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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io- s. v. MARCH 31, im.

So the borders read, " Pater non est Filius ; Filius non est Spiritus ; Spiritus non est Pater " ; and from the corners to the centre the inscriptions correspondingly read, " Pater est Deus ; Filius est Deus ; Spiritus est Deus." The manor belonged to Trinity College, Oxford ; hence this explanation in rebus form. I may mention that I have not seen it myself; a drawing of it was given to me by Mr. R. H. Gretton, of Magdalen College, Oxford. HAROLD G. DANIELS. Press Club.

In Eton College Chapel, on the stone screen leading into the chantry known as Lupton's Chapel, on one side is the letter K (for .Roger), and on the other LUP on a tun (for Lupton). R. A. A. L.

Consult Camden's * Remains concerning Britain ' for James Den ton, Dean of Lichfield, in Lichfield Cathedral.

Consult Cussans's 'Handbook of Heraldry' for Abbot Islip, in Westminster Abbey (with illustration). CHAS. A. BERNAU.

An interesting specimen of these rebuses is to be seen in Manchester Cathedral, where there are two carvings, one representing a man hunting, the other a tun. They form mementoes of John Huntington, the first Warden of Manchester Collegiate Church (1422-58), who rebuilt part of the church. He was also rector of Ashton-under-Lyne, and a carved pun on his name is said to exist in the misereres in the church there.

C. W. SUTTON. Manchester.

In the church of St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, the rebus of Prior Bolton (a " bolt" through a tun) may be seen at the base of the oriel on the south side of the choir, and on the doorway at the east end of the south ambulatory. T. F. D.

SAXON KINGS : LIVING DESCENDANTS (10 th S. v. 189). Some families, such as the Stourtons, have claimed descent from Saxon thanes, but the absurdity of such preten- sions has been conclusively demonstrated by Mr. J. H. Round in his 'Studies in Peerage and Family History.' As for the Huddle- stons, in the first authority that I can lay my hands on, Burke's 'Landed Gentry ' 1875, it is stated that,

"according to the York Manuscript, the Hodel- stons derived their name from Hodelston, in \orkshire, where they were seated for several generations antecedently to the Conquest. The pedigree begins with an Adam, and proceeds through four subsequent descents (Adam, son of

Adam ; John, son of Adam ; Richard, son of John ; Richard, son of Richard), all in Saxon times, to Nigel de Hodelston," &c.

There is no mention of any Athelstan, and it is clear that Huddleston is a local name. The reputation of a very ancient house is not enhanced by fables of this description and it may be taken for granted that no documents exist which can prove the descent of any English family from Anglo-Saxon times. W. F. PRIDE AUX.

M} T family descend from Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar :

Etheldred II. =p Elfleda.

Elgyfa =f= Uhtred.

Aldgitha =p Maldred.

Orme =p Gunilda.

Alan de Lancy Curwen, of Workington Hall.

Wordsworth's eldest son married my aunt Isabella Curwen, and on the birth of her first child he wrote :

Whose youth revered the crown Of Saxon liberty that Alfred wore Alfred, dear babe, thy great progenitor.

ALFRED F. CURWEN.

NEW MOON : FORTUNATE OR UNFORTUNATE (10 th S. v. 185). The writer of the epistle mentioned under this head was James Gaffarel (or Gaffarelli), the author of the celebrated work on talismans and cabalistic planispheres entitled ' Curiositez Inouyes, 5 &c., published in French in 1650 (no place of publication given on title). An English translation by Chilmead was published in London in the same year. The influence of the moon on childbirth is treated of in chap. xi. of this work. E. E. STREET.

MERIAH (10 tb S.v. 190). This word seems to have been derived originally from the Oriya language. In the Rev. A. Button's 'Oriya Dictionary, 7 1843, p. 228, it is given as " Meriya, a human victim, a human being fit for sacrifice ; name of the barbarous sacrifice among the Khonds." These sacrifices were prohibited in 1836, and the rescued "meriahs" were placed in villages of their own, on land granted by the Government.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

"DoG's NOSE" (10 th S. v. 187). Beyond the passage in 'Pickwick' referred to by MR. RATCLIFFE, I cannot discover any autho- ritative receipt for this old-fashioned com- pound. The earliest authority for it which is given in * Slang and its Analogues ' is Yaux's