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 ii B. iv. SEPT. 16, ion.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

COLLEGE FELLOWSHIP SOLD IN 1591. The acquittance from Leonard Ithell, late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Richard Deeringe of Pluckley, Kent, for 151. , in consideration of his resignation of his fellowship in favour of George Deeringe, B.A., 12 Nov., 1591, is contained in Add. MS. 34,195, f. 8 (Brit. Mus.).

DANIEL HIPWELL.

BREDA COCKNEYS.

" To the font in Breda cathedral William III. attached the privilege of London citizenship. Any child christened there could claim the rights of a Londoner, the origin of the sanction being the presence of English soldiers in Breda and their wish that their children should be English too. Whether or not the Dutch guards who were helping the English at the end of the seventeenth century had a similar privilege in London I do not know."

So writes ' A Wanderer in Holland,' Mr. E. V. Lucas (p. 282). ST. SWITHIN.

HOLED BRIDAL STONES. (See 10 S. ix. 509; x. 329.) Angelo Mosso, 'The Dawn of Mediterranean Civilization ' (Fisher Unwin, 1910), p. 234, writes :

" An aperture in the stones of a dolmen is common in France and Syria and other countries. We do not know the reason of this aperture in the dolmens ; possibly it indicates a belief in the soul, and was to enable it to get in or out of the tomb."

There is such a hole in the superincumbent slab of a dolmen at Minervino, Lecce, in the province of Otranto, Italy. Signer Mosso reproduces a photograph of this dolmen, though it does not show the hole in the stone, which apparently can only be seen from above or below.

Sir Norman Lockyer's book, ' Stone- henge and other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered ' (Macmillan & Co., 1906), deals with the purpose of the hole which is perforated through some of the stones of our " ancient monuments." He is of opinion that it was used as a sight-line, through which the astronomer-priest could view the sunrise in November and the sunset in May, and that it therefore had a close connexion with early seasonal observations.

The connexion of these holed stones with children and marriage ceremonies would be a secondary one, arising from the popular belief in their sacred character. The folk-lore connected with these prehistoric rude stone monuments would be an interest- ing study, and there is probably much on the subject hidden away in archaeological pub- lications. FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

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

REV. DR. OGILVIE, BROTHER OF THE POET. In a correspondence which I am editing there is, in a letter from England of 27 September, 1803, this statement :

"I made excursions to Egham, Runny Mead, and Cooper's Hill, near which I spent two days in the family of the worthy Dr. Ogilvie, a brother of the poet." ff.

Can any one inform me what ecclesiastical charge or prefermentlthis Dr. Ogilvie held, or give me any definite particulars regarding his life ? ARTHUR LOWNDES.

143, East 37th Street, New York.

' THE MOTHER AND THREE CAMPS,' ' GUARD SALUTE,' OR * THE POINT OF WAR.' There is an old and well-known piece of military music which is played by the fifes (1) at reveille, (2) when trooping the colour, (3) at military funerals after the third volley has been fired over the grave. For each occasion it bears a different name. When played at reveille it is called ' The Mother and Three Camps ' ; when used at the cere- mony of trooping the colour it is called ' Guard Salute ' ; and when employed at military funerals it is known as ' The Point of War.'

Can any of your readers assist me in assigning a date to, and tracing the origin of, the music, and also in ascertaining the meaning of the names and why there should be three of them ? C. F. SOMERVILLE.

' WINE AND WALNUTS ' : " EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE." Who was " Ephraim Hard- castle, Citizen and Drysalter," who wrote this amusing work, first published in 1823 ? Was Hardcastle the pen-name of W. H. Pyne ? If so, where can I obtain par- ticulars of his life ? S. J. A. F.

['Wine and Walnuts' was written by W. H. Pyne. There is a pretty full account of him in the 'D.N.B.,' contributed by Mr. Lionel Cust.]

THE CASTLE HOWARD MABUSE : Two DOGS. This masterpiece of Gossart (known as Maubeuge or Mabuse after the town of his birth), just bought for the nation for 40,OOOL, and now on view at the National Gallery, includes, in addition to the many figures in it, two dogs. They are rather un- kempt and scraggy, long-legged, and unlike