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 ii s. VIIL DEC. is, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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HEINE : TRANSLATION WANTED (11 S viii. 410). James Thomson's version of ' Die Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar ' is the first piece in his ' Attempts at Translation from Heine,' at the end of ' The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems,' 2nd ed.. pp. 165-9. Heine's English readers who happen to travel over the stretch of railway between Goch and Geldern, on their way to Cologne, may not always recognize the little station of Kevelaer as the place of the pilgrimage. EDWARD BENSLY.

This will be found in vol. i. of the collected edition of Thomson's ' Poetical Works,' edited by Bertram Dobell (1895).

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

TARRING (US. viii. 368, 416). Thanks to MR. HEMS for items of information. I can supplement them. Miss Sarah Tarring is the last to bear the name in Holbeton for a course of 200 years. Mr. Alfred Tarring represents the Totnes branch for probably the same period. There may be others I do not know of.

The important part of my query is the origin of the name in Sussex and Devon, and the possible connexion between the two. I have the history of West Tarring Church, in which Terringe is given as the original name, as occurring in Domesday Book. In 1640 there is an entry of baptism at Holbeton " Jonah dau. of John Derringe " the name is badly written ; but, allowing for the loose spelling of the time, it might reasonably be taken for a corruption of De Terringe. The next noticeable item is the baptism of John, son of John Torring, in 1707, who, in 1734, was evidently married as "John Tarring, Jii'i.," and from whom came the family for a long time prominent in Holbeton. Five at least of his eleven children have descend- ants to-day in London, Bristol, Horsham, and even in America. Was there a reason for the same name being adopted in Sussex and Devon, or was it merely a coincidence V

G.

Horsham.

LACIS OR FILET- WORK ( 1 1 S. viii. 108, 194). If filet is properly made, one thread will lead backwards and forwards, in and out, all over the pa.ttern, flying from point to point in the most erratic and incomprehen- sible manner, but in the end inevitably coming back to the starting-point, and leaving no part of the pattern unfinished.

I have been doing filet as a pastime for many years. I was taught by an old French lady aged about 90 (now dead). She told

me that the art had been lost for several centuries, and had been rediscovered by her mother, who a talented mathematician, obtained permission to study the old laces in the museums of Paris, and by following back the thread learned the law which underlay the work. When it is finished, two- threads should cross the darned squares in each direction. The method is difficult to explain in writing, but if CARITA will tell me her difficulties, and let me know her address,. I shall be very glad to send her a diagram r or show her, by a loop of thread, the knot used for joining one thread to another. I should like very much to know the names of any old pattern-books of filet, and where they may be bought.

(Miss) LYDIA S. M. ROBINSON. Hamilton, Bermuda.

SIR Ross DONELLY (11 S. viii. 390). This gentleman was a British admiral who- entered the Navy at an early age. He fought with distinction under Lord Howe in June, 1794, and commanded the squadron before Toulon in 1803. For his conduct at Monte Video in 1807 he received the thanks of Parliament. He was made rear-admiral in 1814, and full admiral in 1838. His death occurred in 1841 ; so states ' Diet, of Biog./ by Joseph Thomas, 3rd ed., 1905.

RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

The daughter of Admiral Sir Ross Don- nelly married, in 1816, Baron Audley. Her portrait was published by Edward Bull of 26, Holies Street, engraved by Thomson from a miniature by Stump. Baroness Audley died 1855, and is buried in Buckland Churchyard, Dover. R. J. FYNMORE.

Vice-Admiral Ross Donnelly was made K.C.B. (military division) on 28 Feb., 1837, and invested on 17 March in the same year. A good deal of information concerning him might doubtless be obtained on application at the Admiralty, but reference should first be made to the account of him in the ' D.N.B.,' vol. xxii.

S. A. GRUNDY- NEWMAN.

"BARRING-OUT" (11 S. viii. 370, 417). Chap. ix. of Hoole's ' Scholastick Discipline ' (part iv. of * A New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole,' of which Prof. Campagnac has just published an edition) is headed * Of Exclusion and Breaking-up Schoole, and of Potations.' From this it is obvious that barring-out had been con- sidered a necessary preliminary to breaking- up. Though the custom was " of late