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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. JULY is, 1912.

family of North End. Glutton, and oJ High Littleton, Glutton, both Somersetshire, who were the immediate ancestors of Sir Henry Irving. Probably he was the most distinguished member of the race before Sir Henry Irving. RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

At the sale by auction of property belong ing to Lord Temple, situated at Hallatrow in the parish of High Littleton, Somerset on Tuesday, 11 June, one of the lots in- cluded a close of pasture land known as ' ; Brodribb's Down." See Keenes Bath Journal for 15 June. J. COLES, Jun.

CAMPIONE AND THE AIIBROSIAN RITE (11 S. v. 447). MB. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT speaks doubtfully of the signification of the Italian word scapponare ; it means, collo- quially, "to frolic and enjoy an outing ol any kind," whether with or without the customary capons.

In the text he cites the " Carnevalone ' was an extension of the regular carniva and its spasso (pastimes) beyond the Ash Wednesday. In Pau (France) the inhabitants violate Ash Wednesday in a like manner.

The word " impiecati," in the last line but one of the extract, should be impiecati The phrase impiecati i malfattori. means the hanging of the criminals at S. Martino.

WILLIAM MERCER.

INCIDENTS AT DETTINGEN (11 S. v. 350 454). Brown's exploit at Dettingen was the subject of a picture in the Royal Academy in 1904, which, however, represented him as being knighted on the field of battle by George II. a departure from fact which drew correction from the editor of The Ancestor (x. 232). 'But if the author quoted by COL. FYNMORE is correct in saying that Brown was promoted to the Life Guards, it would seem that Mr. Barron made a slip for once, as he writes :

" In England he did duty with the Horse Guards, until his wounds and a certain soldierly weakness for the can took him out of the army and home to Yarm, where he lived to tell his tale for a short year or two upon a thirtv-pound pension."

G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

BARNARDS OF PIRTON, OXFORD (11 S. v. 390). In ' Phillimore's Marriage Registers,' under ' Pyrton, Oxfordshire,' there are Barnards, 1569, 1628, 1630.

R. J. FYNMORE.

MS. OF BISHOP HENRY KING'S POEMS (11 S. v. 468). The MS. volume described below was sold at Sotheby's rooms on 9 Dec., 1900 :

" King (Henry) ? (1591-1669) Poems written between 1610 and 1646, beautifully written MS. (166 pp.) bound in blue mcrocco extra, joints and g.e., small 4to. 1646.

" *** Seventy-five pieces, all smoothly and neatly written, from the time of Prince Henry's death down to the death of the Earl of Essex in 1646. The address ' To my dear ffriend Ben Jonson ' begins ' I see that wreath which doth the wearer harme ' [sic] ; mention is made of a couple of pieces on Bishop John King, Henry King's father."

The Rev. J. Hannah, in the preparation of the Pickering edition of Bishop King's poems, had the use of two MS. copies, one of which your correspondent wishes to discover; but I do not think either can be the one under examination, because, in the first place, I do not find in the Hannah edition more than one piece on Bishop John King, and, secondly, the first edition of 1657 contains seventy-three pieces only. There is an additional erratum written in a contemporary hand in my copy, overlooked by Archdeacon Hannah, viz., p. 126, 1. 12, for " Glows " read Blows.

C. ELKIN MATHEWS

Chorley Wood.

TRUSSEL FAMILY (11 S. v. 50, 137, 257, 333). Lower traces this family as far back as the reign of Henry I. A Richard Trussel was killed at the battle of Evesham. The name is supposed to have been given to a hunchback, troussel, according to Cotgrave, signifying in O.F. " a fardle, bundle, or bunch." See the ' Patron. Brit.,' s.v.

N. W. HILL.

New York

LONDRES: LONDINIUM (11 S. v. 129, 191, 431, 456). The operation of the rule that Latin -ni-, followed by a vowel, becomes -gn- in French, is not perturbed by the nature of the following syllable. Unionem became " oignon," and ciconia " cigogne." Durani-us yielded " Dordogne," just as Dini-a yielded " Digne." Similarly, the regular consonnification of medial i occurs in French without regard to the ending of the Latin word : cf. " sauge," " sage," " songe," from salvi-a, sapi-us, and somni- um respectively. Hence the first-named rule may be expected to operate evenly in -dini-um and Dini-a ; and the form *Lon- digne for Londlnium does not present any phonological difficulty.

ALFRED ANSCOMBE. 30, Albany Road, Stroud Green, N.