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 io-8.iv.SBPT.23.i905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 253 kindly furnished me the very interesting account of it which appears in the above- named work. In ' Historic llomance' Mr. William Andrews devotes a chapter to 4 Skull Superstitions," and therein alludes to the subject of " screaming skulls." J. H. INGRAM. I can record a comparatively modern instance of these unaccountable disturb- ances, though unfortunately unable to give the precise date, and our Editor wisely expects chapter and verse to be given in the book of the chronicles of ' N. & Q.' Some years since the household of Mr. Glad- wyn Jebb, the great traveller, was much disturbed by nocturnal noises. These were supposed to arise from an idol which had been looted from an Aztec city, and had witnessed cruel and bloody sacrifices. At length it was got rid of, and the unearthly noises ceased. I mentioned this to a friend in Oxford on my seeing on the staircase of hia house a Chinese idol. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. YORKSHIRE SPELLINGS (10th S. iv. 104).— Bing is used for the literary form bin in Kesteven, or was so half a century ago. It was corn-bing, tiour-bing, bread-bing. ST. SWITHIN. OuiLLIX OR QUILLAN : NAME AND ARMS (lO* S. iv. 206).—Llyn Cwellyn is the largest lake on the road from Beddgellert to Car- narvon. At the upper end stood the house of Cae-uwch-y-Llyn, the Fort above the Lake, which, by contraction, forms Cwellyn. This was once the residence of the Quellyns, a family supposed to be extinct. In my late husband's collection of North Wales pedi- grees I find the pedigree of Quellyn of Quellyn, ending with Philip Quellyn, 1766, who had a son. His Christian name is not given, but he is stated to have died without issue. The Quellyns, originally Williamses of Quellyn, changed their patronymic, and called themselves, after their estate, Quellyns of Quellyn. This was done by some other Welsh families — for instance, Branas of Branas, Crogan of Crogan, Anwyl of Anwyl, Ac., in order to distinguish themselves from the Williamses, Morgans, Lloyds, Hugheses, and Joneses all round. The Quellyns derived from Griffith, the brother of Hwlkyn Lloyd, ancestor of the family of Glynn of Glynlyffon, co. Carnarvon, sons of Tudor Goch, descended from Cilmyn Droed Ddu. The arms are the same as those of Glynn of Glynlyffon—viz., Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent, an eagle displayed aable ; 2 and 3, Argent, three brands raguly, fired proper ; on an escutcheon of pretence, Argent, a human leg, couped at the thigh, in allusion to the descent from Cilmya Droed Ddu—Cilmyn with the black leg. PHILIPPA SWINNERTON HUGHES. 91, Albert Bridge Road, S.W. McQuillin is the English, and MacUidhilio or MacUighilin the Gaelic orthography, Uidhilin or Uighilin being popularly sup- posed to mean Llewelyn. In O'Donovan's edition of the Tour Masters,' under the year 1310, the legendary account of tho origin of this family is quoted from Duald MacFirbis, viz., that its founder, who was of Dalriad descent, passed over into Wales, where his posterity remained until about the year 1172, when a branch of them returned and settled in the same county (Antrim) from which their ancestor had emigrated centuries before. JAS. PLATT, Jun. De Bourgo is mentioned several times in Campbell's 'O'Connor's Child,' and there is reference both to De Bourgo and to De Courcy in the notes to that poem :— " The house of O'Connor had a right to boast of their victories over the English. It was a chief of the O'Connor race who gave a check to the English champion, De Courcy, so famous for his personal strength, and for cleaving a helmet at one blow of his sword, in the presence of the Kings of France and England, when the French champion declined the combat with him. Though ultimately con- quered by the English under De Bourgo, the O'Connors had also humbled the pride of that name on a memorable occasion, viz., when Walter de Bourgo, an ancestor of that De Bourgo who won the battle of Athunree, had become so insolent as to make excessive demands upon the territories of Connaught." "The greatest effort ever made by the ancient Irish to regain their native independence was made at the time when they called over the brother of Robert Bruce from Scotland. William de Bourgo, brother to the Earl of Ulster, and Richard de Bermingham, were sent against the main body of the native insurgents, who were headed rather than commanded by Felim O'Connor. The important battle, which decided the subjection of Ireland, took place on 10 August, 1315." E. YARDLEY. THE GREYFRIARS BURIAL-GROUND (10th S- iv. 205). — The interesting discovery noted by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS is of some topo- graphical importance. I know of no con- temporary record that mentions a graveyard1 as attached to the Friary, and yet it is impossible that the large number of friars and dependents who belonged to the founda- tion during the three hundred years of its existence could have all been buried inside the church. Mr. J. Gough Nichols, in his preface to the ' Chronicle of the Grey Friar