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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. m. JAN. 7, 1911.

able to announce as approaching completion ' The Bibliography of Folk-lore. Compiled and edited by Thomas Satchell.' "

More than thirty years have passed since this announcement was made. When will the project be realized ? W. B. GERISH.

THREAD-PAPERS. What, in early eigh- teenth-century journalistic language, were " thread-papers " ? As The Weekly Journal is a very scarce news-sheet, I may quote part of the letter in which the use of the term twice occurs. It is from Mist's Weekly Journal, 28 July, 1722 : M r Mist, June 10, 1722.

The following Letter and Song were lost by a young Lady : It will please her to have 'em again by your Hand, and save the Looser and Finder a great deal of Confusion. You may assure her all's safe, if she can but stand some reading of your Journal ; but then she must look as grave as her Father does, when he spread your Excellencies before the Family.

I am, Yours HONOUR.

Don't mistake me for the Chamber-Maid by my Name.

Madam, May 1, 1722.

You tell me it is your Opinion, that no man was ever heartily in Love, without being seiz'd, at one time or other, with a Fit of Poetry, &c.

This letter, too long to give in extenso, is accompanied by a ' Song ' beginning

Haste, Shepherds, haste and come away, This joyful Sun gave Cloe birth,

which is thus alluded to in the letter to the lady :

"If my Labours are honour'd with a Station among your Thread-Papers, I shall take it as a happy Omen : More Labours, more Thread-Papers. If not, e'en let them share the same Fate with the Author, that is, be set on Fire by you "

The writer signs himself " Poor Strephon."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. PlTT AND WlLKES ON DlSFRANCHISEMENT.

May I venture to repeat a question which I put, without eliciting a reply, just eighteen years since (8 S. ii. 468) ? Where is to be found a list of the thirty- six decayed boroughs which the younger Pitt proposed, in 1785, to disfranchise, and of the ten corporations which he desired should transfer the right of return to the citizens ? And is there extant a list of the boroughs which Wilkes would have dis- franchised by his proposal of 1776 ?

POLITICIAN.

GABRIEL GRANT, PREBENDARY AND ARCH- DEACON OF WESTMINSTER. Whom and when did he marry ? He is said to have married twice. He died in 1638.

G. F. R. B.

MILITIA CLAIMS, 1716. The following account is copied from an old book belonging to the parish of Yelvertoft, Northampton- shire :

"The particulars of the charges of the Militia Horse provided by the Rectors of Creke, Cotesbroke. Yelvertoft, and Coton, 1716.

The whole set of Accoutrem ts, Coat, Carbine, Pistols, Saddle, Bridle, Billet and Housing. Sword, &c. 06 Oo 03

Man and Horse and Charges at

North'ton 00 Oo 00

June the 4 th Man and Horse one day 00 10 Boots and Powder Horn A new Hat Mending the Pistols

In all 08 03 07

Mem. This was paid in ye proportion following, viz.

Rector of Creek a 3 rd part. Rector of Cotesbroke a 4 th part. Rector of Coton & \ 9 ,-tha Rector of Yelvertoft /-'

To what particular assembly of the militia does this refer ? Is it to be assumed that rectors of parishes generally were charged with a special levy for militia ?

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchirigton, Warwickshire.

ANNE BOLEYN OR BULLEYN : BULLEY FAMILY. Can any of your readers tell me the correct way of spelling the name of the second wife of Henry VIII. ? In the Life of Archbishop Tait I see that he twice refers to her, spelling the name Bulleyn. This is the only instance I have seen of the name being thus spelt.

In Queen Elizabeth's reign there was a well-known doctor named Bulley, who was said to be distantly related to the Queen. In that case the n must have been dropped about the middle of the sixteenth century, question is of interest to me, as my cousin Dr. Bulley, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1856 to 1890, considered that his family were descended from a collateral branch of the Boleyn or Bulleyn family. Will any one kindly tell me when the change in the spelling took place, if the name was ever correctly spelt Bulleyn ? H. A. B.

[The spelling of the Queen's name was discussed at 8 S. i. 435 ; ii. 13.]

LACY AS A PLACE-NAME. In some parts of Surrey and I believe in other counties " Lacy " occurs as part of the name of an estate or village. I know of Polesden Lacy (where Sheridan lived), Camilla Lacy (the residence of Fanny Burney), Wilton Lacy, and others. ,,

What is the origin of the suffix Lacy FRANK SCHLOESSER.