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1650. According to a quotation in Harris' ' Salisbury Epitaphs ' from ' The Lives an Writings of Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, c., by William Harris of Salisbury, " the Ottoman Court, for a little money, barbarous!, delivered up the Ambassador, Henry Hyde, ar accomplished gentleman, into the hands of th pretended Parliament, who being brought over t England, for his unblemished loyalty, without anj pretence of ancient law, was beheaded before th Exchange in London."

Where is his history recorded ? The onb mention of him in the ' Dictionary of Nationa Biography ' is at p. 366, vol. xxviii., where he is referred to as "a brother of Alexander Hyde, who accompanied Charles IT. to the Continent, and was beheaded in London in 1651." But if Sir Henry Hyde was delivered over to the Parliament by the Otto man Court, he can hardly have been on th< Continent with Charles II. It is also statec by Harris that he was tried at the same time as the Duke of Hamilton, the Earl of Holland, and Lord Capel : they were executed a1 Westminster 9 March, 1649/50, and Hyde nearly a year later.

Sir Henry Hyde was one of the eleven sons of Sir Laurence Hyde (who was Attorney- General to Queen Anne, wife of James I.) and Barbara Castilian, his wife. Sir Lau- rence Hyde was a son of Laurence Hyde of West Hatch, Wilts, and elder brother of Henry Hyde, the father of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, who was, therefore, a first cousin of Sir Henry Hyde and his ten brothers, amongst whom were Sir Robert Hyde (Lord Chief Justice) ; Alexander, Bishop of Salis- bury ; Sir Frederick, Chief Justice of South Wales : and James, Principal of Magdalen Hall, mentioned in Evelyn's diary.

J. J. H.

Salisbury.

CRABBLE, A PLACE-NAME. There is on the western outskirts of Dover a hamlet called Grabble. I have searched in vain for the derivation of the name. Can any reader suggest its derivation, or say if there is any other place so named ?

JOHN BAVINGTON JONES. Dover.

CHANGES IN HANDWRITING : LARGE-TEXT W AND LONG &--The August number of The Bibliophile contains a second interesting article by Mr. Harold F. B. Wheeler on Napo~- leon caricatures. The author proves that he is not a person of great age by \vriting, as to ' Jack Junk's New Jester ' (p. 311) :

" With the engraver's usual disregard for spelling, the word ' tow ' is spelt ' ton ' in the title of the picture."

Reference to the reproduction (p. 312) shows a distinct " tow " ; but the w is of the form of a colligated nv, with which I was familiar some forty j^ears ago in " large-text" copies, but not, so far as I remember^ in other hands. Can the date of its final disappearance be ascertained ?

In a proof the other day I came upon the strange word " papport " evidence that the compositor had been educated since the practical disuse of " long s." It would be interesting to know to what extent it yet survives. Old-fashioned people still use it in one case, at any rate in the word " Messrs." in the address of a letter ; and I must plead guilty to using it (though I have not completed my fifth decade) in such words as "possession" and "profession." In the former case, I venture to think it looks better.

Q. V.

[The survival of the long s in printing was dis- cussed so recently as 10 S. viii. 205, 258, 372.]

" CRIPPLE CARRYING." I find on exa- mining the church books of this parish considerable sums allotted to the above purpose as much as 151. at a time. Does it mean the removal of vagrants, "foreigners," &c., from the parish, or the passing along the Western road disabled soldiers and sailors ? FREDERIC TURNER.

Egham.

Ho WE = RUSSELL. I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could tell me where I can find a note on the family of Eowe showing a Howe-Russell marriage, and also describing one member of the family as of Havering, Essex. I found this some years ago, but have lost the reference, and am unable to trace it. F. H.

6, Wellington Square, S.W.

VOREDA, ROMAN TOWN. The late Rev. Tohn Brunskill in a paper on ' Ormshed Ormside] and its Church,' communicated ,o the Cumberland and Westmorland Anti- quarian Society on 20 June, 1900, writes :

The ruined Roman town of Voreda in Plumpton, ushed by a Northern raid, and buried by Nature's Teenery in the then desolate Inglewood Forest, emains an historic mine still awaiting reverent xcavation."

las this work ever been undertaken, and vith what results ? Where can further nformation on this station be met with ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

MRS. CONWAI HACKETT. Information is anted as to this lady, whose portrait I have mezzotint, about 200 years old, by . Smith after F. Riley. R. L. MORETON.