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' Biographie Universelle,' and who diec Archbishop of Nancy on 27 Sept., 1823.

22. Jerome Marie Champion de Cice Archbishop of Bordeaux, who died Arch bishop of Aix in 1810.

23. I may add that Etienne Jean Baptiste des Galois de la Tour was provided to the see of Moulins (created for him) in 1788. He was the eldest son of Charles Jean Baptiste des Galois de la Tour, Vicomte de Glene He was in London in 1801, and protestec against the Concordat. Nominated to the Archbishopric of Bourges in 1817, he was consecrated 26 Sept., 1819, and died at Bourges, 20 March, 1820, aged 70.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. " CORTEL " CLOCKS. What is the mean- ing of the word " cortel " as applied to clocks ? I have long known the word applied to clocks hanging on the wall, but I cannot find the word in any dictionary, French or English. A. B.

FRENCH BALLADS. Which collections of French ballads similar to our Border ballads are the best ? W. W.

BARNABY CHRONICLES are mentioned in Wheatley and Cunningham's ' London Past and Present ' as first published in 1716 in Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn. What were they, and by whom written ? L. B.

" YEOMAN SERVICE." What is the origin of this expression ? The Broad Arrow of 8 June, p. 637, in an article on the Imperial Yeomanry, makes the following statement : " Our very language shows, by the term 'yeomen's service,' how the country really appreciates the fact that the yeomen have in the past come out to do their duty to their country, and have done it well."

I always thought " yeoman service " referred to the proper yeoman, who may fitly be described for the purpose as the farmer who farms his own land, and I am afraid there are very few of this class at the present time in any county, and especially few in the Imperial Yeomanry.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

CREST : SUN BETWEEN WINGS. I should be glad of assistance in identifying the follow- ing crest upon an old piece of china : a sun proper between two wings vert, each wing charged with a figure like the combination of a 2 and a 4, which I have been told is the symbol of tin. Motto : " Vis mund " (sic). Initials beneath, A: K. S. LEO C.

ARMS ON CHALICE. Upon a fifteenth- century chalice (North Italian probably

Sienese or Florentine) is the 1 following coat of arms : Barry of six or and azure ; on a chief of the second, three mullets of the first. This is in enamel upon one of the facets of the knop. I seek information whose are the arms. H. D. E.

CHAMBERLAIN MARRIAGE. Information is desired concerning the marriage of Hugh Chamberlain between 1665 and 1675 probably in some village in the neighbour- hood of Nottingham. Intelligence will be gratefully acknowledged.

(Mrs.) MOORE.

122, Highgate, Kendal.

PICCADILLY : ITS NAME. In Allen's ' History and Antiquities of London,' pub- lished in 1839 with an appendix by Thomas Wright, vol. iv. p. 301, I read :

"Piccadilly is so called from Piccadilly-house, which stood on the site of Sackville Street. This was a sort of repository for ruffs, when there were no other houses here. Ruffs were also called turn- overs, and capes. The street was completed, as far as the present Berkeley-street, in the year 1642."

In a small book entitled ' Instructive Rambles in London and the Adjacent Villages,' by Elizabeth Helme, 1798, vol. i. p. 50, 1 find the following :

"At this moment they passed the turnpike and entered Piccadilly, which Charles observing was a very wide and populous street, his father replied, ' It is indeed so now, Charles, but some years back it was little better than waste land, and first built upon by one Higgins a taylor, who had accumulated i fortune by making stiff collars, then much in Fashion, and called Piccadilla's ; from which he named the street."

I should be greatly obliged if any one would tell me the real explanation of the name Piccadilly, and whether either of my notes can be vouched for.

HENRY HUGHES CRAWLEY, R.D.

Stowe-Nine-Churches Rectory, Weedon.

[Piccadilly is discussed at 1 S. viii. 467 ; 3 S. ix. .76, 249 ; 4 S. i. 292 ; iii. 415. A long article on early original documents, was contributed to The Athenceum of 27 July, 1901, by Mrs. C. C. Stopes.]
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DE LHUYS OR NORDERLOOSE. It is stated in a pedigree in my possession that about 1743 one Thomas Watson, of Great Yarmouth, was married to Jacoba Norder- oose. In another pedigree she is called he daughter of De Lhuys, Dutch Consul. ' shall be glad of any information as to the above names and as to which of the two is jorrect. CHR. WATSON.

264, Worple Road, Wimbledon.

DARCIE'S ' HISTORY OF ELIZABETH.' I lave a copy of Abraham Darcie's ' Historie