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his wife, who had purchased it, jointly with Sir Arnold Savage and John St. Ger- mayn, citizen and grocer, from William Daubeney, William Goldington, and Peter Taddelowe. I should be much obliged to any one who would supply further infor- mation about the ownership of the manor between 1392 and 1405. Hasted's account of it is certainly inaccurate.

G. O. BELLEWES. 13, Cheyne Row, S.W.

PIN ix NECROMANCY. What is the pre- cise significance of the pin in the outfit of a witch ? It seems to have been essential that it should be crooked, not merely bent. Quantities of them are said to have been vomited by the victims, or else discovered about their garments. Although pins played an important part in nearly all the trials for alleged witchcraft in Hertfordshire, the witnesses do not seem to have attached any special meaning to their presence, other than as conclusive evidence that the person upon whom they were found was bewitched.

W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

[Miss E. D. Longman and Miss S. Loch have just published a volume devoted to ' Pins and Pin- cushions,' in which they deal with legends and superstitions connected with the pin.]

COLONIES : THEIR ARMS. What illus- trated work contains the arms of our Colonies and dependencies ? VERUS.

DUCHESSE DE BERRI ET DE ST. LEU.

Ca,n any one tell me who was Henrietta Josephine Stuart de Bourbon Bonaparte, Duchesse de Berri et de St. Leu ? She was a child in England during Queen Victoria's reign, and was said to have been crowded by the Pope, but as monarch of what country?

W. B. C.

BURIAL IN WOOLLEN : " DOLBERLINE." On 4 October 1678, a patent was granted to Amy Potter, widow, for

"making of Flanders Dolberline, and all other laces of woollen, to be used in dresses for the decent buriall of the dead or otherwise, which may tend to the increasing of woollen manufacture, and accord- ing to an Act for burying in woollen."

The word " dolberline " does not occur in the ' N.E.D.,' and I am anxious to know what it is. It is not necessary to assume that it was a looped fabric such as is now generally understood by the word " lace " ; it was probably a trimming, in which sense the word is still used, as, for instance, " gold lace " and " coach lace." R. B. P.

' ENGLISCHE SCHNITZER.' Dr. Krueger's ' linen glisches English,' reviewed ante, p. 280^ reminds me of a similar book published many years ago under the title ' Englische Schnitzer ' ('English Howlers'), but I have not made a note of the author's name* Can any reader oblige me with it ?

L. L. K.

JOHN WORSLEY, SCHOOLMASTER AT HERT- FORD. John Worsley kept a school at Hert- ford (circa 1730-40) at which John Wilkes was a pupil. Is anything known of thi& school or of its proprietor ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

'MEMOIRS or H.R.H. CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA ' : ELIZABETH NEWMAN. A copy of ' Memoirs of her late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta,' &c., is bound in calf and lettered on the back in what seems an unusual fashion. The lettering is simply " Charlotte " in the second division of the six spaces in the tooling, and in the fifth space is " Eliz | Newman | 1818." This i& so unusual that an explanation is desirable. It appears to be a rebinding of the book,, for the pages have suffered somewhat from the plough. At the end of the ' Memoirs ' are 136 pages of ' A Sacred Memorial,' which is composed of " one hundred and twenty sermons preached on the day of her interment by the most eminent divines of all denominations." These were selected by Robert Huish, author of ' The Memoirs,' and used as a supplement. Who was Eliza- beth Newman ? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

DANIEL PURCELL. Will some reader kindly give information about this organist ? He was a brother of Henry Purcell, and was organist of Magdalen College, Oxford, and of St. Andrew's, Holborn. I wish to know of any compositions by him, and when and 1 where he was born and died.

Please reply direct. L. H. CHAMBERS.

Amersham.

EDWARD PURCELL. Edward, the only surviving son of the great Henry Purcell, was organist of St. Margaret's, Westminster, from 1726 to 1740. Any particulars regard- ing him and a list of his compositions are asked for. L. H. CHAMBERS.

" BROKEN COUNSELLOR." In the register of a parish church in Bucks a rector who was called to the living in 1709 is described as a " broken counsellor." I should be glad of an explanation of these words. E. A. L.