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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. XL MAY 15, im

WOKKSOP EPITAPHS (10 S. x. 503; xi. 112). The lines given by MR. C. S. JEBBAM at the latter reference are often met with in churchyards. With slight variations they occur twice here, on stones bearing date 1793 and 1850. Both, however, agree in substituting " a sudden change " for " O sudden death" in the first line, and "death " for " chance " in the third line.

This corrected version may also be seen on a stone dated 1801 in West Haddon Churchyard, Northamptonshire.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

BISHOP SAMPSON or LICHFIELD (10 S. x. 429 ; xi. 16, 117). I shall be glad to know if there is any ground for the statement that Richard Sampson, Bishop of Chichester and later of Lichfield, 1546-54, was the son of Sir Ralph Sampson of Kent, Kt., by his wife Arabella, daughter of Sir Edward Dawson of Spaldington, co. York, and that the Bishop had a son John Sampson of Horsemenlane, Kent, ancestor of the Irish family. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

JOHN CLAYTON (10 S. xi. 306). Another error of the 'D.N.B.' may be pointed out. In the account of Robert Clayton, Bishop of Clogher, it is stated that he was the eldest of eight children of "Dr. Robert Clayton, Dean of Kildare, and Eleanor, daughter of John Atherton of Busie." There is a good deal of confusion here. The Bishop was one of the children (I have notes of seven only), of John Clayton, the Dean of Kildare. The latter's wife's name was Juliana, but her surname I have not yet ascertained. The Dean was one of the eight children of Robert Clayton of Fulwood and Eleanor, daughter of John Atherton. R. S. B.

STUART, EARL or TRAQTJAIR (10 S. xi. i" )- John, first Earl, married firstly Catharine, daughter of David Carnegie, Earl of Southesk ; secondly, Henrietta, daughter of George Gordon, Marquis of Huntly, widow of George, Lord Seton.

The Ochiltree pedigree will be found in Douglas's 'Peerage,' but more fully in G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage.' J. W. M.

The first Earl married the Lady Catherine, third daughter of Sir David Carnegie, first Earl of Southesk (see 'D.N.B.,' liv. 328).

For Ochiltree see Wood's 'Douglas's Peerage of Scotland' under Stewart, Lord Ochiltree, and Stewart, Lord Avandale and 'D.N.B.,' liv. 270 and 271.

A. R. BAYLEY.

" SQUAD "=Muo (10 S. xi. 269). I think squad may very well be of Scandinavian origin, and allied to the Danish kvadder r mud ; the etymology is discussed by Falk and Torp in their ' Danish Etymological Dictionary.' It is probably allied to E. quid and E. cud, and Skt. jatu ; but not to G.. Koth. WALTER W. SKEAT.

See the ' E.D.D.,' s.v. Perhaps compare ' The Ingoldsby Legends ' : I remember Billy Hawkins

Came, and with his pewter squirt Squibb'd my pantaloons and stockings Till they were all over dirt.

Of kin to " squash " and such-like words.

W. C. B.

OXEN DRAWING CARRIAGES (10 S. xi.. 70, 136). In ' A Summer in Brittany,' by T. Adolphus Trollope, edited by Frances Trollope, and published in 1840, the author,. while watching one Sunday morning the congregation coming from Grand Mass outside the cathedral at Quimper, informs us :

" At the conclusion of the service the open space in front of the west doors of the cathedral presented a motley and picturesque scene, which was too characteristic to escape my companion's pencil. One old lady I saw carried out in a sedan chair, who might really have belonged to ' la vieille cour.' Her bearers were peasants in bragon-bras and sabots, and herself and equipage were a most exquisitely preserved specimen of a generation and state of things long since passed away. An old colonel of Napoleon's army, whom I met at Quimper, told me that he re- membered perfectly well the equipage and attendants of a nobleman of the neighbourhood, who, in the days of his youth, before the revolu- tion, used to come every Sunday morning to mass at the cathedral. There were no roads from his chateau to the town ; and his immense splendidly gilt and massively constructed carriage was dragged in state through the soil by six bullocks, driven by a coachman and accom- panied by numerous attendants on foot, all dressed in the peasants' costume of the country."

ALFRED JAS. MONDAY.

' WOODIN IMAGE " (10 S. xi. 305). There can be no doubt that the explanation is quite correct as far as the Midland counties are concerned ; and the wooden images were far more numerous than is generally sup- posed. The Highlander may be the last survivor, but a common one half a century ago was a negro with gilt waistcloth and band with feathers on his head, in conjunc- tion sometimes with a tobacco roll. Rag- shops had a black doll, which local tradition claims to have orginated in Deptford, Kent. Outside the old public-house in Rother- hithe was a figure about eighteen inches high..