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NOTES AND QUERIES. in s. iv. NOV. n, 1911.

Herculanensia ; or, archaeological and philo- logical dissertations, containing a manuscript found among the ruins of Herculanum. By W. Drummond and B. Walpole. London, 1810 (Cadell).

Martini, Emidio. Catalogo generate dei Papiri Ercolanesi.

Murr, Ch. Th. De papyris seu voluminibus graecis Herculanensibus commentat (Argentorati, 1804, Levrault).

Quaranta, Bernardo. (Segretario perpetuo dell' Accademia Ercolanese ecc.) De' Papiri Erco- lanesi ossia Storia della loro scoperta, qualita, figura e svolgimento. Napoli, 1835.

Sickler, F. C. L. Die Herkulanensischen Hand- schriften in England, und meine, nach erhaltenem Kuf und nach Auftrag der englischen Regierung im Jahr 1817 zu ihrer Entwickelung gemachten Versuche. Leipzig, 1819 (Brockhaus).

Ventriglia, FT. Commentariolum in vetus litteratum marmor Pompeiis effossum. Neapoli, 1852.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

COLOMAN MIKSZATH'S WORKS IN ENGLISH ^11 S. iv. 310). Since sending my query I have received from the Chief Librarian of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences a printed list of the Mikszath translations into about o. dozen different languages. Among those done into English I have found two more, namely :

' Heathen Master Filcsik,' published at Cleve- land, Ohio, 1910.

' Step by Step,' which appeared in Hungary, .an English periodical published at Budapest <1908-10).

L. L. K.

MR. WILLIAM WEARE : THURTELL : WIL- LIAM WEBB (11 S. iv. 244). In addition to the references given, the authorship of the verses on the murder of Weare was dis- cussed at 10 S. viii. 349. In a letter to The Standard, which appeared 16 March, 1903, the late Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane gave four verses as having been quoted by his father (Lord Bessborough) seventy years ago. Three of these are given by MR. MAYCOCK, but the other I have not seen elsewhere. It ran :

They knocked him down With a pocket pistol, His throat they badly cut : Then into a ditch, In a sack well stitch, This wounded man they put. The verse "When Ruthven went" there appears as a refrain or chorus. W. B. H.

LE BOTILER OR BUTLER FAMILY (US. iv. 310). It is useless to seek a common origin for families bearing such names as Butler, Smith, Baker, &c. Any man who was a butler, smith, baker, &c., at the time when

surnames were crystallizing, might found a family of that name. The baronial house of Boteler or Butler, of Wemme and Overs- ley, is said to have owed its name to the founder being butler to Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan and 1st Earl of Leicester ; whilst the Lords Boteler of Warrington are said to have been descended from a butler to Ranulf de Gernon, Earl of Chester. No doubt there are many other families of Butler whose ancestors held that post in different households.

The famous Irish house of which Lord Ormonde is the head took its name from the hereditary office of Chief Butler of Ireland, and had no connexion with any of the English Butlers. In England the office of king's butler was a serjeanty hereditary in the family of Aubigny, Earls of Sussex or Arundel (frequently referred to as " de Albini," a mistranslation of de Albineio, the Latinized form of d' Aubigny), who, however, never used Boteler as a surname. The Aubignys had no connexion with the cas- tellans of Ivry, who were hereditary butlers of Normandy at the time of the Conquest, nor had they any connexion with Hamon the butler, to whom MR. CAREY refers.

I take it that this Hamon pincerna was a royal butler in Normandy, as Henry II. calls him his serjeant (' Cal. of Docts. in France,' No. 620). Hamon, who witnessed many of the king's charters, married Agnes, daughter and coheiress of Geoffrey, " son of Mabel" (ibid.), and had a son William (No. 832). Hamon was a benefactor to the Abbeys of Savigny (ibid.) and Longues (No. 1453). I do not know that there is any- thing to connect him with the Channel Islands. G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

STATUES, &c., IN VENICE (US. iv. 308). The Library of St. Mark or Bibliotheca Marciana is in the Palazzo Ducale. This institution, with which the names of Fran- cesco Petrarca and Marino Sanudo are intimately connected, should not be con- founded with Sansovino's Libreria Vecchia, now part of the royal palace. It is open to all, every day in the week, except Sundays and holidays, from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Special permission never refused to bona fide students is, however, required for admission to the famous collection of manuscripts. J. F. S.

WEST-COUNTRY CHARM (11 S. iv. 250). See chap. i. ' Over Running Water ' of William Black's novel ' Shandon Bells.'

JOHN T. PAGE.