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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io<" s. HI. MARCH *, wes.

DE MORGAN : TUBERVILLE OR TURBER- VILLE. I shall be grateful for any informa- tion concerning the parentage of either of the following individuals, viz., Capt. John De Morgan, who was in the H.E.I.C. service early in the eighteenth century, and who died in 1760, and his wife Anne, daughter of

Tuberville or Turberville. They were

married at Fort St. George, India, and Mrs. De Morgan died at Negapatam in 1747, leaving issue, amongst others, a daughter, married first to Capt. John Innes, and secondly to Capt. James West, A.D.C. to Brigadier-General Sir William Draper.

H. C. SURTEES, Colonel.

Bath and County Club, Bath.

COMPTER PRISON. At what date did the Poultry Cornpter Prison cease to exist?

C. L. E. C.

Alton.

LUCAS FAMILIES. I am collecting materials for a general history of the Lucas families, and shall be glad of any assistance in the shape of pedigrees, references to individuals, extracts from registers, &c. The ordinary printed sources of information have been exhaustively searched.

PERCEVAL D. LUCAS.

39A, Queen Square, W.C.

SPUR-POST. What is a spur-post? I find the word in a small but very good French dictionary (Leon Contanseau's, published by Longmans, n.d.) as one of the English meanings of the French substantive borne, s.f., bound, boundary, limit, milestone, spur- post. T. WILSON.

Harpenden.

ABBEY OF ST. VALERY-SUR-SOMME. Is any cartulary, or other collection of documents, relating to this abbey, in existence? I do not find it in Ulysse Robert's 'Inventaire des Cartulaires conserves dans les Biblio- theques de Paris et aux Archives Nationales,' drc., 1878 ; nor in the ' Supplement' of 1879. EOBT. J. WHITWELL.

Oxford.

" POMPELMOUS." Pompelmous or pompel- moose, the obscure name of a well-known tree and its fruit, which, it is hoped, will be investigated and illustrated so far as possible in one of the next parts of the great 'H.E.D.,' has been adopted in English, French (pam- plemousse\ and German (Pomjielmuse), from the Dutch pampelmota or pampeloranje. It is said to have been the forbidden fruit of Paradise, and is also called sometimes grape-fruit (rather a misnomer), sometimes shaddock. The other day, when I first saw

in a grocer's shop one of these fruits (which appeared to me like a Jamaica orange, though twice or thrice as large), and inquired after its price, the reply was, " Not for sale/' It was evidently exhibited as a mere specimen, or show-fruit. The question why the Dutch planters in Java and in other East Indian colonies originally gave the name pampelmo& to this curious tree and fruit may well deserve to be further explained.

" DINKUMS." A defendant in a recent police-court case at Lincoln, in complaining that the case had been tried in his absence, said, "I loike to have fair doos, and it's not fair doos. I goa straight rai'sen, and I like fair dincums [or dinkums]." What are the origin and meaning of the latter word ?

A. R. U

BIDDING PRAYER. Could you or any of your readers inform me when the 'Bidding Prayer,' used before the University sermons at Oxford, was first compiled? If of pre- Reformation origin, it would be interesting to know if it was used during the Reforma- tion, being so clearly a prayer for those departed this life. SOMERVILLE.

SIBILLA DE GOURNAY. Is anything further known of this lady than what is contained in the ' History of the De Gournay Family,' by Mr. Daniel Gurney (1848-58)? She was the wife of Anselm de Gournay, of the Somersetshire branch, who died in 1286. She is said to have survived him many years, but neither the date nor place of her death is given. Is there any record of either elsewhere ?

HERTFORDSHIRE ICONOCLAST. In 1643 the Earl of Manchester, as general of Hertford and six other associated counties, appointed certain fanatics for the purpose of demolish- ing altars, removing candlesticks, and de- facing pictures and images in the churches of his district. The counties of Suffolk and Cambridge were appointed to Dowsing, should be very glad if any reader could inform me who was the person appointed for Hertfordshire. H. P. POLLARD.

Bengeo, Hertford.

SIR ALEXANDER GRANT'S WILL. The will of Sir Alexander Grant, of Dalvey, who died November, 1825, is neither in Edinburgh nor at Somerset House. Can any one tell me where it is to be found 1

(Mrs.) HUGH HAMMERSLEY.

The Grove, Hampstead, N.VV.

SAMUEL BUTLER. I desire to know whether Samuel Butler, of 'Hudibras' fame, ever