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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2='> S. YI. 152., Xov. 27. '58. 



of divers witnesses. The name may mean roxigh 

 pasture, A.-S. nA=rough, leag, or Zeo'A=pasture, 

 lea. J- Eastwood. 



Salaries of Mayors (2°* S. vi. 311. 382.) — In 

 addition to the towns already named which pay 

 salaries to their mayors, I would add Derby, 

 where the mayor is paid an annual salary of 210/. 

 This regular amount was voted to the retiring 

 mayor at the last meeting of the council, as shown 

 in the following extract from the minutes : — 



"THE mayor's salary. 



" On the motion of Mr. Alderman Bent, seconded by 

 Mr. Alderman Sandars, the usual salary of 200 guineas 

 was voted to the late Mayor." 



J. Llewellyn N Jewitt, F. S. A. 



Derby. 



" Liverpool — 'Mr. Alderman William Preston, wine 

 and spirit merchant, a liberal in politics, and who has 

 been for twenty years a member of the town council, was 

 unanimously elected maj-or yesterday. Some opposition 

 was made to the granting of the usual allowance of 

 2,000/. per annum, principally on the ground that, as \ 

 the corporation had lost by the withdrawal of the town ; 

 dues a large portion of its revenue, and as there was a 

 deficiency also in the corporate exchequer, the voting of | 

 the mayor's allowance might with great propriety be j 

 postponed until the financial estimates for the ensuing | 

 year were laid before the council. In reply to a question, | 

 the Town Clerk stated that if the council thought fit to I 

 grant a salary to the mayor it would become an obliga- 

 tory expenditure which might be lawfully made out of 

 the borough rate." — From the Express of November 10, 

 1858. 



Axon, j 



The Mayor of Lichfield has an allowance of 

 60Z. a year. T. G. Lomax. 



In my communication (2"^ S. vi. 382.), a slight 

 mistake has occurred. Coventry only pays its 

 mayor lOOZ., not 600^. J. M, H. 



Coventry. 



Adriaen van Utrecht, 1644 (2"^ S. v. 15.) — 

 Though ISIe. C. M. Isglebt's Query has been trans- 

 lated for the Navorscher, and surely will meet with 

 a more full answer than I can give, I offer the fol- 

 lowing from Galerie des Peintres Flamands, Hol- 

 landais el AUemands, par J. B. P. Lebrun, Peintre, 

 a Paris, chez I'Auteur, etc., 1796, infold, torn, iii., 

 Table Alphabetique, p. 57. : 



"Utrecht (Adrien van), peintre de fleurs et d'animaux, 

 ne h Anvers le 12. Janvier, 1599, mort en 1651." 



J. H. VAN Lennep. 

 Zeyst, Xov. 9. 



Palm Sunday at Borne (2"* S. vi. .347.) --The 

 privilege of supplying the "apostolic palace" with 

 palms was conferred by a bull of Pope Sixtus Y. 

 on the Bresca family, of San Eemo in the Genoese 

 territory. For an account of the origin of this mo- 

 nopoly, see Doctor Antonio, a Tale, by the Author 

 of Lorenzo Benoni (Edinburgh, Constable, 1856), 

 chap. XV. Kesupincs. 



Roamer (2'"iS. vi. 268. 314. 398.) — It appears 

 from Diez's Romanisches Worterbuch, p. 295., 

 that romero and 7-omeo are both of them Italian 

 and Spanish forms, and that the corresponding 

 word in old French was romier. The significa- 

 tion was simply pilgrim, but originally a person 

 who made his pilgrimage to Rome. The English 

 word roamer seems evidently to have been bor- 

 rowed from the French romier ; and from the 

 substantive was formed the verb to roam, which 

 does not exist in the Romance languages. The 

 proper name Eomeo in the Italian novel fol- 

 lowed by Shakspeare was doubtless the same 

 word ; and the passage in Act I., Sc. 5., " If I 

 profane with my unworthy hand, &c.," appears to 

 allude to the double meaning of Romeo ; the allu- 

 sion, however, does not occur in the novel of 

 Luigi da Porto. See Roscoe's Italian Novelists, 

 vol. ii. p. 40. L. 



Sir Thomas Cambell (2°* S. vi. 374.) — C. S. 

 may find an account of the Cambell family in 

 connexion with Clay Hall in Essex, where Sir 

 Thomas Cambell and his descendants long re- 

 sided. Sir Thomas was son of Robert Cambell 

 of Foulsham, in Norfolk, and I think is buried in 

 the large family vault in Barking church, where 

 many of the family are interred. Sir James 

 Cambell founded the charity school at Barking 

 in 1649. The monumental chapel of the Cam- 

 bells — an ugly brick building — was pulled down 

 a few years since.* If I remember aright, Lysons 

 gives an account of the family in the Environs of 

 London. I do not remember a pedigree of the 

 Cambells in the Essex Visitations, but my copies 

 are not at hand. E. J. Sage. 



Surnames (2"* S. vi. 373.) — In answer to a 

 Query signed Pkesbttek asking for the titles of 

 books on surnames, I beg to mention a very inter- 

 esting work which I am reading at this moment, 

 called English Surnames, ^-c, by Robert Fergu- 

 son : Routledge & Co. He speaks in the preface 

 of several other books on the same subject, as 

 Names 'and Surnames of the Anglo-Saxons, by J. 

 M. Kemble, published in 1847, and one by Mr. 

 Arthur, an American. Also the Altdeutsches Na- 

 menbuch of Forstemann, which he says throws 

 much light on English surnames, and Professor 

 Pott's book on Modern German Family Names. 



M. E. M. 



Motto (2°* S. vi. 327.) — For such a collection 

 as that described by M. S. R., I should think the 

 following lines from Ethel Churchill would form 

 an appropriate motto : — 



" That which we garnered in our eager j-outh 

 Becomes a long delight in after vears." 



F. C. H. 



* I have a drawing of this chapel, possibly the only 

 memorial of it in existence. 



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