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 n s. vi. JULY is, i9i2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

GORDON OF GLENBUCKET (11 S. v. 429). I have compiled a history of the Gordons of Glenbucket, running into 20,000 words, which I intend to inflict on a long-suffering public when I have time. Meantime MB. GORDON'S query gives me the opportunity of saying that the Jacobite general, John Gordon, is claimed by more people as their ancestor (I cannot think why) than any other Gordon in history. At no time was he more than a bonnet laird, but he has acquired an enormous reputation in tradition, especi- ally in Ireland, where many families claim descent from him.

There were two different lines of Gordon of Glenbucket, connected in a roundabout wav thus :

Sir Adam Gordon of Park

Patrick of Son, Glenbucket name unknown

George Gordon II. of Terpersie

Patrick of Badinscoth

George of Noth

Adam of John = Agnes Glenbucket "tutor"

I of

Capt. Glenbucket Adam, last of Glenbucket

"Little" Capt. Adam

Mary=pJohu,

bought Glen- bucket

John of Glen- bucket, Jacobite general

John of Gleubucket

I

William, d. 1782

John Charles

Lily=pCharles Gordon

William, now at St. Bridgets

The family is now represented (in the name of Gordon) by Mr. William Gordon, farmer, St. Bridgets, Tomintoul, who is locally known as " Glen," though it is quite 200 years since his line actually owned Glen- bucket. He has three sons. One female line is represented by Dr. Carmichael, Barrow-in- Furness. In no other case has anybody claiming descent from the tough old Jacobite been able to prove the claim. My belief is that most of the claimants are probably descended from the first set of Gordons

(the Park line) who owned Glenbucket. One of them, Capt. Adam, probably in the Scots Brigade in Holland, "dyed abroad in Holland of a Decay " ; but he had a brother, Lieut. Robert Gordon, who "married and vet [1700?] lives," and another brother, Ensign Alexander, "who yet [1700?] lives."

The Glenbucket arms as returned to the Lyon between 1672 and 1678 were :

" Azure a saltire betwixt three boars' heads erased Or all within a border counter componed of the second and first on an helmet befitting his degree with a mantle gules doubled argent and wreath of his collours is sett for his crest a boar's head couped and erected within one adder dis- posed circle ways proper."

The motto was " Victrix prudentia." The second line had the motto " Victrix patientia." J. M. BTJLLOCH.

123. Pall Mall.

"SHIEVE" (11 S. v. 449). " Shieve " is a sailors' term, meaning " to row the wrong way ; to assist the helmsman in a narrow channel." It is in Blount's ' Dictionary.' 1719, and Martin's ' Dictionary,' 1754. Fleming and Tibbens's ' Eng. and Fr. Dictionary,' 1832, gives "To shieve, v.n. (to fall astern), siller (terme de marine). Shieving, sillage, m." See also Smyth, 'The Sailor's Wcrd-Book.' 1867.

TOM JONES.

VANISHING LONDON : PROPRIETARY CHAPELS (11 S. ii. 202, 254, 293, 334 ; iii. 149, 193, 258 ; iv. 434). The old proprietary Quebec Chapel in Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, which became a dis- trict church in 1894 under the title of the Church of the Annunciation, has now been demolished. The space available for the new building appears none too large. It seems a pity the funds raised would not permit of a further clearance, and thus secure the erection of an edifice of worthier proportions. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

PENLEAZE (US. v. 270, 414). There was no election for Southampton in 1833, as MR. F. A. EDWARDS states erroneously. John Storey Penleaze was elected in 1831, and defeated at the general election in December, 1832, by J. B. Hoy; but he obtained the seat on petition 2 April, 1833. He did not stand again ; he was Consul at Barcelona from 1841 to 1852, and died 12 April, 1855, aged 69. His first contest at Southampton was at a by-election in Janu- ary, 1830, when he was defeated by Mr. Hoy. ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Leamington.