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 10* 8. IV. JULY 23,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 69 Bamsay. Edinburgh, printed for the Author 1779." The volume is dedicated to his Grace Henry, Duke of Buccleugh, Colonel of the South Fenciblesof Scotland. It is embellishec with portraits of some distinguished nava and military commanders, including Keith Boscawen, Hawke, Amherst, Wolfe. Who was this David Ramsay ? His nam< is not in the list of officers of the Soutl Fencibles, nor in the 1777 ' Army List,' nor in any biographical dictionary I have beer able to consult. W. S. "CAPILLAEIANS." —This odd word occurs in a letter from Charles Lamb to Sou they dated 10 August, 1825, and printed in E. V Lucas's grand edition of the works of Charlei and Mary Lamb, vol. vii. (1905), p. 691 Lamb is represented as writing, "I call aL good Christians the Church, Capillarians anc all." The 'N.E.D.' quotes the passage for " Capillarians," which it calls a nonce-word, without explaining it in any way ; but is il not a mere ghost-word, transcribed and printed by mistake for "Capellarians," which would be a Lamb-like and therefore suitable name for Non-conformists in their character of Chapel-men as distinguished from Church- men? R. MARSHAM-TOWNSHEND. BAINES FAMILY.—Can any of your readers help me to trace the ancestry of John Baines, of Layham, Suffolk, who early in the eighteenth century married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. James Johnson, rector of Long Melford, Suffolk, to whose memory there is a monument in Long Melford Church? A. A. BAINES. HYSKER OR HESKER. — Will some yachts- man who has recently visited these islets (about ten miles west from Rum) give a brief description of them ? Is either of them now inhabited ? When Lady Grange (whose sham funeral had been celebrated) was carried off by the Jacobites in 1732, she was kept here for nearly a year, 1732-3, and then moved to St. Kilda. See 'D.N.B.,' s.v. Erskine, James (1679-1754). S. G. D. TESTOUT. — Should the well-known rose Caroline Testout be called Tai-tout or Tes- tont ? DELTA. ADAM'S COMMEMORATIVE PILLARS.—At p. 96 of the Early English Text Society's edition of ' Cursor Mundi' (a Northumbrian poem of the fourteenth century) there is a story of Lamech's sons making two pillars (one of tile, the other of marble) inscribed with a record of the arts, crafts, and sciences of the age. I have seen a contemporary MS. (in private hands) relating the same story —in Norman-French—but attributing the erection of the pillars to Adam. Could any of your readers direct me to a common source, English or continental? ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES. WHY HAS ENGLAND NO NOBLESSE ?—No teacher or book easily accessible gives me any answer to the question why England has no nMesse in the continental sense. Was it that our ancient nobility or baronage were nearly all killed in the Wars of the Roses, and that Henry VII.'s new nobles never got popular devotion 1 Was there not a statute passed under the Commonwealth, that de- legalizes the titles of younger sons? T. WILSON. Harpenden. 4TH LIGHT DRAGOONS' UNIFORM.—I should be glad if any one could inform me where to find a picture representing a captain in the 4th Light Dragoons between the years 1808 and 1814, and an exact representation or description of the uniform then worn. A. FRANCIS STEUART. "TWOPENNY" FOE HEAD.—In the school- boys' game of leapfrog, when the head is bent down so that one can jump over it, the usual phrase, I believe, is still "Tuck in your twopenny (or tuppenny)." Why has the head been so often called " tuppenny "? In my collection of English and slang dictionaries I find no explanation of this
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further information. J. LAWRENCE-HAMILTON, M.R.C.S. 30, Sussex Square, Brighton. BALLAD OF FRANCIS RENYI.—Mr. W. B. Yeats published in The Boston Pilot, in 1887, a ballad under the title 'How Ferencz Trancis] Renyi kept Silent.' Soon after- wards a lady published an independent version of the same subject in some London magazine under the title ' This is the Story of Re'nyi.' The tale is about a young Hun- garian patriot who was shot by the Austrians >ecause he refused to reveal the hiding-place his companions. Could any kind reader lelp me to find this second version? Poole's ' Index to Periodicals' I have searched in ain. Mr. Yeats's poem has since appeared n his 'Wanderings of Oisin, and other °oems'(1889). L. L. K BRISTOL MERCHANT ADVENTURERS' Coii- •ANY.—I desire information regarding the «rly Bristol companies, especially the early Merchant Adventurers Company of that