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 11 S. X. OCT. 3, 1914.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The poem is ' The Reveille,' by Bret Harte. It is printed in Routledge's shilling edition of Bret Harte's ' Poems,' among the 'Poems from 1860 to 1868,' p. 120.

M. H. DODDS.

[PROF. G. C. MOORE SMITH, MR. G. E. WEBB, MR. IOLO A. WILLIAMS, arid a number of other correspondents also thanked for replies.]

BONAR (11 S. x. 190, 237). This surname, like so many others well known in Scotland, is fairly general in Northern Ulster. A peculiarity attaches to it there which may be worth recording in your pages.

Like a few other names known in co. Antrim, it has a variant, and people in my youth called themselves Bonar or Cramsie, as they pleased. A well-known Ulster antiquary explained this by saying that the first settlers "had left Scotland under cir- cumstances which made it needful to take a new name during the religious troubles or other difficulties which had driven them forth. It is strange that the dual name should have been indifferently used from 1680 to 1890 at least.

Another instance of the same thing was changeable on the authority of the same antiquary.
 * that McTavish and Wilson were inter-

It is probable that this " custom " has died out, and may, therefore, be noted by one who still remembers it well. Y. T.

Bardsley in his ' Dictionary of Surnames ' gives a reasonable account of the origin of the name Bonar, which he supports with quotations, including one from " ' N. & Q.,' 1857, p. 397." The earliest instance of the occurrence of this surname which he gives is from the Hundred Rolls in co. Oxford, in 1273, when William le Bonere is named. There is, however, a still earlier case given in the " York Record Series," xii. 47, when in 1258, Adam le Bonur of Rilton sat as a juror on the Inq. p. m. taken at Slaidburn after the death of Edmund de Lacy.

W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

Kirkby Lonsdale.

[As ' N. & Q. ' has two volumes each year, it maj be noted that the reference is to 2 S. iii- 397.]

RICHABD HENRY WOOD, F.S.A. (11 S. x 171, 236), was the son of Charles Wood attorney, and was born at Manchester in 1820. After being in business as a stock broker, he became a partner with an iron in reliant, a relation of his wife, who wa a daughter of Peter Hatton of Hartford Cheshire. His antiquarian tastes and hi; friendship with James Crossley led him t<

a,ke an active part in the management of

he Chetham Society, of which body he was Hon. Secretary from 1868 to 1882. He

possessed a fine collection of ancient charters, ich, I believe, has descended to one of his nephews. He left Manchester in 1874, and resided at Rugby until 1895. He gave a

ibrary and museum to that town, and he and his wife built a hospital there. His

ast years were spent at Sidmouth, Devon-

ihire, where he died in April, 1908. He was a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for

he counties of Warwick and Merioneth, and High Sheriff of the latter in 1895.

C. W. STJTTON.

THE VOYAGE OP THE PROVIDENCE: ROBERT TINKLER (11 S. x. 116, 153). [t appears that my conjecture as to the dentity of Robert Tinkler of the Bounty with the First Lieutenant of the Isis at iopenhagen in 1801 is correct. I would ticulars of his further career.
 * hat J. F. or some other could give par-

The obituary of 11 Sept. last contains the name of Rear -Admiral Arthur Roger Tinklar, aged 76. Can he be related to the Bounty's middy ? E. L. H. TEW.

JOHN BATEMAN (11 S. x. 230). As Francis John Hassard, Recorder of Water- ford, was knighted on the same day, the occasion may have been a visit of the Lord- Lieutenant to the city.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

BURTON: BLAKEWAY (11 S. x. 229). 3. Robert Burton, s. of Thomas Lingen of Radbrook, co. Gloucester, arm. Trinity Coll.,Oxon, matric. 23 June, 1744, aged 19: of Longnor, Salop, on the death of his great-uncle, Thomas Burton ; assumed the surname of Burton in lieu of Lingen by Act of Parliament, 1748 ; Sheriff, Salop, 1763 ; died 1803.

Robert Burton, s. of Robert of Longnor, Salop, arm. Trinity Coll., Oxon, matric. 24 March, 1773, aged 18 ; created M.A. 31 Oct., 1776 ; of Longnor ; High Sheriff, Salop, 1840 ; died s.p. 1841.

4. Edward Burton, D.D. : v. ' D.N.B.,' viii. 4.

5. John Brickdale Blakeway : v. ' D.N.B.,' v. 189. A/R. BAYLEY.

IRISH VOLUNTEERS (11 S. x. 230). The Irish Volunteers were formed in 1778 by the Protestants of the North to defend Ireland in case of foreign invas-on. As Catholics could not carry arms, they subscribed for arms for the others. It soon became a most