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 NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. i. JAN. s, 1910.

An exceedingly fine lithograph (2 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in.), by A. H. Swiss, Army Printer of 111, Fore Street, Devonport, was published about a decade ago, and forms a concise history of the Devonshire Regiment from its formation in 1685 until 1895. It gives admirable illustrations of the first captain's colour in 1687, and of the present colours (two), and full-length pictures of a musketeer in 1686, a company officer in 1790, and a sergeant of modern times. The letterpress accompanying these illustrations is stated to be abbreviated from the official records.

HARRY HEMS.

PAR AMOR FAMILY OF KENT (10 S. xii 329, 397). MR. E. R. MARSHALL will find some additional information respecting the Minster branch of this family, supplementing that given by Planche, in the Visitation of Kent taken by the College of Heralds in 1663-8, and published by the Harleian Society, No. 54.

The name occurs frequently in the parish registers of Margate, and there are eight entries concerning the family in those of St. Laurence, Ramsgate, 1560-1653 ; the latter have been printed.

Richard Paramor, weaver, was an " In- trante" (admitted to live and trade 'on payment of an annual fine) of Northgate Canterbury, in 1489-92 and 1495-6 ; his fine was 8d. See ' Intrantes of Canterburv 1392-1592, ? by J. M. Cowper.

In the adjacent county of Sussex there was a Roger Paramorer or Paramor, member of Parliament for the Rape of Bramber Hundred of Steyning, 1307 (Horsfield's Sussex ). He is presumably the same person referred to in the following quotation from the Feet of Fines 33 Ed. I. in the same work :

" Rape of Bramber (Sussex), 1305. John de Shipcombe and Matilda his wife sold to Ro^er Parramer one messuage and four acres

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The following early occurrences of the name may be of interest to MR. MARSHALL :

Richard and William Paramor, Normandv 1198 ('The Norman People and their Descendants ? ).

John Paramour, Lincolnshire (Hundred Rolls about 1273) ..... De Porremore, Devon- shire (ibid.).

J nn th e son of William Paramours of Effingham (Surrey), mentioned 1325-6 (Hist MSS. Com., vol. ix.).

Richard Paramore was of Alfreton, Derby- shire, about 1606 (Hist. MSS. Com., ' Earl of Verulam's Papers ').

Thomas Paramour, member of Parlia- ment for Lyme Regis, co. Dorset, about 1654.

Holcombe Paramore was a place-name in Devonshire about the fifteenth century (Inquisitions Post Mortem temp. Henry VII.). C. WARBTJRTON BRAND.

,[MB. HARRY HEMS also thanked for reply.]

" BCEIJAN " OR " BCEIJANG " (10 S. xiL

467). According to Calisch, boei is the Dutch for " buoy," and boietang (not bceijang] is a sea term, and means " tongs to jam [join ?] the cords." L. L. K.

I suggest buyong (Malay), an earthenware jar, spelt in Dutch bcejong, and misspelt bceijang by an eighteenth-century super- cargo. There is a Malay word bujang, but this signifies a bachelor, an unlikely item of cargo, and the Dutch spelling is bmtjang.

S. PONDER. Torquay.

Is not the Dutch bceijen=C>) chains or irons, i.e., prison chains, intended ?

J. HOLDEN MACMICHA.EL.

THOMAS MOORE'S WIFE (10 S. xii. 427). See ' A Book of Memories,' by S. C. Hall (London, 1870), p. 21 :

" Though her [Mrs. Moore's] early beauty had faded under the influence of time and anxiety, enough was left not only to tell of what she had been, but to excite love and admiration then. Her figure and carriage were perfect ; every movement was graceful ; her head and throat were exquisitely moulded ; and her voice, when she spoke, was soft and clear. Moore once said to me : ' My Bessy's eyes were larger before she wept them away for her children/ But when I knew her, the sockets were large, but the soft, brown eyes fell, as it were, back, All her other features were really beautiful : the delicate nose ; the sweet andexpressive mouth ; the dimples, now here, now there"; the chin so soft and rounded ; the face a perfect oval. Even at that time no one could have entered a room without murmuring, ' What a lovely woman ! ' '

Mrs. Moore died at Sloperton Cottage, 4 Sept., 1865, and w r as buried beside her husband and three of her children in the churchyard of Bromham, near Chippenham. Mr. Hall says that she left what she had to her nephew Charles Murray. He was dead at the time Mr. Hall wrote, but was survived by a widow and two daughters.

Is it not likely that the Marquis of Lans- downe has a portrait of Mrs. Moore at Bo wood ? WM. H. PEET.