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According to Spenser, the Red Cross Knight (called " St. George " in the ' F. Q.,' ii. 12) was accompanied by Una. And as for Una ('F. Q.,' i. 4), it is said that "by her, in a line, a milkewhite lambe she had." Why she did so we are not informed ; still less what became of the lamb.

WALTER W. SKEAT. [MR. HARRY HEMS also thanked for reply.]

' WAVERLEY ' : " CLAN OF GREY FINGON " (US. iii. 487). The " clan of grey Fingon " represented the Mackinnons, who dwelt at different periods in Mull, lona, and Skye. Fingon is said to have been a name common in ancient times, and denoted " Fair- bairn." See Skene's ' Highlanders of Scot- land,' edited by Macbain, 1902, and the Rev. Donald D. Mackinnon's 'Memoirs of Clan Fingon,' 1899. W. SCOTT.

The Mackinnons (Sliochd Fhionnon, no Mac'Ionnon) are a branch of the great Clan Alpin, claiming descent from Fingon, grandson of Gregor, whose father was Kenneth Mac Alpin, King of the Picts and Dalriad Scots. The prefix Mac renders the initial consonant quiescent ; hence Mac Fhinnon=Mac'innon.

Their burial-place was in lona, where, in the chancel, is to be seen on a table- tomb the monumental effigy of Abbat Mac Fingon, who died in 1500. In conjunction with his father Lachlan, he erected one of those elaborately sculptured crosses still remaining in the Reilig Ouran on the island. A. R. BAYLEY.

MATTHEW ARNOLD ON MODERN HURRY (11 S. iii. 488). The .passage of Matthew Arnold which is inquired for will be found in his * Friendship's Garland,' 1871, p. 146, in the essay entitled * My Countrymen.'

BIBORG.

Matthew Arnold uses the phrase " sick hurry " in ' The Scholar-Gipsy,' stanza 21 :

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

ALFRED ANSCOMBE.

RAIKES CENTENARY (11 S. iii. 366). In the entry of the marriage of Robert Raikes (16 May, 1725), quoted by MR. McMuRRAY from the marriage register of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Gresham Street, ought not the signature of the officiating clergyman to be " Lilly " perhaps abbre- viatedinstead of " W m " Butler ?

The Rev. Lilly Butler, LL.B., second son of Dr. Lilly Butler (Canon of Canterbury, &c.), was if I mistake not Rector of that parish from 1716 until his death in 1736, as well as Rector of Dagenham, Essex, and Chaplain to the Marquess of Annan- dale. His name appears in the register of Merchant Taylors' School in 1696.

C. E. BUTLER.

FIGURES RISING FROM THE DEAD (11 S. iii. 407). In 1881, during the restoration of the parish church of Preston, Holderness, several figures made of alabaster were orought to light. They were supposed to have originally formed part of a piece representing our Lord's resurrection, formerly placed in the interior of the sacred edifice. A brief account of the discovery will be found in The Antiquary, iv. 81.

Row TAY.

In churchyards in Strathdon, in Aber- deenshire, tombstones show skeletons with some vapour issuing from the earhole in the skull, and forming at a little distance a small cloud. This is supposed to represent the resurrection of the soul.

JOHN MILNE.

Aberdeen.

SHIPDEM FAMILY (US. iii. 407, 478). The Kentish Gazette, 7 April, 1815, announced that " in the night of Saturday last, the counting-house (and banking room) of R. Shipdem, Esq., at Hythe, was burglariously entered by person or persons." The office of Mayor of Hythe was filled on several occasions by members of this family.

In 1791 John Shipdem was Town Clerk of Dover. R. J. FYNMORE.

MOOR, MORE, AND MOORY-GROUND (11 S. iii. 450). " A cord moors " is a not infre- quent entry in the old parish books of Hampshire, meaning a cord of roots. Root, of O. Norse origin, failed for centuries to displace in the South the A.-S. and M.E. more, still, or lately, existing in dialect. In ' Sir Beues of Hamtoun ' (fifteenth-century MS.) will be found " borne of Jesses more." This should account for " moory-ground," ground stated to have been reclaimed in the past.

Skidmore is of interest as accounting for the name Scudamore (Bardsley, s.v.), well known in the history of the Stanhopes and Earls of Chesterfield. Lower states that a Scudamore was lord of Upton, Wilts, in the reign of Stephen ; but there is an Upton in Hants, close to Skidmore.