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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. m. JUNE 10, uui.

VOLTAIRE ON THE BIBLE. Would any of your readers kindly tell me what authority there is for the saying attributed to Voltaire that within a hundred years the Bible would be a forgotten book ? I should be grateful for a reference if there is one.

WM. FISHER.

WORCESTER HOUSE, THAMES STREET. Where could I see a print of this old house ? It was situated on the south side of Thames Street, overhanging the river. It perished in the Fire of London.

ARTHUR N. GOULD.

Staverton, Briar Walk, Putney, S.W.

ARCHBISHOP STONE OF ARMAGH. I should be obliged if any one could tell me where I could find particulars of the family of the Most Rev. George Stone, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, and of his brother Andrew, who was Under-Secre- tary of State in 1748. C. L. K.

MOOR, MORE, AND Mo OR Y- GROUND. Can any one tell me what is the origin of the place-names of Crampmoor and Skidmore in Hampshire ?

" The name Skidmore in the Account Roll of Romsey Abbey, 1539, is spelt Skyd- moure " (vide the Rev. H. G. D. Liveing's a farm belonging to the abbess and convent, situated near the river Test, between Romsey and Nursling. " Close to it is Lee, another ty thing," says Mr. Liveing, " and here lay the More." What precisely was a " More," and what does " Skid " or " Skyd " mean with reference to a " More " ?
 * Records of Romsey Abbey,' 1906). It was

Mr. Liveing says that Moor Court (ad- joining Skidmore) took its name from the More." The late Mr. T. W. Shore, in a paper contributed to the Archaeological Review on ' Old Roads and Fords in Hampshire,' says :

"A few miles south of Komsey is Wade farm, close to a branch of the Test, which appears to have been known as the ' Wade ' in the perambulation of the New Forest in the time of Edward III." Moor Court at present lies nearer to the river Test than Wade, and Skidmore is on the opposite side of the river, and imme- diately on its banks; Crampmoor is now a scattered hamlet of a few cottages beside a small stream which runs from Ampneld (anciently Anfield) and Baddesley Common to Romsey, where it joins the Test. It is dignified by the name of the " Tadburne lake" on all the old maps, and is still called " the lake." The fields in its vicinity are called " Moor " and " Moory-ground," and

eppear to have been reclaimed from Baddes- .ey Common in the seventeenth century. This is another More or Moor. One of the tiny streams which join the Tadburne lake s called Spittal Tadburne. I shall be very glad to learn the origin of these various names. F. H. SUCKLING.

Highwood, Romsey.

DUROURE FAMILY.

(US. iii. 389.)

THE inquiry of G. F. R. B. respecting Col. John Duroure draws attention to a very interesting family.

It was a branch of the ancient race of Beauvoir in Languedoc, and was represented in the first half of the sixteenth century by Claud de Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure, Seigneur de Grisac and of other estates, whose eldest son became a Protestant. His descendant several generations later was the refugee Fra^ois Du Roure, who Was captain in a regiment of cavalry in the British service. He married Catherine de Rieutort and had two sons Scipio and Alexander officers in the British army and known as Duroure.

In 1736, under General Wade, Scipio Duroure was Major of Brigade with ten shillings a day. He became the lieutenant- colonel of the 12th Foot, and then (12 August, 1741) colonel of the regiment. His regiment served in Flanders and won great distinction at Fontenoy. Duroure, then Adjutant- General of the forces, was mortally wounded in that fight, and was carried to Ath. After lingering for a few days he died on 10 May (O.S.), 1745, at the age of 56, and was burie'd on the ramparts of that town. His " effects and horses " were ordered " to be sold on Wednesday [after 7 June] at 11 o' Clock at y e head of y e Roy 1 Drag 8 ." He had served for 41 years, and had received as some additional reward of his services the sinecure post of captain of the castle of St. Mawes, on the north side of the entrance to Fal- mouth harbour. His wife, whom he married in 1713, was his cousin, Marguerite de Vignolles.

A monument was erected by his son, Francis Duroure, in the cloisters of West- minster Abbey, " to preserve and unite the memory of two affectionate brothers, valiant soldiers and sincere Christians." Scipio Duroure was the elder, Alexander Duroure the younger of these brothers. Alexander