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adhered to his mother's name of Beauchamp, but sometimes called himself " Robert Fitz Simon" (10 S. viii. 471). Beatrix, the wife of Peter Corbet, would thus be a lineal descendant of Simon de Valletort, and this may account for the statement in Boase's ' Collectanea Cornubiensis ' referred to by MB. GREGORY GBUSELIEB. This Beatrix by the by, would appear to have had a sister, Isabel or Isabella, who was married succes- sively to Sir Henry Lovet, Lord Lovet, and Sir William le Blount of Soddington, Wor- cester (10 S. viii. 307). Burke (lib. cit., p. 33) says that Robert de Beauchamp died in 1228, but he is often to be found tripping, and it is possible that this was the date of the death of Simon de Valletort, whose son Robert (de Beauchamp) was then a minor. These genealogists are not to be relied upon too implicitly, especially when they give no authorities for their statements.

Thomas Corbet (temp. John and Henry III), a predecessor (grandfather ?) of Peter, married Isabel, daughter of Reginald, and sister of Roger Valletort, Baron of Huberton (Betham, u.s., vol. v. Appendix, p. 4), and here, perhaps, we can see how Boase got mixed. FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

The following extract is from ' The House of Cornewall,' published by Messrs. Jakeman & Carver, Hereford (1908), p. 59 :

"In Rot. Origin., 21 Edw. III., Salop, 'The King having ascertained by Inquisition that Peter Corbet lately held the Manors of Caus, Miristerley, &c., in chief, by 2 knights' fees, and that Ralph de Stafford, as to one moiety, Margaret, -wife of Robert Harley, and Elizabeth, wife of Edmund de Corewall, as to the other moiety, &c., to be equally divided. They are his cousins, and he has received their fealty.' This was because Sir Bryan de Brampton the elder had married Emma, daughter of Thomas Corbet (oh. 1274) by Isabel, variously stated to have been sister and daughter of Reginald de Valletort, and widow of Alan de Dunstanville. . She was one of the coheiresses of her nephew Peter Corbet, whose wife was Beatrice, daughter of John, first Lord Beauchamp of Hache."

ANDREW SOUTH. Kingston-on-Thames.

JEAN PAUL IN ENGLISH (10 S. x. 161). The passage of Jean Paul Richter leads me to remark on the strange fact that he is still so little known in England. I am not aware of any translations in English of the ' Titan ' or ' Hesperus,' supposed by Germans to be his great works. If there are any, I should

be glad to be informed. Of course Novalis

whom some regard as the greatest mind Germany has yet produced is still less known, being too deep for the ordinary intelligence (George Mac Donald's transla-

tions in this connexion are, in my conception, even better than Carlyle's). But surely Jean Paul is capable of a wider English appreciation. T. P.

" PINK SAUCER" (10 S. ix. 486; x.78, 158). One was used at our house to pink our silk stockings when they were washed. My mother used to say a touch of this rouge was absolutely needful to make white silk stockings look nice when washed. A little pink was put in the rinsing water, and later the stockings were quickly rubbed with a glass burnisher. If a maid did the pinking, it was not unusual to see her going about that evening with rather a high colour on her cheeks ; and when a new pink saucer got broken by accident or purposely, the whole of the pieces were never found. But in those days (not many years ago, either) a young girl was always pinked by her mother or a friend when she applied for a situation, in order to look strong and healthy.

SAX-DANE.

CHILDREN AT EXECUTIONS (10 S. ii. 346, 454, 516 ; iii. 33, 93, 495). There are two passages in the ' Autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Carlyle ' (" Jupiter " Carlyle), 1860, bearing on the subject.

In 1733, when he was eleven years of age, being at Dumfries, he was placed on the window of the Provost's house, directly opposite the prison, and witnessed the execution of one Jock Johnstone (p. 22).

In 1376

" Mr. Baillie took windows in a house on the north side of the Grassmarket, for his pupils and me, on the second floor, about seventy or eighty yards westward of the place of execution, where we went in due time to see the show." P. 36. This " show " was the execution of Wilson the smuggler, which resulted in the famous Porteous riot (see ' The Heart of Midlothian ' ).

WM. H. PEET.

MANOR IDENTIFICATION (10 S. x. 48). The following are suggested :

Stafford (Erleye). Upper Arley. Somerset (Camel). Queen-Camel. Somerset (Cherleton). Queen-Charlton, orCharl- ton-Adam, or Charlton Hawthorne.

G. S. PARRY.

PAULITIAN LANGUAGE (10 S. ix. 167; x. 157). The Rev. Dr. Andrew Moody, Scottish pastor in Budapest, in his letter to the Pesther Lloyd writes about the modern Paulitians in Hungary as " the so-called Bulgarians " in the three villages named at the first reference, " who speak a dialect