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buildings of this house other than thos< referred to in Willis and Clark's ' Architectura History of the University ' ?

E. K. PURNELL. Wellington College, Berks.

MORTIMER. Hugh de Mortimer, son o Robert Mortimer, of Burford, by his wifi Margaret de Say, is said to have had a son named Elias. Where can I find information about this Elias Mortimer, his parentage anc his progeny ? H. M. BATSON.

Hoe Benham, Newbury.

CHRISTABELLA TYRRELL. Can any reader of ^'N. & Q.' kindly tell me the years in which Christabella, daughter of Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., married her first two husbands John Knap and John Pigott, of Doddershall, Bucks? She married thirdly, 28 January, 1754, Richard, sixth Viscount Saye and Sele, and died s.j). 1789, aged ninety-four years. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

KIPPLES. What is known of this family, prominent in and about Glasgow during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? and where can allusions to and records of its past and present members (if any) be found 1 If the surname is early or middle Scots, what may have been its meaning ? J. G. C.

PSALTER AND LATIN MS. Oliver (' Monas- ticon,' Dio. Exon.) mentions a Psalter existing at Ugbrooke which formerly belonged to St. Andrew's Priory at Ty wardreath, in Corn- wall. Has any facsimile of this MS. or of any part of it been published ? and, if so, by whom ? Also has the fifteenth-century Latin MS. preserved at Wardour, containing the obits of the brethren, homilies, Usuard's 'Martyrologium,' &c., been published in facsimile or otherwise, and by whom ?

YOREC.

'RECOMMENDED TO MERCY.' Some years ago I read a novel with, I think, the title ' Recommended to Mercy.' Could any reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly help me to trace the author, with a view of renewing my acquaint- ance with the book ? I have not now the slightest idea of the name of the author (the story may have been anonymous), but fancy the heroine was a village maiden named Rosaline or Rosalind. EDWARD LATHAM. [It is by Mrs. Houston.]

CARVED STONE. Can you tell me what is probably the origin of an old carved stone in a manor house built in 1602 on the site of a previous house? Over the front door is a stone about ten inches square, which may run back into the hall ; at the angle is an

incised pattern resembling those of very early crosses, so-called Runic, such as those at Rainsbury or Cirencester, or it may per- haps be a pattern of a thirteenth-century coffin-lid with incised flpreated cross, but seems roughly done for this.

MRS. HUNTLEY.

COL. THOMAS COOPER. Can any one give the pedigree of the Cooper family of Haseley, in Oxfordshire, and any information that would connect Col. Thomas Cooper, M.P. for Oxford, with this family, and also with the Coopers of Bengeworth ?

ARTHUR L. COOPER.

TORCH AND TAPER. What was the actual difference between the torches and tapers mentioned in ancient wills? Robert Balser, of Whitstable (1511), requests that " two torches be bought, price 10s., to burn about me on the day of my burying and afterwards to remain to the church. Also four tapers of wax of 21bs. each to burn about my hearse, at burial, month's mind," &c.

Robert Withiott, of Faversham (1512), left a bequest "to the maintenance of the torches and tapers belonging to the Bachelors of Faversham." Was a torch made of different substance from a taper, or was it only a large candle? ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

LAMB, COLERIDGE, AND MR. MAY.

(10 th S. i. 61.)

WHEN I wrote the note headed as above I

ittle thought that the theory I was advancing

.viz., that May, whose name occurs in Lamb's

earliest extant letter to Coleridge, was none

other than the Boniface of the " Salutation "

tavern) had ever occurred before to anybody

still less that it had been previously venti-

ated in this journal. Now, however, I find

hat, in a query headed ' " Salutation " Tavern,

Vewgate Street,' published 21 April, 1900 (9 th

v. 315), MR. J. A. RUTTER had already

reached the question of identity. Great

vits jump. For years past I have held the

pinion expressed in my note published on

3 January. The fact-^only now brought to

ny knowledge that it is approved by so

rofound and accomplished a student of

<amb as MR. RUTTER is universally acknow-

dged to be will, I feel confident, serve to

ommend it to the readers of 'N. & Q.' far

more powerfully than any words of mine

ould do.

In one particular I find my note of 3 January is inaccurate. I say there that