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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. A. 12, 1911.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iv. 88).

Quoniam non CDgnovi, &c.

This is part of verses 15, 16 of Psalm Ixx. in the Vulgate, in A.V. Ixxi. W. C. B.

" TOUT COMPRENDRE c'EST TOUT PAR-

DONNER " (11 S. iv. 86). DR. KRUEGER may like to refer to a note by MR. E. LATHAM at 9 S. xi. 223.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

ELECTOR PALATINE c. 1685 (US. iv. 68).- It is a little difficult to say who was the Electoral Prince Palatine referred to in a book published in the year 1685.

Charles Lewis, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, commonly called in England the Palsgrave, born 22 December, 1617, had by his wife, Charlotte of Hesse-Cassel, one daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchess of Orleans, and one son, Charles ; but his mistress Louise von Degenfeld bore him thirteen other children, on whom the Elector conferred the titles of Margrave and Margra- vine Palatine.

Charles Lewis died 28 August, 1680, and was succeeded by his only legitimate son Charles, who survived his father about five years, and, dying childless in 1685, was followed by a prince of the house of Neu- bourg, a distant kinsman.

The latter or the latter's son is probably the Electoral Prince referred to, but certainly not Ernest Augustus of Brunswick, first Elector of Hanover, whose Electorate was a totally distinct country from the Pala- tinate of the Rhine. H.

The inscription on W. H. C.'s book cannot refer to Ernest Augustus, afterwards the first Elector of Hanover. He married a princess from the Palatinate, Sophia, but did not belong to that country himself.

In 1685 the Simmern line of Electors of the Rhenish Palatinate died out with Charles, grandson of Frederick V. and Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I. of England, and the succession passed to a distant cousin, Philip William, of the House of Neuburg. He died in 1690, and was succeeded by one of his seventeen children, John William, Duke of Jiilich and Berg. EDWARD BENSLY.

Europaischer Hof, Bad Wildungen.

The Elector Palatine to whom the book belonging to W. H. C. is dedicated was Philip William of Neuburg, b. November 5, 1615, son of Wolfgang, Duke of Neuburg, and

his wife Madeline of Bavaria. He succeeded as Count Palatine in 1685. He married, 1st, 1642, Anne Catherine Constance,, daughter of Sigismond III., King of Poland ; she died s.p. 1651. He married, 2ndly, 1652, Elizabeth Amelia, daughter of George II. r Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, by whom he had fourteen children. He died 2 Sep- tember, 1690, and was succeeded by his- eldest son, John William.

T. H. B. VADE-WALPOLE.

There were two Electors Palatine in 1685. Karl, grandson of the celebrated Queen of Bohemia, died in that year, and was succeeded by Philipp Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg. M.

DUMBLETON, PLACE-NAME (11 S. IV-

89). This is a singular instance of a place- name where the forms seem to be corrupt at all periods. The Domesday scribe wrote- it Dunbentone and Dubintone ; while in A.D. 930 and P95 we have Dumolan, Domelton, Dumollan, and Dumbletairu ' Feudal Aids ' gives Dombelton. The autho- rities, I believe, endeavour to obtain Domwulfes-tun from these forms ; and it is not difficult to account for the loss of the w and the /, while the 6 may well have become softened to u ; but this does not account for the constant absence of the s. (Cf. ' Wor- cestershire Place-Names,' by W. H. Duignan y 1905.) ST. CLAIR BADDELE^.

CARACCIOLO FAMILY (11 S. iv. 69). - I would refer MRS. FORTESCUE to memoirs of the family by Count Carraciolo (Naples, 1893), No. 9906 in the printed books at the British Museum.

Thirty or forty years a.go an English or Irish lady lived in Naples entitled S. Arpino of this family ; and another member of the family married a beautiful blonde Capri peasant-girl called Emilia, daughter of a Tarantella fiddler.

WILLIAM MERCER.

' TWEEDSIDE,' SONG AND METRE (US. IV. 87). The anonymous song ' Tweed side ' is generally attributed to John, Lord Yester,. second Marquis of Tweeddale, who died at Yester 20 April, 1713, in his 68th year. Scot of Satchel, dedicating in 1688 his ' Ryming History ' of the name of Scot, compliments the Marquis on his poetical gifts. The lyric in any case is known to have been written before the birth of Allan Ramsay (1684) for a melody with which David Rizzio has been credited, though