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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vm. NOV. 22, 1913.

He is named in the ' Coricertatio Ecclesire,' so was presumably alive in 1588. He is to be distinguished from the Englishman Thomas Butler, who was living at Cadiz in 1563 and 1579.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

HEINE : TRANSLATION WANTED. In which volume of the works of James Thom- son (" B. V.") shall I find his translation of Heine's ' Pilgrimage to Kevlaar ' ?

ETHEL M. TURNER.

'SANGUIS CHRISTI CLAVIS CCELI.' I have a portrait of a divine holding in his hand a book with this title. The painting is signed " J. Carleton, pinxit 1636. Ao ^Etatis sua [sic] 60."

I shall be glad if any correspondent can tell me the name of the author of the book, for apparently the portrait represents the author. JOHN LANE.

The Bod ley Head, Vigo Street, W.

ARMY QUERIES. (1) Name wanted. Major Gerrard S. Moore, 4th Light Dragoons, died at Bombay on 2 Oct., 1834. What was his second Christian name ? Moore had served in the Royal Artillery and in the 65th Foot. No Army List or Gazette gives the second name the initial only.

(2) The place of death of the following officers is wanted : (i.) Lieut. Loudoun Har- court Gordon, 56th Regt., half -pay, formerly in the Royal Artillery; died 19 Oct., 1839. (ii.) Capt. (Hon. Major) 'David Thomson, Royal Artillery, formerly Bengal Artillery; died in England, 14 April, 1899.

J. H. LESLIE.

31, Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield.

CASE OF DUPLICATE MARRIAGE. In the Parish Register of Leire, Leicestershire, there is the following entry of a marriage :

" Nov. 12, 1572. Martin Bloxsom and Eliza' b3th Lord,"

the former being a member of a family well known in Leire at that time.

In the Parish Register of Bitteswell, a village distant about two miles from Leire, there is the following entry of a marriage :

" Nov. 10, 1572. Martin Bloxsom and Eliza- beth Lord,"

the latter being, according to the Parish Register, a member of a family at that time resident at Bitteswell.

As these entries in the two Parish Regis- ters apparently both relate to the same persons, I should be glad to know whether this case is not a very unusual one. Can you give any explanation of the duplicate

marriage within two days ? Which is the legal one ? As the woman changed her name on 10 Nov., she was, therefore, not Elizabeth Lord on 12 Nov., but Elizabeth Bloxscm E. JACKSON.

Gilmorton Rectory, Lutterworth.

THE WEARING OF SWORDS. Can any of your readers inform me when swords ceased to be worn in ordinary life by civilians ? In ' Barnaby Rudge ' constant reference is made to gentlemen carrying them, and that as late as 1778. Sir John Chester and Mr. Haredale are always spoken of as habitually armed with what, I suppose, were " small swords." Did the practice die out from change in costume or other reasons, or by law ? and when ? If swords were carried now there might be more bloodshed, but, perhaps, better manners. A. GWYTHEJR.

SIR GEORGE WRIGHT OF RICHMOND, SURREY.

(US. viii. 348.)

HAVING received no answer to my original query, I venture to add a few more details. On pp. 100-2 of ' The History and Antiqui- ties of Richmond,' by Mr. Beresford Chan- cellor (1894), is the following :

" Near it is the memorial of Sir George Wright's wife, who died in 1631. Two figures represent the knight and his wife kneeling, and under are bas-reliefs of their three sons and four daughters. The inscription on this monument is as follows : Sacred to the memory of the late virtuous and religious lady, the Lady Dorothy Wright, wife to Sir George Wright, Knt., at the cost and charges of her revered and most pious mother the Lady Dorothy Wright by the humble duty of her most sorrowful son Thomas Wright, Esquire. She departed this life A.n. 1631, July 10. In some lines which follow this lady is described as ' By birth a Farnam,' and the fact that the mother of this lady is known to have been married twice only, once to a Francis Ham and afterwards to Robert Wright, is supposed to make this some- what obscure; but there seems little improbability in the conjecture that ' Mother ' should here read ' Mother-in-law,' which would at once be more accurate and make the sense clearer." Mr. Chancellor does not print the lines, and I therefore give them in full :

" By birth a Farnam, that name changed to Wright. | She lived the same example and clear light I of her whole sex. Her mother's matchless merit ' | In all things good and creat she did inherit. | And left to her children. Such a mother | could bring forth such a daughter and no other. | Their goodness stili descends, thrice