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1776, the dates respectively of the making and proving his will (registered in the Pre- rogative Court of Canterbury, 123, Bellas). He possessed property at Framlinghara, Suf- folk. By his wife Elizabeth he had an only daughter, also Elizabeth, who was married to John D'Urban, M.D., of Halesworth. A search through Davy's 'Suffolk Collections,' s. >;'. 'Halesworth' and 'Framlingharn,' has revealed nothing. GORDON GOODWIN.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be sent to them direct.

PERMISSION CAP. The London Gazette, No. 2031 of 1685, has:

" His Majesty's High Commissioner attended

with Four Knights on Foot And in his return

to the Palace having the High Constable on his right hand, and the Great Marshall on his left, with Permission Caps and in their Robes."

In No. 2564 of the same (1090) we find : " A Guenea Xegro Boy in a black cloth suet,

and on his head a black Cloth Permission Cap

strayed away on the 3d instant."

There are other entries similar to the first of these, to which also may perhaps be com- pared "Here's three permission bonnets for ye," in Allan Ramsay's 'Three Bonnets,' 1722. I shall be glad of information as to the meaning of " permission cap."

J. A. H. MURRAY.

LORD DE TABLEY AND ' N. & Q.' Mr. Hugh Walker, in his extremely interesting biographical sketch of this versatile writer, has the following at p. 37 of this all too brief monograph :

" He [Lord De Tabley] wrote frequently to JVbte* and Queries, especially in 1879, during the first half of which he contributed no fewer than fifty-one articles under various signatures."

Will some one who knows these various signatures kindly furnish me with the references thereto ? Mr. Tinsley Pratt, in his ' Bibliography of De Tabley ' (Manchester Quarterly/, April, 1900), makes no allusion to these ''fifty-one articles."

Again, did De Tabley's contributions con- tinue until his death in 1895 ] If so, refer- ences also, please. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

[Mr. Walker is correct in his statement that Lord De Tabley contributed fifty-one articles to ' N. & Q.' in the first half of 1879. Two were signed with his name, and will be found in the Index to 5 th S. xi. under ' Warren, J. L.' ; twenty-two were signed

Zero, and twenty-seven A, being duly indexed under these signatures. In 5"' S. xii. one article bore his name, eleven were signed Zero, and eighteen A. This information will enable Lord De Tabley's earlier and later communications to be traced.]

CONSTABLES OR GOVERNORS OF STIRLING CASTLE. In these days of the inferior parliamentary, ministerial, and plutocratic " nobility," one turns to the ancient military and feudal aristocracy to find the real genuine noblesse. Old Scotland, for example, was divided into four military districts, the chief command being at Stirling Castle. The commanders (Constables or Governors) were chosen from the most reliable military officers of the aristocracy. I desire to have the ancestry, arms, and posterity of these, commencing with those of Stirling Castle, for consolidation in book form as basis for aristocratic organization. My ancestor, Eoberb de Forsyth, was Constable (or Governor) in 1368. He was son of Osbert, and descended from Grimoard de Forsath, Vicomte de Fronsac in 1030 Aquitaine, France, from which country many of the old cavaliers of Scotland were descended. The Ear^of Man- was Governor temp. Charles I. Who were the others 1 What are their arms, ancestry, and posterity ? Please address direct.

FORSYTH, VICOMTE DE FRONSAC.

Ottawa, Canada.

WILKES'S PARLOUR. Was Wilkes's Parlour at Guildhall or the Mansion House? and why was it so called 1 C. L. E. C.

Alton.

CARDINAL NEWMAN OR ANOTHER ? I have lately read Rene Boylesve's ' L'Enfant a la Balustrade,' which has been translated into English, furnished with a title that has no relation to that affixed by the original author, and characterized by some critic, with an undiscriminating literary palate, as " the French 'Cranford.'" One of the heroines, when a girl of fifteen, was taken by her father, an an ti - clerical Deputy, to Rome, where she met Lord "Wolesley," a charming young man, who had " des cheveux d'enfant, des dents deferame, et des yeux de la couleur de 1'eau qui clapote au foud d'une caverne marine." He had also a profound admiration of Newman, and offered to present the maiden to his Eminence, who was at that time in Rome :

"Elle eu 1'honneur d'approcher Newman dans les jardins du Pincio. II se garda de toute parole mondaine, et comme il avait paru connaitre le nom du depute de Paris, il lui dit, non sans amenitS, mais sans faiblesse, qu'il venerait, quant ;\ lui, dans les persecuteurs de TEglise les artisans iuconscients d'une ceuvre sacree : 'Qui sait, dit-il, si Ntiron,