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 10* s. i. JUNE 25, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LOXDOX, SATURDAY, JL'XE 25, 1901,.

CONTENTS.-No. 26.

NOTES : The late Duke of Cambridge, 501 Dibdin Biblio- graphy, 502 Delagard as Preacher, 503 Browning's ' Thunder-free "First Ocean Newspaper Guest Family " Sun and Anchor " Inn, 504 " Easterling " and Bast Harling "The Gallants of Fpwey " County Tales "Grahamize," 505 "Withershins" Pigeon English at Home Mackliniana Jaggard-printed Books Amban, 506 "The balance of power," 507.

QUliKIES : Daughters of James I. of Scotland Elene Anahuac, o >7 Antwerp Cathedral Supervisum Corpus The Evil Eye Watts's Hymns Baronial Family of Somerville " There 's not a crime "Classic and Trans- lator " Riding Tailor" at Astley's Northern; and Southern Pronunciation, 503 Dr. Adam Lyttleton Mercury Thomas Neale : " Herberley " Caspar Wels- bach, 509
 * ' Was you ? " and "You was "Copernicus and the Planet

REPLIES : Barnes : 'The Devil's Charter,' 509 Paste " Purple patch," 510" Our Lady of the Snows " Fetti- place, 511 Alake Genealogy : New Sources 'The Yong Souldier ' King John's Charters " Humanum est errare," 512 Links with the Past Latin for "Roping" a Horse William Peck Ainoo and Baskish Barbers Alexander Pennecuik, Gent. Cheshire Cat in America, 513" Sal et saliva "Storming of Fort Moro, 514 Collins " Barrar" Building Customs Beadnell Family "Sanguis": its Derivation Natalese. 515 Inscriptions on Public Buildings, 516 Dr. S. Hinds Harepath Ancient London "Send "of the Sea Blin "Golf": is it Scandinavian ? Doge of Venice, 517 Guncaster " Bellamy's "' Hen-hussey ": "Whip-stitch": "Wood- toter" Gayus Dixon, 518.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Swinburne's Poems Dekker's 'Gull's Horn Book' Motley's 'Dutch Republic' Latham's ' Dictionary of Names, Nicknames, and Sur- names ' Stevenson's ' Familiar Studies of Men and Books 'Reprints of FitzGerald ' Yorkshire Notes and Queries ' ' Burlington Magazine.'

THE LATE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.

THE death of the Duke of Cambridge ought not to be passed over unrecorded in the pages of 'X. &, Q.,' for with him has vanished not merely a popular prince and a genial personality, known at least by sight to most Londoners, but practically the last survivor of the Court circle prior to the accession of Queen Victoria.

Although no fewer than fifteen children were born to George III. and Queen Charlotte, it is a remarkable fact that they had only two

grandsons of royal birth, viz., the late King eorge V. of Hanover, and the subject of this note. From 1813 to 1837 Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, governed Hanover as viceroy on behalf of his father and two eldest brothers in succession ; and when William IV. mounted the throne he and Queen Adelaide good- naturedly undertook the guardianship of their nephew George of Cambridge, in order that he might receive the advantages of an English education during his parents' en- forced residence in Germany. Thus it came about that, though born at Hanover, the late Duke of Cambridge became a typical Britisher : in his fine proportions and burly

frame he strongly resembled his royal father and uncles ; in his tastes, his favourite occu- pations, his mode of speech, and his pre- judices, lie recalled to the onlooker the tales and the traditions of the Georgian era. His marriage, like the alliances of his uncle Augustus, Duke of Sussex, was celebrated at variance with the provisions of the Royal Marriage Act ; and the name of FitzGeorge, like those of FitzClarence and others, remains to perpetuate morganatic branches of the reigning house.

The Duke of Cambridge was a regular "Londoner," and I believe that he never pos- sessed any permanent residence out of London throughout his long life. In his early days he was quartered, on military duty, in various parts of the kingdom, in Ireland, and the Ionian Islands ; after the death of his father in 1850 the late Queen granted him a suite of apartments in St. James's Palace, whence he moved in 1857 to Gloucester House, at the corner of Park Lane and Piccadilly, the mansion bequeathed to him, together with a valuable collection of works of art and plate, by his aunt Alary, Duchess of Gloucester. This was his home for nearly half a century, and although his Royal Highness gave no great entertainments, and his mode of life was absolutely free from the slightest osten- tation or display, the papers used to record for a long series of years his periodic dinners " to a party of noblemen and gentlemen." After the death of his venerable mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, her house on Kew Green passed into the Duke's hands; but he never occupied it for any length of time, and it is now understood to have reverted to the Crown. The Duke succeeded his father in the year 1850 as Ranger of Hyde, St. James's, and Green Parks, and was appointed Ranger of Richmond Park in succession to the Duchess of Gloucester. It appears probable that these offices will fall into abeyance, no successor having hitherto been appointed, and an announcement having already been made public that His Majesty has directed that game shall no longer be preserved in Rich- mond Park.

The late Duke owned a considerable private estate at Cpombe, near Kingston, which he apparently inherited from his father, and the pleasant woodland scenery in that neighbour- hood is likely to disappear eventually before the ruthless attacks of bricks and mortar. The interesting objects of art, the inheritance or collection of the Duchess of Gloucester and of the first Duke of Cambridge, have now been scattered to the four winds under the auctioneer's hammer. H.