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extinct in the male line about 1700, when the sole heiress of the family married an Isherwood. The Bradshaws of Chapel-en-le-Frith failed about the same period. The Bradshaws, now of Barton, ended in a female the beginning of the last cen- tury ; and the Bradshaws of Haigh, now repre- sented by the Earls of Balcarres, failed at the same time. To these might be added the Brad- shaws of Makeney and of M >rebarne. Thus, within a century of the President's time, seven different branches at least of his family either became altogether extinct, or merged through females into other families."

See also 11 S. ii. 404.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

PORCH INSCRIPTION IN LATIN (11 S. iv. 330). The thought is found in more than one author. St. Ambrose, for instance, 35, has :
 * De Officiis Ministrorum,' lib. i. cap. 10,

" Sapiens ut loquatur, multa prius considerat, quid dicat, aut cui dicat, quo in loco, et tempore."

EDWARD BENSLY.

This is perhaps the Latin motto that your correspondent is seeking : Si sapiens fores, sex serva quae tibi mando :

Quid dicas, et ubi, de quo, quomodo, quando. Nunc lege, nunc ora, nunc cum fervore labora,

Tune erit hora brevis, et labor ipse levis.

I make eight, not six, monitions. The lines were found on a stone in the ruins of Guild- ford Priory, and probably many other instances exist. The first part was often used on needlework samplers under the form : If wisdom's ways you Wisely seek, These things observe with care, Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.

Mr. W. E. Norris in ' Thirlby Hall' (i. 315) gives another version : If you your lips would keep from slips,

Five things observe with care : To whom you speak, of whom you speak,

And how, and when, and where.

A. E. P. RAYMUND DOWLING.

LOWTHER FAMILY (11 S. iv. 388). Ac- cording to G. E. C., * Complete Baronetage,' ii. 441 : "The issue male of the grantee of" the Lowther Baronetcy of 1638 (?) "having failed, the Baronetcy became either extinct or dormant ". on the death, 24 May, 1806, of Sir James Lowther, created Earl of Lonsdale in 1784.

I find nothing more about the two mer- chant sons of John, the first Baronet (1605- 1675), Christopher and Hugh, of whom the former is in the pedigrees called " a Turkey merchant," and the latter " a merchant in London."

His grandson Christopher, second son of Sir John's third son, Richard of Mauds Meaburn, M.P. for Appleby 1688, by his wife Barbara, daughter of Robert Priokett of Wressle Castle, co. York, is said by Joseph Foster, in his ' Yorkshire Pedigrees,' to have married Anne, daughter of Sir John Cowper, and to have died sine prole before 1738. Burn and Nicolson (i. 436) say that Anne was Sir John Cowper 's only daughter, and that he was " cousin-german to the Lord Chancellor Cowper."

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

CHURCH WITH WOODEN BELL-TURRET (11 S. iii. 10, 95, 156). The church of St. Leonard, Middleton, near Manchester, almost answers to the description given by W. B. H. at the first reference, for it has (an ugly) " square wooden bell-turret," saddle-backed, and its site is on high ground, with village roofs lower on the left, and woods beyond. I cannot vouch for the other details adduced, although I have passed the church frequently and visited it once. I may add that its chronology is as follows : in existence, 1091, 1291 ; re- built, 1412, 1524 ; restored, 1869.

J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

BURGH-ON-SANDS : ITS PRONUNCIATION

(US. iv. 409). Brough is often pronounced " Bruff " in Northumbria. I think I have heard of Beningbruff, Bilbruff, and Heming- bruff, though the names meet the eye as Beningbrough, Bilbrough, and Heming- brough, and ofttimes the "brough" is called " borough." Brough Hill fair, which used to be a famous one for horses, always took place at Bruff. R-o-u-g-h spells ruff, and B-r-o-u-g-h Bruff. As Prof. Earle wrote in his genial work on ' The Philology of the English Tongue,' p. 152 :

" It would seem that there is hardly any of these ugh words that has not had the /sound at some time or in some locality. The ' Northern Farmer ' says k thruf ' for through ; and in Mrs. Trimmer's ' Robins,' chap, vi., though receives a like treat- ment ; for Joe the gardener says, ' No, Miss Harriet ; but I have something to tell you that will please you as much as tho'f I had.' " In a foot-note the Professor adds :

" This will not be found in all editions, because such rude things are deemed objectionable by modern educationists ; and Mrs. Trimmer is ex- purgated."

The pleasures of the study of language are many and great, but one of them was lost when Prof. Earle was called away.

ST. SWITHIN. [MR. A. R. BAYLEY is also thanked for reply.]