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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. OCT. 19, 1907.

SUDLOW FAMILY. Four generations ago Richard Sudlow, son of Joseph and Eliza- beth Sudlow, founded the family in America, of which I am a descendant. These people were Quakers living in or near London. Has anything appeared in ' N. & Q.' concerning Sudlows in the South of England ? or how can I get information ? H. E. SUDLOW.

Sherrard, 111.

THOMAS ATKINSON. I should be greatly obliged for any information about Thomas Atkinson and his family. He was from South Carolina ; then of Skipton, Yorkshire ; afterwards a partner in a South Wales iron- works from 1790 to 1815. In the latter year ho was living at Tredegar Ironworks, Mon. EDWIN RICHARDS.

Nantyderry, Abergavenny.

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND PROTECTORATE. Can any reader refer me to any likely sources of information on this subject ? I know of no history of the endowed schools particularly the grammar schools. What became of the choir schools during the Commonwealth ? J. B. W.

[MR. A. F. LEACH has written much on grammar schools. His ' English Schools at the Reformation ' appeared in 1896 ; ' Early Yorkshire Schools,' 1899 and 1903 ; and ' History of Warwick School,' 1904. An article by him on ' Our Oldest Public School ' was printed at 10 S. i. 269, several communications from other correspondents having appeared earlier in the volume. MB. A. R. BAYLEY gave some in- teresting anecdotes concerning Magdalen College School at the time of the Civil War in his series of articles concluded at 10 S. vii. 383. Some notes by MR. BAYLEY on early masters of the Stratford-on- Avon Grammar School are now in type, and will appear in a week or two.]

" PALE-FACED SIMEON." Can you oblige me by telling me the origin and the meaning of the above saying, also current as " pale- faced Simian " ? A. WEBSTER.

NEWMAN STREET. What is the origin of the name Newman Street, off Oxford Street, and after whom was it named ? I should be glad of any particulars as to the family. H. E. NEWMAN.

Carisbrooke, Dynas Powis, Glam.

STRZYGOWSKI. How ought one to pro- nounce the name of the brilliant professor at Graz whose investigations into the origins of Christian art have been, to some extent made familiar to English readers by Prof W. R. Lethaby in his 'Mediaeval Art, published a year or two ago ?

BENJ. WALKER. Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

" BACON." According to Kluge, ' Worter- such der deutschen Sprache,' 6th ed., p. 25, French as early as the twelfth century ; according to the ' N.E.D.,' not before the "ourteenth. Who is right ?
 * he English word bacon was borrowed from

G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

' THE BAZAAR GIRL.' Can any one tell me in what collection of poems I can find one called ' The Bazaar Girl ' ? I have Deen wrongly informed that it was written
 * >y Sir Edwin Arnold. It is the story of an

[ndian girl who rescued an English baby irom a tiger at the risk of her life.

KATHLEEN WARD.

Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

NELSON AND WALMER CASTLE. The Illus- trated London News, 18 Sept., 1852, p. 215, contained the following :

" In one part of Walmer Castle may be seen a room not more than eight feet wide, with walls three feet thick. This was the room where the celebrated William Pitt used to meet Lord Nelson. In that room were planned the future victories arid proceedings of the English fleet during the wars of the French Revolution."

' Records of Walmer,' by the Rev. C.^R. S. Elvin, published in 1890, p. 25, states :

" Here too, in a narrow little room which now forms a sort of alcove to the Drawing-Room, Nelson is said many a time to have conferred with Pitt, while his flagship lay in the Downs."

But * The Official Guide to Walmer Castle,' 1907, p. 31, says :

"'Lord Nelson's Room,' so called. This room has been named after our great naval hero, ap- parently for no other reason than the fact of an old chest of drawers with the inscription ' Sacred to Nelson, Trafalgar,' stamped on the brass escutcheon of each keyhole having stood in it for some years. As to Nelson having slept in this room, it is pretty certain that he never set foot in Walmer Castle at all. There is not only no record or documentary evidence of his having done so, but even no authenticated tradition to that effect."

There appears to have been a respectable tradition as far back as 1852, at the death of Wellington. How came the chest of drawers there ? and in whose time were the brass escutcheons engraved and placed on the furniture ? R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

BRUCE AND FLEMING. Every reader knows the story of the slaying of the Red Comyn by Bruce at Dumfries in 1306, and of Kirkpatrick's share in the deed. I remember, however, hearing, when a boy, from a lady who belonged to a younger branch of the Flemings of Cumbernauld, a