731, contain several speeches delivered 
by this member of parliament, who represented 
Preston, and was for a portion of the time a Lord 
of the Admiralty. He died in the latter year. Of 
what family was he a member? Was he a rela- 
tion of his contemporary, the celebrated William 
Pulteney, afterwards Earl of Bath ? 
PRESTONIENSIs. 
[Daniel Pulteney and the Earl of Bath were cousins, 
and connected with the Poultneys of Poultney, co. Lei- 
cester. Sir William Pulteney, knighted by Charles II., 
1660, had two sons: I. William, ob. 1715, the father of 
William, created Earl Bath; and II. John, M.P. for 
Hastings, 1695—1708, ob. 1726, the father of Daniel Pul- 
teney, M.P. for Preston, who died Jan. 13, 1732. Sir 
William Johnstone Pulteney, Bart., M.P., married 
Frances, third, but only surviving daughter of Daniel, 
who became heiress of the princely fortune of the Pul- 
teney family. Sir William’s daughter, Henrietta Laura 
Pulteney, was created Countess of Bath, 1803, ] 
“ Scarbabe,” its meaning 2 Inscription in the 
Cathedral of Peterborough.—I1 happened to be 
passing through Peterborough a few days ago, 
and took a hasty survey of the cathedral. At the 
west end of the nave, there is a quaint old picture 
of ‘olde Scarlett,” as the inscription beneath sets 
forth ; which also says, that he had a “ scarbube 
mighty voice, and visage grim.” I had no writing 
materials with me, or I would have transcribed 
the whole inscription. Can any of your readers 
tell me what is the meaning of the word scarbabe ? 
Can it be from scare-babe ? The date of the stone 
beneath is a.p. 1590. W. T. SuerBorne. 
Cambridge. 
[Scarbabe is synonymous with Scarecrow, anything 
terrifying without danger. Hence Drayton, Polyolb., 
Xviii, p. 1013: 
“ Our Talbot, to the French so terrible in war, 
That with his name their babes they used to sear.”, 
And Robin Goodfellow, in A Pleasant Comedy called Wily 
Beguiled, says: 
“ Now there’s a fine device comes into my head to 
scare the scholar: you shall see, I’ll make fine sport with 
him, They say, that every day he keeps his walk 
amongst these woods and melancholy shades; and on the 
