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

This statement is inaccurate, the facts appearing to be as follows. This " son " was not the son of Barlow Trecothick, who left no children, but of James Trecothick (born Ivers). Under date of 21 February, 1777, this notice was printed in The London Chronicle of 20-22 February, xl. 179 :

" Yesterday was married at .Spring-garden Chapel, James Trecothick, of Addington-place, in Surry, Esq., to Miss [Susanna] Edmonstone, eldest daughter of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Bt."

James and Susanna (Edmonstone) Tre- cothick had six children. The Gentleman's Magazine for November,': 1814, p. 496, records the following marriage :

" Oct. 14. Barlow, eldest son of J. Trecothick, esq., to Eliza, second daughter of Rev. Dr. [John] Strachey, archdeacon of Suffolk."

In the 1881 edition (p. 442) of Burke's ' Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage ' it is stated that this Barlow Trecothick " has one daughter, Eliza Margaret, wife of Leonard M. Strachey, Esq."

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

TURCOPOLIER : KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS (US. ii. 247, 336, 371). It is perhaps worth noting what were the langues, &c., in 1798, when Bonaparte took possession of Malta. I quote from ' An Accurate Historical Account of all the Orders of Knighthood/ p. 9 et seq. :

" The Order was classed at that Period into eight Languages, or Nations, viz. 1. Provence ; 2. Auvergne ; 3. France ; 4. Italy ; 5. Arragon ; 6. Germany ; 7. Castile ; and 8. Anglo-Bavaria ; which last was added thereto, by the late Elector Palatin Charles Theodore de Sultzbach. That Prince conferred upon the Order all the Estates of the suppressed Society of the Jesuits, situated in Bavaria ; and which, at the time of their suppres- sion, had been united to the Electoral domains. Charles Augustus, Prince of Bretzenheim, was the first Grand-Prior of this Nation, or Language. He Was invested therewith in 1780 ; and resigned that dignity in 1799, immediatelv upon the death of the Elector.

" The Grand -Master, as well as 'the Cardinals, enjoys the Title of Eminence ; and the Grand- Officers of the Order, are as follows :

1. The Grand-Commander, is the oldest Mem- ber of the Language of Provence.

2. The Marshal, of that of Auvergne.

3. The Hospitaler, of that of France.

4. The Grand-Admiral, of that of Italy.

5. The Grand -Conservator of that of Arragon. . The Grand-Bailiff, of that of Germany.

7. The Grand-Chancellor, of that of Castile.

8. And the Turcopolier, or Captain-General of the Cavalry, of that of Anglo-Bavaria.

A foot-note adds :

" Turcopolier, is a Term appertaining to the Order of Malta, which, previous to the Reforma- tion, was the Title of the Chief of the Language

of England. Turcopole signified anciently in the Levant, a Light-Horseman, or a kind of Dragoon. The Turcopolier had, in this Quality, the Com- mand of the Cavalry, and of the English Marine. Guards of the Order. The military Orders gave this Name to those light-armed Cavaliers, who were the Esquires, or Serving-Brothers, of the Knights-Hospitalers of Saint John, or Knights of Malta, of the Templars, and the Teutonic Knights. Note of the Editor."

The book from which I quote has neither name of author nor date. At the beginning is ' A Dissertation upon the existing State of Knighthood in Europe ; addressed to the Right Honourable Horatio Viscount Nelson,* which proves that it was written or pub- lished some time between 22 May, 1801, and 21 October, 1805. Though published in London by J. White, Fleet Street, it was printed by J. C. Briiggemann, Herrlichkeit, Hamburgh. The above-quoted foot-note appears merely as an editorial note, but many of the foot-notes come from Hugh Clark's ' Concise History of Knighthood/ 1784. On pp. 15, 16, we read :

" The last Grand-Master, duly elected, was Ferdinand Baron de Hompesch.

" On the 24th of Nov. 1798 Paul the first, Emperor of Russia, assumed the dignity of Grand- Master of this Order. In 1799 His Imperial Majesty conferred the Ensigns thereof, upon the Honourable Emma Lady Hamilton, wife of the right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, Knight of the Bath, late His Britannic Majesty's Envoy- Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples : and upon Sir Home Popham, a Captain of the British Navy, who received the permission of His Sovereign to assume and wear the same ....

" Sir Richard James Lawrence, is likewise a Knight of this Order."

The author refers (p. 17) particularly to Clark's ' Concise History,' to the ' History of the Knights of Malta ' by the Abbe de Vertot, and to Brydone's ' Toui,' presum- ably Patrick Brydone's ' Travels through Sicily and Malta,' London, 1774.

I mentioned at 11 S. ii. 371 that the word Toiy>KO7rovAos appears as a Cypriote word meaning a field-watchman. Perhaps the word is a survival from the time (1291 1309) when the Knights of St. John were settled at Limisso, otherwise Limasol, in Cyprus. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

CORN AND DISHONESTY : AN HONEST MILLER (11 S. ii. 508). The miller, whose business it is to transmute raw material into food stuff, has much in his power, and may, conceivably, abuse his trust. From of old his case has been proverbial, for the practice of individuals has been sufficient to establish a class reference. The standard literary allusion on the subject is contained