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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn MARCH 2, 1907

SCOTT'S 'BLACK DWARF.' Can any of your readers tell me where the original autograph MS. of Sir Walter Scott's ' Black Dwarf ' is now to be found ? ELSHIE.

SAMUEL BARNARD. I shall be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can oblige me with particulars of the ancestors of Samuel Barnard, a merchant in London, and a major in the Honourable Artillery Company, to which he belonged for about half a century, and I believe till his death. He died about fifty years ago. B. R. THORNTON.

Granville Lodge, Brighton.

CHESTERFIELD AND WOTTON PORTRAITS. The second son of Katherine Wotton and of Henry Stanhope Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield (1633-1713) had his portrait painted by Lely. So had Philip's second wife, Elizabeth Butler (1640-65). May I be told the whereabouts of the original pictures ?

I should also be exceedingly grateful for any information as to the portrait of Ed- ward, Lord Wotton, which used to hang in the " howal " at Borton Malherbe, the home in Kent. MABEL E. WOTTON.

36, Buckingham Gate, S.W.

"BAT BEARAWAY." Why is the bat frequently called bat bearaway ? An edu- cated person has told me that he thought the name had arisen from a folk-belief that bats had once upon a time been human souls, or that they were creatures whose employment it was to carry away the souls of the departed. Is there any evidence that such an opinion was ever prevalent ?

EDWARD PEACOCK.

" IDLE DICK NORTON." I am anxious to obtain the pedigree of Col. Richard Norton, of the Parliament army, whom Cromwell addressed as " Dear Dick," speaking of him elsewhere as " idle Dick Norton." A writer in Hampshire Notes and Queries (vol. ii. p. 108) says he was Governor of South- ampton in 1644, and was styled by Mcrcurius Aulicus " The great incendiary of Hamp- shire." He also says that Richard Norton was a relative of Sir Gregory Norton, one of the judges of Charles I., and a brother of the Captain Lieutenant Norton who, fighting on the King's side, was captured at Romsey by Major Mitford. Col. Norton lived at old Alresford Manor House, and was a scion of the Nortons of Rotherfield. I shall be much obliged for the pedigree of idle Dick, and also to learn who was the Honor, daughter of Col. Norton, who married Sir John St. Barbe, of Broadlands.

There was an Anne Norton buried at Wellow, Hampshire, 22 Dec., 1693. In the registers she is styled the Lady Anne Norton, widow. There was also a William Norton buried 9 Jan., 1695/6. Tradition assigns a farm-house at Wellow as the resi- dence of one of the regicides.

(Mrs.) F. H. SUCKLING. Highwood, Romsey, Hants.

CATHAY. What is the origin of this name for China ; and how is it pronounced ? There is a street in Bristol of the same name, but pronounced Cat-hay, which Alderman Bar- ker, the antiquary, holds was so styled by Bristol merchants who traded with China. This seems impossible, especially as there are other streets with a similar ending, such as Pithay (Pit-hay). It would be interest- ing to know the true origin of both names. EVACUSTES A. PHIPSON.

9, Tithing, Worcester.

[B. E. Smith's 'Cyclopaedia of Names' says r " Cathay (ka-tha'). The name given by Marco Polo- to a region in eastern Asia, supposed to be northern

China 'The Persian name Cathay, and its

Russian form of Kitai, is of modern origin : it is altered from Ki-fah, the race which ruled northern. China in the tenth century, and is quite unknown to the people it designates' (Williams, 'Middle- Kingdom,' i. 4)."J

DRUM-MAJOR: JOHN BIBIE. At the foot of p. 396, vol. ii. of ' The British Army,' by Sibbald Scott, 1868, mention is made of " a brochure by J. B., entitled Mars his Triumph, or the Description of an Exercise performed the xviii of October, 1638, in Merchant-Taylor s Hall, by certain gentlemen of the Artillery Garden,. London.' " Who was this J. B. ?

I possess a brochure entitled ' Scotland's Thanksgiving/ London, 1642 which con- tains a letter to " John Bibie, Drum-Major for the Tower and Citie of London." Cair this be the J. B. ? Any information about Bibie would be welcome.

What is the date of the drum-major's "chariot of state" in the Tower? It is said to have been drawn by four white horses, at the head of the artillery train,, when on a march.

What is the earliest date for an English drum-major ? Robert Barret (1598) served a great deal abroad, with troops belonging to many different nations, and I do not know if the mention of a drum-major in his refers to an English drum-major or to a foreign one. W. S.
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REVETT OF CHECKERS, BUCKS. Mrs. Revett, quoted in ' Letters and Journals