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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vm. AUG. IG, 191.3. Her sister Camilla married the Hon. and Rev. Barton Wallop (see pedigree of Portsmouth in any Peerage), and these ladies had a brother, William Powlett, a famous foxhunter. He dying childless, his estates passed to his sisters' children, ultimately vesting in Mrs. Barton Wallop's descendants.

CAPITAL LETTERS (11 S. vii. 50). Are the following the rules SIR WILLIAM BULL refers to ? I write from memory (not having seen them for about twenty-five years) :

Words should begin with capital letters in the following situations :

1. The first word of every sentence.

2. The first word of every line of poetry.

3. The first word of a formal or direct quotation.

4. All terms applied to the Supreme Being.

5. Proper names and adjectives derived from roper names.

6. Common names personified, that is, used as proper names, as " O Death, where is thy sting ? O Grave, where is thy victory ? "

7. The names of the days of the week and of the months of the year.

8. Any important word, as the Revolution.

9. The pronoun I and the interjection O.

10. The titles of books and the heads of their principal divisions, as Milton's ' Paradise Lost.'

As a schoolboy I learnt these from Sulli- van's Grammar. I think the title of the book was ' An Attempt to Simplify English Grammar,' by Robert Sullivan.

THOMAS SAVAGE.

St. Patrick's College, Armagh.

"RAISING FEAST" (11 S. vii. 488; viii. 32, 57, 77).' The Collected Literary Essays, Classical and Modern, of A. W. Verrall,' edited by M. A. Bayfield and J. D. Duff, contains an essay called * A Villa in Tivoli,' on the description by Statins in his ' Silvae ' of the villa owned there by his friend Vo- piscus.

The translation and comment which follow seem to have some bearing on the raising feast : " 'Tis said that Pleasure drew with softest touch

The ground-plan ; Venus touched the battle- ments

With perfume of Idalia from her hair,

Which trailing on them left so sweet a trace,

The sparrows bred thereon will never quit.

"Any one who has dabbled in mortar knows that the coping-stone must be c wetted ' with something, commonly beer ; but champagne, of course, is better, and scent of ambrosial Cyprus in some ways better still. For the same reason, whatever it may be, the bottle of champagne is broken on the prow of a ship at the launching. It is pleasant, when you pay the bricklayer for ' drinking your health,' to remember these sparrows of Statius, which surely are treated

with exquisite feeling."

M. H. DODDS,

In April, 1894, I saw the same thing at Osaka, Japan : the decorated tree on the highest point of the roof, the feast prepared for the Workmen, including some dishes set apart (they told me) " for the deities " ; and all night long I heard the merrymaking, the building being close to that where I lodged. Probably Chamber- lain's ' Things Japanese ' will give an explanation of the custom there.

HELEN BEACH.

Sixty or more years ago, in Lincolnshire, men engaged in building a house expected a feast when they had raised the roof -timbers ; and I believe that the treat was called, and spelt, a " Rere Supper."- They, too, if I do not mistake, tied a few decorative be- ribboned evergreens up aloft ; and I have often seen like signs of rejoicing above In- completed edifices in Northern Europe.

ST. SWITHIN.

REV. WILLIAM JONES OF NAYLAND (US. vii. 470). 'The General Biographical Tic- tionary,' a new edition, revised and enlarged by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A., vol. xix., London, 1815, p. 132, states of the above, " a late and venerable pious divine of the Church of England," that

" his father was Morgan Jones, a Welsh gentle- man, a descendant of Colonel Jones (but of yeiy different principles), who married a sister of Oliver

Cromwell.'

W. B. H.

PENNINGTON (US. viii. 50). No incum- bent of the name of Pennington has ever been Vicar of Horncastle. A carefully com- piled list of the Rectors and Vicars of Horn- castle appears in the first printed ' Register Book of the Parish Church of St. Mary's, Horncastle, 1559-1639 ' (Horncastle, 1892), in which the following names cover the period suggested by the date of death of the Rev. Thos. Pennington : Rev. Joseph Robertson, 1779-1802; Rev. Clement Madely, 1802- 1845; Rev. Thomas James Clark, 1845- 1853.

In ' The Clerical Guide ; or, Ecclesiastical Directory l (2nd ed., London, F. C. & J. Rivington, 1822), a Rev. Thos. Pennington occurs as Rector of Kingsdown (Sitting- bourne), Kent, instituted in 1786. And in ' The Clergy List for 1844 ' (first issue, 1842), London, C. Cox, 1844, on p. 166 appears the name of Rev. Thomas Pennington, with address 11, York Place, Brompton, al- though still Rector of Kingsdown ; patron, Rev. T. Pennington, D.D.

J. CLARE HUDSON. Thornton, Horncastle.