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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io-s. vm. OCT. 26, 1907.

morning" ? What is the age of these two daughter Margaret, wife of Ralph Vernon ? songs ? The melody of both resembles an These appear to me to be the likely alter- old French military march still heard, I be- ; natives, lieve, as a nursery song, and sung to the words " Malbrouk s'en va-t-en guerre." Do

either or both of these songs date as far back as Maryborough's time ? Is there any reference to " For he 's a jolly good fellow " in the literature of the eighteenth or nine- teenth century ? W. E. WILSON. Hawick.

ASSASSINATION THE METIER OF KINGS. When the King of Italy some time ago was about to visit some place that had just suffered from a grievous calamity (I forget what), he was warned that he would be assassinated if he went. To this he replied that assassination was the metier of kings, or words to that effect. Afterwards it appeared that the saying was not his, but his father's. We have nowadays so few historical bon mots of kings, that it is worth preserving. Can any one supply the date and place, and give the original Italian ? FRANCIS KINO.

"HANWAY "=UMBRELLA. In a volume recently in hand, I find an umbrella seriously spoken of as a Hanway. The reference evi- dently is to Jonas Hanway, the originator of the modern umbrella, and seems to me recalling the fact that when he appeared in the streets, holding the article in question over his head, he was ridiculed and pelted with stones a not undeserved recognition. Can readers of N. & Q.' recall other in- stances of such a use of the word ?

DEWITT MILLER.

New York, City.

VERNON AND WENTWORTH FAMILIES. Will you allow me to ask if any of your numerous readers can inform me who was the wife of Ralph, younger son of Sir William Vernon of Haddon about 1470 ? Collins gives Ralph's wife as Margaret

May I also ask if any one can tell me who was the father of John Wentworth of Ponte- fract, whose daughter Elizabeth married, about 1530 or 1540, Roger Wentworth of Hangthwaite, Adwick-le-Street, and South Kirkby, co. York, son of Thomas Wentworth X>f North Elmsall, who d. 1522 ? I have seen two pedigrees of Wentworth, in one of which John is given as son of Richard Went- worth of West Bretton (son of Richard), and in the other as son of Sir Henry Went- worth of Pontefract and Knaresbrough, co. York, and Nettlestead, Suffolk, by his second wife Elizabeth Nevil. Foster in his ' Yorkshire Pedigrees ' says nothing as to the father of John Wentworth of Ponte- fract, and does not give a son John to Sir Henry of Pontefract. Neither does Rutten in his ' Family of Wentworth,' or Raven in 'Visitation of Essex,' 1612 (Harl. MS.), or Flower in ' Visitation of Yorkshire,' 1563 (Harl. MS.). Both Foster and Flower give a son John to Richard Wentworth of West Bretton. DOCTOR.

MRS. C. DA COSTA VILLA REALE. ' Miscellanies in Prose and Verse,' by the Hon. Lady Margaret Pennyman (London, 1740), has as a frontispiece an anonymous small oval engraving of a lady. I have discovered in Bromley's catalogue of prints that it is the portrait of Mrs. Catharine da Costa Villa Reale, the Jewish ancestress of the Earl of Crewe. I can find nothing in the volume concerning this lady. Can any reader kindly suggest why this portrait forms the frontispiece ?

ISRAEL SOLOMONS. 91, Portsdown Road, W.

GAMESTER'S SUPERSTITION : LIZARD WITH Two TAILS. The twenty-second chapter of M. Paul Bourget's ' Sensations d'ltalie '

Chaworth, and is "followed "by Burke* and co * tains sev eral examples of the folk-lore Nichols ('History of Guthlaxton '). Harl. tlU cornm _nly accepted as MS. 6696, 53b., 55, gives her as Margaret Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. In Burke's 'Extinct Peerage,' 1866, Sir Thomas Chaworth of Wyverton, Notts, son of Sir William, married Margaret Talbot, and died s.p. ; but in Harl. MS. 5800, fol. 12b, Sir Thomas had a daughter Cathe- rine, who married William Leeke of Sutton, co. Derby, son of Sir John of Cotham. Did Margaret Talbot marry first Sir Thomas Chaworth, and secondly Ralph Vernon ?

or did she marry Sir Thomas and leave a

truth in the

terra d'Otranto." Among them is the belief that a gamester will always win if he keeps in his purse a lizard with two tails. Are these little monstrosities ever seen in England ? and if so, is there any popular credulity connected with them ?

M. P.

KITTY COCKS, COUNTESS OF STAMFORD. The Star of 20 August states that the seventh Earl of Stamford married " a handsome lady of humble birth, who before her marriage kad been a star of the stage,