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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. m. FEB. is, 1911.

BENJAMIN D'!SRAELI OF DUBLIN (11 S. iii. 28). The following extract from a list of the corps of yeomanry known as the Stephen's Green Cavalry, published, in Cox's Irish Magazine for November, 1814, may be of some use to J. T. :

" Ben. Disrael, a Jew, a Lottery-monger, who made a fortune at the same period, that any man who could muster a quire of paper and an ink- horn, might become a Lottery-office keeper or a Gambling-house proprietor under that cover. He was cotemporary with Lefevre, the livery servant, Cash, the parish schoolmaster, Andrews, the primer merchant, Burton, the quill man, Williams, the stationer, who hanged himself, and M'llwrath, the bootboy, who all made fortunes by the same species of gambling. Ben turned Christian, was made a Justice of the Peace for the County of Carlow, and died about four months since."

SEAMUS UA CASAIDE.

Dublin.

Benjamin Disraeli (not Disraeli) of Beachy Park, Carlow, was a rich moneylender and notary of Dublin (1788-96). He was also a prominent member of the Dublin Stock Exchange, held the office of Sheriff for County Carlow in 1810, and died in 1814. He was probably a member of a Huguenot family named Disraeli, resident in London during the eighteenth century, which was related to the Lefevres, Chaigneaus, and Col- villes, and therefore in no way connected with Lord Beaconsfield.

ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

118, Sutherland Avenue, W.

There are some municipal lottery tickets in the Science and Art Museum, Dublin, which appear to be signed by this gentleman.

H. G. ARCHER.

See 5 S. vi. 47 ; 7 S. iii., iv., v. Apparently the conclusion arrived at in 1887 (7 S. iii. 371) was that " the Dublin notary bearing these names cannot at present be affiliated to Lord Beaconsfield' s family." By his will, proved 3 October, 1814, he left 7,000?. to charitable purposes. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sand gate.

" CORBIE - STEPS " : " CORBEL - STEPS " : " CORBALSAILYE " (11 S. ii. 426). Jamie- son's ' Diet.' (Donaldson, 1887) has :

" Corbalsailye, s. prob. parapets or other pro- jections corbelled out beyond the face of a fortified wall. V. Saillie.

' Licentiam edificandi castra, turres et for- tahcia cum januis ferreis, le battelling, corbal- sailye, barmkynnis et carceribus' (' Retr. Mas Sig., 1424-1513,' No. 1639).

" Fr. corbeille, a corbel, andsaitfte, a projection ; like sa^ll^e de maison, an outjutting room (Cotgrave).

Jamieson also has :

" Saillie, Sailye, S filly, s. A projection ; out- jutting ; applied to a room, gallery, or other building projecting beyond the face of a house or wall. The saillie or sailye was a device to enlarge the rooms of hoxises built in the narrow streets and lanes of olden times ; specimens of which may still be seen in many of our large towns. It was adopted also as a means of defence in fortified castles, city walls, &c. ; and gave a massive, frowning appearance to the battlements. When so used, it was called a c.orbalsailye, O. Fr. saillie, a projection ; ' an eminence, jutting or bearing out beyond others,' Cotgrave. Fr. saillir, to go out, issue forth, project."

TOM JONES.

Where the edges of a gable-end, as in some Dutch-built houses, are not mere slanting right lines, but ascend by degrees to the apex, having the appearance of flights of steps in silhouette, the birds often perch upon them, and this was the explana- tion offered me of the term " corbie-steps " when I first heard it used in Scotland (Fr. corbeau ; O.F. corbel ; Lat. corvellus, dim. of corvus, a raven).

I wonder whether, for an analogous reason, each separate upstanding block of a crenellated parapet is termed a " merlon " (merle = blackbird ).

The ' E.tXD.,' I see, has " crow-bawks," the projections of a gable-roof ; " crow- steps," see " crow's rest," a brick projecting from a chimney and cut to a slightly tapering cylinder. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

SWEETAPPLE SURNAME (11 S. iii. 66). Anne, eldest dau. of John Baddeley of Eller- ton Grange, co. Stafford, married " Mr. John Sweetaple," c. 1671, probably of London, where the lady had three uncles living, one of them an officer in the Regiment of Guards. They had several children surviving in 1713. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

ANNE BOLEYN OR BTJLLEN : BULLEY FAMILY (11 S. iii. 8). The following excerpt from a ' Pedigree of the Bullen Family,' made by the late Rev. W. Croft? Bullen, and printed for private circulation, may be of interest to H. A. B. :

" The first of the family came to England with William the Conqueror, and was known as ' De Boullan ' ; in a short time the ' De ' was dropped, and we find the name spelt ' Boulen,' and a little later ' Boleyn ' ; it was written on the wall of the Tower of London and spelt ' Bullien,' and is supposed to be so written about the time of Anna Bullen's death. In the year 1591 we find it spelt ' Bollen,' and in 1602 we find it spelt as at present ' Bullen ' (see Milla's ' Catalogue of Honor,' article on Boleyn), which is the same name as the original 'Boleyn 'of Henry VIII.'s reign, as is proved by the mention of the historic members