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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vm. OCT. 25, 1913.

QUARITCH MSS. (US. viii. 207). See " The Napper Family Register, edited by Joseph Gillow: extracts from the folio commonplace book of Edmund Jsapper, Esq., of the Manor-house, Holy well, Oxford, now in the library of the editor." Catholic Record Society, 1905, i. 133-7.

H. I. A.

WHISTLING OYSTER (US. viii. 208, 237). Within the State of Maine, right in the heart of rustic New England Yankeedom, on the Atlantic coast - line, at the fishing village of Ogunguit, fast becoming fashion- able, the tea-drinker may note a " Whistling Oyster " Tea Garden, termed so, its owner recently proclaimed, through her once happening upon a house of refreshment bearing that name nestling in a secluded South of England lane, which formed one of the paths believed to have been well tramped by the feet of Canterbury pilgrims
 * >f old. J. G. CUPPLES.

Ogunguit, Maine.

ORIGIN OF RIMES WANTED : ' THE BONNY BROWN BOWL ' SONG (11 S. viii. 170, 274). A version of this song is printed with the music in Mr. C. J. Sharp's ' Folk-Songs from Somerset,' Fifth Series (Simpkin & Co.), and also in the same collector's ' Folk-Songs for Schools ' (Novelld). In the notes to the song at the first - mentioned reference the editor remarks that he has collected versions at several places n Somerset, and also at Hamstreet in Kent. Chappell prints a version in * Popular Music of the Olden Time ' (p. 745), and two more appear in Bell's ' Songs of the Peasantry of England.' In Mr. Sharp's version the final sequence is clouds, ocean, sea, river, well, butt, tub, hogshead, keg, gallon, quart, pint, nipperkin, brown bowl ; but a good singer, we are told, " proud of his memory," and, one w^ould suggest, his wind, will sometimes lengthen the song by halving all the drink -measures half -butt, half -tub, and so on.

P. LUCAS.

"MARRIAGE" AS SURNAME (11 S. viii. 287). I take this to be from Marish = Marsh. I see that Mr. Bardsley sets down the riage as being the same as ridge in Cole- ridge and the like ('Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames '). He shows that Stephen Ma- ridge espoused Susanna Brown- ing in 1709, as is recorded in the register of St. James's, Clerkenwell. The name has been brought before modern eyes by the fact that a beautiful book on ' The Sculptures of Chartres Cathedral ' is due to Margaret and Ernest Marriage. If I remember rightly,

Edmund Garrett, who rose to journalistic fame in South Africa, and attained the honour of a volume of biography, had a Miss Marriage to wife ; indeed, I believe she was of the family of the authors mentioned above. Miss Ellen Marriage is just now challenging criticism with ' Lost Illusions,' a translation from Honore de Balzac. ST. SWITHIN.

I do not think Marriage as a surname is at all uncommon. I find six persons of the name in the Commercial Section of the current
 * Post Office London Directory.'

WM. H. PEET.

This surname still exists, as the ' London Directory ' shows. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

HEART-BURIAL IN NICHES IN CHURCH WALLS (11 S. viii. 289). Arch. Cant., vol. v., has an article on the Heart-Shrine in Leybourne Church :

"We may lay it down for certain, that the body from which the heart was taken was buried else- where than at Leybourne, otherwise there would

have been no separation of its parts The hearts

of some of the most distinguished Crusaders were frequently sent home to be enshrined in their own manorial church, or in some monastery which they had founded or endowed."

There is a heart-shrine at Brabourne, near Ashford, Kent, supposed to have contained the heart of Balliol, founder of Balliol Col- lege, Oxford, whose body was interred near the high altar of Newby Abbey, near Dum- fries. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sanclgate.

In Buckland Church, Berks, there is a triangular aumbry in the north wall of the chancel, containing the heart of William Holcot of Burcote. Date, 1570. For further description see ' Murray's Guide to Berk- shire.' G. T. PILCHER.

If I remember rightly, there is one of these in the quire of the Cistercian Abbey Dore r Herefordshire. A. R. BAYLEY.

THROWING A HAT INTO A HOUSE (11 S. viii. 288). I do not think this was anything more than an intimation to the good lady at home and the family in general that the head of the house had returned. I know that it was done at a village near Derby when I was a boy. My father often sent his men on journeys which took two or three days to execute. One man in par- ticular, as soon as he got back with his team, before putting them up, would say, " Ah mun gist goo whcam an' throw ma hat in an' let 'em know Awm whoam, an'