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THE " CARRONADE " GUNS. Can any of your readers direct me to sources where I may read of the origin of these cannon, of their use in our Continental land and sea battles, and of their qualities ? Were they of varying weight, and were they exclusively used by the British army and fleet ?

WYCKHAM. [See 1 S. ix. 246, 408 ; xi. 247 ; 8 S. v. 101, 198, 453.]

' BUNKIXS." In what book is " Bunkins," and what is his real name ? W. E. T.

BOYDELL'S CATALOGUES OF PLATES OR PRINTS. From 90, Cheapside, in 1787, John & Josiah Boydell issued ' A Cata- logue of Historical Prints, &c., after the Most Capital Pictures in England, engraved by the Most Celebrated Artists,' &c., pub- lished by them. This is demy 8vo, pp. 88. In 1803 the more important ' Alphabetical Catalogue of Plates, engraved by the Most Esteemed Artists,' &c., was produced. This is demy 4to, i-xxix, 1-60. Smaller lists of 8 or 16 pages, cr. 8vo, were issued, presumably as insets for the magazines, but I wish to ascertain dates and particulars of any larger catalogues, similar to those described, they may have issued.

The Exhibition Catalogues of the Shak- speare Gallery, issued 1789, 1790, 1796, &c., and their first ' Exhibition Catalogue of Pictures shown at Ford's Great Room in the Haymarket ' are already familiar.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. [See 1 S. viii. 50, 97, 313, 457 ; ix. 52.]

" LIKE." In Cumberland an insult or imperious command is often followed by this word, which is also used as a preface to a long explanation. In the latest glossary it is noticed, but strangely explained as an adjective ; whereas, surely, it can only be the imperative of a verb meaning " attend." In other parts of England it is replaced in both cases by " look ye," and sometimes by " hark ye," and one would wish some expert to tell us whether " like " is a corrup- tion of " look," or of a lost verb meaning to 4i listen." OLD SARUM.

LAST WITCH BURNT. When and where was the last witch burnt in these islands (a) by due process of law, and (b) unofficially? I have a vague idea that such an unofficial burning " pour encourager les autres " took place not far from Clonmel in the eighties of last century. FRANCES NOEL.

[For last women executed for witchcraft, see 38. iv. 508 ; v. 21 ; 7 S. viii. 486 : ix. 35, 117 ; xi. 449,515. For repeal of statutes against witch- craft, see 4 S. xi. 476.]

BRODRIBB OF SOMERSET. (11 S. v. 71.)

THE family of Brodribb, with numerous spellings (vide infra), took its name from the village of Bawdrip or Baudrip, which lies at the foot of the Polden Hills in Somerset- shire, on the main road between Glastonbury and Bridgwater. (At Bawdrip was born John Atherton, Bishop of Waterford, who was hanged in Dublin 1640.)

In 12 Henry II. Robert de Baketerpe held lands in Bawdrip of Henry Lovell. In 28 Edward I. Adam de Baudrip had lands in this parish and in North Petherton. In 33 Edward III. John de Baudrip was lord of the manor. In 37 Henry VI. William Baudrip, son of Thomas Baudrip, released to John Wroughton of Broad Hinton, Wilts, his rights in the manor of Bawdrip (Collin- son's ' Somerset,' iii. 91).

There are many ways of spelling the name, the chief of which, beside those given above, are Bodrip, Bradrip, Bradripp, Bradrippe, Brawdrip, Broadrepp, Broad- ripp, Broderibe, Broderip, Brodrepp, Broadribb, Brodripe, Brodripp, Brodrippe. As far as I am aware no full pedigree of this family exists, although there are scraps to which I will give references.

The Broadribbs were chiefly of the yeo- man class, but they boasted two " swell " branches, as will be seen. Sir Henry Irving, as is well known, was connected with the yeoman branch. From the village of Bawdrip the family appears to have moved eastwards towards Bristol, and it is between Bawdrip and Bristol that Brodribbs have chiefly lived. In the village of Street, next but one on the same road as Bawdrip, we find, in 1570, Joane Brawdrip, whose will is dated 6 Sept., 1570. See A. J. Jewers's 'Registers of Street ' (Exeter, 1898, p. 43). We find Brodribbs also at Glastonbury, Ditcheat, Lottisham, Keinton Mandeville, Clutton, High Littleton, South Mapperton (in Dorset, but on the fringes of Somerset), Berrow, Cossington, Horsington, Pennard (East and West), Shepton Mallet, and Wells. The whole area with which they are con- nected could be covered by a strong walker in a day and a half.

The principal branch of the family lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at South Mapperton, near Beaminster, and the most important contribution to their