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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. APR. 2, 1910.

Conde had children. Did they remain in Scotland, and could the name in a century change from Conde to Conke, Conky, Con- key, McConkey ? The last form appears about 1690. Would not a Scotchman understand a Frenchman, with his peculiar accent, to say Conke instead of Conde ? (Mrs.) CHAS. S. LANGDON.

108, Gillett Street, Hartford, Conn.

D. CAMERINO ARCANGELTJS, PAINTER. Can any of your readers throw light upon the present whereabouts of two pictures bearing the inscription " D. Camerino Arcangelus Pinxit. n One represented the Crucifixion with saints, the other the Madonna and Child with angels. They were exhibited in 1880 at the Winter Exhibition at Burling- ton House (Nos. 221, 222), being then the property of Mrs. Longland. The informa- tion is urgently required by a writer who is engaged upon a study of this painter, and who would gratefully welcome any clue which might lead to further information being obtained relating to these two paint- ings. D. C. A.

FIRST ELECTIONS UNDER THE BALLOT ACT. Where and when did the first election municipal or Parliamentary under the Ballot. Act of 1872 take place ? Did any take place earlier than Boston (municipal) 22 July, 1872, and Pontefract (Parliamen- tary), 15 Aug., 1872 ? R. A.

" ROWLAND -HOE." In George Wither's ' Christmas Carol ' is the following stanza : Now kings and queens poor sheepcotes have.

And mate with everybody ; The honest now may play the knave, And wise men play at noddy.

Some youths will now a-mumming go, Some others play at rowland-hoe, And twenty other gambols moe Because they will be merry.

What was the game of " rowland-hoe," which I do not find by name in any work of reference at hand ? J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

JOHN ABBOT was elected a King's Scholar at Westminster School in 1721, and left in 1723. Particulars of his career and the date of his death are desired. G. F. R. B.

ROGER ALTHAM (1649-1714) was Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew. Whom and when did he marry ? His widow, whose Christian name was Frances, died 3 Dec., 1734, aged, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral.

G. F. R. B.

GEORGE ELLIS (1753-1815). Where was he educated ? The ' Diet, Nat, Biog.' (xvii. 276) is silent on this point, but ' The Encyclo- paedia Britannica ' (viii. 150) states that he was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. What authority is there for this statement ? G. F. R. B.

" FORBES -MACKENZIE HOUR OF ELEVEN.'* What is the origin of this expression ? I find it in William Chambers' s memoir of his brother Robert (1872). He is referring to a " howff " or old-fashioned inn in Edin- burgh, kept by a certain Miss Ritchie about the year 1810. She

" would never allow liquor after a decent hour. When that hour arrived I think it was the Forbes-Mackenzie hour of eleven it was vain for them to ask a fresh supply."

I seem to remember that Sir Walter Scott used the same expression somewhere, but I cannot verify the reference.

FRANK SCHLOESSER.

LONDON RECTORS' CONFEDERATION. At pp. 100-2 of Mr. George Unwin's ' Gilds and Companies of London l (reviewed ante, p. 18) is an account of the " Secret Confedera- tion of London Rectors," which flourished in the early part of the fourteenth century, based upon a MS. in Cambridge University Library. (" gg. 432, fo. 108 et seq"). I should be glad if any correspondent having access to this library would kindly inform me whether the MS. gives the personal names of the members of the gild in question. It appears from Mr. Unwin's foot-note at p. 100 that the Rector of St. John Zachary (who is unknown for the period to which the MS. relates) was one of the twenty- two members of the gild in 1317.

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

WALL-PAPERS. Can any information be given me as to the introduction, English manufacture, and early use of block printed and coloured paper as a wall-covering ? It was introduced, I presume, as a cheap method of decoration to take the place of panelling and the mural paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I have seen examples of the latter work at Rye (the old "Star Inn"), Chiddingfold (an early house on the Green), and at Denham, Bucks (The Savoy), which cannot long antedate wall-papers.

I believe one of the oldest wall-papers in England (I understand, Chinese work) is to be seen at Ightham Mote. A magnificent paper both in design and colour is also to be seen in a small room at the Red House in the