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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. m. JUNE 24, 1911.

A Maurice D'Assigny, 1643-1717, is noticed in the 'D.X.B.' as probably a son of ,M. D'Assigny, French Protestant minister at Norwich, and buried at Woodham Walter Church, Essex. W. B. H.

RAGS LEFT AT WELLS (11 S. iii. 409, 470). MR. HARRIS STONE will find some infor- mation in The Athenceum, 1 April, 1893, pp. 415-16. Reference is there made to Mr. Gomme's then newly issued work ' Ethnology in Folk-lore.'

RICHARD H. THORNTON. 36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

" SEFTON," A CARRIAGE (US. iii. 447). The " Sefton " is a light landau suitable for one horse. It was shown at the Inven- tions Exhibition of 1885 by Messrs. Hooper, and was named after the Earl of Sefton, for whom it had been built (see Sir W. Gilbey, ' Modern Carriages,' 1905, p. 44).

The ' N.E.D.' has included the following carriages : barouche, britzka, brougham, clar- ence, cosy, dennet, droshky, hackney, hansom, landau, landaulet, phaeton, Ralli car, and T cart. The c N.E.D.' has excluded the following : Battlesden, Imperial Clarence (as used by the first Lord Lytton, see G. A. Thrupp, 'Hist, of Coaches,' 1877, p. 92), Malvern cart, Newport Pagnel, and Norwich cart. The following quotations may be of use :

" Tell one of the boys to put the fastest horse of the lot into the Newport Pagnel and to bring it up here." 1862, M. E. Braddon, 'Aurora Floyd,' chap. xxi.

"The gradual development of the dogcart in all

its varied shapes of Newport Pagnel, Malvern

cart, Whitechapel Norwich cart, &c., are too

well known to need enlarging upon." Thrupp, .$., p. 85.

Sir W. Gilbey 's ' Early Carriages and Roads,' 1903, may also be referred to.

M.

" Sefton," as an adjective, is also used to designate a peculiar kind of " Pelham " horse-bit. A " Pelham " .riding bit has two reins and a single headpiece. A "Sefton Pelham " bit has an egg-shaped link with double joint in the middle of the mouthpiece. Both terms are supposed to be attributable to the names of the in- ventors. F. J. OVERTON.

In his inquiry regarding this word DR. BRADLEY surely says the opposite of what he intends to say. "Was it so called," he writes, " from the title of the Earl of Sefton, or from the name of the maker ? In the latter case the claim of the designation

to be treated as a word of the English lan- guage may be doubtful." The contrary opinion has hitherto prevailed. We have r for example, Aldine, Elzevir, Chippendale,. Sheraton, derringer, Winchester, and mack- intosh belonging to the second class of words referred to ; while " brougham " mainly f if not altogether, represents the first.

W. B.

[" Wellingtons " and "bluchers," boots and high shoes respectively, may be added to "brougham."]

INDEXES LOCORTJM TO PRINTED PARISH REGISTERS (11 S.^ iii. 186, 256, 276). At the time of contributing my note upon this subject (see the first reference above), I had not gained access to the most recently issued volume of the Harleian Society's registers. This, the first volume of the marriages at St. Benet and St. Peter, Paul's Wharf, covering the period 1619 to 1730, I am glad to find contains a full index of places in addition to the customary index of names, so that it may reasonably be assumed that it is the intention of the Society to amend its ways for the future in this respect.

May I add to my plea for further indexing: of printed registers generally a request that names of clergyman officiating at weddings may in all cases be taken into the indexes- nominum, preferably with the style (Rev.) preserved ? In my observation many editors omit to include these important references, thus unwittingly causing con- siderable trouble to would-be biographers of old-time members of the clergy.

WILLIAM MCMTJRRAY,

COWPER'S ' CHARITY ' : " PORCELAIN " (US. iii. 409, 456). I am obliged to your correspondents for their replies. That Cowper's allusion is to a porcelain figure of Charity is abundantly clear, but has any one of them ever seen such a porcelain figure ? or ever read of it, except in Cow- per ? or ever heard of it ? J. M.

FATHER QUIROGA AND THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR (11 S. iii. 409, 452). Asa spiritual confessor to the Imperial Court of Vienna (since 1633) Pater Quiroga is twice mentioned on pp. 464 and 476 of Dr. Georg Winter's ' Geschichte des 30 jahrigen Krieges ' (,8vo, Berlin, 1893), a volume of W. Oncken's great illustrated series of " Allgemeine Geschichte in Einzel-Darstellungen " (pub. in 42 vols., together with a General Index vol. in 4 parts, 1876-93). H. KREBS.