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 436 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. iv. NOV. 25,1905. All noble Marcius ! Oh ! let me twine Mine arms about that body. Why dost thou send me forth, brave Cassius? As media is accented in English like Cassius, it is immaterial that the first syllable is short in Latin. E. YAEDLEY. CATALOGUES OF MSS. (10th S. iv. 368,415).— ' Catalogue of MSS. collected by Roger Dods- worth,' by J. Hunter, 1838, and ' Index to the First Seven Volumes of the Dodsworth MSS.,' 1871 (?). J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. "UNDERTAKER" (10th S. iii. 188, 212, 273).—Swift uses the word in its modern, specialized sense in his ' Squire Bickerstaff Detected ' (1708): " Why, I was sent, Sir, by the company of undertakers " ; " what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons, and your damned elegy-hawkers " L.-E. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg, Germany. LYNDE : DELALYNDE FAMILY (10th S. iii. 309, 417).—MR. MONTFORT asks whether all the Lyndes, Delalyndes, or De La Lyndes (whose arms are given by Papworth as three bucks' heads) were settled in Dorsetshire, and •whether the Staffordshire De La Lyndes were another family. In Hutchins's ' History of Dorset' (third edition, vol. iv. p. 499) a pedigree of the above family is given as of Hartley and Winterborne Clenston, co. Dorset, whose " original arms" are there stated to be Argent, a cross lozengy (engrailed) gules ; but it is mentioned that the arms afterwards assumed by the Dorset branch were Gules, three bucks' heads couped argent. The seal of EHas de la Lynde alluded to by MR. C. WATSON at the latter reference is described by Hutchins at vol. i. p. 189, where there also appears a lengthy account of this family, from which we learn that it was settled in Dorset from the time of Henry II., •when one Robert de la Linde held one knight's fee in 12 Henry II., and was evidently of French origin. The change of arms above mentioned may have arisen from the well-known Dorset legend—mentioned in Coker (' Survey of Dorset') and Caraden—that a member of the family who was bailiff of the forest of Black- more, temp. Henry III., had committed the unpardonable offence of killing a white hart, and in consequence had been mulcted by the king in the payment of a heavy annual fine known as " wnite hart silver." The com- pilers of this last edition of Hutchins, how- ever, throw doubt on the whole story as being improbable, and most unconstitu- tional even for those times; though admit that the assumption of _ the bucks heads, probably in more recent times, by the Hartley branch might have arisen from the above tradition, which they state still lingered in the Vale of Blackmore, though they had been unable to obtain any original evidence in support of it. The De La Lyndes, besides their Dorset Eroperty, possessed considerable estates 'in omerset, Sussex, Lincolnshire, and Cumber- land ; but I can find no mention of their having held any property in Staffordshire. The name would appear to have been extinct in Dorset for many years, and their former estates at Hartley and Winterborne Clenston are held by the Digby and Mansel-Pleydell families respectively. The old manor house at Winterborne Clenston, now used as a farmhouse, is still a building of very consider- able architectural interest. J. S. UDAL, F.S.A. Antigua, W.I. ANTHONY BEC (10th S. iv. 369).—It was not at Lincoln, but in Durham Cathedral that Bishop Anthony Bee or Bek was interred. In Canon Fowler's reprint of the 'Rites of Durham ' (Surtees Society Publications, vol. cvii. p. 38) it is stated, on the authority of a MS. Roll dated about 1600, that " Anthony Beeke Buahop of Durisme and patriarchy of Hierusalem was the first Bushop that eu' attempted to be buried in the abbay church out of the chapter house, and to lye so neare the sacred shrine of Sa'cte Cuthbert [ye wall beinge broken downe att ye end of ye Alley to bringe hym in wth his Coffin wch contynued vntill ye suppression of ye Abbey]." The portion within brackets is taken from a volume of the Hunter MS., now in the Dean and Chapter Library, and Canon Fowler has a note in the appendix that the writer is here following what appears to have been » common opinion in his day, though the door- way referred to, now walled up, is, like th« one at the opposite end, evidently a part of the original design. Hutchinson ('Hist. Durham,' vol. i. p. 256X deriving his information from the same source, records the interment in similar terms :— " He died at Eltham, 3d March, 1310, having at 28 years, and was buried in the church at Dnrhin. in the east transept, near the feretory of St. Cath- bert, between the altars of St. Adrian and S* Michael the Archangel, contrary to the custom of his predecessors who, out of respect to the body™ St. Cuthbert, never suffered a corpse to come wituo the edifice. It is said they dared not brin* W bishop's remains in at the church door, but a ore** was made in the wall to receive them, ne«r to* place of interment." Surtees (' Hist. Durham,' vol. i. p.