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 us. vm. JULY 26, IMS.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The poem on ' Surnames ' beginning Men once were surnamed for their shape or estate is printed in ' An Anthology of Humorous Verse,' edited by Theodore A. Cook for " Hutchinson's Popular Classics," where it is attributed to James Smith.

M. H. DODDS.

James Smith, not his brother Horace, is the author of the lines quoted by E. W. They occur in his poem entitled ' Surnames,' in the first of the two volumes of ' Memoirs, Letters, and Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, of the late James Smith, Esq.,' edited by Horace Smith in 1840.

S. BUTTERWORTH.

The whole poem, consisting of six eight- line verses, may be seen in ' Poetical In- genuities ' (" Mayfair Library "), by William Dobson (p. 136). BLADUD.

' Surnames,' by James Smith is contained in ' Amusing Poetry,' edited by Shirley Brooks, 1857" G. W. E. R.

[MR. R. L. MORETON also thanked for reply.]

RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON (11 S. vii. 486). In my possession is an old painting by this artist depicting Newcastle-on-Tyne, with its harbour and shipping, evidently done in the early part of the nineteenth century. The size of the canvas is 22 in. by 17 in. WILLIAM JAGGARD.

Rose Bank, Stratford-on-Avon.

ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE: ELY CHAPEL (11 S. vii. 428; viii. 12). An abstract of the register of marriages (125 in number) solemnized at Ely House Chapel, Holborn, from 1705 to 1759, including a few baptisms, is furnished in Alfred Gibbons's ' Ely Epis- copal Records,' 1891, pp. 28-35, 432.

The marriages from 1705 to 1744 are entered in Bishop Moore's register, whilst those from February, 1744/5, to 1759 appear in a separate book- These registers, together with a bundle of original licences for mar- riages celebrated at the chapel, 1744-52 inclusive, are preserved among the diocesan records formerly lodged in the muniment room of the Palace at Ely, but now deposited in the Diocesan Registry, Lynn Road, in that city.

The marriages are always stated to be by consent of the Bishop of Ely down to 18 May, 1732, but from that date the form is discontinued.

The penultimate entry, dated 15 Decem- ber. 1753, is followed by the record of the marriage of Sir John Reade, Bt., of Shipton, co. Oxford, a bachelor, with Harriott

Barker, spinster, of Sonning, Berks, solemnized in virtue of a special licence of the Archbishop of Canterbury on 18 Oc- tober, 1759. An earlier and more interest- ing record is that of the marriage, on 9 October, 1718, of " Mr. Charles Fleet- wood" of Ely House (the bishop's domestic chaplain) with Ann West on, of Mapledurham, co. Oxford.

A register belonging to Ely Chapel, containing about fifty entries of baptism between January, 1780, and September, 1802, which passed into the keeping of the Rev. W. E. Faulkner as minister of the chapel on 25 March, 1793, cannot now be traced (Rev. T. B. Murray, ' Notice of Ely Chapel, Holborn,' 1840, p. 39).

DANIEL HIPWELL.

84, St. John's Wood Terrace, N.W.

BRUCE OF AIRTH (11 S. viii. 7). Sir Alexander Bruce of Airth, having been in possession of that estate for the long period of forty-eight years, died 16 March, 1600, and his will was proved 14 August follow- ing. By his wife Janet, second daughter of Alexander, fifth Lord Livingston, he had the following sons: (1) William, who died v.p., leaving six sons, viz. (i.) John, who succeeded to Airth; (ii.) Sir William of Stenhouse, Bart.; (iii., iv., v.) Alexander, Robert, and Alexander (secundus), who all died s.p. ; (vi.) Patrick of Newtoune. (2) Robert of Kinnaird. (3) Sir John of Kincavel. (4) Sir Alexander of Bangour. (5) Robert (secundus) of Garwald.

The " dreadful quarrel " to which your correspondent refers appears to have taken place in 1595, and originated in two Stirling- shire gentlemen having " hapnit baith to loove ae woman," not apparently in any dispute as to the title to Kildrummie. But the fact that is really relevant to your correspondent's query is that at this period there does not appear to have been any member of the Airth family who bore the name of Edward. Sir John Bruce suc- ceeded his grandfather in Airth, and, though he had twelve children, he had only three sons, Alexander. John, and Michael. Sir John died between 1620 and 1622.

From the above it will be seen that the Rev. Edward Bruce, who is said to have changed his name to Bryce, can hardly have been~a brother of Sir John Bruce of Airth, as suggested. It is curious, too, that, if he was " prosecuted with great virulence," there should be no mention whatever of him in the records of the Scottish Privy Council of that period. J. B. P.