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NOTES AND QUERIES, 



[2"4 S. IX. May 12. '60. 



Clifton of Leighton Beomswold : Extinct 

 Barony. — Could you refer me to any work in 

 which the descent of Sir Gervase Clifton, first 

 and last Baron Clifton, is detailed ? 



Burke and other authorities simply state that 

 he was descended from a branch of the Cliftons of 

 Clifton, co. Notts, but do not trace the connexion. 



In the Visitation of Hunts, published by the 

 Camden Society, the pedigree commences with 

 the grandfather of the Baron, " William Clifton, 

 Esq , Customer of the city of London, a wealthy 

 citizen who purchased lands in Somerset, temp. 

 Hen. VIII." Whose son was he ? 



C. J. Bobinson, M.A. 



Qcist, in personal names probably derived 

 from locality, as Hasselquist, Lindquist, Zetter- 

 quist. Qu. from hurst, a grove, or from hits, a 

 bouse ? I shall be glad of other examples. 



R. S. Chahnock. 



Excommunication. — Can any of your corre- 

 spondents furnish me with instances of excom- 

 munication from the Protestant Church in this 

 country ? J. Williamson. 



Gillingham, Kent. 



" Scritture Beligion." Who is the author of 

 the following work ? 



" Scripture Religion : or, a Short View of the Faith 

 and Practice of a True Christian, as plainly laid down in 

 the Holy Scriptures, and faithfully Taught in the Church 

 of England, with suitable Devotions. By a Divine of the 

 Church of England. The Second Edition. London : 

 Printed for Anne Speed, at the Three Crowns, over against 

 Jonathan's Cotfee-House in Exchange-Alley, in Cornhill. 

 mdccvi. Trice 3s." 



Fronting this is a portrait of " the Most Re- 

 verend Father in G-od, Sir Wm. Dawes, Bart., by 

 Divine Providence Lord Abp. of York, Primate 

 of England and Metropolitan." This portrait 

 could not have belonged originally to the work, 

 since Sir W. Dawes was not translated to York 

 before 1714. I have examined two or three full 

 lists of Archbp. Dawes's works, and have nowhere 

 been able to find the above book mentioned. Is it 

 a work of Dawes, or how can the omission be ac- 

 counted for ? I may add that there is bound up 

 with it a work called The Principles of Deism, 

 Sfc., in Ttvo Dialogues between a Sceptic and a 

 Deist Src, 5th edition : London, Wm. Innys, at 

 the West end of St. Paul's, mdccxxix. Fronting 

 tbis is a frontispiece, at the top of which is written, 

 " to front the Duties of the Closet." This was a 

 work of Abp. Dawes. J. A. Staverton. 



Books for Middle Class Examinations.-- 

 What are the best books of reference for the 

 higher geographical questions now set in the mi- 

 litary, civil service, and middle-class examina- 

 tions ? e. g. where can I find in a compendious 

 forin the products of each country of the world, 

 the industrial occupations of the towns, the im- 



ports and exports with the ports each article 

 issues from and arrives at — all this, perhaps, 

 under the respective beads of coal, cotton, &c ; 

 the routes and lines of telegraph, &c. ? Also, 

 which are the two best physical geographies, the 

 one for reference, the other for getting up. 



S. F. Creswell. 

 The School, Tonbridge, Kent. 



Knights created by the Pretender. — 



Thirteen knights are said to have been made by 

 Chailes Edward in the rebellion of 1745. Among 

 these were, I believe, — 



Sir James Mackenzie, 



Sir Hector M'Lean, 



Sir Win. Gordon, 



Sir David Murray, 



Sir Hugh Montgomery, 



Sir Geo- Witherington, and 



Sir Wm. Dunbar. 



Who were the other six ? 



G. W. M. 



Diversity of Plan in the Monasteries of 

 the different Orders. — Questions of far less 

 interest than that proposed in the heading of this 

 Query have been largely discussed in the pages 

 of " N. & Q." Will some person who has studied 

 the question state the results of his reading 

 amongst the early " Regube " and " Statutes " of 

 the different Orders ? I believe nothing was left 

 to chance in the matter. A work on this subject, 

 well illustrated by plans of existing monastic re- 

 mains, would be a real boon to architectural 

 students. If any such work exists it never ap- 

 pears in our booksellers' catalogues. 



James Graves. 



Kilkenny. 



" Poor Belle."— Who was she ? The follow- 

 ing interesting cutting is from an old newspaper 

 of the year. 1809: — 



" Some antient deeds, belonging to the Ormond family, 

 of considerable importance, being supposed to remain in 

 a subterraneous room, called the Evidence Chamber, in 

 Ormond Castle, in the town of Kilkenny, which had not 

 been explored in the memory of man, the law agent of 

 the family (Mr. Skelton) proposed to descend into it, 

 which he did with considerable difficulty, preceded by 

 two chimney-sweeper boys with torches; after a close 

 research he found an iron-bound oak trunk, in which 

 many extraordinary papers were discovered, though not 

 the records particularly sought for; amongst them were 

 three in the handwriting of King James, some in that of 

 the Duke of Monmouth, and the then Duke of Ormond, 

 and four from the celebrated Nell Gwynne, complaining 

 of the non-payment of her court annuity ; and several 

 addressed to the Duke of Ormond, recommending the 

 distressful situation of ' Poor Belle ' to his serious con- 

 sideration ; but the family have no clue by which to trace 

 who this unfortunate fair one was." 



W. J. Fitz- Patrick. 



"Three Hundred Letters." — The following 



cutting is from a newspaper half a century old. 



Who was "the venerable and distinguished Coun- 



