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and drusun means " they fell down " in Mark iii. 11. So one would like to know whether the said lane runs on a dead level or the contrary. Or, if flat, if it is approached by a slope.

Another solution is to connect the lane- name with the personal name Druce, which see in Bardsley. WALTER W. SKEAT.

PETER DRELINCOURT, DEAN OF ARMAGH, AND HIS DAUGHTER ANNE, VISCOUNTESS PRIMROSE (10 S. xi. 208). The identifica- tion of Dean Drelincourt's wife Mary would be welcome to yet another inquirer. Her will, and that of her husband, whom she survived for thirty-three years, both proved in the P.C.C., show that she was a Welsh heiress, possessed of an estate at Wrexham, where her son-in-law died in 1741, within two years of his marriage. Anne, Viscoun- tess Primrose, who survived till 1775, left her Denbighshire property to Thomas, Lord Dartrey, or in default to the daughters of Viscount Pery ; and her ultimate heirs must have been Diana, Countess of Ranfurly, and Frances, wife of Nicholson Calvert, M.P.

Peter Drelincourt was the thirteenth of fifteen children, and his eldest brother, Laurent (1626-80), somewhile pasteur at La Rochelle and at Niort, was probably the father of Charlotte Susanne Drelincourt, erroneously affiliated in ' La France Pro- testante ' to Peter. Peter in 1690 married Jean Barbot, a merchant in Lime Street, who appears as author of ' Voyages to Guinea,' and by whom she had, with other issue, Charlotte, wife of the Rev. Stephen Abel Laval, pasteur of the Castle Street and Berwick Street French Chapels, and author of a voluminous history of the Re- formed Church of France.

It may be noted in this connexion that 'there had been a French offshoot of the Primrose family, which wrote the name with an e a form of spelling followed by Lady Primrose.

Amongst several Scotchmen who about the beginning of the seventeenth century offered their services to the French Reformed Church had been Gilbert Primrose, son of a Gilbert of Edinburgh, an elder brother to Archibald, the progenitor of the Vis- counts Primrose. He served some while as pasteur at St. Jean d' Angely and at Bordeaux, but was expelled from France in 1623, and thus at about fifty became one of the ministers of the Threadneedle Street Church. His three wives Elizabeth Brenon ; Jeanne Hersent, widow of the minister Abraham Aurelius ; and Louise de Lobel were all of French

origin. And though born north of the Tweed, and latterly resident in London moreover a Canon of Windsor and one of the King's Chaplains he had become so much a Frenchman as to make his will (attested by two important members of his congregation, Peter Bulteel and Dierick Hoste, whose descendants are with us to this day) in French. He had four sons, of whom David, not labouring under his father's disqualification as a foreigner, served as a pasteur at Rouen, where he died in 1650, leaving a son, another David Primerose, who, like his grandfather, became a minister of the church in Threadneedle Street, serv- ing there till his death in 1713. H. W.

CORUNNA : BEARER OF THE FIRST NEWS (10 S. xi. 130, 212). Sir John Moore's brother (James Moore, surgeon) published in 1809 a ' Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain, commanded by Sir John Moore.' At p. 227 is given Sir David Baird's dispatch dated 18 Jan., 1809, which ends thus :

" The Honourable Captain Gordon, my aide-de- camp, will have the honour of delivering this dispatch, and will be able to give your Lordship any further information which may be required."

General Hope's justly celebrated dispatch of 18 Jan., 1809, was enclosed in Baird's dispatch of the same date (in which it is called a " report "), and is given at pp. 228- 234 of the 'Narrative.' Facing p. 211 is a ' Plan of the Action of Coruna.'

Capt. Gordon became Col. Sir Alexander Gordon, and A.D.C. to the Duke of Welling- ton, and was mortally wounded at Waterloo.

General Hope became Earl of Hopetoun in 1816. W. S.

ST. SUNDAY (10 S. xi. 208). The St. Sunday which your correspondent mentions is thus referred to in Faber's beautiful poem ' The Styrian Lake,' 1842, p. 168 :

Far to the right St. Sunday's quiet shade Stoops o'er the dell where Grisedale Tarn is laid Beneath the solemn crag in waveless sleep.

There are at least eight St. Dominies, and probably more, not counting the founder of the Dominican Order. It is probable that one of these became the St. Sunday of popular speech.

At Louth in Lincolnshire the church accounts of 1535 contain the following sntry : " For a hooke of yron to sainct sonday pycture, j d ."

There was an image of St. Sunday in Yatton Church, Somerset (see Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc., Third Series,