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 11 S. X. JL-LY 25, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Vezenobre, and by her had a son, Jean de la Oondamine (born 1583), who became a member of the household of King Henri IV. The latter's grandson, Andre de la Conda- mine, was a staunch Huguenot, as was his wife Jeanne, daughter of Pierre Agerre de Fons, who, in spite of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, remained on in possession of their estates, enduring much persecution, which in course of time became so intolerable that after the Peace of Utrecht (1713) they resolved to fly the country with their four sons and three daughters as soon as opportunity occurred. The parents and six children set out from their residence near Nismes, and travelling by night, concealing themselves by day, after great sufferings and privations reached St. Malo, whence they crossed over to Guernsey, where the family have been ever since located as British subjects. The third son, Jean de la Con- damine, was persuaded by an. uncle who was serving in the army to remain with his regi- ment in France, and he was the ancestor of the family occupying the Chateau de Pouilly, Metz. The eldest son, Pierre, afterwards, on the deaths of his parents, returned to France from Guernsey, and conformed to the Catholic religion.

A member of the Guernsey family became one of the earliest settlers in Queensland, and gave his name to the River Condamine, a head-stream of the Darling River, and to the post-town in the county of Rogers, about 1 70 miles west of Brisbane, which is situated on the River Condamine. F. DE H. L.

RALPH CARK (11 S. vii. 70, 133, 193 ; ix. 488 ; x. 33). This gentleman, born 25 May, 1768, died on 5 March, 1837, and was therefore nearly 69 years old, not 67. A much fuller biography of him appears at the third of the above references (11 S. vii. 193). He entered Westminster School in November, 1781. RICHD. WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

WALL-PAPERS (11 S. x. 29). Fine speci- mens of early wall-papers can be seen in the drawing-room at Marlborough, Falmouth. They are quite a hundred years old, and deal with the adventures of Ulysses and Don Qtiixote. Capt. John or his father, Capt. James Bull took them out of a French ship during the great war I heard they were found in barrels.

Hickstead Place, the home of the Stap- lc\ - at Twinrham, in Sussex, also has old pa PIT in excellent condition up the hall staircase. These are. hunting scenes, 'and zmist be of equal age.

I fancy William Morris once told me he had some books on wall-paper. His friend Mr. Emery Walker may be able to say where they are. WILLIAM BULL.

Hammersmith.

WANLESS (11 S. x. 10). Besides Wanlass and Wanlys, another form, Wanliss, may be seen in The Athenceum of 4 July, 1914. This name represents two Gaelic words uan lios, pronounced " oo-an lees." Here o is not sounded, though it serves a purpose. Uan signifies lamb, and lios signifies fold. In autumn, on sheep farms lambs are taken away from their mothers, and penned at night in folds out of the sight and the hearing of their mothers, and they make" a great outcry for a few days.

Unthank is a name which I see in ' N. & Q.' occasionally. It also signifies lambfold. It is pronounced " oon thank," and is com- pounded of uan, lamb, and fang, fank or fold. A has been dropped out of * tan, and / in fang has been changed to ih.

JOHN MILNE, M.A., LL.D. Aberdeen.

Wanless is the name of two copyhold tene- ments in the Forest of Trawden, co. Lanes : Far and Near Wanless. The name occurs there at least as early as the sixteenth cen- tury. Three miles to the north-weet, be- tween Colne and Foulridge, there is another tenement known as Wanless House. The form " Wanless " suggests that the name was first applied to an inferior or shaded pasture : O.E. wann and Icesu. The name seems to occur chiefly in the forest or hilly districts of the North, where small home- steads were, in the early Middle Ages, being painfully won from the woodlands and wastes. W. F.

RIXHAM FAIR AND MATTHEW PRIOR ( 1 1 S. ix. 511). " Rixham " Fair should be read as Wrexham (N. Wales). Sir Thomas Hanmer's ancestral home was at Bettisfield Park, in the parish of Hanmer, co. Flint, about 12 miles from Wrexham.

Euston is the Suffolk seat of the ducal house of Grafton. Sir Thomas Hanmer's first wife was Isabella, daughter of the Earl of Arlington, and widow of the first Duke of Grafton. Hence his occupation of Euston Hall, which his wife inherited from her father. R. FREEMAN BULLEN.

Bow Library, E.

In Rye's ' Norfolk Topography ' there is a reference to a deed relating to Rixam (sic), in which the rights of common and the allotting of the waste pieces are the subjects