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in the House of Lords' Library. Who was the lady ? J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

"WYKEHAMIST" FIRST USED. Mr. Kirby, in his 'Annals of Winchester College,' p. 241, says of Archdeacon John Philpot, who suffered death at the stake in Smithfield on 18 Dec., 1555 (not 1557, as Mr. Kirby states) :

" He was the first Wykehamist, that is to say, the first man styled so in the records of the College, and that in a way which shows that the term was a familiar one in his day."

The entry in question runs :

"Sol. pro copia processus Joh. Phylpot, olim Wykehamiste alumni nunc Archidiaconi Wynton. adv. Coll. in curia de arcubus, vj.s. viijoL"

Earlier uses of the term Wykehamist would be interesting.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

SEDDON FAMILY. Perhaps some one skilled in genealogy can answer the following. The late Premier of New Zealand was the son of Thomas Seddon and Jane Lindsay. He was born at Eccleston, Lanes, in 1845. Had Thomas Seddon any brothers 1 If so, what were their names ? E. H. L. F.

COL. BY, R.E. Has his life been pub- lished ? He is mentioned in Wm. Kings- ford's * Canadian Canals ' (Toronto, 1865) as the engineer in charge of the works of the Rideau Canal, which was begun in 1826. He was back in London in March, 1834.

L. L. K.

IRUN, SPAIN. In an old edition of the Ingoldsby Legends,' a couple of lines in ' Patty Morgan's Story ' read thus :

And I 've seen, that is read of, Good running in Spain.

A foot-note thereto states that the town of Irun takes its name from something of that sort.

Can this possibly be correct, as the Spanish words for the phrase "I run " must be some- thing widely different from the English 1

M. N.

PROVERB AGAINST GLUTTONY. In the 1 Vita, Passio et Miracula S. Thomse Cantua- riensis Archiepiscopi,' written by William the Monk of Canterbury, we read of a certain Lincolnshire man called Gaufrid of Bin- brooke, who in consequence of eating noxious fish, and washing it down with new beer, was made very ill '* non memoriter tenens quod vulgodicitur 'non quidquid sapit ori salubre est ventri ' '' ('Materials for Hist, of Thomas Becket,' Rolls Series, vol. i, p. 351).

Can the proverb be traced further back than the time of this writer 1 If so, when is it known first to occur 1

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Kirton-in-Lindsey.

"PIGHTLE": "PIKLE." (10 th S. v. 26, 93, 134, 174, 317, 376 )

THERE is a piece of land in the town of Beccles, on the Waveney, in Suffolk, which is known as the "Suckling Pightle," and as such it figures in the fine parchment deeds relating to it, which range from 1742 down to recent times. On two of these deeds is the signature of Horatio, Baron Nelson of the Nile. The land was the property of his grandmother, Anne, daughter of Sir Charles Turner, Bt., and widow of the Rev. Maurice Suckling, D.D., who died rector of the adjoining parish of Barsham in September, 1730. Southey's life of Nelson tells us that on the death of Dr. Suckling his widow removed into Beccles with her three small children Catherine, Maurice, and William Suckling. There is no mention of this land in Dr. Suckling's will, and it is surmised that his widow purchased her home in Beccles, and there resided until after the marriage of Catherine, her only daughter, with the Rev. Edmund Nelson, which was solemnized in Beccles Church on 11 May, 1749.

Before extracts are given from these interesting deeds it should be said that Sir Charles Turner, by his first wife Mary Walpole, had, besides two daughters (Anne, Mrs. Suckling, and Elizabeth, Mrs. Fowle), a son John, who died in his father's lifetime, and was buried at Warham, Norfolk, 1 March, 1724, leaving, by Anne, daughter of William Emerton (died 1730), three daughters, coheiresses Dorothy Walpole Turner, who married her first cousin, the Rev. Horace Hamond ; Anne Caroline Turner (born 1719), who married John, only son of Sir John Playters, Bt., of Sotterley ; and Mary, unmarried.

The first deed is a mortgage on the Suck- ling "Pightle," dated 1741, and is signed Anne Suckling, Josiah Playters, and Dorothy Walpole Turner.

The next, dated 5 Dec., 1742, is a lease of the Pightle, signed William Lemon, Anne Suckling, and James Smith. Anne, Mrs. Suckling, was niece of Horatio, Lord Walpole, and in the family history compiled by the Rev. Edmund Nelson is the following :