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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. JAN. 29, 1910.

near Hezzle which is often turbulent. Cf. " Bulldog (2), in the phrase ' Barton bull- dogs,* rough waves on the Humber."
 * Barton bulldogs,* s.v. Bull-dog (2). n Also

The notion of " deriving " whelp from the A.-S. weallan, to boil, seems rather auda- cious. One might as well derive pulp from the verb to pull. Where does the p come in ? WALTER W. SKEAT.

" Whelp " is the same word as the Danish hvalp. Its application to broken water may be a transferred one, the name being formerly given to rocks, the remains of which, now covered by the sea, are the cause of the waves breaking off Hessle. On a larger scale there lies at about eight miles from Land's End a dangerous rock of greenstone, called the Wolf's Crag, in the midst of a turbulent twirl and eddy of waters. Again, the unin- habited island of Annette, one of the Scilly group, is literally surrounded with reefs and rocks. It has been well said that they are the " dogs " of Scilly, and fierce as those which, according to the old fable, howled round the monster of the Italian Seas :

But ISeylla crouches in the gloom,

Deep in a cavern's monstrous womb ;

Thence darts her ravening mouth, and drags

The helpless vessel on the crags.

I may conclude by mentioning that there is situated on tno Shannon, west of Linerick, the " Whelp's Rock " Lighthouse.

TOM JONES.

The " Hessle Whelps " are doubtless so called because they are a smaller repetition of " Barton Bulldogs " on the opposite bank. There has always been a liking to see a similitude between atmospherical and natural phenomena and familiar animals. Plutarch mentions hills called " dogsheads " (' Lives l by North, 1899, iii. 247, iv. 171) ; and Swin- burne, our modern sea-poet, sings of " white horses " in the sea (' Selections,' 1894, p. 33). For others see " dog n in ' N. E. D.'

W. C. B.

[MR. HOLDEN MAcMiGHAEL also thanked for reply.]

BROOKE OF COBHAM (11 S. i. 29). EN- QUIRER will find much information that will serve as a reply to his queries, in G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage.' Sir William Brooke referred to was not the son, but the nephew, of Henry, the attainted Lord Cob- ham, namely, son and heir of George Brooke, who was executed for high treason 5 Dec., 1603. Sir William was restored in blood by Act of Parliament in 1610, but not to the

title, which still remains under attainder. Subject to this, he would have been the un- doubted heir to his uncle. He left at his death in 1643 four daughters his co-heirs, namely, one by his first wife and three by his second, All these ladies married, and three of them left issue ; but their descendants had all failed by about the end of the century with the exception of those of Hill, the second daughter, and wife of Sir William Boothby, Bt., whose representa- tives in 1837 are stated to have been Robert Thorp, M.D., Disney Alexander, M.D., Mrs. Lucy Cockerell, and Miss Harriet Lund.

Sir John Brooke, to whom the barony was granted by a new patent in 1645, was the next heir male of the family after Sir William Brooke, being the son of Sir Henry Brooke, who was a younger son of George, 9th Lord Cobham, the grandfather of the attainted baron. He died without issue in 1660.

The Brookes of UfTord, Suffolk, are now in all probability the heirs male of the Brookes, Lords Cobham, being descended from Reginald, second son of Sir Thomas Brooke (died 1439), by the heiress of Cob- ham. Their descent will be found in Burke's ' Landed Gentry.' W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le-Willows.

The present representative of the Brookes of Cobham, appears to be Edward Brooke, Esq., of Ufford Place, Suffolk.

Among the eighteen brasses of the Cob- ham family and others in the parish church of Cobham is one of Sir Reginald Bray- brooke, father of Joane, Baroness Cobham (1420), who married Sir Thomas Brooke, Kt. The brass of the thirteenth and last of the Cobhams was removed from its place to make room for a memorial to the Earl of Darnley. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

REV. RICHARD SNOWE (11 S. i. 50). One Richard Snowe (son of Thomas of South- wark, Surrey, gent.) matriculated at Uni- versity College, Oxon, on 4 June, 1741, aged eighteen. A. R. BAYLEY.

DR. JAMES BRADLEY, ASTRONOMER ROYAL (10 S. xii. 489; 11 S. i. 38). Bradley in his will, given in his ' Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence, with Memoir,' by Rigaud, speaks of three sisters (two of them widows), but does not mention any brother, so that it is probable that there was no surviving one when the will was made. Nor does Rigaud refer to any brother in the memoir. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.