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NOTES AND QUERNS. [11 s. VL NOV. so, 1912.

but the slab, with its brasses representing hint in armour, and the familiar riming epitaph commencing " As I was so be ye," were, of course, destroyed at the Great Fire. Vide ' A Memorial of the Famous Monu- ments, &c., of Maister William Lambe.' by Abraham Fleming, 1580, or the reprint edited by C. F. Aiigell, 1875.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

GERMAN FUNERAL CUSTOM (US. vi. 368). There is a reference to the carrying of lemons at a funeral in Gustav Freytag's novel ' Soil und Haben,' translated by Mrs. Malcolm under the title of ' Debit and Credit' (Ward, Lock & Tyler, n.d.). A member of the guild of " packers," whose business it was to carry burdens between the great warehouses and the custom - house says, (p. 47) : " The day will come when we packers must take a lemon in our hands and wear a black tail to our hats " (p. 483). A foot-note (whether by the author or trans- lator is not stated) comments : " When the handicraft men bury one of their corporation they carry a lemon in their hand." The city in which this custom prevailed is re- ferred to as " the capital " ; no doubt Ger- man readers of ' N. & Q.' can identify it.

G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

THE ORIGINAL "UNCLE TOM" (11 S. vi. 367). I well remember, about thirty- seven years ago, having a very pleasant talk for about an hour with the Rev. Josiah Henson, who was supposed to be the original of " Uncle Tom." He published an auto- biography, and it was on the circumstances of his life that the claim was based.

W. B. S.

FORDWICH, THE OLD PORT OF CANTER- BURY (11 S. vi. 368). Reference should be made to my late friend C. E. Woodruff's 'History of Fordwich,' Canterbury, 1895. This work contains a full account of the ancient custumal of that place.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

THE ROYAL GEORGE : NAME or DURHAM (11 S. vi. 110, 176, 374). Your readers have seen at the last reference a circum- stantial and curious account of the way in which Seventh Lieutenant Durham, R.N., was saved from the Royal George, con- tributed by MR. E. STEVENS of Mel- bourne. Henrietta Keddie, in Sarah Tytler's 'Three Generations,' 1911, has a somewhat different story. She writes that Alexander

Keddie, her father's uncle, when a cabin- boy on board the ship, was instrumental in saving another boy, a young midshipman of the name of Durham, afterwards Admiral Sir Philip Durham, and that the Durham family befriended Keddie afterwards getting him a cadetship in the Indian army, where he was lost sight of.

Of course the ship was not moving out of dock, but was anchored (or moored) at Spithead, when she was careened over for repairs. The lower - deck guns must all have been run over to larboard. Why the ports were left open when " land breezes " would be expected to " shake the shrouds " may have then been the subject of inquiry.

My personal interest in the name Durham comes from the fact that the father of my maternal grandmother was Capt. Hercules Durham, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. (afterwards Admiral) Knight of Jordanstown. According to Douglas, Her- cules was the lineal male representative of the Durhams of Grange ; a cousin has a charter granted by Robert the Bruce. I had it in my mind, from 1 long ago, that it was a member of that family who was saved, but do not know who the Admiral Durban) was. The arms of the Durharns of Grange as blazoned by Douglas were : Or, on a fesse azure, three mullets argent, in base a crescent gules. Crest, two dolphins hauriant adorse. Motto: " Ultra fert animus." These Durhams appear to have lost their family property, as, according to Miss Keddie, her father, early in the nineteenth century, occupied the ruinous mansion house as farmer or super- intendent of coal mines. R. B. S.

BERRYSFIELD (11 S. vi. 368). " Berrow, Berry, from bcenv, a grove. Ex. Berrow (Wore.), Berry Pomeroy (Devon), Pomeroy's Grove" ('Traces of History in the Names of Places,' by Flavell Edmunds, Longmans. 1872, p. 174). Beria, Berra, Berie, Berry, found in. names of places, is an O.E.word denoting a plain open heath, or wide, flat champaign ; as in Mix-berie, Com-berrie r Beria Sancti Edmundi mentioned by Matthew Paris -which does not refer to the town, but to the adjoining plain. Cowel says

" that many flat and wide meads, and other open grounds, are still called by the name of beries and berie-flelds. So the spacions mead between Oxford and Lsley was in the reign of King Athelstan called Bery, as now the largest pasture-ground in Quarendon, Bucks, is known by the name Berry-field. And such, indeed, were the beric meadows, which, tlunigh Sir H. Spelman interprets them to be the demesne