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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. v. JAN. 20, 1912.

W. E. D.-MILLIKEN, will he kindly say what is his authority for the statement that Lord Lytton lived in the old number 9 ?

W. A. FROST. 16, Amwell Street, B.C.

FREDERIC KENDALL of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, B.A. 23 Jan., 1813, was tried at the Cambridge Assizes, 19 March, 1813, before Mr. Serjeant Marshall, and acquitted, on the charge of setting fire to rooms in Sidney Sussex College. Upon the conclusion of the trial his name was imme- diately erased from the College boards, by order of the Master and Fellows, and a memorandum to that effect 'was entered in the College Register. Information concern- ing his later history is desired.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

CAPT. FREENY. Where can information be obtained concerning one " Capt. Freeny," to whom Thackeray devotes many pages in ' The Irish Sketch - Book ' ? The question is of some interest if, in truth, the ' Adventures of Mr. James Freeny ' [by ?] suggested the groundwork of ' Barry Lyndon.' J. B.

Copenhagen.

MONEY-BOX. I have searched every- where, including the indexes of ' N. & Q.,' and can find nothing in regard to money- boxes. Although I have seen suggestions of clay money-boxes " for boyes " being in existence in 1585, I have failed to secure any reliable information. When did the money- box, in any first form, come into existence ?

S. J. A. F.

TRUSSEL FAMILY. Who were the Trussels of Stafford and Derby, temp. Edward II. ? From whom did they descend ? What were their arms, and from what nobler house were their arms derivative ?

C. SWYNNERTON.

' MR. PUNCH : HIS ORIGIN AND CAREER.' Mr. Spielmann says that this book was written by a son of Mr. Joseph William Last, although generally ascribed to Mr. Sidney Blanchard. Can any one supply the fore- names of Mr. Last and say if he made any other contributions to literature ?

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

JOHN HOWDEN, THE FAMOUS FANATIC. In the Ochtertyre MSS. mention is made of this man, who was an upholsterer in Edin- burgh, and " wrought much at Blair- drummond," " withal he was a Jacobite."

Can any one say where one can find out more about him, whence he came, and in what way his fanaticism was displayed ?

J. M. H.

SCURR FAMILY OF M ALTON, YORKSHIRE. Any information regarding the above family would be welcomed by the under- signed, particularly as to the parentage of one Nanny Scurr, who married about 1805 Robert Womersley. She was born in, or about, 1786. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

62, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

ANCIENT TERMS. (US. iv. 528.)

WITH the aid of Littre's ' French Dic- tionary,' Kelham's 'Norm.-Fr. Diet.,' Gode- froy's ' Old Fr. Diet.,' Wright's ' E.D.D.,' the 'Catholicon Anglicum,' and a few other dictionaries and glossaries, I have made out the sense, I think, of most, if not all, of the words in question, as follows :

1. "Satun chevantel." This does not appear in any book that I have consulted. Godefroy gives " C7ieveceZ=tetiere," bride; but if it is sure that the preceding word is satun, and not a contraction of scilicet, fol- lowed by the article un, it would seem more likely that cheveceul, chevacuel, cheverseul, &c. = oreiller, chevet, was intended, a c being generally indistinguishable from a t in the hand of the period. Thus we should have " a satin pillow " : if not, " a satin bridle."

2. " Freyns doryes vends." Freins dor is, evidently, but for vends I can only suggest veus, veutz = old. "Gilded, or gold -orna- mented, bridles or bits, old."

3. " 1 peire de covertures de feer." The pair of coverings (? of iron, or steel) might refer to the newly introduced breast and back plates, worn sometimes beneath and sometimes over, the chain mail armour.

4. " ij heaulmes dont lun est susoires (also susorres)" The word susoires or susorres is evidently from the verb given by Godefroy as susorer, suisorer=surdorer (" artificiers f ont . . . . anelx de cupre & de laton, et les suisorrent .... semblables a or "). "Two helmets, of which one is gilt."

5. " Piesces de reyes de fil por trappes." Bees, riez, raytz, are all old forms for nets ; file= thread. " Pieces of nets of thread for traps."

6. " 1 peire de slcinebans (also skynebalds)." Stratmann's 'M.E. Diet.' has " schin - bande,