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 11 S. I. JAN. 8, 1910.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARYS, 1910.

CONTENTS. No. 2.

NOTES : The Loch Collection of Scottish Documents, 21 Lord Winmarleigh, 23 Haller's 'Usong,'24 Thelcknield Way, 25' Beowulf : Hemming of Worcester "Teague" "Burgoo" "Keep body and soul together," 27.

QUERIES : Plantagenet Descendants, 27 Derbyshire In- scribed Stone Twyford Family -Brooke of Cobham "Whelps" as a Name for Broken Water Grammatical Gender, 29 Authors Wanted Michael Maittaire J. Maple t-W. Mitford T. E. Owen Michael Newton of Beverly King's Place, Piccadilly, 30 Three CCC Court, 31.

REPLIES: Medmenham Abbey, 31 Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland, 32 Chevron between Three Roses Crowgay Family Language and Physiognomy Filberts and the Devil, 33 Brooke's 'Observations on Italy' '.Edes Walpolianse' "Old Sir Simon" English Countess at Tunbridge Wells, 34 Children with same Christian Name Wooden Ships Devonshire Regiment, 35 Para- inor Family " Bceijan "Thomas Moore's Wife, 36 Monuments to American Indians Charterhouse Gram- mar School "Mar" in Mardyke Deaneries Unattached Selby "Peculiar" Court, 37 Authors Wanted Bakers' Servants -Canon Pelling Dr. J. Bradley, 38.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Growth of the English House'

Reviews and Magazines. Booksellers' Catalogues. OBITUARY : The Rev. John Pickford. Notices to Correspondents.

THE LOCH COLLECTION OF SCOTTISH DOCUMENTS.

THE above collection, in the possession of Messrs. Darling & Pead, of South Kensington, is evidently the result of the nation's charac- teristic business care combined with the love of antiquity -is of exceptional interest, both literary and historical, and is the accumulation of centuries by one family, and handed down as the property of the eldest direct descendant. The last recently de- ceased on the death of his father intended to dispose to a general dealer of a number of boxes containing what appeared to harbour so much waste ; but the timely persuasion of .a friend acting for him in the capacity of estate agent enabled the latter to secure and .store in his office basement the whole, to .await the owner's pleasure. After some three years it was considered expedient to gain permission to inspect this so-called waste, one result proving the family to be of great antiquity, and through different generations to have occupied considerable prominence, especially in Edinburgh.

In the charters of Dunfermline, A.D. 1231, in the reign of Alexander II. of Scot- land, a grant of land was found registered to the names of Philip and Gilbert de Loch.

Until the last few months both the name and the collection were lost to modern Scot- land, the last direct member removing from Edinburgh to London in 1800 to study law under his uncle William Adam, Lord Chief Commissioner, of duel fame connected with j Charles James Fox. This was James Loch, " the economist, n who became M.P. for the Northern Burghs of Scotland, and factor to the Sutherland estates in the early part of last century. The afore -mentioned business care is responsible for the private corre spondence of that ducal family being pre- served, one would imagine, in its entirety, and it throws an interesting light upon the political movements of the period.

From the time of Queen Mary to the end of the eighteenth century members of the Loch family can be traced as prominent in the affairs of Edinburgh. A grant of land near the Market Cross was made by Mary and her husband Henry to one Archibald Loch in 1564 ; whilst in 1570 another member of the family becomes the recipient of treat- ment of a totally different nature, "he being hung by the Regent Murray in the raid on the Castle of Brechin.' 1

Passing to the eventful times of 1633, we find James Loch Town Treasurer of Edin- burgh, and for this period the collection supplies an overwhelming number of papers relative to Edinburgh. At a glance we find " The Decreat of the Lord Provost, Baillies,' 1 &c., on the raising of funds, " wherein they did resolve and ordayne his Majesty within the burgh in the most magnifik and soleme manner .... the Treasurer to borrow certaine somes for his maj. receptyoun, propyne, banquet," &c., to the amount of 35,000 merkes, this amount being jointly subscribed by Jn. Macnacht, Alexander Clark, Patrick Eleis, and Robert Carnegie.

A humorously illustrative sequel to this banquet appears some weeks after in the form of an appeal by one Henry Herper, " tally our, '* burgess, who to the Lord Provost, &c., states

" that q r at his majesteis being here, the good towne haveing invetit a great many Nobilles and Gentillmen to the Bankit, and after dinner, Sundrie of the well disposit Burgeses, for the hon or and credit of the good towne, Did accom- pany a number of these Gentills in a way of merriment to the Abay Close, intentioning there to drink his maj. health,"

he, Henry Herper, was in consequence called upon by William Moffatt, in the name of