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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. iv. DEC. 2, 1911.

LADY BULMER ALIAS MARGARET CHEYNE. John Bulmer of Pinchinthorpe, Yorkshire, entered his pedigree at the Heralds' Visita- tion of 1584 (Foster, ' Yorkshire Pedigrees,' 193). He stated that he was the son of Sir John Bulmer (attainted and executed for taking part in the Pilgrimage of Grace, 1537) by his second wife Margaret, daughter of Henry Stafford, who had lived with Sir John and had two children before marriage ; finally, however, they had been married and had two legitimate children, the aforesaid John and a daughter. Henry Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire, second son of the second Duke of Buckingham and brother of Edward Stafford, the third Duke (beheaded 1521), died without legitimate issue in 1523. In Graves' s ' History of Cleveland,' 407-10, and other Bulmer pedigrees, Margaret is represented as being the illegitimate daugh- ter of Edward Stafford, third Duke of Buck- ingham. What authority is there for this ?

In the indictment of Margaret for high treason, 15 May, 1537, she is called "Margaret Cheyne, wife of William Cheyne, late of London, esquire" ('Letters and Papers of Henry VIII.,' xii. (1), 1207) ; and Wriothesley (' Chronicle,' 63) calls her " Margrett Chyney, after Lady Bolmer by untrue matrymonye." G. Brenan ('The House of Howard,' i. 218-19) calls Lady Bulmer the natural daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, and says that her character was " foully (and, as has since been shown, lyingly ) attacked by the King's lawyers." Where is the defence of her character to be found ? The only reference given by Brenan is Wriothesley, and he believed the lawyers.

M. H. DODDS. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.

ANTIGALLICAN SOCIETY. A society of this name flourished in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Can any one tell me why it was founded, what were its principles, and how long it existed ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

BENNETTO. Can any of your readers give information respecting a family of the name of Bennetto, supposed to have settled in Cornwall about 1588, and believed to be of Italian or Spanish extraction ?

A. E. BENNETTO.

15, Slaithwaite Road, Lewisham, S.E.

' THE ROBBERS' CAVE.' I should be glad to know the name of the author of this book which much interested me as a boy, forty years ago and whether it is still pro- curable. G, B. M.

ST. BRIDE'S : J. PRIDDEN. This book- seller, or his son, made considerable research into the history of the Religious Society of St. Bride's, and their volume of notes was in the library of J. Bowyer Nichols at the time of his death. I shall be pleased to learn of its present whereabouts. They also made voluminous extracts from the parish registers, which may form part of the same work. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

ANVIL CURE. Marcelle Tinayre, in ' L' Ombre de F Amour,' makes mention of a wise man who could give or take away a fever by looking at the victim, and who was what is called a " forgeur " de malades. It is explained " On pose le malade sur 1'en- clume, entre quatre cierges, et le forgeron- sorcier frappe a cote de lui " (p. 15) Have we any occult observance that resembles this in England ? ST. SWITHIN.

YARM : PRIVATE BROWN. According to ' The Soldier's Companion ; or, Martial Recorder,' p. 3, published 1824, there is, or was, at Yarm, a sign commemorating the valour of Thomas Brown, a private in the 3rd Dragoons at Dettingen in 1743. He was granted a pension of 30L a year by King George II., and died in 1746 at Yarm. Can any reader o 'N. & Q.' tell me if the sign still exists, or give me particulars of it ?

A. RHODES.

GLASTONBURY, AND JOSEPH OP ARI- MATHEA. Some years ago I remember reading in one of the daily journals that, while making excavations in the grounds adjacent to Glastonbury Abbey, some workmen came across the remains of an ancient wooden structure. Can any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' kindly furnish par- ticulars respecting this discovery, and also state whether these relics in any way con- firmed the well-known legend as to Joseph and his companions having erected a wattled wooden church near the site of the present Abbey ? J. BASIL BIRCH.

LATIN ACCENTUATION. (1) There were in- Latin several exceptions to the common law for the placing of accent according to quantity. Where can I find these exceptions treated of at length ?

(2) Brachet says that filiolus, gladiolus, &c., were accented on the penultima from the seventh century. How can it be shown that they were ever accented otherwise ?

(3) From mulierem come the Spanish muger, the Italian mogliera, and the old