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than the verb " wuddle." " Wodge " is given as an old Warwickshire word = lump, quantity of anything stuffed together. This may have taken the Romance diminu- tive suffix -et, as did " smock," " smicket."

H. P. L.

WEST'S PICTURE OF THE DEATH or GENERAL WOLFE (10 S. v. 409, 451, 518 ; vi. 113, 154, 173). Although it is rather late in the day, H. G. L. may like to have the following reference I came across a few days ago in the Northampton Public Library, in going through the file of The Northampton Mercury for 1824. It occurs in the issue of 27 March (Saturday) :

"Lately at Aberdeen James Moir, aged 101. He was brother-in-law to the veteran M'Dougal, who supported General Wolfe, after he received his mortal wound on the plains of Quebec. The wife of James Moir was buried on Sunday last, aged 81 ; and her husband died within an hour after sne had teen laid in the grave."

I may add that the Northampton Public Library has a very fine series of the above journal ; fand at the same time I should like to thank MR. HENRY LEIGHTON for his kind reply at the last reference.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

' ROCK OF AGES ' : GLADSTONE'S LATIN VERSION (10 S. vii. 369, 458). In the year 1888 Gladstone very kindly sent me a copy of his Latin translation of the ' Rock of Ages.' It is in his own handwriting, and the last line of the second stanza is written : Salva Tu, Salvator unus.

SAMUEL WADDINGTON. 47, Connaught Street, Hyde Park, W.

ST. DEVEREUX : ST. DUBRICIUS (10 S. vii. 327, 418). See also 5 S. vii. 389, 432 ; viii. 278 ; 6 S. vi. 149, 293, 496 ; vii. 281 ; and ' Calendar of Papal Registers,' ' Petitions,' i. at p. 434, and ' Papal Letters,' iii., at p. 403. If the parish of St. Dubricius or Dibrucius, in the diocese of Hereford, men- tioned in the ' Papal Registers,' is not the parish now called St. Devereux, what parish is it ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

' BELL*TNSCRIPTIONS AT SIRESA (10 S. vi. 465 ; vii. 55, 436). I imagine that MR. PICKFORD will find an earlier source of the citation in Genesis xlix. 9. When I was a lad, I was shown a small collection of ancient Hebrew coins by my father, whereon the denotive sign or emblem was a lion couchant stamped on the reverse. I have no doubt all public documents in those times had such seals attached. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

HERALDS : THEIR ANOINTING (10 S. vii. 448). Let me refer to ' Marmion,' canto iv. stanzas vi., vii., viii., for a vivid description of the dress of the herald Lord Lyon King of Arms, the date being 1513 :

Whom royal James himself had crown'd, And on his temples placed the round

Of Scotland's ancient diadem ; And wet his brow with hallow'd wine, And on his finger given to shine

The emblematic gem.

And also to Note I., p. 395 in my copy of ' Marmion,' 1855, which is beautifully illus- trated by John Gilbert and Birket Foster.

If reference is made to either Burke' s ' Peerage ' or ' Landed Gentry,' on the title-page will be found a small wood engrav- ing representing the arms of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, surmounted by a coronet of oak leaves, and round the circle

VLSTER REX ARMOR TOTIVS HIBERNI/E.

Boutell gives the herald's crown as

" a golden circlet, from which rise sixteen oak leaves, nine of which appear in representations, and the circlet charged with the words, ' Miserere mei Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.'"

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ISLES FAMILY (10 S. vii. 450). See 9 T S. ix. 332 for John lies, of Hanwell, Middlesex.

Pedigree of Godfrey, vol. vi. Arch. Cant., states that Thomas Godfrey married (second wife) Sara, " fil: Tho: lies de Leedes in com. Ebor.' Berry's ' Kentish Genealogies,' p. 146, says Sarah, dau. of Thomas Isles of Hammersmith. Mrs. Godfrey was the mother of Sir Edmond Berry Godfrey, murdered 1678.

Arch. Cant., vol. xviii. p. 32, has Thomas lies, 1594, notary public.

May not lies, Isles, and Eyles have the same derivation ?

According to 5 S. viii. 387, John lies married Elizabeth, dau. of John Brassey, Hertford. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

BUTCHERS EXEMPTED FROM JURIES (10 S. vii. 449). It used to be a popular belief that butchers and surgeons were exempted from serving on juries, on the ground that their trade or profession rendered them cruel. As a matter of fact, physicians and surgeons are exempt by statute (Jury Act, 1870) if actually practising. So far as I am aware, there never was, nor is there now, any statutory exemption for butchers.

A. COIXINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey.