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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. VIH.DEC. 20, 1913. the Hundred of Dalby on the Wolds, in the Leicestershire Survey of 1124-9 (Round's 'Feudal England,' pp. 199, 208). We find Walter de Salisbury witnessing charters of Henry I. in 1131, and of Stephen in 1136 and 1139; and Patrick de Salisbury as being created Earl of Wiltshire ("Salisbury") by the Empress Maud in or before 1149 (Round's 'Geoffrey de Mandeville,' pp. 46, 264, 266, 271).

Upon this last-mentioned creation is disposed to look with doubting eyes. According to reliable authorities, Patrick de Salisbury was created an earl:—

"Patrick……who, being Steward of the Household to Maud the Empress, was by her advanced to the dignity of Earl of Salisbury."—Banks's 'Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' iii. 645.

"The earliest mention of Patrick, as an earl, that I have yet found is in the Devizes charter of Henry (1149)."—Round's 'Geoffrey de Mandeville,' p. 271, note 4.

"Patrick of Salisbury or …… Earl of Salisbury before Nov. 6, 1153."—Doyle's 'Official Baronage,' iii. 232.

Possibly I might multiply these references, but probably the above will suffice to convince that an earldom was really conferred upon Patrick de Salisbury. It would be somewhat interesting to know upon what grounds is inclined to hold an opposite opinion.

The concluding paragraph, at p. 431, of 's communication contains a very interesting and happy suggestion, for it may well have happened that Hugh de Laci, Earl of Ulster, either married prior to his marriage with Lesceline de Verdun, or spent his early years as he did the concluding ones of his life with a mistress, and that this lady, whichever position she held, is in all probability the missing mother of Hugh's issue named at p. 172. I am afraid, however, this particular problem is past solution.

ABBAHAM EZEKIEL EZEKIEL (11 S. viii. 369). I am now able to answer my own query as to this Exeter engraver.

He was the son of Abraham Ezekiel, an Exeter goldsmith, and born about 1757. Whilst apprenticed to a jeweller, he pro- duced self - taught an etching, ' View of Bideford,' from a drawing by Jewell.

In 1788 he engraved Opie's painting of Dr. Glass, and the year following another of Opie's pictures, ' John Patch, Surgeon.' Both the paintings are in the Board Room

of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He then engraved Sir Joshua Reynolds's full-length portrait of Major-General Stringer Lawrence.

Opie had painted the portrait of the Rev. Micaiah Towgood, which Ezekiel also en- graved in 1794, as he did later the portrait of Wm. Holwell.

This was followed by one of the Rev. John Marshall after Keenan, and finally by "the breastplate of the Third Exeter Volunteer Corps, embodied in 1800."

He was known also as "a scientific optician, and moreover was a respectable scholar and linguist." He died 14 Dec., 1806. H. STONE.

ANDBEAS GISALBEBTUS (11 S. viii. 409, 454). All the available information as to this maker, Gisalbertus or Gisulberti, ap- pears to be contained in the authorities cited by MB. S. METZ and MB. P. A. ROBSON, and it seems to have been collected in and since 1901 in book shape.

The 1721 label (I have referred to my copy of Grillet) appears to have been gener- ally cited. Antoine Vidal does not mention this maker in his two works, nor does De Piccolellis. A violoncello said to be by this maker was on sale at Glendining's on 4 May, 1906, as by Andreas Gisalberti of Cremona, and was sold, or bought in, at 750Z.

W. H. QUABBELL.

"FLEWENGGE" (11 S. viii. 449). In ' Durham Ace. Rolls ' (Surtees Soc.), p. 513 (1313-14) we have "In 5000 flywinges, 300 spikinges," explained in the Glossary as " perhaps ' sprigs ' in form likened to "flies' wings." There were also " sparrow-bills " or " sparables." J. T. F.

Durham.

HEBTFOBDSHTBE SUPEBSTITIONS (11 S. viii. 425). MB. GEBISH'S reference to the fig tree growing out of the altar-tomb in Watford Church reminds me of the legend related by Abraham Geiger of the beautiful fig tree that grew out of the earth when Gabirol was buried in Saragossa in the eleventh century. He was murdered by an irate Moor, who was thus brought to book for his crime.

M. L. R. BBESLAB.

THE PILGBIM FATHEBS : JOHN ALDEN (11 S. viii. 306, 376, 436). In my reply on this subject at the second reference I was careful to guard against misapprehension by saying that the Pilgrim Fathers, and, so far as I knew, they alone of all the New