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 NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. vi. OCT. 12, 1912.

but that, worst of all, ho has fabricated whole lists of bogus writs which never in fact issued, adding the orthodox Latin formularies ' con- similia brevia,' &c., and giving them the false appearance of being reproduced from original documents.

" Pages have been written in the past by Nicolas, Courthope, G. B. C., and other genea- logists, in the endeavour to explain why men had been summoned after their death, or why sons had been summoned in the lifetime, and instead, of their fathers, when all the time an examination of the Close Rolls or the Parlia- mentary Pawns would have revealed the fact that nothing of the kind had occurred, and that Dugdale had misstated the facts."

Mr. Vicary Gibbs goes on to say that the first person to establish the untrustworthi- ness of Dugdale was Dr. J. H. Round ; see his ' Peerage and Family History,' the chap- ter on ' Henry VIII and the Peers,' which Mr. Gibbs had overlooked.

ROBEBT PlERPOINT.

" MONEY-DROPPING." (See 7 S. viii. 367, 417.) The earliest instance of this term in the ' N.E.D.' comes from Smollett's 'Roderick Random' (1748). It occurs a few years earlier in The Craftsman for 1 Oct., 1737, No. 586. The passage is as follows :

" Political Money -dropping. Amongst all the indirect Means of getting Money, none hath been more practised amongst Us than what is called Money-dropping, or cheating ignorant People, by throwing a little Piece of Money in their Way, and crying Halves ; which gives the Artist an opportunity of getting into their Company, under Pretence of spending the Money they have found, and picking their Pockets at Cards, or some other fraudulent Game. This is not only a Trick of long standing in England, but seems to be peculiar to Us. There is, indeed, another illegal Method of getting Money, not very dif- ferent from it, which is common to all Nations, and hath been practised with wonderful Success ; for what is all Bribery and Corruption but a Sort of Money-dropping, with this Aggravation ; that, in one Case, Particulars only are hurt ; whereas, in the other, the whole Community may be Sufferers in Points of y c highest Importance ? "

The extract is taken from The Gentleman's Magazine of the same year.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

" AD vo WE. "Richard Harvy of Norwich, m his will dated 10 April, 1502, commends his soul to St. Benet " myn advowe." Mar- garet his widow Margaret Stalon by her second marriage does the same in her will dated 12 Oct., 1504. Both wills are in English. The 'N.E.D.' gives this word under ' Avoue ' and ' Avowe,' and a later form ' Advowee,' but has no example of "advowe." S. H. A. H.

" HYKE." Hyke is a variant of hoick, hoicks, or yoicks, formerly used by huntsmen to encourage hounds. The ' N.E.D.' gives it, with a quotation dated 1764, and notes that Scott in ' Quentin Durward,' chap, xxxiii., has the expression : " Hyke a Talbot ! hyke a Beaumont ! " But I find in Turbervile's ' Book on Hunting,' 1576, in chap. xl. (p. 112), that a huntsman is instructed to say, " Hyke a Talbot, or Hyke a Bewmont, Hyke, Hyke, to him, to him." I think we now know for certain the source of Scott's exclamations.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

GIBBINS. In 1779 Miss Ann Gibbins married Robinson Elsdale of Surfleet, co. Lincoln (see ' D.N.B.,' xvii. 334). Her younger sister, Susanna Gibbins, married Thomas Grounds of Wisbech (formerly of Whittlesea), co. Cambridge, about 1790. I shall be very grateful to any one who can tell me to what parish these ladies belonged. Their mother's maiden name was Field.

A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern.

" CASTLE TAVERN," ELTHAM. This tavern is referred to in the Calendar of State Papers for 1673. Do any of your readers know whether it is still in existence ?

H. G. E.

VALERIUS PETRONIANUS. In some notes of the latter half of the sixteenth century this man is spoken of as having mastered jurisprudence and medicine at the age of 23, and having served five times in political offices. Who was he ?

MARIA PUTEOLANA a maiden warrior. Where is she to be heard of ?

LANDGRAVE OF HESSE. Who was this wise prince, who used to say, " If a man had three enemies, he should make peace with two to be able to conquer the third " ?

OLIVERETTO. When did a man of this name " gallantly surprise the state of Fermo " ?

BEAUSALT. When did a man of this name, or something like it, valiantly escape from Calais ? G. C. MOORE SMITH.