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 us. vi. NOV. 2, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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I may obtain from some reader help in verifying the statement -as to the building of the Essex Bath in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. ALFRED S. FOORD.

" SARAFT." What is the inner meaning of this word ? I find it used in ' An Irish Marriage ' in The Saturday Review, 24 Aug., 1912, to denote, as I believe, the eccle- siastically proper time for wedlock. A priest says to a parishioner : " Hurry up, as there is only a week of Saraft. If Pat doesn't get married before Shrove Tuesday, he '11 have to wait the whole seven weeks of Lent."

ST. SWITHIN.

WILKIE'S REPLICA OF HIS ' VILLAGE POLITICIANS.' I hope some reader of 'N. & Q.' may be able to inform me where this now is. One would suppose its travels must be known to many interested in such matters. V. P.

E. HOWLETT ON BURIAL CUSTOMS. The Academy of 8 July, 1893, xliv. 37, announces that Mr. England Hewlett, who possesses immense collections of material gathered from all parts of Britain, is preparing a book " dealing with death and burial from the antiquarian and traditional point of view." May I ask whether this book was published ; and, if so, when and where ? If not, what has become of Mr. Hewlett's materials ? EMERITUS.

' THE STARS AND THE ANGELS.' Who is the author of this book ? It was published in 1858. The author wrote ' Primeval Man Unveiled ; or, The Anthropology of the Bible.' My edition of the latter book is dated 1871. M.A.OxoN.

[Halkett and Laing state that ' Primeval Man Unveiled' was written by the Rev. James Gall They do not mention ' The Stars and the Angels.']

NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON. I have been told that Napoleon once met Wellington. If this is correct, where can I find an account of the meeting ? FLORICAN.

CLAIM TO A TITLE. If a man was invited to a Coronation by a title, could his heir claim that title ? COLONIST.

LAWRENCE OF NOVA SCOTIA. I should be obliged if I could be put in communication with the family of Major-General Charles Lawrence, Governor of Nova Scotia. He was born on 14 Dec., 1709, and died at Halifax on 19 Oct., 1760, in the exercise of this high office. They were Portsmouth

people. His mother was a Harding of Southampton, and on both sides his ancestors had long rendered gallant service to England by sea and land. He was the third son of Lieut. -General John Lawrence.

DAVID Ross McCoRD, M.A., K.C. Temple Grove, Montreal.

' THE LADY BARK,' BY DAVID FERGUSON. In the Library of the British Museum there is a reprinted copy of

" The Lady Bark, or New Upstart-Lady. In a very merry and pleasant Dialogue, Betwixt a Skipper, A New-Lady, A Young Scholar, And a Tapster-Lass " ; n.d., post 8vo, 8 pp.

The dialogue consists of 276 lines of rimed verse, and at the end : " Finis. Be Da: Ferguson." Is anything known of the poem or the author ? C. D.

" CLUB WALKS." I shall be grateful for any information or reference to any literature dealing with this subject. I refer to the Whitsuntide processions to church, mostly on Whitsun Tuesday. The custom was general in Bucks, Oxon, Wilts, Dorset, and various Western counties. I gather that these processions of friendly societies succeeded religious processions of earlier date. It was customary, some fifty years since, for the members to cany halberds, to which a small flag was attached, while each wore upon the hat (invariably a high one) a band, rosette, and appended ribbons of various colours. These festivals were considerably older than those adopted by the Odd Fellows, Foresters, and so on. The procession was always known as a "walk." ENQUIRER.

"YEOMAN" v. "GENTLEMAN." Robert Hervy of Westhall, co. Suffolk, yeoman, made his will in March, 1486/7, and it was proved at Norwich in February, 1488/9. He left one very small son, John, and two daughters. He willed that if certain things happened his tenements and lands were to be sold by his executors " to a good trewe husbonde- man, but to no gentyllman." WTaat might his reason be for shutting out the gentle- man ? Do the words quoted merely express his views on the land question, and show his desire to secure an owner resident in the parish, or could there be any other moaning in them ? As it happened, the gentleman was not kept out, for the small boy John perversely became one. He is entered in the Suffolk Subsidy Return for 1524 as not being charged for his Suffolk lands because he was charged for his movables in