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 316 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. v. A, 20, 1912.

The organist of Durham Cathedral from 1763 to 1811 was Thomas Ebdon, not John Ebden. He was succeede'd by Charles Erlin Jackson Clarke, who resigned the appointment in 1813 to become organist of Worcester Cathedral. William Henshaw held the appointment from IS 13 to 1862. WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

THOMAS CROMWELL (11 S. iv. 509 ; v. 37, 194). Much additional information on this subject is contained in two articles (num- bered 154 and 155) which appeared in the ' Notes and Queries ' column of The Evesham Journal, entitled :

" The Descendants of Oliver Cromwell, being an Historical Account of the Ancient House of Williams alias Cromwell, from the Norman Conquest to the Year 1602, and thence continued to the Present Day, through the Great Protec- torial House and their Descendants the Families of Field, Bush, Berners, and Russell of Fordham Abbey. By a London Freeman."

I have both articles if Miss WILLIAMS cares to consult them. A. C. COLDICOTT.

Ullenhall, Henley-in-Arden.

FULSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE (11 S. v. 168). Fulsby is part of the township of Tumby, within the parish of Kirkby-on-Bain. On sheet 115 of the Ordnance Survey maps (one inch to the mile) it is seen that Fulsby Wood and Fulsby Water Mill are on the eastern side of the River Bain, about three miles north of Tattershall Castle, and about three miles south of Scrivelsby Court, the home of King's Champion Dymoke. The principal landowners in the neighbourhood of Fulsby are Sir Henry Hawley of Tumby Lawn and the Hon, R. P. Stanhope of Revesby Abbey.

The Cressys appear to have owned Fulsby for three generations. Nicholas Cressy, son of Robert of Blyborough, and grandson of John Cressy of the same place, is described as of Fulsby in Kirkby-on-Bain ; he pur- chased Fulsby from Sir Henry Glemham, Knt., on 6 Sept., 1603, and his grandson Nicholas Cressy, son of Brandon Cressy, sold it in 1657 to John Nelthorpe. See under Cressy of Blyborough in vol. i. pp. 283-4 of Canon Maddison's ' Lincolnshire Pedigrees ' ( Harl. Soc., 1902).

W. M. MYDDELTON.

Woodhall Spa.

Fulsby lies within three miles of Tattershall Castle, on the Horncastle Road. White says :

"Cressy Hall, 5 miles N. of Spalding, the manor house of burfleet, is a large and handsome mansion near Risegate Eau, 2| miles N. of the village. It was rebuilt by Sir Henry Heron, Knt., who died in

1695, and was noted for its heronry. It was burnt down in 1792, and WHS again rebuilt. It is now (1871) the property and residence of Mr. Isaae Muxlow. Its name is derived from its ancient possessors, the Cressy family, one of whom estab- lished a market and fair here in the reign o Edward I."

C. LANSDOWN. Lincoln.

Is this Fulletby ? In Streatfeild's ' Lincoln- shire and the Danes ' Folesbi is given as a form of the name which occurs in Domesday Book. Fulletby is near Horncastle.

C. C. B.

LORRAINE LEGEND : " PAYS BLEU " (11 S- v. 229). Though no legend about a " pays bleu " occurs under the title given, yet it may interest T. O. to consult E. Cosquin's ' Contes Populairesde Lorraine,' 2 vols., 8vo, Paris, 1886. H. KREBS.

If a Lorraine legend about a " pays bleu " was the foundation of Maeterlinck's ' Blue Bird,' it probably also inspired Francois Coppee, in his poem ' Vers le Passe,' to write t Et mon esprit partit aux pays fabuleux, Ou Ton pense cueillir les camelias bleus Et trouver 1'aniour id^ale.

I do not know any other passage in literature where blue is the symbol of happiness, except, of course, ' The Blue Bird.' Person- ally, I should prefer even a green carnation to a blue camellia.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

[Balzac, in ' Petites Miseres de la yie Conjugale/ has " la petite fleur bleue de la felicit^ parfaite."]

WILLIAM BURKE : M.P. (11 S. v. 49). I endeavoured when at Beaconsfield to- find out where William Burke was buried. A resident there informed me that he was a brother of Edmund Burke, and was buried at Hughenden. Can any one verify this; statement ?

I transcribed the inscription on Edmund Burke's tablet, which also has particulars of his son Richard, M.P. for Malton, who; died 2 Aug., 1794, aged 35;

" Of his brother Richard Burke Esq r J Barrister at law | and Recorder of the City of Bristol | who. died on the 4th of February 1794 | And of his Widow | Jane Mary Burke | who died on the 2' 1 of April | 1812 Aged 78."

All the above are buried in the same grave..

L. H. CHAMBERS. Amersham.

FRITH'S ' ROAD TO RUIN ' AND ' RACE FOR WEALTH ' (11 S. v. 127, 193). I think I saw the ' Road to Ruin ' about half a dozen years ago in the Corporation Art Gallery at Leeds. " ST. SWITHIN,