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known a case j such cases are not common, it being generally supposed that children brought up in one household are not prone to fall in love. If two men, not related, marry two sisters, they do not thereby become brothers-in-law. In French there is but one word beau-frere for step-brother and brother-in-law. How came the word beau to be used in this sense ? T. WILSON. Harpenden.

GERMAN PROPHECY (9 th S. xii. 330). See the note on 'Enweri' in 'Noten und Abhand- lungen zum west-6'stlichen Divan,' by Goethe, Weimar ed., vol. vii. p. 54.

J. E. R. STEPHENS. Temple, E.G.

" MONKEY ON THE CHIMNEY " (10 th S. i. 288). The saying here is "monkey on the house," and the meaning is the same a mortgage, or, as some put it, "the house is in pop." Quite near me is a house which for many years has been known as " the monkey house "a former owner had mortgaged it heavily. Often, with reference to property, the question is asked, " What monkey is on ? "

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

GENEALOGY : NEW SOURCES (10 th S. i. 187, 218, 258). The following extract from the Admiralty Bill Books speaks for itself as to the value of them in matters of pedigree :

."To Sarah Clarke \vid w of Jeremy Clarke, late midshipman on board the Milford, who died of the W T v n,> e u ecd in fi ht against the French the 7 Jan/ 96, the summ of 16/. 10s. being their Mai 18 Gracious Bounty. More to her for the use of her fa ve children, bam 1, aged 13 years ; Elizabeth, aged 10 ; Edmund, aged 9 ; Sarah, aged 5; Michael, aged % at 51. 10*. each, Til. 10*. In all, the sum of forty- four pounds. Dated5Feb>1699/1700."-Bill Book 77. GERALD MARSHALL.

'i w 10Ul S " L 327 )--In Act I. of Lady Wmdermere's Fan' the Duchess of Berwick says : ''Many a woman has a past ;

tfff fC 11 8 Jl e >, h ^, at Jeaafc a dozen ' a nd ,hat they all fit." This play was given for

Snr? onVu the Sfc> Jarae3 ' s Theatr e on Saturday, 20 February, 1892.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. ANTIQUARY v. ANTIQUARIAN (10 th S i 325) 1 can remember once observing to a lady who applied the latter term to me that I w

mnS ft" 6 and not an ad Jective/' which must be the correct answer. The former is an abstract term the latter a concrete term According to Butler, an abstract implies a

re s?n S h S-if ^?J y are both n( A and Stuart Mill divides them into conno-

tative and non-connotative. We should not recognize Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns as an "antiquarian."

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. ^N'ewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

I quite agree that the use of the adjective as a substantive in this case is most objec- tionable. I think it would be better to use the phrase applied to myself by a somewhat illiterate colleague on a public body, who asked for my opinion on the ground that I was "an antique sort of person."

E. E. STREET.

FETTIPLACE (10 th S. i. 329).- This name frequently occurs in Sir Thomas Phillipps's 'Chipping Norton Register '(British Museum). Dr. Marshall's 'Genealogist's Guide' also con- tains a number of references to the same name. WILLOUGHBY A. LITTLEDALE.

I am the possessor of many deeds tracing the genealogy of the Fettiplace family for centuries, and shall be! glad to hear from C. P. E. C. DAVEY.

Athenreum, Bath.

There are plenty of records of the family of Fettiplace in existence. If C. P. will apply to me I can help him to some references.

GEORGE SHERWOOD;

50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E.

There are wills under that name in the literary department of Somerset House.

D. E. F.

Has C. P. consulted the references con- tained under this name in ' The Genealogist's Guide,' by Dr. George W. Marshall, Rouge Croix 1 The name is also spelt Fettyplace r Fetyplace, and Phetiplace.

A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

An account of this family will be found in Burke's 'Extinct Baronets,' but fuller details in county histories and 'Landed Gentry.' It dates from Norman times in the person of an official termed " usher " to William the Conqueror; its landed possessions involved branches at Child rey, Bessel's Leigh, Fern- ham, Lambourne, Kingston Lisle, Swinbrook, Denchwith, Letcombe. The baronetcy, con- ferred in 1661, failed in 1743 from want of male heirs, but is represented through females by Bushel, who assumed the original name of Fettiplace. A. it.

Where was Ockwells Manor situated, which C. P. mentions at the above reference ? I cannot find the name Ockwell in any gazetteer in my library. Doubtless the name takes its