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Saviour's bazaar at Jersey in 1860, and my own copy presumably the first edition possibly the only edition states that any further editions were to be sold for the benefit of the parochial schools of the island.

GUERNSEY.

" BOSTING " : DRESSING STONE. Is this word still in use in the process of dressing stone for house building ? Stone was worked in quarries in convenient sizes ; then squared with a kevel on three sides, the inner side left in the quarried state. The outer side of the stone, which would go to form the face of the building, was " bost," that is dressed with the pick-end of the kevel. This process was called " bosting." A kevel is a sort of hammer, square at one end of the head, pick-pointed at the other, about fourteen inches long, the shaft perhaps two inches longer. It is many years since I saw men " bostin' " with the kevel.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

CAWDOR DISPATCH. In the Great Western Railway Company's publication ' South Wales : the Country of Castles,' p. 74, is a facsimile of the first and fourth sheets of the Cawdor dispatch respecting the invasion of the French at Fishguard in 1797. This dispatch, we are told, " was recently dis- covered amongst the papers of a Birming- ham dealer in autographs." In whose possession is it now ? and has the whole report ever been printed in full ?

G. H. W.

LUMLEY FAMILY. Can any one inform me on what authority the early pedigree oi the Lumleys (as given in Surtees's ' History of Durham ') rests ? The given descenl from Roger de Lumley, who married the Morewic heiress seems sound enough ; bul what are the proofs of Roger's descent from Uchted son of Liulf ? One is inclined to suspect the paucity of generations the five generations from Uchted to Robert (son o Roger) covering a period of well over 20C years. If any reader can furnish the desirec evidence I shall be much obliged. G. D.

PlNS SUBSTITUTED FOR THORNS. How

long is it since thorns were used instead o pins in the British Islands ? Sebillot re marks in ' Le Folk-lore de France,' ii. 248 : "A note of Cambry, relating to the spring o Bodilis, says that at the end of the Eighteen tl Century the women of that district fastened thei clothes with thorns, as did, thirty years ago, th poor women of High-Brittany and many of th women of Cap Sizun in the south of Finisterre

Vot long ago (towards 1855) the lads who applied

'la fontaine des Cinq-Plaies' in Serval, to know f they were loved, threw a thorn into it, as did he young girls who went to ask ' la fontaine

Jaint-Michel' to certify their purity." The modern pins used in consulting springs- ire supposed to have replaced objects which were not so heavy pins of box- wood or bone, ish-bones, or the above-mentioned thorns.

M. P.

SIR CUTHBERT SLADE, BT. ' Whitaker's Peerage ' mentions that Sir Cuthbert Slade, Bt., Maunsell Grange, Somerset, is a descendant of Edward I. Can any reader inform me how this descent is derived ?

S.

" OUTROPER." What was an " out- roper " ? Was he an auction salesman ? ff so, what is the origin of the word ?

" At the Outropers Office in the Royal Exchange on Wednesday the 23rd instant, at 4 after Noon, will be continued the Sale by Auction of a curious Collection of Pictures, with a further Addition ot more extraordinary fine Pieces, which are to be viewed, and Catalogues had." London Gazette, an extract undated.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[Fully explained in ' N.E.D,,' with quotations from 1612, including one from The London Gazette of 1688.]

ABERDEEN MAPS AND PLANS. I should be much obliged if any of your readers could give me information concerning old plans or maps of Aberdeen, or charts of the coast.

1 particularly wish to discover a plan of Aberdeen by James Gordon of Rothiemay (1661); another by Gordon of Strollock ; one by Holland, or possibly Hollar; and Adair's 'Survey of the Coast of Scotland, 1705. Please reply direct.

DAVID HAY PEFFERS. Belhaven, Dunbar.

ARCHBISHOP BLACKBURNE. Does any monument or stone mark the sepulchre of this prelate, who found a grave in St. Margaret's, Westminster ? I remember once asking Canon Raine of York, than whom no greater authority on the lives of the Arch- bishops of York existed, about the stories in existence concerning him, but he " smiling put the question by."

The last archbishop buried in York Minster was, I believe, John Sharp. Most of his successors found graves elsewhere Drummond in the little churchyard of Bishopthorpe, where also Archbishop Thom- son was borne. Markham is buried in the cloisters at Westminster ; Harcourt with his ancestors at Stanton Harcourt ; Mus-