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NOTES AND QUERIES. 10 s. vm. JULY is, 1907.

lated 20 May, 1802. He entered the army, and served in Spain in the 18th Hussars, attaining to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died at Oldbury Court, near Bristol, and it is the exact date of his death that I more particularly want. W. ROBERTS. 47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

" DEVACHAN." What are the origin and meaning of this word, which I have twice met lately ? It is apparently a theo- sophical term, but it is not to be found in the Stanford or other dictionaries.

A. SMYTHE PALMER. S. Woodford.

WILLIAM HOGSFLESH, CRICKETER. Lilly- white in his ' Cricket Biographies ' states that William Hogsflesh was buried at South- wick, near Hambledon, Hants, 29 April, 1818 ; but adds:

"Though the above is oelieved to have been the Old Mambledon Club player, still it is not quite certain, as by another account he lived and died at the village of Hambledon." Lilly white, i. 23.

Surely the date and place of decease of so distinguished a player as Hogsflesh, who was esteemed one of the founders of modern cricket, cannot now be in doubt, as it appears to have been at the time Lillywhite com- piled his biographies. JOHN HEBB.

[Mr. E. V. Lucas in his book just published, ' The Hambledon Men ' (Frowde), says that no tombstone was erected to the memory of Hogs- flesh, but the register states that he was buried on the date and at the place mentioned above. But according to this "he was only 32 years of age when he left off playing in the great matches," so that the identification "is not quite certain."]

ROBERT GRAVE, PRINTSELLER. I desire some biographical data or reference to the father and son of this name, who were in business as printsellers 1780-1825 (approxi- mately).

Richardson on 16 March, 1805, and twelve following evenings sold the collection (i.e. stock) of miscellaneous prints of Robert Grave, deceased.

In July, 1809, from 239, Tottenham Court Road, " Robert Grave, son of the late Mr. Robert Grave," issued his remarkable cata- logue of 5,000 engraved British portraits.

On 6 Feb., 1810, and seventeen following days, Dodd sold a collection of prints, which an endorsement on the sale catalogue before me identifies as belonging to " the late Robert Grave."

" Grave " appears as a buyer at print sales for many years later, and he purchased several lots in the Sykes Sale, March-June, 1824. The portrait frontispiece to the

third part of this catalogue is engraved by Robert Grave. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

" BEAU " AS A NICKNAME. When was " Beau " first used as an attributive to a surname ? I find no trace in ' N.E.D.,' but Beau Nash and Beau Brummell in real life, Beau Farintosh and Beau Austin in drama, and Beau Villiers in fiction, are known to all of us.

It may be presumed to spring from the early days of the eighteenth century, for in The Daily Courant of Jan. 7, 1715, was an advertisement of the performance at the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields that evening of a comedy, ' The Fair Quaker of Deal ; or, the Humours of the Navy,' in which one of the characters was " Beau Mizen." In The Original Weekly Journal of 7 March, 1719, was recorded the death of " the Lady

of Simms, Esq. ; commonly call'd

Beau Simms " ; and a letter from Dublin, signed " W. H.," in Mist's Weekly Journal of 9 May, 1719, began :

" This is to give you an Account of a Person that amuses us here as much as even the Story of Beau Wilson did England, only I think much more unaccountable. "

These examples would suggest an earlier use. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

GTJTTERIDGE OR GOODRIDGE FAMILY. In a notice of The Leisure Hour in The Northampton Mercury of 15 Aug., 1885, it is stated that Mrs. Percy, wife of Dr. Percy, the celebrated Bishop of Dromore, was a daughter of Barton Gutteridge, of Des- borough, Northamptonshire. As the name of the father of this good lady is by no means common, I would draw attention to the fact that in the first volume of the West Haddon registers is an entry as follows : " Bartin Gutteridge, yeoman, was buried the fift of October, 1657."

When I was copying the tombstone in- scriptions in the churchyard some years ago I removed the soil from the west end of a large altar-tomb on the south side of the church, and brought to light the following inscription :

Heare lyeth the

body of Bartin

Goodridge (who)

departed (this)

life October

the third

1657.

In the parish chest of West Haddon is an old Latin document purporting to be an administration of the estate of John Gulliver of West Haddon by Bartin Gutteridge, and