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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL MAY 25, 1007.

dently very rare. I have seen but two copies, and do not remember ever having heard of others.

It is much to be wished that some indus- trious person would compile a catalogue of poll-books, for, though not interesting to the ordinary reader, they are important to the genealogist as well as to those interested in personal names. EDWARD PEACOCK. Wickentree House Kirton-in-Lindsey.

The most complete catalogue of mediaeval names ever published, says Mr. W. Wheater, in an article entitled ' The Naming of our Forefathers,' is that supplied by the Poll Tax for Yorkshire, levied in 1379, " when England claimed to be in the front rank of civilization, and actually after France had been conquered by men named in the fashion adopted by savages." See The Gentleman's Magazine of a few years back, date unnoted, but p. 623. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

PAL^EOLOGUS IN THE WEST INDIES (10 S. vii. 209, 254, 336). A review, in a daily paper, of the reprint of ' The General Historie of Virginia ' reminds me that when Capt. John Smith was living as "an hermite " in his " pavillion of boughes " at Willoughby, in Lincolnshire, "his friends perswaded one Seignior Theadora

Polaloga an excellent horseman, and a noble

Italian gentleman, to insinuate into his wooddish

acquaintances "

L. L. K.

"IDLE DICK NORTON" (10 S. vii. 168, 330, 376). All Hampshire genealogists and historians must owe a debt of gratitude to MR. A. T. EVERITT for so clearly explaining away the puzzle of the Norton family of Wellow, and also their connexion with the St. Barbes of Broad! ands and with "Idle Dick." Particularly are his notes interest- ing to Romsey folk, who are amateurs of its forthcoming pageant, when Idle Dick Norton is to come charging into the town, and up Middle Bridge Street, to surprise and to take prisoners Lieut. Norton and his band of cavaliers, who will be found drinking and playing cards.

It has always been a puzzle to me how Honor Norton came to marry Sir John St. Barbe, for his grandfather, Henry St. Barbe, twice entertained King James, and his young son Henry, as Woodward ('His- tory of Hampshire,' i. 366) tells us, " stood for the King in the troubles and was in the fight at Newbury." He was there mortally wounded, and returned home to die. I find his burial in the Romsey parish registers for 22 Sept., 1643 :

" Francis Saiiitbarbe, Sonne of Henry, Esquire,, hurt at the fight of Newbury."

Also, apropos of the skirmish at Romsey in which the brothers Norton were engaged, the following entries are interesting :

"December 12 [1643]. George Nightingale, a soldier, and four others, names unknown, slain at the routing of the King's forces at Romsey."

"William Morris, a soldier, hanged upon the Swan Inn sign pole, 13 March, 1643."

I am much interested to learn that CoL Richard Norton, by his second wife, " Eliza- beth, second daughter of William Fiennes, Viscount Say and Sele," was father of Honor Norton (" b. 1659, m. 1682, d.s.p. 1710 "), first wife of Sir John St. Barbe, of Broadlands. In Dr. Latham's collections for a history of Romsey (Add. MSS. British Museum, Nos. 26774-80), under Broadlands,, it is stated that

"Sir John St. Barbe, created a baronet 30 De- cember, the third of Charles II., married Honor,, only surviving daughter of Col. Richard Norton, on whom he settled his lands in Somerset, in con- sideration of a dower of 2,000/. ; also the estate of Broadlands for life. She dying in 1712 [sic], he married Alice Home, widow of R. Fiennes, clerk,, on whom he settled his estates in Somersetshire." Sir John St. Barbe died at Broadlands on 7 August, 1723, s.p., and was buried at Ashington, where his monument records that his second wife (there buried beside him) was " Alice Fiennes, aunt of the present Lord Say and Sele."

It is exceedingly interesting to learn from MR. EVERITT that the Col. William Norton buried at Wellow was a brother of Honor, Lady St. Barbe. Mr. T. Shore in his ' His- tory of Hampshire' (Elliot Stock, 1892) is my authority for stating that "at East Wellow the ghost of Col. Norton the- regicide is said still occasionally to walk from the site of the old manor house, formerly a seat of his- family, into the parish church."

F. H. SUCKLING. Highwood, Romsey.

"GRINDY" (10 S. vii. 209, 251). With the deference due to a master authority, I submit that PROF. SKEAT'S explanation is not possible, unless there are analogues I can neither find nor imagine. What English adjective has ever been formed by suffixing -y to a past participle ? and what meaning could it have if there ? From its nature (" affected by " or "like ") it belongs only to nouns. (The moderative sense, like -ish, as " flatty," is not in question.) " Grimy " means "with grime on" ; but what sense would " grimedy," " with grimed on." have ? and what should lead people already using the correct adjective to coin so need-,