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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vm. SEPT. 13, 1913.

' A COLLECTION OF ORDINANCES FOB THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD': "TRAYHOR." This collection, printed for the Society of Anti- quaries in 1790, contains documents drawn from various sources, some indicated and eome not. I shall be glad to know where one may see the originals of the ' Addition to the Ordinances made at Eltham ' (pp. 208-40), and in particular of the Household .... in the 31st yeare of his [Henry VIII. 's] most Gracious Reigne.' I was not able to find them in MS. Harl. 642, the authority for the articles imme- diately preceding. Is it quite certain, by the way, that this MS. is an original ? The paper suggests the eighteenth century rather than the sixteenth, and the hand- writing suggests a steel pen rather than a quill, though the contents were probably copied, with a laborious attempt at fac- simile, from authentic ordinances.
 * Ordinances appointed for all Officers of

What is a trayhor ? One of the ordinances of the cellar provides (p. 234) that " the Serjeant of the Cellar, or in his absence t he Gentleman or Yeoman, shall .... cause the Groome-Grobber to looke dayly to drawing out 1 he * Lees of the Wyne spent ; and that noe Hoggesheads be meddled with by the Trayhor, untill that the said Groome-Grobber hath perused the same, and also one of the Clerkes-Comp- trollers ; whether it be drawne out as much as ifc ought to be or not, and fee-able."

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CAMEO OF NELSON : BURNETT. I should be very grateful for information as to the history of a small and exquisitely executed cameo portrait of Lord Nelson, which was recently presented to a friend by a member of the Herbert family, to which Lady Nelson belonged. The artist's name is given on it as Archibald Burnett, and the date is 1799. Is this man's work well known, and is there any reference to Nelson's having sat to him ? Y. T.

DANE O'CoYS. This is the name of a farmhouse about a mile from Bishop's Stortford. It is sometimes written Dan O'Coys. There is a small house called Dane Hall close by. What is the origin of the name ? W. B. GERISH.

' THE ADVENTURES OF BRUSANUS, PRINCE OF HUNG ARIA,' by Barnabe Rich (London 1592). Has this ever been reprinted ? It is mentioned in J. P. Collier's * Biblio graphical Account of Early English Litera ture,' and the only known copy, I am told is in the Dulwich College Library.

L. L. K.

THE EARLDOM OF LINCOLN.

See ante, pp. 46, 111, sub * Marquessate of Lincolnshire. ' )

THE early history of this earldom is so obscure J. C. R. has gallantly attempted a list of earls, I add these notes for the twelfth century.
 * hat it is with great diffidence that, as

(1) The Countess Lucy. The alleged de- scent of Lucy from " the Anglo-Saxon Lords of Lincolnshire " is at best very doubtful. What is known of her with certainty is that she was a great Lincolnshire heiress, and narried successively Roger fitz Gerold (by whom she was mother of William de Rou- Tiare, Earl of Lincoln) and Ranulf (or Ran- dulf) le Meschin, afterwards first Earl of Chester of that family (by whom she had Ranulf de Gernons, second Earl of Chester, and other issue). Her parentage is un- certain. The old fable that she was a daughter of ^Elfgar, Earl of Mercia, was suc- ceeded by the theory that she was daughter of Ivo Taillebois. (Burke's ' Extinct Peer- age,' 1866, adopts the former story in the article on the Earls of Chester, and the latter in that on the Earls of Lincoln !) Then Mr. Kirk showed from charters that Ivo was probably her first husband (before Roger fitz Gerold), and advanced the theory that her father was Thorold, Sheriff of Lincolnshire. (See Round's summary of the case in the ' D.N.B.' life of Lucy's last husband, for full references.)

(2) Thorold the Sheriff, who may have been Lucy's father, was thought by Freeman and others to be English, as in the pseudo- Ingulf ; and the * D.N.B.' (under William de Roumare) speaks of him as Sheriff of Lincolnshire in the reign of Edward the Confessor. But Round discovered that he was taking part in a judicial eyre with sundry Norman magnates c. 1076-9, and considers him a Norman (' Feudal England,' p. 329).

(3) Alleged Earls of Lincoln, temp. Henry I. (a) Lucy's third husband, Ranulf le Meschin, has been credited with the earldom of Lincoln, owing to his being so styled in the Lindsey Survey (1115-18) ; but Round pointed out that the entry in question is an interlineation by a much later hand (' Feudal England,' p. 184).

(b) Doyle in his invaluable ' Official Baronage ' begins his Earls of Lincoln with Lucy's son Ranulf de Gernons, " cr. Earl of Lincoln before 1118." This would be