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 ii B.X. DEC. 28, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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FOURTH TERRACE. RIGHT SIDE, BEGINNING AT THE GATE.

2<>o. Thomas Willoughby, d. March 14, 1894 a. 70. Elizabeth his w., d. Dec. 10, 1908, a. 86.

2(>(i. Mary Phillips, d. Jan. 19, 1894.

207. Ann Mary, w. of F. A. Gregory, Chaplain of St. John's, b. Aug. 2, 1842, d. Feb. 7, 1903.

268. William Tomlinson, of Sheffield, d. Jan. 12, 1869, a. 35.

269. Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Robert Baird, of Airdrie, Scotland, d. 22 Dec., 1868, a. 22.

270. David Halley Ritchie, s. of the late William Ritchie, merchant, London, d. 27 Nov., 1868, a. 22.

271. William F. Peacock, b. Feb. 6, 1840, d. March 2(3), 1868.

'2~'2. Emma Catherine Frances, w. of Col. F. Seymour Hamilton, Royal Artillery, d. Jan. 7, 1868, a. 56.

273. Lilian Maud, youngest child of Wm. and Emily Clemence, of London, b. Sept. 17, 1867, d. May 25, 1868.

211. Elizabeth, nee Foster, wid. of J. S. Ha- \\m-th, Esq., d. 26 July, 1867, a. 93.

275. James Boughey Bewsher, F.R.G.S., Lieut. Commanding H.M.S. Comet, eldest s. of the Rev. James and Emma Bewsher, of Boulogne-sur- mer, d. 9 Nov., 1867, a. 32.

276. Robert Edmund, eldest s. of Major- Geueral Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.B., and Gertrude his w., Ensign Rifle Brigade, b. 11 Jan., 1847, d. 28 April, ,1867.

277. Lisa Cowell, d. 5 April, 1867, a. 22.

278. Robert Neilson Mackray, of the Oriental Bank Corporation, 2nd s. of the Rev. W. Mackray, Edinburgh, d. 12 March, 1867, a. 37.

279. The Rev. R. C. N. Brackenbury, d. Feb. 2, 1863.

280. Amy Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. G. E. Welby, of Barrowby, d. March 7, 1867.

281. lola Mary Wasse, b. March 1, 1865, d. Jan. 11, 1868.

282. Richard Fade Goff, d. Feb. 11, 1867.

283. Catherine (Minnie) Hookham, youngest dau. of Ri"hard P. and Anne Hookham, of .Surnmertown House, Oxford, d. Feb. 11, 1868,

a. 20.

284. George Alexander Thompson, of Cole- raine, d. May 24, 1868, a. 25.

285. G.'orn<- Hridgman, of London and Chester, d. Nov. 22, 1868, a. 41.

286. Anne, only dau. of the Rev. D. Mountain,

b. in Canada, d. Nov. 6, 186-, a. 15.

G. S. PARRY, Lieut. -Col. 17, Ashley Mansions, S.W.

(To be continued.)

NEW YEAR'S EVE CUSTOMS. The follow- ing is an extract from a letter written to me by a young friend, and refers to the New Year's night of 1914 :

" On New Year's Eve, father and mother always take something out of doors in the old year, and bring something in in the N. Year. This time they took their last year's lucky stones out and put them down on the cabbage plantation (for luck). They started rather too soon, and had to wait about outside for the clock to strike 12, and by the time it was 5 mins. past 12, they felt

rather cold. I heard them having a race outside to keep them warm ; they brought in 2 ivy leaves off the house. On the 1st they had to go and hunt out 2 more lucky stones. What F. picks up M. has and vice versa. They are then marked with ink and slung up with ribbon in the kitchen. Mine hangs up in my bedroom." H C H \

THE HAIG FAMILY MOTTO. Sir Douglas Haig, who lately received a special tribute of praise from Sir John French, belongs to a Border clan whose seat is Bemerside, a stately mansion in the Scott country. Lockhart tells how the great novelist carried Turner the artist and one or two other friends thither to enjoy the sylvan beauties of the locality, when the laird and lady of the day invited them to luncheon. It was served in a hall whose windows were bla- zoned with shields and crests, and the time- honoured motto ascribed to Thomas the Rimer :

Betide, betide, whate'er betide There shall be Haigs in Bemerside.

The inwardness of this motto has been much sought after, but no solution has yet received general acceptance. May I submit that the couplet is simply a play of the fancy on the word haig ? Haig is a Celtic word signifying " multitude," " shoal," " that which cannot be numbered." From this point of view the meaning is apparent.

The Rimer, who lived in the reign of Alexander III. of Scotland, was credited with a knowledge of the " black art." But the motto has no claim to the supernatural.

The Haig family belongs to a good old Celtic stock which flourished in these isles before Norman, Saxon, or even Roman. knew it. PENDEEN.

[See 4 S. xi. 70 ; 5 S. xi. 308, 437, 478 ; 6 S. v. 19, 106 ; vii. 102, 152, 194, 231, 275, 297, 313, 457.]

A NEW MANDEVJLLE SOURCE. Among the few things in that audacious imposture known as ' The Book of Sir John Mandeville ' which have not yet been traced to their original sources is the following statement, which occurs in the account of the Terres- trial Paradise :

1 Et si est Paradis enclos tout entoui 1 dun mur . . . .et sount ly murs toutz couertz de mossc, ceo semble, et ny piert pierre nautre chose, dount ly mur soit. . . . Et sachez qe nul homme mortel ne poet aler napprocher a ceo Paradis. . . .et par les iiirnl. . . .( si vient a si grandes undes qe nul nief ne purroit nager encountre. Et si brait lewe ?t meigne si grant noise et si grant tempeste qe !un ne purroit oier lautre en la nief, come bien qe !em criast lun a lautre a plus haut qil purroit. Meintz grantz seignurs et de grante voluute ont
 * iuers nul ne purroit aler, qar lewe court si roide-