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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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iltaria : quod etiam pro situ et loco fiat in sepulchro. Pres- 

 jyteri verb habeant caput versus altare." 



At what period was this direction introduced 

 nto the Ritual, and does it occur in the ancient 

 English uses ? Vebna. 



[This rule, contained in the Rituale Romanian, was 

 inuctioned by Pope Paul V. in June, 1014. See"N. & 

 }.,"1«S. ii. 452. — Ed.] 



Eudo de Rye (2 nd S. ix. 181.)— The pedigree 

 if the Frecheville family, carefully revised by Sir 

 ?. Madden, will afford authentic information as 

 o the issue of Eudo de Rya-Dapifer. They repre- 

 ented (as their descendants do now) the elder 

 ine from Radulphus (which took the designation 

 >f Fitz-Ralph), the eldest son of Haberlus de 

 lya, as Eudo appears to have been the youngest. 

 le hud apparently no other issue but Margaret, 

 vho married William de Mandeville. She is 

 ailed in the pedigree " filia et haeres," and in Sie 

 "'. Madden' s note (2 e.), " daughter and sole 

 leiress." The account (from the Monasticon) of 

 he founding of the hospital at Colchester by Eudo, 

 ..d. 1097, is a curious one. The first stone was 

 aid by himself, the second by his wife Rohais, and 

 he third by her brother, Earl Gilbert (Gilbert de 

 Tonebrigge). Eudo died at Preaux in Normandy, 

 mt was buried at Colchester, a.d. 1120. 



Frecheville L. Ballantine Dykes. 



Ingwell, Whitehaven. 



" Pigtails and Powder" (2 nd S. ix. 163.) — 

 think that the first were done away with by 

 ■rder in 1807, or the beginning of 1808. Powder 

 except for the officers, the men having long 

 ■eased to wear it,) was abolished by order in 

 814, after the Peninsular Campaigns. The 

 lovereigns of Russia and Prussia, with their mili- 

 ary attendants, visited this country in that year, 

 fter peace was signed, and appeared in the 

 iroper colour of their short cut locks. This in- 

 luced the Prince Regent to do away with powder 

 .11 together. As far as my memory goes, the 

 tussian soldiers never wore it. I presume they 

 ere not to be trusted with pomatum, for fear 

 hey should eat it. An Old Soldier. 



There still exists a lingering relic of the former 

 xploded fashion in the officers' dress uniform of 

 he 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers, viz., the black 

 ilk bag suspended (apparently from the hair, but 

 eally) from the collar of the scarlet coat. I 

 new an old gentleman in Chester who, until his 

 eath, just seven years ago, prided himself on his 

 legant pigtail, — the last, 1 believe, of its race in this 

 His main reason for retaining this quaint 

 iitinction was, if I remember rightly, through 

 is having been saved from drowning in his early 

 ears by means of his favourite tail. Powder is 

 ■ot unlikely to come into fashion once more, as 



almost the only special privilege attaching by 

 statute to our modern Volunteers is the right to 

 use hairpowder without paying duty. T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



John Bradshaw's Letter (2 nd S. ix. 115.) — 

 It is doubtful whether the letter of John Brad- 

 shawe to Sir Peter Legh printed in your journal 

 was written by the regicide. The character of the 

 handwriting, though not decisive, rather militates 

 against the supposition. The letter was printed 

 by me in the second volume of Cketkam Miscel- 

 lanies in 1856, and I stated the doubts in my in- 

 troduction : — 



"There were two John Bradshawes contemporaries at 

 Gray's Inn, the one admitted a student in 1620, the other 

 in 1622; and, the original archives of that house having 

 perished, it is not possible to determine with absolute cer- 

 tainty which of these was the future President of the High 

 Court of Justice, or which was the writer of this letter." 



WlLLIAM LANGTON, 



Hon. Sec. Chetham Soc. 

 Manchester. 



"Cat" (2 nd S. ix. 97.)— Mr. Keightley, in 



allusion to the game of " cat," in which he was 

 initiated by his father's gardener, says, " I have 

 never seen or heard of it anywhere else, either 

 in England or in Ireland." A dozen years ago, 

 when I was a boy at school in Galloway, Scot- 

 land, the game was a favourite one, rarely a day 

 passing without it being played by some of the 

 scholars ; and I have no reason to believe that it 

 is not popular at this day. As we played it, 

 however, it differed materially from cricket. Five 

 only could play. Four with sticks in their hands 

 stood beside four holes, each at the corner of a 

 square. One in the centre held, a piece of wood 

 of the character described by Mr. Keightley. 

 This piece of wood, which was called the " cat," 

 he pitched towards one of the holes, and if it 

 went in, or fell across the hole, the boy standing 

 by that particular hole had to exchange places 

 with the one in the centre. But the one at the 

 corner struck the " cat " with his stick if he 

 could, and if he did so he advanced towards his 

 neighbour's hole, who in turn went to the next, 

 the other two advancing in a similar way. If he 

 missed, and the "cat "did not fall on the hole, 

 then he tipped it on the end, and thus tilting it 

 up, struck it away. If he failed in doing this 

 after three trials he had to go to the centre, 

 which he also had to do if the boy in the centre, 

 after the " cat" had been struck, caught it before 

 it reached the ground. When the "cat" was 

 struck it was compulsory on those at the corners 

 to run round, and the one in the middle most 

 readily obtained relief by getting the " cat " into 

 a hole during the change of places. 



I am almost certain I have seen the same game 

 played in Yorkshire under the name of " tip- 

 cat." Could any of your West Riding corre-. 



