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 10 S. VII. JUNE 29, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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It took Gordon three years to produce the certificate. There are ten places called Ford in "Ingland." Which is the one referred to ? The marriage was almost symbolic, for some of Elizabeth's descendants are quite English, namely, the Gordons of Newtimber Place, Sussex. J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

SABDANA. Villon, ' Grand Testament,' Double Ballade suiv. st. 54, says : Sardana, le preux chevalier Qui coiiquist le regne de Cretes, En voult devenir moulier Et filer entre pucellettes.

Who was Sardana ? when did he capture Crete ? and why did he wish to learn to spin ?

R. L. MOBETON. Heathfield, Gerrard's Cross, Bucks.

" DOWB." Kipling, in his introductory poem to ' Barrack-Room Ballads,' speaks of " Dowb, the first of all his race." What is meant by " Dowb " ? F. M.

JOHN HOBNE-TOOKE. How did Horne- Tooke spell his name ?

In a portion of the burial-ground of the church of St. Nicholas, Brighton, now used as a recreation ground, is an upright grave- stone on which is the following inscription :

Sacred to the memory of

Charlotte Hart,

youngest daughter of the celebrated John Home Tookee [sic]

she died in Brighton on the 24 th of June, 1819.

Aged 74 years.

Charlotte Hart was the younger (not the youngest) daughter of Horne-Tooke, the son of " the Turkey merchant "; she had an elder sister Mary Hart, to whom Horne- Tooke left the bulk of his fortune. Horne- Tooke was born in 1736, and, according to the inscription at Brighton, was only nine years old at the birth of his younger daughter. Which is absurd. What is the error on the gravestone ? JOHN HEBB.

LINCOLNSHIBE POLL-BOOK, 1723. (See 2 S. iv. 376.) Can any reader tell me where the above is now ? I have inquired for it at the British Museum without result.

A. CABBINGTON. Bidet'ord, North Devon.

" FITEBES " = RAGS. The above is from ' Vices and Virtues ' (E.E.T.S., 1888), 49/29, of about 1200 A.D. Bradley-Stratmann's dictionary quotes " fitered elopes," s.v. fiteren, from John Myrc, A.D. 1400, with the tentative explanation " adorned.' As I

cannot find the word in the ' N.E.D.,' I should like to know its cognates, if any.

H. P. L.

DUBLIN MS. I should be glad of any information about the writer and object of the following MS. It was lent to me by Mr. Elliott, of Camberwell, and is an item of his large collection of archaeological and literary curiosities. The MS. is bound as a 12mo volume in old calf-covered boards. The calligraphy looks like a seventeenth- century running hand, with long s's. It is in excellent condition, apparently perfect, and is labelled " Elliott Col. No. 4."

The first 8 pp. are unpaged ; then follows a'pagination of 7 to 363 pp., then 3 pp. blank.

On p. 1 is the autograph of " Timothie Taylor. 1674," who was, I conclude, the writer of the MS., the signature being in a similar style to that of the MS.

The contents give the impression that the writer was a well-educated merchant or business man of some sort, residing, it seems, in Dublin. He often speaks of the packet bringing political and other news from Eng- land. Many of the observations seem tran- scribed from the Gazette of the period. He writes as if he were a liberal-minded Non- conformist, frequently alludes to the per- secution of Nonconformists, and was evi- dently a man of strong religious feeling, averse to war.

On p. 3 are " Some considerations relating to Spain and ye Empyre, 1673." He frequently mentions the " Caball."

The earliest date is 1673, on p. 3, and 18 Aug., 1673, on p. 7. On p. 13 he says " Mrs. Deane told me " perhaps the wife of the Dean of St. Patrick's. And Christ Churchyard is mentioned, perhaps referring to Christ Church Cathedral, both buildings being in Dublin. The latest date is 23 May, 1676, on p. 363.

On p. 363 Ireland is mentioned, and on p. 346 it is said that there is to be a massacre.

The MS. gives the idea of having been the private notes of a Dublin citizen upon passing political and social matters.

D. J.

KEMBLE BUBIAL-PLACES. Can any of your readers say where Roger Kemble, the father, and Charles Kemble, the brother of Mrs. Siddons, are buried ? The former died in 1802, and the latter in 1854. F. W.

CAMOYS PEDIGBEE. (See 6 S. i. 234, 298, 341, 401.) Has this pedigree been more accurately worked out since some notes about it appeared in vol. i. of the Sixth Series ?