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

ISHAM FAMILY (10 S. vii. 265) The curious contradiction of the rumour with regard to Sir Edmund Isham's supposed marriage the more curious as made by himself to his own wife is witness to the carefulness with which his family set down in black and white all that concerned its history. The volume entitled ' Northamp- tonshire Families ' in the ' Victoria History ' bears out this point very strongly. The pedigree of the Ishams is given therein more fully and accurately than ever before. Among the family documents and records there is a traditional pedigree drawn out in the handwriting of Sir Justinian Isham, the fifth baronet. All the steps in it about which there was the least uncertainty are represented by dotted lines. Not till very shortly before the publication of the above history did evidence turn up which exactly testified that the family tradition was actual fact, and carried the history of the family back at least three generations with ceitainty. Jt would be cf still greater interest, and surely within the bounds of possibility, to establish the exact relation- ship of the Ishams of Pytchley with the older manorial house of Isham of Isham, and to verify the traditional pedigree in its earlier portion. H. ISHAM LONGDEN.

Heyford Rectory, Weedon.

"BULKMASTER" (10 S. vii. 246). Pro- bably an official who superintended the unloading or stowing in Inverness Harbour of goods in bulk, i.e., loose, instead of in casks or bags. To " break bulk " is to begin to unload.

J. H OLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

CATHAY (10 S. vii. 168, 235). May not the Bristol street-name " Cat-hay " and similar names be a corruption of La Haye, and a survival of Norman-French ? In Cardiff there is a suburb called Cathays, and a district in the centre of the city called " The Hayes." There is also the little border town of Hay, partly in Brecknock- shire and partly in Herefordshire, which in former times was usually called " The Hay." Near by, in Radnorshire, is Heyop ; and the family name Delahaye, once of territorial significance, still survives in the same district. Are not all these derived from the French " La Haye," an enclosed space, an enclosure, a park ? BR.

ST. DEVEREUX: ST. DUBRICIUS (10 S vii. 327), St. Devereux does not appear (according to Dr. Husenbeth) in the French calendar. Nedelec, in ' Cambri Sacra ' (1879'

remarks that St. Dubricius's Welsh name was Dyffrin, or Dyfrig, and that in ' Liber Landavensis ' it is stated that he was born at Madley, a village situated on the banks of the Wye, some seven miles from Hereford. He seems to have been an illegitimate child whose grandfather was Pebian, surnamed Spumosus (the frothy), the Welsh rendering c>eing Claforawg. A tradition exists that the unfortunate mother at the time of her trouble was condemned by her own father bo be burnt alive, and the babe (the future St. Dubricius) was born amidst the flames of the funeral pile. A carved panel repre- senting this circumstance may be seen in Hoarworthy Church, near Ross (Hereford- shire). This sculpture is illustrated in The Builder for 5 July, 1884.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

Dubricius (Dyfrig) has no connexion (as MR. MAYHEW wen says) with Devreux. The Cartularium of Llandaf gives no topo- graphical vestiges of St. Dyfrig's name, though many of his disciples (e.g. Teulio)i have left their names to places in Wales. Prof. Loth has been long in (vain) search of name reminiscences in Wales of St. Dubricius. Brittany certainly and Cornwall (probably) have no name-tokens of the saint's presence. H. H. JOHNSON.

Remies University.

RUMP OF A GOOSE AND DRINKING BOUTS- (10 S. vii. 190). Were there not goose feasts long ago, and would not the expression referred to mean that the goose being finished, drinking followed ? M. N.

REVETT or CHECKERS, BUCKS (10 S. vii. 168, 310). Joanna, widow of the Col.. Revett who fell at Malplaquet, afterwards married John Russell, grandson of Oliver Cromwell, and her daughter Mary Revett married Charles, son of the said John Russell. A portrait now in my possession is inscribed on the back "Mary Revett, set. 3, 1710," and formerly had a paper attached with the above genealogical information, which may throw some light on the other Mary Revett about whom MR. SCHANK inquires.

Joanna Revett was daughter of John Thurban (who disapproved of her first husband), and niece to Lord Cutts.

J. H. PARRY.

Harewoorl.

FLINT AND STEEL (10 S. vii. 329, 377, 396). Flint and steel and tinder box are still in active use, not only in Holland but also- throughout all the Latin countries. In-