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as evidence that the custom of night court- ship, still prevalent in Orkney and Shetland, was once common throughout the country ?

ALEX. RUSSELL, M.A. Stromness, Orkney.

[Notes on night courtship in Wales and Cumber land will be found at 8 S. i. 6, 96, 175.J

" QUATTROCENTO." Can any reader ot ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me how it happens that the Italian word " Quattrocento ' (and " Quattrocentisti "), meaning four hundred, has been applied to a period (anc artists) of the fourteenth (and part of the fifteenth) century ? On the face of it, the use of the word seems inappropriate ; bui there may be some explanation, although I have been unable to find it in several works of reference I have consulted.

EDWARD LATHAM.

GASCOIGNE THE POET. I should be glad to know if any new facts concerning the life of George Gascoigne the poet have come to light since the biography of him in the ' D.N.B.' was written. If so, where anc when did they appear ?

HENRY R. PLOMER.

PLAISTOW AND WILLIAM ALLEN. In the 'D.N.B.' William Allen, the ' Quaker, scientist, and philanthropist, is said to have opened a laboratory at Plaistow in 1795. There are three places of this name in England, viz., in Essex, Kent, and Sussex. Will some correspondent kindly inform me which of the three places is referred to ?

HELLIER R. H. GOSSELIN-GRIMSHAWE.

Errwood Hall, Buxton.

GAMBLER DETECTED. Will any one give me a reference to a player caught cheating at Crockford's fifty or more years ago hand pinned to table by carving fork ?

F. L. S.

[The incident occurred more than a century ago not at Crockford's but at Scarborough. See the long communication from the late F. G. STEPHENS at 9 S. ix. 149.1

HARRISON AINSWORTH AND THAMES DARRELL. I should be greatly obliged if you would tell me whether it is a fact (as far as may be known) that Thames Darrell one of the characters in Harrison Ainsworth's ' Jack Sheppard,' and a person who actually existed was saved from the Thames on the night of 26 Dec., 1703, when the greatest hurricane that ever devastated England was raging. If it were merely a story, it would be curious that it occurred to Ains- worth to invent it. CHARLES STRINGER. [Was not the Great Storm Nov. 26, 1703 ?]

GENEALOGICAL QUERIES. The writer would be pleased to exchange notes regard- ing the families enumerated below, and would be especially grateful for any data or clues concerning those in italics :

Arnaud, Huguenot, before 1700.

Beaumont, Kent, 1700-1800.

Brabb(s), Yorkshire, before 1850.

Denton, Yorkshire, London and Folkestone.

Dumont, Huguenot, 1656-1900.

Entwisle, London, before 1770.

Guest, Birmingham and New Jersey, 1700-1850.

Halley (or Hawley), Derbyshire, North Hants,

Peterborough, London, and Kent ; and as asso- ciated with McDonald, Pike, or Stuart, 1550-

1800.

Hudson, Yorkshire, 1700-1850. Kinder, London, 1600-1700. Lyon, New England, 1635-1900. McDonald, Great Britain and Ireland, as associated

with Halley, Pike, or Stuart, 1550-1800. McPike, Belfast, Ireland, before 1850. McPike, Great Britain and Ireland, 1700-1800. Mewce of North Hants, 1550-1700. Mewce, Calais, France, before 1650. Millikin, London, 1700-1800. Morant, London, before 1650. Mountain, Hampshire and New Jersey, 1600-1800. Parry, Kent, 1740-1825. Pike (or Pyke), Great Britain and Ireland ; and as

associated with Hcdley, McDonald, or Stuart,

1550-1800.

Price, England, as associated with Halley, 1721-65. Rezeau, Huguenot, before 1725. Stewart (or Stuart), Great Britain and Ireland, as

associated with Halley, McDonald, or Pike,

1550-1800. Tooke, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and London, before

1750.

Traverrier, Huguenot, before 1750. Waddingham, Yorkshire, before 1850. Ward, North Hants and London, before 1750. Wright, England, as associated with Halley or

Ward, after 1690.

EUGENE F. McPiKE.

1, Park Row, Chicago, U.S. " RAPIDS " : " WATER-BREAK." What is the English synonym for " rapids," which is to be traced to French as modified by North American usage, I believe ?

" Water-break " is suggested to me, but that does not appear to be a dictionary word. Was there no substantive in Anglo-Saxon denoting rough water racing down a slope ? What is the exact signification of the word, or words, used in Celtic languages to denote the idea ? P- W. S.

FRENCH EMIGRES. Was there any special

hurch in London where French emigres

were married ? I am anxious to find the

marriage of Ann Gourbillon, previous to

L793.

Was there any list kept, officially or other- wise, of French emigres about the year 1792 ?

EMIGRE.

23, Foster Street, Lincoln.