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. iv. OCT. 7,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 289 visited this ruin on 14 September. The information vouchsafed about it by the I lev. Ernest J. Frost, vicar of Bowes, was by no means exhaustive. Can any Yorkshire antiquary direct me to a proper account of it, which surely must exist, with a plan of the site, and also particulars of the excava tion of the adjacent Roman station of Lavatne? The like information as to the Roman camp adjoining the Morritt Arms " Hotel at Greta Bridge would be interesting. Are any good photographs obtainable of the Roman altars to be seen at Rokeby? It is a great pity they are not placed in the Tullie House Museum at Carlisle (several were found at Naworth), or some other safer depository than they are in at present, exposed to damage alike from the climate and mischievous persons. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster. MOON NAMES.—Can any of your readers furnish information on the names of the different moons? The following are, I be- lieve, correct: 1. September, Harvest Moon; 2. October, Apple Moon ; 3. November, Hun- ter's Moon. Have the remaining nine any particular names ? VALTYNE. [March seems likely to be known, from Tennyson, aa the " roaring moon of daffodil.] " FOUNTAIN " TAVERN. — When was this tavern built? and what was the exact loca- tion in the Strand ? Was Simpson's tavern, lately demolished, originally the " Fountain " of Jacobite times ? Is there a picture of the tavern extant? and, if so, where may it be found ? J. E. HOLLAND. ROUSE DAVYE.—Can any correspondent of 'N. <fc Q." kindly give me particulars of the ancestry or descendants of a Rouse Davyo or Davis, of Kilmainham, co. Dublin, gent., whose will was proved in the Prerogative Court, Ireland, c. 16721 His wife was named Anne. WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. JOHN DANISTER, WYKEHAMIST.— Dr. Nicholas Sander's report to Cardinal Moroni, which, though undated, is by internal evi- dence clearly to be assigned to the middle of 1561, haw at last been printed in the first volume of the Catholic Record Society's publications (pp. 1-23). Under the heading "Quid ii ob fidera passi sunt qui ad episco- patus nominabantur," he gives an account of six worthies, only one of whom, Maurice Clenock, was in point of fact a bishop- nominate at Queen Mary's death, and first in the list comes John Danister. I translate the passage myself, but another translation will be found on p. 46 of the volume above cited :— " John Danister, priest, is deserving of first men- tion, in that he is almost the only confessor among those who managed to flee the realm : for, while he was waiting to cross the sen, he was apprehended and thrown into the meanest of prisons. To the same prison, at about the same time, came another priest, who by the influence of friends had obtained an order for his release. The governor of the prison, mistaking the identity of his prisoners, gave Danister an opjxprtunity to escape, which his honesty forbade him to utilize. He indicated the proper person to be set free, and the governor, in admiration of his straightforwardness, worried the Council into liberating Danister also. Our hero was educated in boyhood at Winchester, and in youth at Oxford. Everywhere he has surpassed his contemporaries: as a boy, in writing verses and in everything appertaining to poetry; as a youth, in rhetoric and civil law : and, finally, as a young man, in theology, as he has recently shown at Louvain, where his preaching last Lent won uni- versal applause. Already, too, his fixed habit of seriousness has earned for him the nickname of Cato." This account suggests intimate personal knowledge of the subject, and as Dr. Sander himself was educated at Winchester and Oxford, it is most improbable that John Danister is a character of fiction. Never- theless his name does not occur either in Kirby's 'Winchester Scholars ' or in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses.' The Rev. Henry Gee, B.D., in his 'Elizabethan Clergy,' has been unable to identify him in any way ; and in ' The Marian Reaction,' by the Rev. W. H. Frere, his name is to be sought in vain. It seems to me probable that he had another name, as so many persons had at that time, e.g., the Richard Clare alias Dominick men- tioned by Mr. Gee (op. cit., p. 255); John Devon alias Cox, imprisoned in the Mar- shalsea, 15 April, 1561 (P.R.O., ' S. P. Dora. Eliz.,' xviii. 2); and Bishop Turberville, who frequently appears as Troblefield. Can any one help me to identify "John Danister "t JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. FERMOR.—Can any one give me the name of the wife of Sir John Fermor (temp. Henry VIII.)? His daughter Catherine married Henry D'Arcy, a grandson of Thomas, first Lord D'Arcy, who was beheaded on Tower Hill, 1538. KATHLEEN WARD. GIFFARD.—John Giffard was admitted to Westminster School 24 September, 1778, and James Giffard 3 July, 1783. Particulars of their parentage and career are desired. G. F. R. B. HARDING FAMILY. — Several members of this family were engaged in paper-making in the south-west corner of Surrey in the eigh-