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6. What is the allusion in " petrified around the untasted food, as Eastern poets feigned " (chap, xc.) ?

7. What is the authority for the statement (chap, li.) that " betrothed couples often came together without any further ceremony, and their children were legitimate " ? and (chap, xcviii.) that " throughout Europe excepting only the southern part of Britain, there were three irregular marriages, the highest of which was .... a betrothal before witnesses " ?

8. Where is the " Quariana's Cliff " of f Rokeby,' I. xvi. (chap, xl.) ?

9. Where can I get information about (?the hermits) Aventine, Albert of Suabia, and Nicholas of the Rock (chaps, xciv., xcv.) ?

10. Whence are the following quota- tions :

(a) Qu?e nunc perscribere longum est (chap ix.).

(b) Qui hante femmes et dey, II mourra en

pauvretey (chap, xxxvii.).

(c) That noting all seemed nought to note (chap.

xxxix.). ('/, The Lord is debonnair, Let sinners nought

despair (chap. lv.).

(e) Post tot naufragia tutus (chap. Ivii.). (/) Zei>s darnv 6upaz/6s, Ze;>s re yrj, Zei>s rot. irAvra

(chap. Ixxiv.).

(g] Credat qui credere possit (ibid.), (h) Occasio avarsitiae nomen pauperum (chap. xciv.).

11. Where is the following prayer to be found ?

Quern quserimus'adjutorem nisi te Domine, qui pro peccatis nostris juste irascaris?

Sancte Deus, Sancte fortis, Sancte et misericors Salvator, amarse morti ne tradas nos.

C. B. WHEELEE. 80, Hamilton Terrace, N.W. [(/) yEschylus, 'Heliades': Fragments: 65a Dindorf.]

THE KNOLLYS FAMILY. I seek for in- formation as to the pedigrees of Sir Henry Knollys of Grove Place, Nursling, in the county of Southampton, knighted at White- hall iri 1633, Comptroller of the Household of Charles I. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Cornwallis, Governor of Porchester Castle. Sir Henry (obiit 1635) is said to have been grandson of John Knollys who settled in Hampshire in the time of Henry VIII. The pedigree, from Sir Henry onwards, until the male line became extinct in 1752, is given by Mr. B. W. Greenfield, F.S.A., in his ' Notes in Grove Place,' printed in the Hampshire Field Club Pro- ceedings for May, 1895. In Woodward's History of Hampshire ' (vol. i.), under ' Nursling,' Sir " Henry Knowles " is said to

have claimed descent from Sir Robert Knowles, the great military commander,

"who died on his 'Norfolk Manor, 1407. His de- scendant, Sir Francis Knowles, was born in Oxford- shire ; his wife was a niece of Queen Anne Boleyn,

and therefore a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth

Sir Henry, like his wife's aunt, was a spleeny Lutheran."

In the ceiling of Grove Place (said to have been erected about 1580) are the royal arms with " E.R.," and it is sometimes suggested that they were placed there after a sojourn by Queen Elizabeth. It is not a little puzzling, for Lady Catherine Knollys (widow of Sir Henry) was fined as a recusant in 1655 ; as was her daughter, the Lady Philedelphia, widow of Sir John Mill, Knight. On the other hand, the Rev. Theodore Wilks, son of the Rector of Nursling, wrote the history of that parish for Woodward's ' History.' Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me what was the Christian name of the daughter of Mary Bolyn (w r ife of William Carey, sister of Queen Anne Bolyn) ? At her death in 1546 she is said to have " left, together with her son " (Henry Carey, born 1524, died 1596, created Baron Hudsden), " a daughter married to Sir Francis Knollys." Was that Sir Francis Knollys (born 1514, died 1596) Treasurer of Queen Elizabeth's household in 1572 ? F. H. SUCKLING. High wood, Romsey.

C. F. ELLERMAN.

(11 S. xi. 452.)

CHARLES FREDERICK ELLERMAN was born at Heligoland, then a British possession, 9 July, 1809, the eldest of the fourteen children of Abraham Frederick Daniel Ellerman by his wife Eliza Georgiana Lang Hughes, and although nominally a British-born subject, was the product of three nationalities British, German and Irish.

His father, Abraham Frederick Daniel Ellerman, was a native of Altona, the son of Abraham Ellerman and his wife Fanny Egen, who was of Irish extraction. He was educated at a school near Hull, whence he was, at the age of 16, received into the mercantile house of Parish & Co. of Ham- burg, then at the zenith of its commercial greatness. There he remained until 1806, when he selected Heligoland (then in the pos- session of Denmark, to be captured in 1807 by the British) as a safe intermediary for commercial traffic between Great Britain and the continent of Europe, at that^time