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third edit., 1744-6, contains at vol. ii. p. 831 the following account of some of the trophies of the British victory at Dettingen :

"List of French standards taken at the battl near Dettingen, on the 16th of June, O.S. 1743.

'1. A white standard finely embroidered wi',1 gold and silver, a thunder-bolt in the middle, upon a blue and white ground. Motto, Sentere Giyantes Both sides the same.

" 2. A red standard, two hands with a sword and with a laurel wreath and imperial crown at top Motto, Incorrttpta Fi'fes ct- avita Virtu*. On the other side the sun. Motto. JW p1uril>m impar.

"3. A yellow standard, embroidered with golc and silver, the sun in the middle. No motto.

" 4. A green ditto, in the same way.

"5. The mast of another torn off, but appears to have been red.

"6. A white standard, embroidered with goldanc silver ; in the middle a bunch of nine arrows tiec with a wreath, all stained with blood, the lance broke ; the Cornet killed without falling, being buckled behind to his horse, and his standarc buckled to him. Motto. Alt trim Jo'i*,a}(era Tda This standard belonged to the Musquetaires Noirs, and was taken by a serjeant of Lieutenant General Hawley's of the right squadron of the whole line.

"In a private letter concerning this battle, we were told, that Sir Robert Rich's regiment having lost their standard, a private man rode into a squadron of French horse, sword in hand, and retook it."

A marginal note to the last paragraph says, " Thomas Brown of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire."

Are these standards in existence now ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

ROYAL REGIMENTS OF THE LINE. What is the origin of regiments of the army being styled Royal Regiments ? and does the honour carry any privileges with it ? What is the list of Royal Regiments previous to the introduction of the territorial designa- tions in 1881 ? R. S. C.

ANCIENT RELIGIOUS HOUSES. Can any reader oblige by giving some reference to two of the above, believed to have been situated in the county of Bucks, but not described in the local histories viz., of Thwaites and of Gore (or Gare), near Hanslope ? R. B.

Upton.

TYRRELL FAMILY. What object can Lips- comb's ' Buckingham ' have in giving only five sons to Baronet Thomas of Thornton 1 Burke's ' Extinct Baronetcies ' says " Sir Thomas Tyrrell had six sons and four daughters"; Foster's 'Peerage' says six sons ; Browne Willis says " six," and observes at the births of some Tyrrell children, " Two leaves are cut out of the parish register " (1735).

Again, what motive had Lipscomb, in his 1847 edition, in making Sir Charles Tyrrell

die the year of his daughter's marriage (1755)? The Gentleman's Mariazine. The Lon- don Magazine, and other periodicals of that century, publish his death in January, 1749; and the War Office lists discharged him "dead " in 1749.

Lastly, what has become of the gravestones off the church-vault of the Tyrrell family ? Lysons's 'Buckingham' remarks, "Thornton Church has been comfortably refitted, but the antiquary will regret the removal of the monuments." GRAY'S ELEGY.

"CUT THE LOSS." What is the origin of the phrase ''cut the loss"? In The Standard, Friday, 16 December, 1904, p. 5, one reads :

" The estate secured by the French Carthusians in Cambridgeshire between Ely and Peterborough which cost nearly 10,100A, has been abandoned by that community as being unsuitable for their particular agricultural requirements. The monks were to have built a large Brother House on the estate on their expulsion from France, and an agent of the Brotherhood made the purchase. The Carthu- sians are eminently practical agriculturists, and when the advance guard appeared on the scene, and saw the land, they decided that they could not occupy it. They are now settled in Essex, and are prepared to cut the loss, which is expected to be considerable.''

E. S. DODGSON.

VERSCHOYLE : FOLDEN. I desire informa- tion about the name Yerschoyle. It is obviously French ; but is it the name of a place, or a personal or Christian name ?

Folden is a surname of which I have not been able to obtain any information, even after consulting the latest works on the origin of British surnames. Foulden occurs as a place-name in England and Scotland, and there is a Folden Fiord on the west coast of Norway. Is the name of Scandinavian origin ? What is its meaning ?

W. G. WlNTEMBERG. Toronto.

" THE GENTLE SHAKESPEARE." At the risk of being thought ignorant or stupid, may I

je allowed to give expression to some ''obsti- nate questionings " suggested by the presence of this epithet in the celebrated lines " to the

eader," under the portrait of William Shake- speare (of Stratford) on the first page of the Shakespeare Folio of 1623, and signed B. J., standing, of course, for Ben Jonson 1

And the first of these "questionings" is Who was "the gentle Shakespeare" referred to? Of course, I shall be told that he was the original of the " figure " placed above. But,

f so, then I want to know why the term

' gentle" is applied to him. Is it as an attri- bute of his birth, or his character and dis-