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NOTES AND Q UERIES. [ii s. v. MAY is, 101-2.

COUNTS OF GORDON. 1. Genealogy. C. A. Gordon, in his ' Concise History of the Gordons,' gives a circumstantial account of the Counts of Gordon, descended from the third Earl of Huntly. It is, however, very tantalizing. Can any one tell me of another genealogy of them ?

2. The Barony of Franker. C. A. Gordon in his ' History ' also says that Armand James Gordon was created a Count and Governor of Guise by Louis XIV. " He was also created by King James II. of Eng- land Lord James Gordon, Baron of Franker, peer of Scotland " (p. 127). The preamble of the patent, dated Dublin, 15 April, 1690 (p. 129), says :

" When Our affairs required him. in Ireland to extinguish the flame of civil war .... he has suffered himself to be withdrawn from his places in France."

What is known of this peerage ? The Marquis de Ruvigny does not note it in his ' Jacobite Peerage.' J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall.

LOGIC. I should be glad of the exact reference to Cyrus, the two boys, and the two overcoats.

Also where, in Archbishop Whately's writings, can I find the undermentioned ?

" It is [quoth his Grace] as much as to say that if my aunt were a man he would be my uncle."

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

" TELLING " NUMBERS. A friend submits the following question, upon which I shall be glad if light can be thrown by readers of ' N. & Q.'

Is there any evidence to prove the con- nexion between an old Westmoreland shep- herd's " telling " numbers, which include (8) Hevera, (9) Devera, (10) Dick, and the children's nonsense rime beginning Hickory, Dickory, Dock, The mouse ran up the clock, &c. ? If these three words really represent 8, 9, and 10, their use would be appropriate to a clock, and so raise them somewhat from the region of an otherwise meaningless jingle.

JOHN T. PAGE.

' TWICE A TRAITOR.' (See US. iv. 533.) Who is the publisher of this novel ?

WYCKHAM.

ALMANACS IN DIALECT. Yorkshire is, per- haps, the only county in which almanacs are issued in the local dialect, or rather, it would be better to say, the local folk- speech. I think the only two which are still published are ' The Clock Almanack,'

written wholly by Mr. John Hartley, and ' The Bairnsla Foak's Annual,' with the second title ' Pogmoor Olmenack.' Both are racy publications. I do not know when either was started.

Another similar Yorkshire publication was ' The Shevvild Chap's Annual.' The copy I have is for the year 1836. It has an over-title ' A Christmas Present,' but con- tains little about that festive season. It was published by Saxton & Chaloner, High Street, Sheffield. I shall be glad to know how many times it appeared and the year of its first issue, which I believe to have been 1835. THOS. BATCLIFFE.

GRANT OF DUTHIL : MILLER OF ROTTER- DAM. I shall be glad to be directed to any information concerning :

1. Mrs. Grant of Duthil, who was a sister of that Sir Neil Campbell who accompanied Napoleon to Elba, and was the authoress of ' Popular Models ' and ' Intellectual Educa- tion.'

2. Rev. Eben. Miller, who in 1843 pub- lished a volume called ' The Voice of Christ to the Church.' He is designated " of Rotterdam." W. J. C.

THE BARNARDS OF PIRTON, OXFORD. The arms and pedigree of the above family are recorded in the Heralds' Visitations. Will some reader kindly give me information concerning their descendants ? Does the family still exist ? H. C. B.

' THE GENTILE POWERS,' by Capt. Charles Orde Browne, Royal Artillery, published in 1882. Information is asked for concerning this book. It is not in the British Museum Library. J. H. LESLIE.

SYVETARE, SYVEKAR. What is the origin of this surname ?

M. DORMER HARRIS.

MASSACRE OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW : MEDAL. I should be glad to know if there was a medal struck to commemorate this ; and, if so, by whom it was issued. S. C.

[The article on ' St. Bartholomew, Massacre of,' vol. xxiii. p. 1017 of the latest edition of ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' ends with the words : " Pope Gregory XIII. commanded bonfires to be lighted and a medal to be struck." Three recent works are cited in the bibliography appended. At 9 S. xii. 232, in the final contribution of a discussion on ' The Pope and the Massacre of St. Bartholomew,' the late MB. E. YARDLEY quoted from Voltaire's ' Histoire du Parlement de Paris ' the following sentence : " On frappa des medailles sur cet evenement (j'en ai eu une entre les mains)."]