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NOTES AND QUERIES. in s. ra. FEB. 4, 1911.

ATJTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. iii. 48). The authorship of

The kiss of the sun for pardon was mentioned in The Spectator of 14 January. It was ascribed to D. F. Gurney.

R. B. Upton.

CANONS, MIDDLESEX : " ESSEX " AS CHRISTIAN NAME (US. ii. 328, 374, 394, 437, 534). Sir Thomas Lake (1567 ? 1630), Secretary of State and elder brother of Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, purchased the estate of Canons in 1604. His third son, Lancelot (d. 1646), left a son Lancelot, who was M.P. for Middlesex in the Convention of 1660 and in the Parliament of 1661, was knighted at Whitehall on 6 June, 1660, and died in 1680. Sir Lancelot had two sons, Thomas and Warwick.

The elder son, Thomas, who was knighted on 4 December, 1670, married Rebecca, daughter of Sir John Langham of Cotes- brooke, and had a daughter Mary, first wife of James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos, to whom the estate of Canons ultimately passed.

The younger son Warwick Lake, married the heiress of Sir Thomas Gerard, Bt., of Flambards, Harrow-on-the-Hill, and was father of Launcelot Charles Lake, and grand- father of Gerard Lake, first Viscount Lake of Delhi and Leswarree, general.

Sir Gilbert Gerard, Attorney - General, and ten members of his family ; Warwick and Launcelot Charles Lake ; and both the Dukes of Chandos, were, at various periods, governors of Harrow School.

The singular topographical Christian name of Essex may possibly be a surname used as a Christian name. There are five instances in the ' D.N.B.' of Essex as a surname. But a brother of Essex, Lady Drax, was named Warwick Lake. Whom did Sir Lancelot marry ?

Thomas Hussey of Edmundsham, Dorset, who died in 1684, aged 54,' married Phila- delphia, daughter of Essex Pawlet, Esq., by Frances, daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier or Napper. Here Essex is a man's Christian name. I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can tell me what relation this Essex Pawlet was to that truculent Cavalier Sir John Poulett or Pawlet, first Baron Poulett (15861649). I believe they were akin.

A. R. BAYLEY.

Some years ago an officer in a regiment of Kent Volunteers had Essex for a Christian

name possibly a survival of the old custom of a son having the surname of the mother for a Christian name.

There was a family named Essex seated at Lambourne, Berks, which claimed pre- Norman descent from a family in the county of Essex (Ashmole, ' Berks,' ii. 237). There is a pedigree of a London family so called in Harl. Soc. Pub., i. 81. A. RHODES.

Lady Lettice Lake (mother of Sir Launce- lot Lake) was a Rich of Essex, and in that family Essex was used as a feminine Christian name. The third daughter of Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick, was christened Essex, I think in memory of her rather notorious great-grandmother Penelope (sister of the Earl of Essex), who married Robert, 3rd Baron Rich, and afterwards 1st Earl of Warwick ; but see ' Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, 1625-1678,' by Miss Charlotte Fell-Smith. A. T. W.

Essex as a Christian name is not very rare ; it occurs, for instance, in the family of Selby Lowndes, and, I think, also in that of Knightley. OLD SABUM.

"ENNOMIC" (11 S. iii. 9). A "deed ennomic " is a legal instrument, the adjec- tive being derived from li/vo/xo?, lawful, legal. N. W. HILL.

[MB, W. SCOTT makes the same suggestion, and refers to Liddell and Scott.]

CORPSE BLEEDING IN PRESENCE OF THE

MURDERER (US. ii. 328, 390, 498 ; iii. 35). The Hertfordshire story referred to by MR. GERISH (US. ii. 390) is to be found in ' The Wonders of the Universe ; or, Curiosities of Nature and Art,' 1824, otherwise called ' The New Wonderful and Entertaining Magazine,' p. 599. The account is said to have been found in the papers of Sir John Maynard, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal of England. The murdered woman is there called Johan Norkett, wife of Arthur Norkett. According to this account, May- nard wrote the evidence as he heard it given at the bar of the King's Bench before Sir Nicholas Hyde, Chief Justice.

The first verdict of the coroner's jury was " felo de se," but when it " was not yet drawn into form " they changed their minds, and requested the coroner to have the body taken out of the grave. Then they changed their verdict. There was a trial at Hertford Assizes, resulting in a verdict of acquittal. The child of the murdered woman appealed against his father, grandmother, and aunt, and her husband Okerman. Evidence was