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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* s. v. FEB. 3, 1900.

In an appendix to the same volume . 429-36) Mr. Prothero prints the trans- lations which Byron made from the Armenian with Aucher's help, Jan. -Feb., 1817, viz. :

1. The Epistle of the Corinthians to St. Paul ;

2. Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians; 3. 'The Pleasure Houses of the Summer of Byzan- tium.'

At pp. 44-5 will be found a fragment apparently intended as preface to the Armenian grammar, The remaining refer- ences to the subject in the letters show that a pecuniary dispute arose between the -collaborators, while Byron's estimate of his own share in the work grew more generous with the lapse of time. On 28 March, 1820, Byron wishes to know from Murray what became of the two Epistles from St. Paul translated from the Armenian (p. 425). From the 'Detached Thoughts' (1821) is quoted <p. 10n.), "The padre Pasquale Aucher (for whom, by the way, I compiled the major part of two Armenian and English grammars)." By 27 Feb, 1823, in a letter from Genoa to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Aucher has become "the rogue of an Armenian"; and " we must take what we can get" is the only solution of the dispute.

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg, Germany.

CECIL FAMILY (10 th S. v. 6). The grafting of the Cecils of Stamford on the obscure Welsh stock may have been a suggestion of Sir David Philipp himself, or owing to the way he spelt in his will, dated 1506, the sur- name of his executor Davil Cecill. Bub that the family ever wrote their name otherwise than "Cecil'; or " Cecill" has yet to be proved, and it is not likely, because two years later we find David's father styling himself Philip u Cecil " in his will. There is -apparently no evidence earlier than this forthcoming at present without considerable research. It is known that David Cecill, "'Lord Burghley's grandfather," married twice (6 th S. vii. 385). He appears, however, to have had another wife, if the statement in Coll. Top et Gen, vii. 67, may be trusted that he married Katharine, widow of Nicholas Dene, of Barrowby, co. Lincoln, and daughter of Walter Pedwardine, Esq, but by her had "no children." That is most likely, because she must have been old enough to be her second husband's grandmother. Her father -died in 1429, and was related to several East Riding families. Unless there is some mis- take, this match might more reasonably be assigned to an earlier David, perhaps brother or father of Philip Cecil.

Whoever concocted the "controversie "

about the arms (6 Edw. III.) printed by Bossewell in his ' Workes of Armorie ' (80, b.) made " Monsieur Jaen de Sitsilt," the plaintiff, son of "George de Euerwike," probably bearing in mind George Cecill, gent., of Howden, in Yorkshire, who died in 1539 the only person of the name down to that date who had left an estate sufficient to require an Inq. p.m. to be taken, although two years before one had been held on the death of David Cecill's second wife as to her lands in Howdenshire. A. S. ELLIS.

Westminster.

The name Sisillt, Sisalt, Syssell, and Cyssyll, though one and the same, seems to have been used and spelt indifferently in Wales in olden times, as appears by the pro- ceedings in the Star ("ham her in 1533 respect- ing the feud between the Morgans of Newport and the Herberts of St. Julian's, in Mon- mouthshire, when one John Sisiltt, butcher, servant unto Walter Herbert, is accused of having cruelly murdered one Roger David Tewe, and also one Ptoger Davis ; and throughout the proceedings the accused's surname is variously spelt as described above. (See 'Historical and Genealogical Memoirs of the Morgan Family,' compiled and edited by G. Blacker Morgan. London, privately printed, 1891). CROSS -CROSSLET.

NELSON PANORAMAS (10 th S. iv. 365). In 1823 there were exhibited in the "Great Room, Spring Gardens," Messrs. Marshall's "Grand Historical Peristrephic Panoramas of the Battle of Trafalgar and the Ceremony of Crossing the Line." There were four views of the battle, one of the coast of France, and another of 'The Ludicrous Ceremony of Crossing the Line as performed by the French.' The * Description ' has, in addition to the usual explanations of the pictures, four pages of 'Memoirs of the late Lord Viscount Nelson.' ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road.

CAMPBELLS IN THE STRAND (10 th S. iv. 509 ; v. 51). A full account and pedigree of John Campbell (of Shawfield), partner in the bank in the Strand, will be found^ in Lady Russell's * Three Generations of Fascinating Women,' recently published.

H. S. V.-W.

NEW YEAR LUCK (10 th S. v. 45). A curious custom which prevails in Bristol and some parts of the west of England is that on the stroke of twelve a light-haired man should enter the house, and, proceeding to each room, wish the inmates a happy new year. Only a light-haired man must do