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pleaded, shown, defended, answered, debated, and judged in the English tongue, but be entered and enrolled in Latin (36 Edward III. c. 15). Latin afterwards continued in use until the time of Crom- well, when English was adopted. On the restora- tion of Charles II. Latin was again resorted to, and remained in use until the passing of 4 Geo. II.. cap. 26, which directed that all proceedings should be in English."

HABBY B. POLAND. Inner Temple.

The Act of 4 George II., cap. 26, was the one which provided that in the Courts of Justice in England and the Court of Ex- chequer in Scotland all proceedings should be in English, from and after 25 March, 1733. But the fourth year of Geo. II. was from 11 June, 1730, to 11 June, 1731, which accounts for the two dates your corre- spondent found. (Though Easter Day is not specified in the Act, it so happened that in 1733 Easter Day was on 25 March.)

DIEGO.

" An Exact Abridgment of all the Statutes in force, 5 ' &c., 8vo, 1704, says :

" I. Stat. 36 E/ III. cap. 15. All Pleas which shall be pleaded in any Court whatsoever within the Realm shall be pleaded, shewed, defended, answered, debated, and adjudged in the English tongue, but entred and enrolled in Latin. Howbeit the Laws and Customs of this Realm, as also the Terms and Processes, shall be holden and kept as before this time hath been used.

" II. Stat. 22 Car. II. cap. 3. One pretended Act made in 1650, for turning the Law into English, shall be in force, as if it had been a good Act from the first Return in Easter-Term, 1651, till the first of August, 1660,*and no longer."

This is evidently the Act alluded to by Carlyle in his ' Oliver Cromwell, 1 part vii., under the date 25 March, 1652 :

" Which working Committee finding the job heavy gradually languished; and after some Acts for having Law-proceedings transacted in the English tongue, and for other improvements of the like magnitude, died into comfortable sleep."

Cap. 26, anno 4, Georgii II., enacted :

" That all Proceedings in Courts of Justice, within that part of Great Britain called England, and in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, shall be in the English language."

This was afterwards amended by Cap. 14 anno 6 Geo. II., by

" an Act for the obviating of a Doubt which has

arisen upon an Act made in the Fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, entituled 'An Act that all Proceedings,' &c. [as above], so far as th< same Act doth or may relate to the Courts o' Justice holden within the said Principality foL Wales], and for explaining arid amending the saic Act."

The Regnal years referred to above are as follows : 36 Ed. III., 25 Jan., 1362-24 Jan.

1363 ; 22 Car. II., 30 Jan., 1670-29 Jan., 1671 ; 4 Geo. II., 11 June, 1730-10 June, 1731; 6. Geo. II., 11 June, 1732-10 June, 1733. JOHN HODGKIN.

[Replies also from W. B. H. and W. S. S.]

MILL OF YOUTH (11 S. i. 428). There is a brief account of the mill, for old men, with two illustrations, in The Reliquary, vol. x. pp. 86-7 (1869-70). At 2 S. viii. 327 is reprinted an advertisement of 1859, stating that the mill is at work, for " old ladies," at Clay-Hall Gardens, Old Ford. I feel sure that it is mentioned elsewhere in ' N. & Q.', but I cannot find anything more by the Indexes. W. C. B.

The old ballad of ' The Miller's Maid grinding Old Men Young ? begins

Come, old, decrepit, lame, and blind, Into my mill to take a grind.

See further Larwood and Hotten's History of Signboards ? (7th ed., 8vo, p. 461).

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

GBIEBSON, GBEBESONE, OB GBEIB FAMILY (11 S. i. 428). Thomas Greer (not Greir), of Sea Park, Carrickfergus (not N.B.), was the last M.P. for that ancient borough. He was the eldest son of Alfred Greer, of Dripsey House, co. Cork, and the Sea Park property came to him through his marriage with Margaret, only child of John Owden. A pedigree and information concerning him, written by G. W. Eve, appears in Howard and Crisp's ' Visitation of Ireland, 1 vol. i. No doubt Mr. Crisp, Grove Park, S.E., could supply pedigree.

EDITOB ' IBISH BOOK LOVEB.'

Kensal Lodge, N.W.

Permit me to point out that Sea Park, the residence of Thomas Greir, Esq., was not " Sea Park, N.B.,' J but Sea Park, Carrick- fergus, in the north of Ireland. Mr. Greir or Greer, who acquired the estate by marriage, was elected M.P. for Carrickfergus in 1880. He belonged to a south of Ireland family, and was living in 1884. As his name dis- appears from the list of M.P.s in 1886, he probably died shortly before that date. The Grierson family attained unenviable notoriety in Scotland during the Covenant- ing period. Sir Robert Grierson of Lag was the most detested of all the persecutors, not even excepting Claverhouse himself. Though he died in his bed, his lurid doom in the other world was a favourite theme in popular Scottish chap-book literature. An account of the Scottish branch of the Grierson family will be found in Anderson's ' Scottish Nation, 1