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stood at the bottom of Flask Walk, in which connexion it may be mentioned that the picturesque archway at the entrance to the Walk from High Street has recently been removed. When the " jury " had finished their duties they had " license to depart, keeping their day and hour on a new summons." Copyholders on the Heath appear still legally to retain " the right of pasturage, the right to take a load of sand if for the copyholder's own use, and the right of wooding." It is refreshing to know that these ancient functions are still per- petuated. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

' MILIEUX D'ABT.' A privately printed book bearing this title was noticed in The Saturday Review, 19 May, 1906, from which I gather that it contains some interesting criticisms of George Meredith's works. I am anxious to obtain a description of the book for a list of Meredithiana I am compiling and to ascertain the author's name. A letter addressed to the printer, Donald Fraser, 37, Hanover Street, Liverpool, has elicited no reply. MAURICE BUXTON FORMAN. Cape town.

SOMERSET CARPENTER ARMS. Does any one know the origin of the Somerset Car- penter arms and crest ? Vert, an escallop shell arg. between two pallets or. Crest, a snail ppr. with shell on top arg.(?), granted in 1663. Henry Carpenter, Secretary Gene- ral of Leeward Islands, 1701 et seq., used these arms in 1685. To whom were they first granted ? J. H. C.

Utah.

PHILLIPPS FAMILY. I am desirous of tracing the ancestry of the old family of Phillipps. Clara Philipps was my mother's mother, born on 8 March, 1826 (where ?) ; she married at London on 4 Jan., 1849, the Freiherr Adalbert v. Nordeck zur Rabenau, who lived at Friedelhausen, near Giessen (Hessen), Germany. She died at Friedel- hausen on 20 Feb., 1867. Can any infor- mation be given as to the family Phillipps, or any surviving members of this family ?

A. COUNT SCHWERIN-SCHWERINSBURG.

Schwerinsburg, Lowitz, Pommern, Germany.

LAIRDS OF DRUMMINNOR. I copied the following list a few years ago from some work, of which I have forgotten the title :

"John De Forbes; Fergus De Forbes; Duncan De Forbes, 1262 ; Alexander De Forbes, sovernour of Urquhart Castle, killed 1304 ; Sir Alexander De Forbes, killed at Dupplin, 1332; Sir John De Forbes, 1373; Sir Alexander De Forbes, died 1405, married Elizabeth Kennedy of Dunure; Sir Alexander De Forbes (1st Lord Forbes)." Burke' s ' Peerage ' gives Sir John Forbes, died 1406, as the father of the 1st Lord Forbes. Will some reader of ' N. & Q.' state if the above list is correct, and the relation- ship of the lairds to the 1st Lord Forbes ? I have read that Sir John Forbes, father of the 1st Lord Forbes, was the 4th son of the 5th laird of Drumminnor. J. F. J.

Minneapolis.

CAVENDISH SQUARE : EQUESTRIAN STATUE. Some five years ago I first noticed that the equestrian statue of the Duke of Cum- berland had been removed from its pedestal in the centre of Cavendish Square. Since that time I have over and over again asked for information about it, and have got no result. The curious thing is that I have not found any one who remembered the statue, even amongst those who have been thirty and forty years in the immediate neighbourhood. I feel sure it was on the pedestal twenty years ago. When and why was it removed ?

HERBERT SIEVEKING.

DIVES AND PAUPER' : OUR LADY'S FAST. (See ante, p. 323.) In 'Parish Churches before the Reformation: a Contribution to the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeo- logical Society,' by M. E. C. Walcott, B.D., F.S.A. (1879), I find the following passage :

" * Superfluous fasts are those called the Lady Fast, S. Trinyon's (Ninian's) Fast, the Black Fast (abstinence from lacticinia), S. Margaret's Fast (Queen of Scotland), S. Brandon's Fast, S. Patrick's Fast, Four holy Fridays (Ember weeks), S. Anthony's Fast, between S. Marys days (Dec. 8, Feb. 2), and Lady Fast (once a week), seven years the same day that her day failed on in March, or one year with bread and water. ['Barnes' Visit.,' 1577, p. 17. 'Tyndale,' i., 98.] " I reproduce it as printed. The quotations (for I presume there are two) are evidently garbled, and I have searched in vain for the works from which they are taken. I should be greatly obliged to any one who would be so good as to inform me in which of Tindale's works there is a reference to " Lady Fast," and what book is intended by ' Barnes' Visit., 1577.'

H. G. RICHARDSON.