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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. xi. MAY 29, 1909.

One of the extracts is puzzling, and I should be glad if you could solve it. It is under date 1 Jan., 1685/6, and is as follows : "1. At Pen wort ham. They dyned the officers and the Canapolitans, Mr. Mayor," &c.

This means that the Fleetwoods, who at that time lived at Penwortham, had given a dinner to the officers stationed at Preston, just across the Ribble, and to certain other Prestonians, of whom the Mayor was one.

But what is the origin or meaning of " Canapolitans " ? H. W. CLEMESHA.

Preston.

" FROUDES " = STUFFED DATES. Recently in Vicksburg, Miss., I was offered a delicious confection which I identified as stuffed dates, but which I heard called " froudes." I was told that the word had been brought there, and was understood to be a whimsical use of the name of a well-known modern English historian whose indifference to exact chronology had made the late Prof. Freeman very unhappy. I should like to know if such a use of the word as a bit of academic " slang " originated in England.

J. D. M.

Philadelphia.

Hepiws.

SIR ARTHUR HESILRIGE. (10 S. xi. 308.)

So far as I am aware, the date of Sir Arthur's birth is nowhere recorded, even approximately. He was elected for Leices- tershire to both the Short and Long Parlia- ments of 1640, and as one of the extremists of the Parliamentary party, or " Rumpers " sat continuously until the Cromwellian dissolution of 1653.

To the first Protectorate Parliament of 1654 he was returned both by Leicester Town and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Although present at the opening of that Parliament, and actually nominated on the Committee of Privileges, he was, owing to his refusal to sign the Engagement, compelled at once to withdraw, and never returned during the brief continuance of that Parliament. It is doubtful if at the time of his withdrawal he had made his selection for which constituent he would serve ; and as there is no record of any by-election at either Leicester or New- castle, it is probable that both boroughs continued to be unrepresented until the dissolution.

To the second and third Protectorate Parliaments of 1656-8 and 1659 Hesilrigge was again elected for Leicester, but was amongst the 105 anti-Cromwellians excluded from the former by the Council of State, and the 58 who on 17 September signed the letter of protest to the Speaker. He, how- ever, entered the House and took the oath on 25 Jan., 1658, for the express purpose, it is said, of declaiming against the institution of Cromwell's House of Lords of which he himself had been appointed a member, but had declined the honour. He is, however, named but four times on Committee during the remaining months of that Parliament.

In Richard Cromwell's Parliament of 1659 he was somewhat more active. With the " Rumpers " he resumed his Long Parlia- ment career on 7 May of that year, and sat until the final dissolution in March following, displaying throughout all his early energy.

W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

Sir Thomas Hesilrige, first baronet, married Frances Gorges, dau. and heir of Sir William Gorges, Kt., of Aldrington, otherwise Alder- ton, Northants. The register of Alderton begins 1597, that of Graf ton Regis 1584, but in the latter there is a gap between 1589 and 1594 inclusive. The following Hesilrige entries occur.

Grafton Regis, Norihante.

1595. Marie Hassellrigge, daughter of Thomas Hassellrigge, baptyzed the xiiij tb of June.

Alderton, Northants.

1599/1600. Downalde Hesilrige, the sonne of Thorn's Hesilrigge, was baptized the xxiiij lh of January.

1601. Arthur Hesilrigge, gent., was baptized the xxiij th of Julye.

1602. John Hesilrige, gent., was baptized the xx th of July.

1605/6. Thomas Hesillrige, sonne of Thomas Hesilirigge & Frauncis his wife, was baptized the xiij th of February.

1606/7. Robert Hesilirigge, sonne of Thomas Hesilirigge & Frances his wife, was baptized the xvij th of February.

1609/10. Jane Hasillrige, daughter of Sir Thomas Hasillrige, Knight, and Dame Frauncis his wife, was borne the xiiij th & baptized the xxx th daye of January.

1632. Edward Orrange, servaunt to M r Thomas . . . .selrigge, bur. 30 June.

The parish of Alderton is joined with that of Grafton Regis.

Some account of the Hesilrige family is given in the ' History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton,' by the Rev. R, M. Serjeantson, pp. 137-43.

HENRY ISHAM LONGDEN, M.A.

Heyford Rectory, Weedon.