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in Ireland towards the end of the sixteenth century. A. WELD ox, Bart.

Kilniorony, Athy.

LORD HALIFAX. Suis-je indiscret en vous demandant de bien vouloir m'indiquer (1) s'il existe un ouvrage ou des articles detailles sur la vie de Lord Halifax, ministre de Charles II. ; (2) a qui je dois m'adresser pour me le faire parvenir ? V. MARTEL.

Les Avenues, Compiegne.

[There is a long account of Lord Halifax in the 'Dictionary of ^National Biography,' vol. 1., *. r. ' Sa\-ile, fieorge.' Several articles are mentioned in the list of authorities at the end of the notice. In 1898 Miss H. C. Foxcroft brought out through Messrs. Longman & Co. ' The Life and Letters of .Sir George Savile, Bart., First Martinis of Halifax,' 2 vols. A review of this work appeared in The Athena-urn of 26 Nov., 1898. J

HOLDEX FAMILY. May I renew a former inquiry respecting the parentage of Samuel Holden, a Russia merchant, and director of the Bank of England 1720-40, M.P. for East-Looe 1735 ? He died 12 June, 1740, and was buried in " the Holden vault " in St. Bride's Churchyard, Fleet Street, a small chapel-like structure, erected, accord- ing to an inscription over its entrance door, " in Aprill Anno 1657," which, after sur- viving the Great Fire, was ruthlessly de- stroyed only a few years ago, when the

certainly to Edward Holden, rector of Gunton, Suffolk, in 1758, and to Mary Holden, wife of Hewling Luson, lord of the manor of Gunton at the same period, married before 1715 Jane, daughter of John White- hall or Whitehalgh, of the Inner Temple, and of Whitehaugh, Ipstones. His business house was in Winchester Street ; he resided latterly at Roehampton, and owned lands at Elton, Derbyshire. I have a copy of the funeral sermon preached at Boston, Massa- chusetts, when the news of his death reached that province, to whose schools and clergy he had been a great benefactor.

I may add that I succeeded, by personal application to the late rector of St. Bride's, in .-aviiig the inscription above mentioned, which may !> seen on the left of the entrance to the churchyard from Fleet Street.

H.

MOXAGHAX PRESS. I have a tract printed by John Brown, Monaghan. What is the probable date ? F. JESSEL.

HOEK VAX HOLLAXD. It may perhaps not be generally known, and deserves to

be recorded, that the Dutch name of " Hoek van Holland," in front of which the terrible- shipwreck of the Berlin happened on the- morning of Thursday, 21 February, signifies- a bend, an angle or corner. The current equivalent " Hook of Holland " does not seem to convey quite the same sense. Is there any place of a similar situation, on the British coast, denoting a cape or promontory^, sometimes described as a " hook " ?

IXQTJIRER.

RICHARD II. : HIS ARMS. Did this king ever bear a stag as part of his coat of arms ?

R. R. S.

" VITTLE " = VICTUAL. On p. 124 of ' Poems upon Several Occasions,' by Mary Leapor (London, 1748), one finds the lines : But when you gather Strength a little, Can walk abroad and eat your Vittle. Can other instances of this riming and spelling of victual be found ? In the same volume, p. 92, there is the following rime :

But turn your back Alcidas with a grin

Will vow you 're ugly as a Sooterkin. The epithet " blockish " occurs on p. 173. EDWARD S. DODGSON. " BAWMS MARCH."- In The Weekly Journal, or British Gazetteer, for 26 July,- 1718, it was said :

"We hear that the Honourable the Artillery Company of this City, who have appointed their Bawms March to be on the First of August, as they have done ever since His Majesty's happy Acces- sion to the Throne, do, besides a noble Exercise, intend several fine Fire- Works, &c., in honour of that glorious Anniversary."'

What was the " Bawms March " ?

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

THE ABSTRACT BAGMAN. I should be glad to know who or what is referred to, in R. L. S.'s essay on ' The English Admirals,' as "Mr. D'Arcy Thompson's Abstract Bagman." T. J. H.

' CRANFORD.' What is the allusion in the following passage in chap. iv. of ' Cranf ord ' ? " Miss Matty picked up her peas, one by one, on the point of the prongs, much as Amine ate her grains of rice after her previous feast with the Ghoul.

T. J. H.

[The allusion appears to be to the second tale in the Arabian Nights,' with the substitution of grains of rice for seeds of pomegranate.]

WOMEN AND WINE-MAKING. I have read in some book on Spain that, from time immemorial, women were never allowed to- tread the winepress, or otherwise help to make wine. It would not ferment success-