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 iv. SEPT. so, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 267 good nor harm with his gift. So he said to his angel, " Take me to the bedside of the first poor soul who is in danger of hell." And his angel took him to the bedside of a lawyer in Madrid, where sat the devil. The charcoal- burner played cards with the devil and won from him the soul of the lawyer. Any infor- mation to EDWARD HUTTON. 32, Ashworth Mansions, Maida Vale, W. "TINTERERO."— I have come across the word " tinterero," in a French book, as the name of a huge sea-animal. In the vocabu- lary it gives this as an English word also, but English dictionaries, «fec., have been searched in vain for any answer to the question. What is a " tinterero " ? I should be grateful for any information on the subject. R. S. V. P. SNAITH PECULIAR COURT.—Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me where 1 may find the marriage licences issued by the Peculiar Court of Snaith, in Yorkshire, prior to 1850 ? After that date they are in known custody. WM. CLEMENT Q. KENDALE. ' BOOK OF LOUGHSCUR.'—Can any one give me a clue to a book, presumably in manu- script, called 'The Book of Loughscur; or, History of the Reynolds Family ' ? A friend of mine, about a year or eighteen months ago, whilst visiting near Kesh, in co. Fermanagh, heard of it from some one who said she had seen it some years previously ; but he was unable to discover anything further about it FITZGERALD. MRS. MARY WILLIAMS. — I have in my possession a will of Mrs. Mary Williams, of Cecil Street, apparently in St. Martin's-in- the-Fields. She appears to have been con- nected by marriage with Mary and Sarah Cudworth, William Avery, Ann, Lydia, the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth, and Capt. Charles Carter, Rebecca Hall, Lady Drake and her sister Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth Min- shall, Mrs. Mary Savage, Miss Katherine and .Miss Ann Money. I should be obliged if any of your readers could identify the family Carter, Rebecca Hall, or others of those to whom reference is made. J. C. WHITEBROOK. FIRST RAILWAY ON THE CONTINENT.—The first Belgian railway, which was also the first railway on the Continent, was in- augurated 5 May, 1835, nearly ten years after the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which was opened in 1825. It ran from Brussels to Malices, a distance of about twenty-one kilometres. Can any reader of used on that line was manufactured in England 1 Through the instigation of King Leopold I., Messrs. Simonds and De Riddel, two well-known Belgian engineers, were sent over to England to report on the working of the two railways then in existence, and on the strength of this report the Belgian Parliament voted eighteen million francs for the purpose of railway construction in Belgium. A contemporary states that the line was laid by English workmen, and the first engine and carriages were sent over from England. I should like to know if there is any authority for this statement. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. W. R. BEXFIELD, Mus.Doc.—I find in the 'Anthem Book' of Wells Cathedral (Index, p. iv) this composer mentioned as "assistant organist of Norwich Cathedral, died 18—" Can any reader supply the two missing digits? T. WILSON. Harpenden. GLANVILLE, EARL OF SUFFOLK. — In Mr. Glanville-Richards's ' Records of the Anglo- Norman House of Qlanville' two or three early members of the Glanville family in England are styled Earls of Suffolk. But Q. E. C. knows no Earls of Suffolk of this name, and I had concluded that Mr. Richards had fallen into an error for which he alone was responsible. I chanced, however, the other day upon the following entries in Pap- worth's 'Ordinary,' which seem to support Mr. Richards's views: "Arg., a chief dan- cetty az., Glanvile, Earl of Suffolk "; "Arg., a chief az., Glanvil, Earl of Suffolk." Turning then to Burke's 'Armory,' I found, s.v. Glan- ville, the following statement: " Ranulph de Glanville, Baron de Bromholme, co. Suffolk, temp. William the Conqueror, ancestor of the Earls of Chester and Suftblk." I should be glad to know how the belief arose that the Qlanvilles were ever Earls of Suffolk, and at what date it originated. It appears that their only connexion with this earldom lies in the fact that Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk 1385-8, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of John Wingfield by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph Glanville (G. E. C., 'Complete Peerage'). C. L. GLANVILLE. RICHARDS BARONETS.—Sir James Richards (son of John Richards) was created a baronet on 22 February, 1683/4, and married twice : by his first wife he was father of Sir John Richards, second baronet, who died s.p., and by his second marriage Sir James had (1) Sir Joseph, who succeeded as third baronet; (2) Sir Philip, who succeeded his brother as
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