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married William Parsons, father of the Earl of Rosse. The third daughter of Sir William Bullyn married a Mr. Shelton, and the fourth a Mr. Calthorpe.

"Thomas Bullyn, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, who was a Knight of St. George and died in 1583, "by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, then Earl of Surrey, but afterwards Duke of Norfolk, was father of George Bullyn, created in 1533 Viscount Rochford, who was beheaded on 17th May, 1536, on a charge of incestuous intercourse with his sister Queen Anne Bullyn. She was beheaded two days after her brother."

The writer in The Irish Penny Magazine says that Henry VIII. compelled the Earl of Ormond to resign his title in favour of Bullyn (2 Mageoghan's * Ireland,' ii. 251), and the Earl afterwards assumed it when the house of Bullyn was attainted (ib., 303). This curious connexion of the Bulleyns with Ireland is interesting. The ladies therefore named on the Clongoony tomb, according to this genealogy, were second cousins of Queen Elizabeth, as George Bullyn, Viscount Roch- ford, was her uncle, and his son George her cousin. RICHARD J. KELLY.

10, Mountjoy Square, Dublin.

[See 11 S. iii. 134, 375.J

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

DR, FRANCIS E. SANKEY : DR. WOOLLEY. On 9 July, 1856, at Valetta, Malta, Frances Sydney Sankey, eldest daughter of Dr. Sankey, married Capt. Robert Boyle, R.A., son of David Boyle and Catherine Campbell Smythe.

I wish information as to the maiden name, parentage, birthplace, and marriage of the wife of Dr F. E. Sankey. My information leads me to believe that she was married, between 1800 and 1811, at Charleston, South Carolina. Dr Sankey, I think, was at that time serving on a" British frigate or ship of the line.

Mrs. Sankey had a sister, or half-sister, who was married, at the same place, near the same time, to a Dr. Woolley, also serving in a British ship of war.

Any information about either lady, by letter, or through the pages of ' N. & Q.,' would be most gratefully appreciated by me. WILLIAM HAYNE HALE.

Eagle Pass, Maverick Co., Texas.

MUMMY USED AS PAINT BY ARTISTS. Can ' N. & Q.' tell me what authority there is for the statement that mummies have been, when ground and mixed with poppy oil, used to produce a beautiful tint of brown ? GEORGE MCMURRAY.

New York.

" BACKSEAT " : " TAKE A BACK SEAT." The word " backseat " is not given in the 'N.E.D.,' Webster, nor, in fact, in any of the English dictionaries that I have been able to consult for the moment. Muret- Sanders has it with the translation " Riick- sitz," and in the figurative sense, as an Americanism. But this idiom cannot be now restricted to America, as I read the other day in The Zoophilist : " Mrs. Ander- son should be requested by the Suffragettes to take a back seat." May I ask what is the use, proper and figurative, and social status of the word ? G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

[" Take a back seat " is included in the ' N.E.D.,' s.v. ' Seat,' sb., V. 27, " Phrases," c, and is described as originating; in the United States. The first quotation is from Farmer's ' Slang Dictionary,' s v. ' Back Seat,' which attributes the popularity of the phrase to a saying of Arfdrew Johnson in 1868. It is now often used in journalism and conversation.]

" BAST." The following sentence occurs in a telegram from Teheran which appeared in The Times on 12 June :

"The original intention of the regiment was to take bast in the British Consulate as a protest against the Persian Government for leaving them unpaid."

What is the meaning of " taking bast " ? A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

HENRY VII. AND MABUSE. A print of the marriage of Henry VII. is marked " Mabuse pinxit. Le Coeur sculp." Where is this picture by Mabuse to be seen ?

XYLOGRAPHER.

SKEAT ON DERIVATIONS. Prof. Skeat, in, I think, one of his contributions to these columns, laid down the principle that when it is asserted that a certain word is derived from another because .... the statement is generally wrong. Can any one refer me to the passage ? EMERITUS.

ST. COLUMB AND STRATTON ACCOUNTS.

Two more queries suggest themselves (see US. iii. 349, 412, 475) on the Elizabethan portion of the St. Columb accounts, which are of exceptional interest, and will be printed in the Journal of the Royal Institu- tion of Cornwall for 1912, In the property