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farmhouse. Edmund Tillesley was ejected from his fellowship by the Parliamentary visitors in 1648, and was probably deprived of the charge of Northmoor in the same year. In 1654, when the earliest extant register at Northmoor begins, one John Nixon had taken his place. Can any one supply information about the later career of Edmund Tillesley, and particularly the date of his death? He had clearly forfeited by marriage (between 1648 and 1656) the right to return to his fellowship at the Restoration, as his son Richard was born, according to Merchant Taylors' School Register, on 12 September, 1657. OXONIENSIS.

" RATTLING GOOD THING." Though the meaning of the phrase is apparent to every one, what is the origin of it? A rattling trap is next door to a broken-down one. It appears one of the expressions accidentally current, like " I have had a clipping time of it," which every one understands, and no one can explain. R. B.

Upton.

KNIGHTLEY FAMILY. In Debrett's 'Baro- netage,' 1839, the name of Elizabeth is given as that of the third child of " Richard Knightley, of London (and afterwards of Fawsley, Esq., on the extinction of male issue of his uncles), by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Walden, Esq., a judge in the island of Barbados."

Did this Elizabeth marry ? Are there any old baronetages giving the female descend- ants of the Knightley family, with their marriages 1 H. D.

DIGBY. Charles Pridham, in his ' Kossuth and Magyar Land ' (London, 1851), describes " the untimely fate of that noble youth," " the gallant Digby," who in 1848-9 served in the Austrian army against the Hungarians, and was shot on refusing to surrender (p. 220) ; but our author does not state where and when the sharp rencontre in question took place. Can anybody help me to identify the young English officer ? L. L. K.

LEWIS CARROLL AND CHARLES NODIER. Has it ever been noted that Lewis Carroll was probably indebted to Nodier's ' La Fee des Miettes ' for the suggestion of a few oi his u properties " ? not in the least their sub- stance or action or wit, but the form oi name. The hero of Nodier's book is a lunatic carpenter ; the jury which tries him for an imaginary murder is composed of animals and birds ; the fairy's house is a Noah's Ark toy-house, into which they enter by some

unexplained and inexplicable feat of con- densation ; the walks, as in the Looking- Glass House, all lead back to the front door, n whatever direction one goes ; and the 'airy's escape from the hero on a perspective plane is very suggestive of the chessboard world on which Alice looks down.

FORREST MORGAN. Hartford, Conn.

Moz ARABIC MASS IN SPAIN. In the

Devocionario Muzarabe, 6 Modo Practico

de decir y oir la Santa Misa segun este Rito

por D. Jorge Abad Pe'rez " (Toledo, 1903),

one is surprised to read, on p. x in the 'Prologo,' "este Rito, una de las glorias mayores de Espaiia y de Toledo, toda vez que no hay otra capilla en el mundo, donde se alabe y adore a Dios con esta liturgia," One has always understood that, far from he "Capilla Muzarabe" in the Cathedral Jhurch of Toledo being the only place where that beautiful rite is perpetuated, it exists in those churches in the same diocese which are under the patronage of "el Cabildo Muzarabe," as well as in the cathedrals of Avila, Salaraanca,"and Laragoza. Which is the best history in English of this old Spanish form of worship ?

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

NORTH- WEST SOMERSET AND COMBE SYDEN- HAM. Can any one tell me where I can find sketches of North-West Somerset and Combe Sydenham? SYDENHAM SLADEN.

69, Ridgmount Gardens, W.C.

REBUS IN CHURCHES. (10 th S. v. 188.)

OF the rebus Camderi says that it was held in such high esteem by our forefathers " that he was nobody who could not hammer out of his name an invention by this wit- craft, and picture it accordingly " ('Remains concerning Britain,' 1870, p. 178). Dallaway again, quoting Camden, says that the practice was so much approved by ecclesiastics that almost every bishop and abbot had his rebus, although entitled to hereditary coat armour ('Heraldic Enquiries,' 1793, p. 121).

Whether the motto of the Bacon family in Somersetshire occurs as a rebus in any of the Somersetshire churches one cannot say ; but "Pro Ba-con Scientia" had the double advantage of reading as " Proba conscientia" and " Pro Bacon Scientia."

"Forte scutum salus ducum " is the motto