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(Chester Waters, ' Gundrada de Warrenne/ pp. 16-17). However, the Pope granted a dispensation, on condition that Isabel's father should take the cross, and the marriage took place in 1096-7. If we assume that their daughter Isabel was the eldest child of this marriage, and was born at the earliest possible moment, she would have been about ten years of age when her alleged daughter married the King of Scots.

Even if Alexander's marriage did not take place so early as stated by the ' D.N.B.' a point on which Scottish readers may be able to give some information it seems im- possible to account for the discrepancy a whole generation. I suggest that Sybil's mother must have been another of Henry I.'s numerous mistresses.

Cobbe calls Alexander's wife " Hedwig," but affiliates her to Henry I. as an illegiti- mate child by " Elizabeth, daughter of Ho. de Bellomont, Count of Meulan" ('Norman Kings of England,' Table III.). " De Bellomont " is simply a mistranslation of " de Bello Monte," the Latinized form of de Beaumont. G. H. WHITE.

St. Crc SB, Harleston, Norfolk.

GEOFFREY POLE, the Winchester scholar of whom mention has been made at 9 S. viii. 73, 449, under the heading * Anthony Fortescue,' and at 9 S. ix. 468 under ' Sir Geoffrey Pole, died 1558,' was not attainted 26 February, 1562/3 (Appendix II. to the Fourth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, pp. 263-4), though Sir Thomas Smith mentions him as privy to the plot (' Cal. S.P. for 1562,' p. 480), as he was only 14 years old at the time. In 1576 he was a magistrate of Sussex sus- pected of Popery (Strype, * Annals/ II. ii. 22), and on 29 October, 1577, he was ordered to appear before the Privy Council (Dasent, ' Acts,' x. 69). He had gone abroad before 23 June, 1585, and had let Lordington to his nephew Anthony Fortescue the younger at 50Z. a year ('Cal. S.P. Dom., 1581-90,' p. 247, and cf. pp. 351, 354). In the ' Con- certatio Ecclesise ' he is called Galfrid. The fugitive Germane Pole (ibid., p. 705 ; ' Cal. S.P. Dom., 1591-4,' at p. 15 ; 1598- 1601, at p. 310), who had a brother Gervase at the English College, Rome, in 1599, belonged to the Derbyshire family, and was not a relative of Geoffrey. In 1600 the Duke of Parma was endeavouring to obtain the cardinal's hat for Arthur Pole, a son of the nephew of Cardinal Pole (i.e. of Geoffrey), a young man of 25 years of age, brought up from his childhood in the house of the late

Cardinal Alexander Farnese (' Cal. S.P. Span., 1587-1603,' at pp. 670, 671). On 19 June, 1622, one of Geoffrey's daughters, Mary, was professed at St. Monica's Augustinian Con- vent at Louvain, aged 39, and the ' Chronicle/ vol. i. (Sands & Co., 1904), at pp. 242-3 f gives this account of her father :

" He was a brave gentleman and courageous, a most constant Catholic, a harbourer of priests, and one who, being strong of hand, would beat the pursuivants and catchpolls so handsomely that they stood in great fear of him. Insomuch that once a pursuivant being sent down to serve a writ upon him for his conscience, he chanced to meet with the pursuivant upon the way ; so- that riding together the fellow began to speak something of Mr. Geoffrey Pole, saying thus : 'He is a shrewd man of his hands, for he did beat a brother of mine, but I have here something, I warrant, that will cool his courage ' ; and told him how he had brought the writ for him. He heard him, and said nothing who he was, but entertained him with talk and rode on together so long till he had him in a fit place, and then said to him : ' Here is Geoffrey Pole ; what hast thou to say to him ? ' The fellow pulled out his writ and said as the manner is, ' The Queen greets you ' (for it was in her reign). He, hearing this, made no more ado, but drew his sword and said : ' Look here, fellow, I give thee thy choice ; either eat up this writ presently, or else eat my sword : for one of both thou shalt do ere we part hence/ The poor man began to quake for fear and durst not resist him, but like a coward was wholly daunted, and did indeed eat up the writ for mere fear rather than he would be killed. So became the writ of no effect, but only to punish the pursuivant for his pains. Such like good feats did this worthy gentleman perform, showing always his zeal unto the Catholic religion. At length he came over to this side the seas, where he died like a constant Catholic, in voluntary banishment at Antwerp."

The chronicler also states that Geoffrey was the only one of all the sons of Sir Geoffrey who had issue. She also tells us, at p. 257, that one of Geoffrey's sisters was mother-in- law to a certain Richard Lamb, Esq., who was in the household of Lord Montague.

Is it known whom Geoffrey married ? Or what became of his issue ?

JOHN B. WAINEWKIGHT.

" CARPET - BAGGER." In a recent Times article on American social conditions it was mentioned that this expression was applied by Southerners after the Civil War to Northern officials sent among them during the Reconstruction period. The term was unpopular as denoting one whose worldly possessions could be carried in a carpet- bag. In this country " carpet-bagger " seems to mean an unknown meteoric candi- date who puts up at a local hotel with his carpet-bag during the contest. Not long ago I heard this term applied to a municipal