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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



O* S. IX. April 14. 



on Easter Sunday and on Christmas Day ; and it 

 was customary for people to come in from the 

 country parishes to attend these services. It was 

 administered again after the usual morning ser- 

 vice at eleven o'clock. Having been absent, I 

 cannot speak as to the last year. 



In many churches in Monmouthshire, and I be- 

 lieve in Glamorganshire and Breconshire, there 

 are early services at 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. on Christmas 

 Day ; but I do not know whether the Holy Com- 

 munion is always administered at that time. 



ISCA. 



Frances Lady Atktns (2 nd S. ix. 197.) — At 

 p. 9. of Harl. MSS., No. 5801., there is a pedigree 

 of the Atkyns family, from which it appears that 

 Sir Edward Atkyns married, secondly, Frances, 



daughter of Berry of Lydd in Kent, who 



was living 1699, and died, anno 1702, "very old." 



The pedigree of the Berrys, as given in Berry's 

 Kent Pedigrees, p. 264., is as follows : — 



" GeoffVy Berry married Ann, daughter of Ralph Wil- 

 cocks, and had issue a son John Berry of Lydd in Kent 

 (a Captain), who married Phoebe, daughter of Richard 

 Allard of Biddenden in Kent, by whom he had issue Ed- 

 ward Berry, eldest son, aged 17, 1G19; John Berry, aged 

 10, 1G19; Geoffiy Berry, third son; and three daughters, 

 viz. Elizabeth, Catherine, and Frances." 



J. J. Howard. 



Lee. 



" Sir Edward Atkins of Hensington, Oxon., one of the 

 Judges of the Common Pleas, knighted 2 July, 1660, 

 married, 1st, Ursula, daughter of Sir Edw. Dacres of Ches- 



hunt, co. Hertford ; and 2nd, Frances, daughter of 



Berry of Lydd in Kent, ob. 1702 of very old age. It is 



most probable that she was the widow of Goulstou." 



Vide Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights. Harl. MS. 5801. 



She is said to have written her will with her 

 own hand at the age of ninety-two. See Monu- 

 menta Anglicana. Cl. Hopper. 



Steele of Gadgirth (2 td S. ix. 244.) — I can- 

 not give the parentage of Mr. Steele — known as 

 the Rev. John Steele — but he married, first, the 

 heiress of Chalmers of Gadgirth, and on her 

 death, childless, that estate devolved upon him. 

 He married, secondly, Christian, second daughter 

 of John Steuart, seventh laird of Dalguise, co. 

 Perth ; and by her he had two- daughters and 

 co-heirs: 1. Julia, married Francis Redfearn, 

 Esq., of Langton, North Yorkshire, J. P. ; son of 

 William Redfearn, of Thornhill, West Yorkshire, 

 by Ruth, sister of Sir Francis Sykes, first baronet 

 of that family. 2. Margaret, married Colonel 

 Burnett, resident at Gadgirth. I am partly in- 

 debted to Burke's Landed Gentry (1843), p. 1299, 

 for the above information. Q. F. V. F. 



Jews in England (2" d S. viii. 447.) — The 

 State Papers referred to by Mr. John S. Burn, 

 for returns of the number of strangers in 1563 in 

 London, would most probably, if examined, afford 

 evidence of the presence of Jews in England at 



that time, Spanish and Portuguese refugee Jews 

 passing as Protestants. It is doubtful if at any 

 period during the sixteenth century the Jews were 

 absent from England. Hyde Clarke. 



Smyrna. 



Declension or Nouns by internal Inflexion 

 (2 nd S. ix. 180.) — The instances are exceptions to 

 rules, and are found in the irregular and most 

 ancient nouns, as in Icelandic fothir, pater, and 

 foethir, patri or patrem, brother, sing, and brcethr 

 pi. ; in Friesic fot sing, fet pi., mon sing, man or 

 men pi., fjand sing, fjund pi. ; in German mutter 

 sing, muetter pi., tochter sing, toechter pi. ; in Eng- 

 lish, man, men, woman, women, goose, geese, tooth, 

 teeth, foot, feet, &c. The interna fiexio of Zeuss 

 occurs oftener in the irregular verbs of the Indo- 

 European class, of which we have instances in 

 English, e.g. abide, abode, arise, arose, awake, 

 awoke, begin, began, begun, come, came, dig, 

 dug, &c. In the Shemitic languages it is of com- 

 mon occurrence. In the Sanscrit it is distin- 

 guished by the terms guna (force, emphasis) and 

 vriddhi (augment), explained in Donaldson's New 

 Cratylus, s. 223. Bopp {Comparative Grammar) 

 discovered, in studying Grimm's Deutsche Gram- 

 matik, the guna in Gothic. The three works last- 

 named, with Pott's Etymological Researches, are 

 to be consulted on this subject; but it may be well 

 to add that in this etymological mass of informa- 

 tion, whilst the material is most valuable, many 

 errors may be expected from too scanty induction 

 leading to imperfect hypotheses. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Memorandum Book on Art (2 ud S. vi. 245.) — 

 If G. A. C. will turn to the article "Matthew 

 Brettingham," in the Dictionary of Architecture, 

 now publishing by the Architectural Publication 

 Society, he will find the corroboration he re- 

 quires : — 



" The Description (to Plans, §•&, of Holkham, in Nor- 

 folk, published by Brettingham in 1761, and again in 

 1773,) shows that he was purchasing, in 1750, pictures 

 and statues in Italy : he was in that country in April, 

 1748, with Hamilton, Stuart, and Revett, as stated in 

 their Antiqtuties of Athens, 1813, iv. preface xxix." 



W. P. 



Family of Collett (2 nd S. ix. 223.) — I have 

 in my possession a copy of Knight's Life of Colet, 

 which is disfigured by certain notes appended by 

 a descendant of the good Dean, to whom the book 

 belonged in the year 1774. These annotations are 

 for the most part very silly, consisting of such 

 remarks as " Glorious Dr. Colet," " Noble Dr. 

 Colet," "Here was an honour to my ancestor be- 

 fore all the people," &c. I refer to them only for 

 the purpose of quoting the following passage, 

 which bears upon the Query of your correspon- 

 dent St. Liz. On p. 26., where Knight is speak- 

 ing of Colet's natural disposition, the annotator 



