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 NOTES AND QUERIES. 115 house, farm, and demesne lands of which h had granted a lease for ninety-nine years (i John Cotton, second son of the said'George Catherine, wife of the said John, and Richan Cotton, their son, so long should live) to Joh Carrell, then esquire, and now knight, am others, 27 July, 42 Elizabeth. George Cotto died at Warblington 8 January last, Richan Cotton, his son and heir, then aged forty ant more. Mary, the daughter of George Cotton •appears to have been married to John Cary. a _few years earlier than the approximate dat given in my previous note. In a pedigree of the Caryll family in Elwes's 'Castles Mansions, and Manors of Western Sussex p. 253, it is stated that their daughter Mar was baptized on 10 February, 1578/9. In the same pedigree our George Cotton is callec "grandson of Sir Richard Cotton, of the Privy Council to Edward VI." This should be "son," not "grandson." Sir Richarc Cotton died 3 October, 1556, and was buried at Warblington, his son and heir, George being then eighteen years of age. ALFRED T. EVEEITT. THE WEEPING WILLOW (10th S. iii. 247).— MR. LYNN is obviously correct. I doubt whether gnayrfa is the true singular form •as that would clash with the Hebrew noun for "evening"; nor is the form gnorijv better grounded, as it might mean "an Arab.' However, that is of minor importance, seeing the word is only found in the O.T. with a plural ending and invariably associated with nachalim, or streams of water. Your readers know that the willow is one of the four speci- mens of tree life used in public and private ser- vices on Succoth. There is a nice controversy in the Talmud on the enigmatic passage in Levit. xxiii. 40, and it was ultimately resolved that the peree eitz luiddr represents the citron, and the <jnaf eitz ynavoiu refers to the myrtle. Thus the palm branch, the citron, the myrtle, and the willow reproduce to-day some aspects •of the simple life led by my ancestors thou- sands of years ago, and afford clear proof of the continuity of our spiritual life, despite many economic checks. M. L. R. BRESLAR. GASTRELL AND SHAKESPEARE'S HOME (10th S. iv. 47).—The iconoclast was, I suppose, the son of Peregrine Gastrell, of Slapham (or Slapton), Northants, arm., who matriculated from Christ Church, 14 December, 1721, aged fourteen ; B.A. 1725 ; M.A. 1728. If so, he was akin to, but not son of, the Bishop of Oh««tpr B«™ tie resi wealth; died in 1768 ; but was never, appa- rently, vicar of Stratford, as stated by Mr. Sidney Lee in his ' Stratford-on-Avon' (ed. of 1904, p. 299). He not only demolished New Place " to avoid the pertinacity of sight- seers and the payment of local taxes," but ako destroyed Shakespeare's mulberry-tree, thereby winning an unenviable immortality at the hands of D. G. Rossetti, who says of Gastrell in a well-known sonnet:— This deaf drudge, to whom no length of ears Sufficed to catch the music of the spheres ; Whose soul is carrion now,—too mean to yield Some Starveling's ninth allotment of a ghost. Early in 1776 Dr. Johnson and Boswell dined with Gastrell's widow, who had "a house and garden, and pleasure - ground, prettily situated upon Stowhill, a gentle eminence, adjoining to Lichfield." She had been a Miss Aston, and one of her sisters, Molly, eventually the wife of Capt. Brodie, K.N., was, although a Whig, an especial favourite of the great Cham of literature. A. 11. BAYLEY. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10th S. iii. 8, 75).— Be sure that Love ordained for souls more meek His roadside dells of rest. This is the end of the sixth stanza in ' The Stream's Secret' (D. G. Rossetti, 'Collected Works,' 1886, vol. i. p. 96). EDWARD BENSLY. The Union Society, Cambridge. BONINGE OF LEDSUM (10th S. iv. 10).—The Yorkshire Parish Register Society intend to arint for their members the Ledsham parish •egister as one of their publications for 1906. Hie Thoresby Society have printed early liedsham wills. I atn one of the secretaries >f both societies, should particulars of mem- >ership be required. G. D. LUMB. 65, Albion Street, Leeds. THE DUKE'S BAGNIO IN LONG ACRE (10th S. v. 24).—This Bagnio probably received its esignation of the Queen's Bagnio in the eign of Queen Anne, for in 1709 it was still o distinguished, as will be seen by the follow- ig extract from The Tatler, 1 December of liat year:— "The Queen's Bagnio, in Long Acre, is made very onvenient for both sexes to sweat and bath pri- ately every Day in the W'eek, and cupp'd to the ast perfection (he having the best and newest In- trument for that Purpose). It is sufficiently evi- ent that it exceeds all others, by being more and onstantly frequented by the Nobility and Gentry. r. 5*. for one single Person ; but if Two or more ome together, 4i each. There is no Entertainment or iVonirn after 12 a Clock at Night; but all ".I -a *" ?"YcCVild> a dauKhter- I Gentlemen thTtderireBedirmayh»»e them for to. chiefly in Lichfield, was a man of per Night.-HUNRY AYME."