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 10* s. iv. DEC. 2,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 457 the model of Sherlock Holmes, though, oi course, it is possible the ideas are quite independent, and the author of the latter may not even have read it, so frequently does thought run in parallel lines. He appears in a similar, but, I think, not so per- fect a form, in Poe's other detective story, ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue.' J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W. "SMITH" m LATIN (10th S. iv. 409).— Marescallus is very late Latin, if it can be called Latin at all. It was borrowed from the Germans. FaJjer ferrarius is the true Latin term, and from one or other of its elements come the numerous surnames which in the modern Romance languages correspond to our name Smith. Thus in French we have Fabre, Faure, Favre, Le Fevre, Le Feuvre, Le Febvre, Le Febure ; in Italian, Ferraro and Ferrario; in Catalan, Ferrer; in Portuguese, Ferreiro. JAS. PLATT, Jun. BOWES or ELFORD (10th S. iv. 408).—Surtees, 'History of Durham,' iv. 117, writes as follows :— " Some respectable families of Bowes, established in the South, in Middlesex, Stafford, and Essex, have in vain endeavoured to prove consanguinity with the ancient house of Streatlam. Their pedi- grees can only be traced through merchants of London to a line of wealthy citizens of York, whose connection with the original stem is lost. Of Sir Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor of London, 1545, and jeweller to Queen Elizabeth (who expressly calls himself a native of York), and of Sir Jerome Bowes, the first English ambassador to Russia, some brief genealogical notices will be found in the addenda. The collateral descendants of Sir Jerome were of Elford in Suffolk. The line terminated in Mary, sole daughter and heiress of George Bowes of Elford, Esq.; wife of Craven Howard, Esq., grandson of the first Earl of Berkshire. Their son, Henry Bowes Howard, became Earl of Berkshire, 1706, and tenth Earl of Suffolk in 1745. The Bowes's of Thornton are in the same predicament, unable to prove their descent from the original stock." Unfortunately, Mr. Surtees did not live to finish his fourth volume, and the promised addenda do not appear. In a foot-note to the foregoing extract he adds that there are several letters at Streatlam from Mr. Bowes of Elford to the Earl of Suffolk, endeavouring to ascertain the family connexion. He further quotes a curious letter from Lieut. Joshua Bowes, dated " Epsom, July 13, 1709," to "Mr. Bowes, at his lodgings at a Brewer's in Marine Square, London," in •which that worthy details his knowledge of family history thus :— " 1 have a great value for all the gentlemen of y' name, and know more of them than any one person MI England. I knew your father, and so did my nephew, viz., Jonathan Bowes, Doctor of Physick, who lives at the Fryery at Chelmeaford, in Essex. I was a week at your grandfather's at Earl's Cone Priory, and a week at your great-grandfather's at Bromley Hall. I was at Sr William Bowes's at Stretlam Castle, and at Sr Francis Bowes's at Thornton in the county of Durham. I knew several of Sr George Bowes's family of Yorkshire, and I have been two months at a time at Madam Bowes's, at Elford, in Staffordshire. That family sprung from S' Jerom Bowes. In the dining room there's his picture, and five more of his brothers, drawn at full length; but the name is lost there, but con- tinued a little in the Earl of Berkshire." It would appear from the foregoing extracts that the question raised by MR. RELTON engaged the attention of genealogists two hundred years ago and "gets no forrader." RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "NEWLANDS," CHALFONT ST. PETER(10u'S.iv 148, 213, 276).—MR. HARBEN clearly disposes of Thome's attempt to identify this as the seat of Abraham Newland. It is difficult to realize that the compiler of that useful work, 'Handbook to the Environs of London,' is solely responsible for the misstatement, but there is nothing supporting it in all the biographical references to tins celebrity. The 'Life of Abraham Newland,' published 1808, is very definite : " Prior to September, 1807, he had slept for five-and-twenty years at his apartment in the Bank without absenting himself for a single night." He took up his residence at No. 38, Highbury Place, on 17 September, 1807, and died there 21 Novem- ber in the same year. Nelson (' History of Islington,' 1829, second edition, p. 170) claims that he resided at that address for many years. It is worthy of note that his father, William Newland, was a miller and baker of Grove, in Bucks, but removed to Castls Street, Southwark, where Abraham Newland was born 23 April, 1730. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road. PLANS OF LUCCA (10th S. iv. 409).—A capital map of this city (size 21 in. by 14 in.) occurs in Braun and Hogenberg's 'Urbes Prsecipute Totius Mundi,' lib. iv. No. 50. The work was published at Cologne in 1572 and following years, the Privilege of lib. iv. being dated 22 November, 1574. I may mention in passing that the book is also useful for English places—e.g., a picture, with illustra- tions of contemporary English costumes, is riven of the " Palatium Regiura in Anglise tiegno, Nonciutz, hoc est, nusquam simile dictum," that is, the Palace of Nonesuch, acquired by Henry VIII., but now no longer in existence. W. R. B. PRIDEA.UX. L...