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NOTES AND QUERIES. pi s. vra. NOV. i, 1913.

"GAS" AS A STREET - NAME (11 S. viii. 290, 337). In the commercial area of Man- chester is the insignificant street named Gas Street, which abuts on a plot of land whereon were erected in 1817 the first public gas- works in Manchester. These works were disused in 1857, and the buildings and space were adapted to a police-station, but the little adjoining street and its name perpetuate an historical enterprise in the annals of the city. RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

There are two instances in Bristol : Gas Lane, St. Philips, and Gashouse Lane, St. Augustine. In both cases the street is in the vicinity of gas-works.

E. T. MORGAN.

Bristol Cathedral.

There was a Gas Street in Middleton, Lancashire, forty years ago. Whether the street has been renamed since 1876 I cannot say. I left Middleton in that year.

JOHN T. KEMP.

HERALDIC QUARTERINGS (11 S. vii. 410, 476). I find some difficulty in following the explanation given at the latter reference. The obscure statement is that the descend- ants of Wm. Smith's daughter would not be entitled to quarter the Smith arms " unless their ancestress was coheiress with her mother." Would it be possible to express this differently ? for the meaning is not clear, even with the aid of a chart illustra- tion of the imaginary pedigree.

Louis A. DUKE.

Hornsey.

" TRANSCENDENTAL " (11 cannot trace the words '

S. viii. 307).
 * transcendental

moonshine " as applied by Carlyle to Emer- son's teaching, but the phrase occurs in the ' Life of John Sterling ' (p. 84 of People's Edition), where it is applied to the teaching of Coleridge. Is this the reference asked for by SIR J. A. H. MURRAY ?

F. HAYWARD.

LADY HAMILTON'S GRAVE (fl S. viii. 188, 276). The memoir of Lady Hamilton which forms the concluding chapter of ' The Annals and Legends of Calais,' by R. B. Calton, gives the following particulars (pp. 182-3) :-

"In the official register of births and deaths for the town of Calais is the following entry : 'A.D. 1815, Janvier 15. Dame Emma Lyons, agee de 51 ans, n6e a Lancashire en Angleterre ; domicile a Calais, fille de Henry Lyons, et de Marie Kidd ; veuve de William Hamilton, est

decedee le 15 Janvier 1815, a une heure apres midi au domicile du Sieur Damy, Rue Franchise.' And in the timber yard, just without the fortifications,, on the left hand of the stroller to St. Pierre, lie the remains of the unfortunate woman, whose death, in the language of the foreigner, is thus recorded.

With a black silk petticoat stitched on a white

curtain thrown over her coffin for a pall, and a half-pay Irish dragoon to act as chaplain over the grave in the timber yard, were the remains of Nelson's most adored friend, removed to their final resting-place under the escort of a sergent de ville"

The closing scene of this drama of life was described to Mr. Calton by M. de Rheims of Calais (p. 202). LEO C.

" TRAILS ASTON " (11 S. viii. 232, 292, 334). I am much indebted to E. B. for the reference to Archceologia. In the * Rolls of Parliament' (ii. 432/1) is a passage that appears, at first sight, to ascribe an imme- morial antiquity to the Trailbaston justice- ship :

" Whereas Thomas de Berkley, as likewise his ancestors tyme out of mind, had the Manner of Bedeminster and Raderlynstret juste Bristut, with the Hundred, d'aver Weyte, Infangthef, and View of Frankepledge, &c. and also Trailebaston, in the time of King Edward, grandfather to our Lord the King that now is, in the thirty third yeare of his Raigne, before Sir John Botetourte and his Com- panions Justices in Oyer and Terminer assigned, some kind of transgression that for Trespasse with Sir Thomas de Berkley unckle of this Thomas which now is, and his son Maurice did doe, the said Franchise was by the said Justices seised into the King's hands [&c.]."

The note prefixed in the printed texl reads :

The following Extracts of Petitions 1 Edw. Ill are copied from Harl. MSS. in the British Museum. No. 252, p. 143."

This MS. is written in a flowing hand o: about the middle of the seventeenth century Whether the error was that of the seven teenth-century translator, or of the copyis who prepared the material for the ' Rolls o Parliament,' I have not found out. Th< simpler course was to search at the Publii Record Office for the original petition ; i is numbered A. P. 8512, and runs as foUows : "A nostre seignur le R9i e a son Counsail prii Thomas [fizThomas interlined] de Berkeleie qe L ouces auncestres du tenps dount il niad memori* auoient le Manoir de Bedemunstre e Radeclyuestre iuste Bristut oue le Hundred dauer Weyf Infan genethef vewe de Francplegge amendes de assis de pain e de seruoise enrreinte. e quant qe a vew apent com apandaunte au dit Maner taunqe ai derein Trailebaston en tenps le Roi Edward ae nostre Seignur le Roi qore est a Bristut la an [sic de Son Regne .xxxiij. deuaunt sire Johan d Butetourt e ces compaignouns Justices assigne de oier e de terminer chescun Manere de trespas qe pur trespas qe mons[eignur] Thomas de Berk leye ael cesti Thomas qore est e Morice son filt