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 10 s. VIIL NOV. 9, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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On one side of the blade are graven the royal arras of Scotland, surmounted with a crown ; on the other side is the representa- tion of a heart, towards which two hands point, over one of which are the letters K.R.B. (King Robert Bruce), over the other I.L.D. (James, Lord Douglas).

HEBBEBT MAXWELL.

There is a large two-handed sword at Broomhall, near Dunfermline, Fifeshire, the seat of the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Colonial Secretary. This is said to have been the sword of King Robert the Bruce. The family name of the noble owner is Bruce. JOHN ADDISOK.

ST. GEOBGE'S CHAPEL YABD, OXFOBD ROAD (10 S. vi. 469; vii. 13, 135, 198). W. C. B.'s reply at the last reference is only partly correct. The inscriptions printed in Miscellanea Oenealogica et Heraldica are not complete. Utinam sic! The M.I. of this old burial-ground, to the number of about 700, were transcribed by myself about twenty years ago, and were, as above stated, printed in the Miscellanea, but never finished. In the ground, as it stood before alterations, there were about 2,000 stones.

F. S. SNELL.

Hendon, N.W.

" POT-WALLEB " : " POT-WALLOPEB " (10

S. viii. 181, 233, 298). In further recogni- tion of wallop = to boil, Ainsworth's Latin diet, has : " to wallop, or boil, Bullio, Ebullio."

In our kitchens to-day to gallop a dish is to boil it too rapidly ; and I overheard a hot-potato merchant confide to a layman that the great secret was " not to gallop 'em." H. P. L.

To listen to the iron pot " wallop " on a washday was a real delight to most children. Large iron pots hung over the fire sent forth a sound when on the boil, and I well remember how many of us went as near as we dared to listen to the " walloping " which came from the pot.

There was another " walloping " which could hardly be a pleasure, and that was when a lad got " a hiding " from his school- master or from his "dad." Big things were " wallopers." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

" DBY," AS APPLIED TO SPIBITUOUS LIQTJOBS (10 S. viii. 269). If the ' N.E.D.' definition of the word is "meagre," it has at least the merit of being comprehensive.

"Dry," as the natural opposite to "sweet," suffices to distinguish one class of wine from another. Thomas George Shaw in ' Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar' (1864) has the following :

"It has long appeared to me very doubtful whether the wine we now call sherry, from Xerez, was known in this country even 150 years ago. I can trace no authority for it except the words in Shakespeare ' Sherris sack,' which is usually sup-

Eosed to be 'dry sherry'; but we find also in old ooks 'sack with sugar,' and sack in so many ways that it is evidently not derived from the French word sec, dry."

May not " dry " in this application be a commercial term of comparatively recent origin, after the fashion of its use to dis- tinguish stuffs and cloths from groceries, as in " dry goods " ? ROBEBT WALTEBS. Ware Priory.

In the wine trade the term "dry" is usually applied to intoxicants which have little or no sugar in them, the technical antithesis for " dry " being " rich," and sometimes "fruity." WM. JAGGABD.

' LlNCOLNSHIBE FAMILY'S CHEQTJEBED

HISTOBY' : WALSH FAMILY (10 S. vii. 349, 497 ; viii. 33, 214). Since sending my query as to lands originally belonging to the church never continuing long in possession of one family, I have been informed that this supposition is unfounded, as there are several well - known instances to the con- trary amongst others, Mells Park, Somer- set, a manor formerly appertaining to the Abbots of Glastonbury, but at the disso- lution of the monasteries given to John Horner, who is said to have been the steward to the abbey at that time, and lineal ancestor of the present owner.

CUBIOTTS.

ST. OSWALD (10 S. vi. 488 ; vii. 11). It is somewhat remarkable to find our North- umbrian saint honoured in Italy. In a calendar published at Milan this year his day (5 August) is duly recorded. There is also a village named Sant' Osvaldo on the way to Cimolais from Longarone, in the valley of the Piave.

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

EXETEBHALL(IO S. viii. 127, 215, 337). I should like to supplement my account (ante, p. 337) of the naming of Brydges Street after Catherine, daughter of Giles Brydges, third Lord Chandos, by pointing out that the statement in ' London Past and Present,' i. 289, that Brydges Street was called after George Brydges, Lord Chandos