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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. DEC. 5, IMS.

" The first Saonuel Foote of which we have any authentic record was born in 1550. His son John was baptised at Taunton, St. Mary's, 1579. His grandson John, born 1609, [was] buried at Taunton 1697, leaving issue Samuel, John, and others.

" Samuel, born in 1632, married Maria Keate in 1657.

"John Justice Foote, of Truro, born 1634, married Jael (? Harnap).

" John, son of Samuel (and others), became lieu- tenant in Col. Moore's, afterwards Lord Drogheda, regiment of cavalry at the battle of the Boyne, July, 1690, having joined King William III., pro- bably in Holland, from Tiverton, or Truro, or St. Very an, Cornwall, the family being in these counties at this time.

"John Foote, born in 1678, became M.P. for Tiverton, and married Eleanor, a daughter of Sir Edward Goodere. The title is now extinct.

"Samuel Foote, the comedian, was baptised at Tniro, 1721, and died in 1777, and was buried in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

" My father, Richard Foote, a grandson of Samuel Foote, married Sarah, daughter of John Adams, yeoman, who had an estate at Chagford, Devon, but who farmed Ramsdown, Milton Abbot, Devon, a brother of the father of Prof. Adams, astronomer, who resided at Stoke, Cornwall, and to whose memory a memorial tablet is erected in Truro Cathedral. These notes may be of interest to some."

W. ROBERTS.

LEGENDS ABOUT THE MOON (10 S. x. 347). In a book of travels published in 1838

') there is a strange story about the moon, which is little better than their usual ignorant notions. The moon, they say, wished to send a message to men, and the hare said that he would take it. 'Run, then,' said the moon, * and tell men that as I die, and am renewed, so shall they also be renewed.' But the hare deceived men, and said, ' As I die and perish, so shall you also.' Old Namaquas will not therefore touch hare's flesh ; but the young men may partake of it: that is, before the ceremony of making them men is performed, which merely con- sists in slaughtering and eating an ox or a couple of sheep." Sir James Edward Alexander's 'An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa, through the Hitherto Undescribed Countries of the Great Namaquas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras,' i. 169.

It is hardly necessary to say that these Namaquas lived round Walfirch Bay, on the south-west coast of Africa, now included in German territory. .VYEAHR.

" BAAL-FIRES " : "BONFIRE" (10 S. x. 206, 251, 315, 353, 391). In a note to { The Lady of the Lake,' iii. 5, Scott quotes " from the geographical collections made by the laird of Macfarlane " as follows :

"There is bot tw9 myles from Inverloghie, the church of Kilmalee, in Loghyeld. In ancient tymes there was ane church builded upon ane hill, which was above this church, which doeth now stand in this toune ; and ancient men doeth say, that there was a battell foughten on ane litle hill not the tenth

part of a myle from this church, be certaine men* which they did not know what they were. And long tyme thereafter, certaine herds of that toune,. and of the next toune, called Unnatt, both wenches and youthes, did on a tyme conveen with others on that hill ; and the day being somewhat cold, did gather the bones of the dead men that were slayne long tyme before in that place, and did make a tire to warm them "Macfarlane, id supra, ii. 188.

I do not know the date of this Macfarlane.

L. R. M. STBACHAN. Heidelberg.

PROF. SKEAT writes of Belgian evidence- that bones were burnt in bonfires. Has- he come across the very clear reference to this in the popular Hawick song ' Pawkie- Paiterson's Auld Grey Yaud ' ?

In this ballad a ninety-year-old variant of the English ' Poor Old Horse ' the- " yaud " (jade) bequeaths her skull, " shank- banes," and hide. Finally,

And a' the callants o' Hawick loan Will mak' baneh'res o' mei ; I 'm pawkie Paiterson's auld grey yaud, Sae that 's the end o' mei.

F. STJLLEY.

MEDITERRANEAN (10 S. x. 308, 351, 376). Regarding the reply at the last reference,. I should like to point out that the Murray's 'Handbooks' which I quoted (p. 351) say that the Turkish " White Sea " means the- -^Egean, not the whole Mediterranean.

The above makes little, if any, difference- as to D.'s conclusion.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

I think D. has made a slip. The sea. known to English people and all English maps as the " White Sea " has no maritime- connexion with the Baltic. H. S.

I do not pretend that my remark will help the solution, but it may interest some to- know that mediaeval Hebraists always- refer to the Mediterranean as the " Yom Hachetzoun," or " Middle Sea," the sea " dividing " Europe from Africa, &c., de- riving, as it seems to me, the idea from, the Greek //.ecroycuos. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

GUERNSEY LILY (10 S. x. 368, 412). Southey's ' Commonplace Book ' gives a- great deal too commonplace an account of the introduction of this loveliest amongf lilies into the island of Guernsey. In the- early days, when the fairy men came to- Guernsey to look for wives,

" one carried away the beautiful Michelle de Garis to be his wife. Though, vanquished by his court- liness and grace, she was persuaded to fly with him back to fairyland, she could not quite forget the father, mother, and brothers whom she had left'