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THE MILKWORT IN LITERATURE (11 S. viii. ). The only reference that I have been able to find is in ' Wild Flowers and their Teachings/ Bath, Binns & Goodwin, 1848, ed. 2, p. 50. The various plants are repre- sented by dried specimens. The poem to the milkwort runs as follows :

To tlic Milkwort. Ah ! full of childhood's memories,

Sacred and sweet, Year after year, with eager eyes,

Thee still I greet !

I love thee, for thou hast the power To bring me back that joyous hour When first I mark'd thy simple flower

Bloom at my feet. And thou couldst thrill my heart with unknown

pleasure ;

Another flower, a new one oh, what treasure ! I know not when, I know not where

The prize I found ; * But well I can recall the air That breathed around. The breezy down, the fragrant thyme, The clear, soft sky of Summer's prime ; Thou bring'st them back like some faint chime

Of far-off sound,

On the still ear through din and tumult stealing, And to the listening heart sweet melodies revealing. (MS.) Anne I. Vidal.

S. L. PETTY.

THE EARLDOM OF LINCOLN (11 S. viii. 46, 111, 193, 210, 237). In the list of the Earls of Lincoln which I took (ante, p. 112) from the ' Descents of the Earldom of Lincoln,' by John Gough Nichols. Esq., F.S.A., I may add that he says re the Countess Lucy (1):

" But it is impossible that she could have been, as the Cro viand chroniclers assert, at once the sister of Earl Morcar, the wife of lyo Taillebois, before the year 1071, again married after the Lapse of forty-three years to the father of William de Roumare, and a third time to Ranulph, Earl of Chester, having further issue two sons and two cdaughters.

" The most probable explanation of the cir- rumstances thus crowded upon one lady is, that there were two successive heiresses, bearing the same name Lucy, and that the first was the wife of Ivo TaiTlebois, and mother of the second, and that the second, by her two marriages, gave birth lo the half-brothers, William, Earl of Lincoln, .-.ml Kamrlph, Karl of Chester, whose history is w> much connected with that of tin- city (of Lincoln!."

(5) In the same paper it is said re William de Roumare and Gilbert de Gant :

" \\"e hav<> evidence that he continued to use the title of Karl of Lincoln contemporaneously with Earl William de Roumare, for many years after the battle of Lincoln; and, indeed, there i- no doubt that he w;is so styled until his death, in 1150, whi-'li was fifteen years after. The Earl Gilbert acquired his title to this dignity by his

marriage to the niece of the Earl of Chester the Countess Roheis .... It has already been stated that the first Lucy, wife of Ivo Taillebois, had, besides Lucy, Countess of Chester, two other daughters, Beatrix, wife of Ribald of Middleham, and Matilda, wife of Hugh Fitz Ranulph. The Countess Roheis was probably the daughter of one of these two ladies (see this more fully con- sidered in Topogr. and Genealogist, i. 302^, and in either case she was niece to the Countess Lucy, and cousin to the Earl of Chester, wlo united her to Gilbert de Gant/'

(8) William de Roumare III. was never confirmed in the dignity of the Earl of Lincoln, though many particulars are on record regarding him which show that he not only inherited large estates in. this county, but also that he maintained the dignity of an earl.

The third William de Roumare married a princely bride, Philippa, daughter of John, Comte d'Alen9oii (see ' Observations on the Rolls of the Norman Exchequer,' by the late Thomas Stapleton, Esq., V.P.S.A., vol. ii. p. 159) ; but he died without issue in the year 1198. J. C. R.

City View, Lincoln.

ARMIGALL WADE (US. viii. 208). I think Miss ROBINSON will find the particulars she requires in ' The Wade Genealogy,' compiled by Stuart C. Wade, New York, 1900 (500 copies privately printed). I had the book through my hands some years ago to extract the account of the Hertfordshire branch of the family. W. B. GEBISH.

TOURGIS OF JERSEY (11 S. viii. 190). I have a few notes about this family. MINNESOTA would, perhaps, like to communi- cate with me direct. There is no later or more extensive work on Jersey family history than Payne's ' Armorial of Jersey ' a very unreliable work.

CHAS. A. BERNAU.

20, Charleville Road, W.

INWOOD OR INWARD (11 S. viii. 208). My attention has never before been specially directed to this name, and although having some remembrance of seeing it in other Surrey records, the only references I can find at present are the following from the Farnham Parish Register, which have come under my notice in collecting particulars of another surname connected with Surrey and Hampshire :

1508, 13 Xov. Henry Jower and Agnes Inwood, married.

15JI8, 23 Feb. William Beldam and Elizabeth Inwood, married.

1U22, 16 Dec. Henry Jower and Elizabeth In- wood, married.

A. J. J.