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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. v. APRIL 27, 1912.

Sir William Trussel the King was under no

euch obligations to the stepson, Trussel. Thus he resumed all the rtiyal grants to Oliver in Old and New Windsor, Winkfield, Ascot, and Eton, all of which he ' rejoined and united to the castle and manor of Windsor,' giving Trussel, by way of compensation, the manor and advowson of Eton Hastings."

On p. 49 Burrows says :

" Oliver's property has a special interest of its own, for a large part of the lands which Edward III. consolidated and formed into the royal demesne at Windsor, for the purposes of his new palace and park, had been held, under the Crown, by Oliver de Bordeaux."

Trussel witnessed two of the Brocas deeds: a "Deed of Remembrance," as " Willame Trossel," in May, 1332, and a grant, in May, 1354, as " Dom W Trussel, mil." The second deed is witnessed also by
 * ' Olivero de Burdeaux."

With reference to Sir William Trussel being present at the siege of Calais, Montagu Burrows quotes at p. 70 from a rare deed giving an account of the force present :

" By far the largest proportion of the 975 knights in the army were enrolled under the banners of the Prince of Wales, Henry Duke of Lancaster .... The names of these knights, amount- ing to 708, are not given. But the following sixty-eight knights commanded companies of their own, and accordingly have both their names and arms recorded : (inter alias) ' Sir William TruSaell, 4 knights, 9 esquires, and 18 archers.' "

A correspondent writing from Slough says " It may be advisable to make as complete a schedule as possible of the various appointments held by Sir William," and contributes two, taken from Sir Harris Nicolas, ' History of the Royal Navy,' vol. ii. pp. 526-7 : (a) Admiral of the Western Squadron, appointed 18 Feb., 1339; (6) Admiral of the Northern Squadron, 20 Dec., 1342. JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D.

Ventnor, Isle of Wight.

TOP-HAT IN SCULPTURE (11 S. v. 146, 233, 295). The Leeman statue at York is not " a thing of beauty," but when I saw it last there was no top-hat in the composition, and it is hardly likely that such an appendage has since been provided. I am surprised to find that what the French have begun to call the " huit reflets " is so often repre- sented in British art.

The REV. J. WILLCOCK of Lerwick kindly writes to tell me that the Prince Consort is shown, top -hat in hand, in his statue opposite to St. George's Hall, Liver- pool, and that street-Arabs used to compete -with each other in endeavouring to lodge orange-peel in the cavity.

ST. SWITHIN.

SOPHIA HOWE (11 S. v. 249). In Chan- cellor Ferguson's ' Cumberland and West- morland M.P.'s,' it is stated that Miss Howe was a -maid of honour ; that she had an intrigue with the Hon. Anthony (" Nanty ") Lowther ; and that she thereafter died of a broken heart. Lowther was a son of the first Viscount Lonsdale, and a brother of the second and third. He was M.P. for Cockermouth, and afterwards for Westmor- land, and died unmarried in 1741. He was,, of course, not the Anthony Lowther men tioned by Pepys. DIEGO.

" Sophia, daughter of General Emanuel Howe by Ruperta, a natural daughter of Prince Rupert. She died in 1726, with a blemished reputation and a broken heart."

Note on Stanza X. of ' Mr. Pope's Welcome from Greece,' Gay's ' Poems,' vol. i., edited by John Underbill ("The Muses' Library"), Routledge, n.d. The stanza begins as follows :

See next the decent Scudamore advance With Winchilsea, still meditating song ; With her perhaps Miss Howe came there by chance, Nor knows with whom, nor why she comes along. See also ' Letters to and from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, and her Second Hus- band the Hon. George Berkeley, 1712-1767,' 2 vols., 8vo, 1824, vol. i. pp. 35-6 :

" It is now a matter of history that poor Sophia was betrayed soon after the date of these letters into the last indiscretion, and she died, in 1726, with a blemished reputation and a broken heart. Her too favoured lover was Mr. Anthony Lowther, brother of Henry, Viscount Lonsdale."

Reference is also given in a note to Sir C. Hanbury Williams's poem describing the Duchess of Manchester's ' Morning ' :

At Leicester House her passion first began, And Nunty Lowther was a proper man ; And when the princess did to Kew remove She could not bear the absence of her love, But flew away. . ..

Of Lord Hervey's celebrated ' Epistle of Monimia to Philocles ' (Dodsley, vol. iv. p. 82), Miss Howe was the heroine. See also Pope's ' What is Prudery ? Lines to Miss Howe.' WM. H. PEET.

Lucius (11 S. iv. 449, 534; v. 59, 138, 234). MR. R. USSHEB'S careful report on the Lucius question (as it stood in 1903) needs emendation in two particulars. First, the negation intended to be conveyed in the statement, " Gildas knows nothing of Lucius [therefore, &c.]," may be balanced by the statement, " Gildas knows nothing of Germanus of Auxerre, therefore," &c. Secondly, " King of Britain " does not render the " Rex Britanniarum " of Bede,