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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. xn. JULY 17, 1915.

that he was Count of all Le Perche (' His- toire Genealogique,' iii. 283).

It may be that Ives I. made a grant to the Abbey of Mont St. Michel, which was under the protection of the Dukes of Normandy, to one of whom, at least, he appears to have been a friend. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MEXICAN FAMILY (11 S. xi. 432). The arms are those of the Moctezuma family, and are described in a work on Mexican families in my possession as follows :

" Escudo de sinople, sobre un suelo de plata un tigre contonado [sic] de lo mismo, sumado de un gavilan de oro, y rodeado e"ste de cinco rosas de plata ; bordura de gules con treinta coronas de oro. Corona condal.

In giving the descent of the family the compiler states :

" In este articulo no me ocupo sino de los Condes de Moctezuma de Espafia (y eso nada mas de la rama primogenita, pues se me ha informado que hay tudo un pueblo en esa peninsula que clesciende del Emperador Mexicano)."

R. F. in his inquiry describes the arms accurately, thus facilitating identifica- tion. The animal, it will be seen, is a tiger, and it is regardant. " Contonado " is a. misprint for " contornado," which means looking back over the shouldsr. The bird is a sparrow-hawk. The flowers, though described as roses, are distinctly quatrefoils slipped. LEO C.

SlGISMUNDUS SUECI.E HJERES (11 S.

xi. 473). The portrait is of the Swedish prince Sigismund (1566-1632), who after- wards became Sigismund III. of Poland, and was for a time King of Sweden, and whose son Ladislaus sat for a few months on the Russian throne. Sigismund's parents were John III. of Sweden and Catharine, daughter of Sigismund Augustus, King of Poland, the last of the Jagellons. He was chosen heir to the crown of Sweden in 1569, and King of Poland in 1587. He succeeded to Sweden in 1592, but had ultimately to give way in that kingdom to his uncle, Charles IX.," the father of Gustavus Adolphus.

EDWARD BENSLY. [J. F. also thanked for reply.]

BIRGIT ROOKE, NINTH ABBESS OF SYON (11 S. xi. 433, 497). The entry of the death of the above-named Lady Abbess in the Obit Book of the community is as follows : " Lady Birgit Rook ye 9 th abbesse dyed at Roan in Normandy, 1593, where she lies buried in ye church of St. Loyo before the High Altar." " St. Loyo " is almost

certainly St. Eloy (Eligius), and not St. Louis, as suggested by AITCHO. Aungier's book is full of inaccuracies : e.g., Abbess Katherir.e Palmer succeeded Abbess Agnes Jordan in 1539, and remained Abbess till her death at Malines, 19 Dec., 1576 ; and Sister dementia Tresham, whom Aungier makes to succeed Abbess Palmer in 1559, was never Abbess, and died about 1561. So also Henry Herbert became Confessor-General in 1557, and died 30 April, 1575, but Aungier gives the date of Herbert's death as the date of his becoming Confessor-General.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

POEMS WANTED (US. xi. 494).

Young Never-G row-Old, with your heart of gold

And the dear boy's face upon you ; It is hard to tell, though we know it well,

That the grass is growing upon you.

These are the four opening lines of a poem entitled ' Spion Kop,' which appeared first in Longman's Magazine for December, 1901, signed Alice Fleming. The verses were afterwards included in a volume entitled ' Hand in Hand : Verses by a Mother and Daughter*' (Mrs. Kipling and Mrs. Fleming), with a frontispiece by J. Lockwood Kipling (Elkin Mathews, 1902). Mrs. Kipling s Mr. Rudyard Kipling's mother.

WM. H. PEET.

SIR JOHN AND LADY OLDMIXON (11 S. xi. 493). Miss George, whose Christian name was Mary, made her first appearance on any stage at ^the Haymarket Theatre on 2 June, 1783, as Rosetta in ' Love in a Village.'

In 1798 Lady Oldmixon who in America was always designated in the bills as Mrs. Oldmixon offered her services to the Phila- delphia manager for the season, to play the best old women in comedy, the comic singing characters and occasionally a serious one, and the best chambermaids, at a salary of seven guineas a week and a free benefit, at the same time referring the manager to Sir John, by whom the engagement was con- firmed. She died at Philadelphia 3 Feb., 1835.

Some information concerning Sir John and Lady Odmixon will be found in Dun lap's ' History of the American Theatre.'

There have been several instances of actresses, after their retirement from the stage, setting up boarding-schools among others Mrs. Baker, of Covent Garden Theatre, wife of David Erskine Baker, compiler of the ' Biographia Dramatica ' ; and Mrs. Twiss (nee Frances Kemble), sister to Mrs.