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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xii. NOV. 13, 1915.

The last is also recognized in ' Fairbairn' Crests,' which work, however, does no recognize Cantilion, but does recognize a family named Cantillion.

It seems to me probable that Capt. James Cantilion of Ballyhigue ( ? Ballyheigue, co Kerry) did not belong to any armigerouf family. He is not mentioned in D. C. Boul ger's ' The Battle of the Boyne ' (London 1911), which records the formation of th< Irish Brigade.

In Sir Arthur Vicars' s ' Index to Preroga tive Wills of Ireland,' at p. 75, this entry occurs : "1810, Cantilion, Thomas, Cork city, shipwright."

However it be spelt, the name is clearly neither Irish nor English. It is probably a Norman place-name.

Perhaps some Irish contributor could giv< some account of the family of Cantilion o Ballyheigue, co. Kerry, and of the city of Cork. JOHN B. WAINE WEIGHT.

REV. WILLIAM OUGHTBED OB OUTBEE (11 S. xii. 279). There is an account oi William Oughtred the mathematician in John Aubrey's ' Brief Lives.' See Mr Andrew Clark's edition, vol. ii. pp. 105-14 On p. 106 is a list of " Mr. Oughtred's children : 1. William. 2. Henrey [sic] haz a son (of the Custom-house). 3. Ben- jamin : a bachelor : yet living. 4. Simon 5. Edward. 6. George. 7. John. Marget. Judeth : married a glazier. Elizabeth. One of them [married] to Christopher Brookes oJ Oxford, a mathematical-instrument-maker." The above list, says the editor, is a slip at fol. 8 verso in MS. Aubr. 7. Aubrey has added in red ink the heading, " This from Mr. Uniades, who was his scholar," the list itself being in Uniades' s hand.

At pp. 106, 107, Aubrey writes :

"He married Caryl (an ancient family in

those parts), by whom he had nine sonnes (most lived to be men) and four daughters. None of his sonnes he could make scholars [substituted by Aubrey for his original expression " make any great scholars "]."

And on p. 107 :

" His oldest son Benjamin, who lives in the house with my cosen Boothby (who gives him his dyet) and now an old man, he bound apprentice to a watchmaker; who did worke pretty well, but his sight now failes for that fine worke."

Aubrey mentions Benjamin Oughtred several times in this life as his authority for details. On p. Ill he writes :

"Mr. Oughtred, at the Custom House, (his grand- son) has some of his papers."

On p. 113 we learn that William Oughtred

" wrote a little treatise of watchmaking for the us& of his son Benjamin, who told me that Mr. Horton of Whitehall, of the Woodyard, haz the true copie of it."

In his Life of Christopher Brookes (16. .- 1665), vol. i. p. 126, Aubrey says :

" He was sometime manciple of Wadham College : his widowe lived over against the Theatre."

EDWABD BENSLY.

AUTHOBS WANTED (11 S. xii. 279, 346). 2. It may be worth noting that Flint' establishment provoked more than one of Thomas Hood's puns : But then, to gaze on that fair face,

It would have been an unfair feeling To dream that you had pilfered lace And Flints had suffered from your stealing ! 'Bailey Ballads,' No. 1, 'Lines to Mary,' 9-12.

Maidens who cursed her looks forgot their own, And beaux were turned to flambeaux where she

came; All hearts indeed were conquered but her own,

Which none could ever temper down or tame : In short, to take our haberdashers' hints, She might have written over it "From Flints." 'Bianca's Dream,' st. 2.

EDWABD BENSLY.

' MOBTE D' ABTHUB ' : ENCHANTED TBOOPS OF HOBSE -(11 S. xii. 281). Is W. P. Y. certain that this legend is in the ' Morte Darthur ' ?

In ' Cheshire Gleanings,' by W r illiam E. A. Axon, Manchester and London, 1884, p. 56, is a chapter headed ' The Wizard of Alderley Edge,' in which are given many legends of King Arthur's men and their horses lying in enchanted sleep, e.g., how at Alderley Edge,

"in a long succession of caverns, the farmer saw a countless number of men and horses, the latter milk-white, and all fast asleep. In the innermost cavern heaps of treasure were piled up on the ground. From these the old man [who had led him through iron gates into the caverns] hade the Farmer take the price he desired for his horse, and thus addressed him ; ' You see these men and horses ; the number was not complete. Your horse a milk-white one] was wanted to make it com- olete. Remember my words, there will come a lay when these men and these horses, awakening. r rom their enchanted slumber, will descend into save their country.
 * he plain, decide the fate of a great battle, and


 * loscoe (see below) names the sleepers Arthur

and his knights. Axon gives also the similar

egend of Eildon Hills (' Poetical Remains of

Dr. John Leyden,' 181 9, p. 358; Walter Scott's

' Waverley Novels,' ' General Preface [sic],

eally ' Appendix No. 1 to General Preface,'

830 edition, p. 1). On p. Hi it is said of the

alights in their " coal-black " armour and o