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by Dr. Lappenberg, in a note contributed to Dr. 

 Pauli's Continuation of bis History of England 

 (vol. iii. p. 103., Hamburg, 1853). As the pay- 

 ment is there said to be made to Rohesia's son, it 

 is probable that the mother was by that time dead. 



2. The grant is mentioned by Gamier of Pont 

 S. Maxence, in his metrical Vie St. Thomas le 

 Martir, published by Bekker in the Transactions 

 of the Berlin Academy, 1838. In describing the 

 penance of Henry II. at Canterbury, this biogra- 

 pher says : — 

 " La surur saint Thomas merci quist e cria, 



E en adrescement un molin li dona, 



Bien valt dis mars par an la rente qu'ele en a." — P. 162. 



J. C. R. 



Cuthhert Family (2°* S. vi. 163.)— The mar- 

 riage of Mr. Geo. Cuthbert in 1653 is extracted 

 from the registers of Windsor parish church. 

 The family of Cuthbert still continues to reside in 

 the parish of Willoughby. . Pishet Thompson. 



Welowes and Roses (2'"i S. vi. 148.) — When 

 Capgrave says that in January, 1338, "welowes 

 bore roses," he probably means "willows," — "wil- 

 lows bore roses." So they do now. In rationalis- 

 ing an old mediaeval legend like this of Capgrave's, 

 one almost feels a pang. But imperiosa ti-ahit 

 Veritas : naturalists have recorded, what many of 

 us have had frequent opportunities of observing, 

 that the willow does occasionally bear a kind of 

 rose. 



The species of willow most remarkable in this 

 respect is the Rose-iuillow (Ger. Rosenweide, Salix 

 rosea of the old botanists, S. helix L.) The 

 phaenomenon is thus expounded by Loudon : — 



" The name rose-willow relates to rose-like expansions 

 at the end of the branches, which are caused by the de- 

 position of the egg of a cynips in the summits of the 

 twigs, in consequence of which they shoot out into numer- 

 ous leaves, totally different in shape from the other leaves 

 of the tree, and arranged not much unlike those compos- 

 ing the flowers of the rose, adhering to the stem after the 

 other leaves fall off." (^rft. et Frut. Brit. iii. 1491.) 



A similar account is given by Ray, Hist. Plant. 

 ii. 1420. Conf. also Parkinson, Theater of Flantes 

 (1640), p. 1431. 



Capgrave registers the appearance of the we- 

 lowe-roses in Januarie ! This also is explained by 

 Ray : " Haj (rosaj) per totam hyemem tenaciter 

 virgis adhaerent, et se cuivis conspieiendaj prae- 

 bent ; " as well as by Loudon, who particularly 

 states that the rose- like expansion '■'■is obvious in 

 winter, when the plants are leafless." 



This sort of rose, however, is not peculiar to the 

 S. helix. It is very common also, says Loudon, 

 on the S. Hotrmanniana (Sussex), and on the S. 

 alba (Cambridgeshire) : "muitis salicum speciebus 

 communis," says Ray. Mr. 'iY-ale, a most excel- 

 lent botanical authority, informs me that he has 

 seen it on the rose-tree itself; and I have met with 

 it on briers. 



Capgrave is countenanced by many old tales 

 about roses blossoming in winter ; for instance, 

 the old Kentish legend, beginning 



" Three ravens set upon a tree, Derrj'-down," 

 and ending 



" Last Christmas-day the roses blew." 



Thomas Bots. 



P. S. A plate, very fairly executed, of the rose 



growing on the "welowe" maybe seen in Bau- 



hin's Hist. Plant. (1650), vol. i. part 2., p. 213.; 



and also in Gerarde' s Herball, (1597), p. 1204. 



English Militia (2"'' S. v. 74.)— On a for- 

 mer occasion I transmitted to you a list of the 

 English militia who so nobly and spontaneously 

 proffered their services for the suppression of the 

 Irish Rebellion in 1798, and which was as com- 

 plete, with regard to specifying the individual re- 

 giments, as I could then find data for the purpose. 

 Since that time I have, however, been enabled to 

 add considerably to the list furnished, and an aug- 

 mentation also of four Welsh regiments, which, 

 being animated with equal loyalty and patriotism, 

 were sent to that kingdom in support of law and 

 social order. 



Militia despatched from England to serve in Ireland 

 during the Rebellion of 1798 : — 



Two Brothers of the same Christian Naine (2'"* 

 S. V. 307. passi7n.) — Only one instance of the 

 kind occurs to personal knowledge, and it was 

 in the north of Scotland. Mr. John Munro, long 

 factor on the estate of Fowlis in Ross-shire (belong- 

 ing to the late Sir Hugh Munro, 8th baronet, and 

 26th baron of Fowlis in succession, the head of 

 one of our most ancient Scotish families), in- 

 formed me, about twenty years ago, that he had an 

 elder brother, sons of the same father, but by a 

 different mother, who bore the same Christian name 

 that he did himself, and which was also, I think, 

 their father's, namely, John. This brother lived 

 to manhood, but was dead when my informant 

 communicated the fact to me. He is also dead, 

 but ills name has descended to one of his sons only, 

 as he evidently considered the circumstance too 

 unusual to be perpetuated in his own family ; anil, 

 indeed, it appears to me to be a custom in nomen- 

 clature " more honoured in the breach than in the 

 observance." A. S. A. 



