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'ALMANACK DEGOTHA' (11 S. x. 147, 198). It may interest readers to know that in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, there is a complete set of the original German edition of this ' Almanach,' from its com- mencement in 1764 to date, including; the two issues for 1 808. The titles of the" first three issues are : 1764, ' Gothaischer Genea- logischer und Schreib - Kalender ' ; 1765, Hof -Kalender. '
 * Gothaischer Kalender ' ; 1766, ' Gothaischer

The first edition of the 1808 issue, bearing the Leipzig imprint, contains among other illustrations four portraits : Napoleon, Murat, Pitt, and Nelson. In the second edition, with the Gotha imprint, the portraits of Murat, Pitt, and Nelson have been cancelled, leaving Napoleon in solitary grandeur. The ' Er- klarung der Kupfer ' has been re-edited to suit the change. HENRY GUPPY.

The John Rylands Library, Manchester.

BONAR (11 S. x. 190). I cannot throw any light on the origin of this family name, "but Mr. Kalian's suggestion that it was introduced into Scotland in the fifteenth or sixteenth century is far wide of the mark. It was far from uncommon in the North in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and occurs frequently in State papers of that period. For instance, among the expenses connected with the portable chapel which accompanied Edward I. in his inva- sion of Scotland in 1304 there was payment made to Walter le Bonere, sub-clerk of the chapel, for incense, vestments, book- binding, &c. (Bain's ' Calendar of Docu- ments relating to Scotland,' ii. 409). In 1337 William Boner renders his account as Constable of Kinghorn to the Scottish Chamberlain, Reginald More (' Rotuli Scac- carii Scotioe,' i. 448). Numerous other indi- viduals of the same name, variously spelt, are mentioned in these and other documents. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

GALDY FAMILY OF PORT ROYAL (11 S. x. 88). A good illustration from a photograph of the slab appeared in The Taller of 7 Sept., 1904. The motto, as shown in that, is " Dieu sur tout."

Lawrence Galdy of London, merchant, in his will proved in 1716 (P.C.C. 49 Fox), names his brother Lewis Galdy of Jamaica.

EARLY PURITANS IN NEWFOUNDLAND <11 S. x. 88). The first edition of Oldmixon's ' British Empire in America ' was published in 1708, and the second in 1741.

V. L. O.

MILITARY MACHINES (US. ix. 430, 471 ; x. 33). Francis Grose in his ' Military Antiquities' (1812), i. 369, speaks of "a moveable tower, constructed by the royalists so late as the troubles under King Charles I., and misnamed a sow." A description of one used against this house is given at the same page. " Two machines, the one called the boar, and the other the sow, were em- ployed by the parliamentarians in the siege of Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire." Certainly that was eighty years after John Gray's time, but L. L. K. may like to hear of it. HAROLD MALET, Col.

Canon-ffrome Court, Ledbury.

LAWYERS IN LITERATURE (11 S. x. 171, 216). If H. V. R. has not already done so, he should refer to Mr. E. B. V. Christian's ' Leaves of the Lower Branch,' which con- tains chapters on ' The Attorney in the Poets,' ' The Novels of the Law,' and ' The Attorney in Fiction.'

LEONARD J. HODSON.

Robertabridge, Sussex.

[B. B. and W. B. H. also thanked for replies.] " HURLEY-HACKET " (11 S. X. 150).

There is a reference to " riding the hurley- hacket " in a note on p. 243 of Brand's ' Popular Antiquities.' The quotation is from ' The Life of a Scotch Rogue,' 12mo, Lond., 1722, p. 7. There may possibly be a note there on the origin of the word. SEYMOUR R. COXE.

EXTREMES IN STATURE OF BRITISH OFFICERS (11 S. x. 210). I should say Capt. (now Major) Oswald Henry Ames of the 2nd Life Guards, who led the Jubilee Procession in 1896, was the tallest officer in the British Army of recent years. He stood a good 6 ft. 8 in.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

"FRAP" (11 S. x. 187). I have long known the use of " frap " in the sense of a stroke or gentle blow. The last time I heard it was from the lips of an old wheel- wright when engaged in tyreing a wheel. His instruction to an assistant was : " Now frap it, frap it gently." He meant tap it a gentle, persuading blow.

Tnos. RATCLIFFE.

GELRIA : A PLACE-NAME (11 S. x. 168, 218). This is Gelderland in the Low Countries. Copper coins bearing " GelrinR " were issued from 1555 to 1794.

WILLIAM GILBERT, F.R.N.S.

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