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marriage, or one who held lands or tene- ments by virtue of a gift thereof made to him upon marriage between him and his wife (see Cowel's 'Interpreter'). " Claim- ant " = ? one who made a challenge of interest, as he who was entitled to enter into lands or tenements of which another was seised in fee or in tail. " Querent " = complainant, whose action as querens was known as querela, whence our words " quar- rel " and " querulous."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

BENEDICT ARNOLD (10 S. x. 50). A. C. H. will find information concerning General Arnold's eight sons in

' Genealogy of the Family of Arnold.' By J. W. Dean, H. T. Drowne, and E. Hubbard. Boston, U.S.A., 1879. Clapp & Son, 564, Washington Street.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October, 1879.

' The Life of Col. Pownoll Phipps.' By the late Rev. P. W. Phipps. London, 1894. (Privately printed, but perhaps in the British Museum Library.)

R. B.

Upton.

The following extract from the ' D.N.B.' under the heading of Benedict Arnold, will perhaps give A. C. H. some of the informa- tion he requires :

"All his four sons [by his second wife] entered the British service, and one, James Robertson Arnold, an officer of engineers, rose to the rank of lieutenant-general. Descendants of his third son George still exist in England. He had had three sons by his first marriage, whose posterity survive in Canada and the United States."

Dr. Richard Garnett was the writer of the article. RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

STEERING-WHEEL (10 S. x. 48). On board the steam packet which made a daily trip down the Trent and the Humber from Gainsborough to Hull, the long tiller ceased to be used about 1848-50, and the steering-wheel took its place. The name of the vessel was, I think, the Columbine, but of this I am not sure. COM. LINC.

WILLOW-PATTERN " CHINA : STORY IN- SCRIBED (10 S. ix. 210, 437). I can re- member about thirty years back going to a German Reed entertainment at St. George's Hall, London, where a piece was produced which, if I recollect correctly, was called ' Old China.' It opened with a scene in which a man was shown as having purchased an old china teapot with the " willow pattern " on it. He is quite in love with this, and shortly falls asleep and dreams

the legend, which is all portrayed afterwards on the stage ; and I remember that it was one of the most realistic pieces of stage- management I have ever seen. I think some one dressed as a Chinaman sang a song commencing with the words :

This is the teapot, the teapot of my sire, and the air was that of

This is the sabre, the sabre of my sire. I am almost certain that Mr. Corney Grain and Miss Kate Bishop took the principal parts.

My grandmother, who died some twenty- five years ago at an advanced age, used to tell us a story of the " willow-pattern "" plate which was very similar to that acted in London. I understand that this willow pattern was one of the earliest patterns manufactured at Caughley, and, no doubt r at its first appearance every one would want to know the reason of the design,, and the general version must have been a variant of the original story as known in England or the invention of some one interested in pottery. HEBBEKT SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

VIGO BAY, 1702-19 (10 S. x. 30). An account of the expedition against Cadiz in 1702 under Sir George Rooke, which ultimately attacked Vigo, will be found in Clowes's ' The Royal Navy/ vol. ii. p. 377. This authority states that when the com- bined fleets left the Channel they had on board 9,663 English and about 4,000 Dutch troops. No details, however, are given.

The troops at Vigo in 1719 were under Lord Cobham, and consisted of the following regiments : one battalion from each regi- ment of Guards, and the 3rd, 19th, 24th, 28th, 33rd, 34th, and 37th Foot. See For- tescue's ' History of the British Army,' vol. ii. p. 10, note (Macmillan & Co., 1899).

T. F. D.

" VOTES FOB WOMEN " (10 S. x. 47). In ' The Merry Wives of Windsor,' II. i. 29, Mistress Page also appropriately says : " Why, I '11 exhibit a bill in the Parliament for the putting down of men."

TOM JONES.

FEE BOWLS (10 S. x. 46). I was with my mother sixty years ago when she went to a lawyer's often at Derby to receive some money. It was paid to her from a bowl or as we called it " bason " which stood on the office table. This is one of my very- earliest remembrances.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.