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 iis.vilfkb. 15,1913] NOTES AND QUERIES. 135 The whole story of the tragedy of poor Sarah "Stout occupies about four pages of Macaulay s ' History ' (chap, xxv., sub anno 1699). Shade of Macaulay ! Are the contents of your volumes now forgotten by everybody ?—Yours, &c., A POZZLBD INQUIRER. Pall-mall, S.W., 13 October. The annotations in brackets are, of course, mine. The letter was noticed by The Spectator in its review of the book—a most unusual thing. Perhaps your contributor, who is the author of 'The Secrets of our National Literature,' can tell us the real name of the writer. Ralph Thomas. General Beatson and the Crimean "War (11 S. vi. 430, 516; vii. 57).—It is certainly singular that no account of General Beatson has found a place in 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' But in the notice of Sir James Y. Scarlett, who led the charge of the Heavy Brigade, he is mentioned as having saved his chief from riding alone into the Russian ranks, when he was endeavouring to cover the retreat of the remnants of the Light Brigade. Kinglake gives, as a reason for not recount- ing the part taken by Beatson in Scarlett's charge, that he had no opportunity of conversation with him, as the General had returned to India. Yet it seems strange that Kinglake, being in the Crimea, and being able to give such a minute account of Scarlett's following, and of the various phases of the fight, should have foimd nothing whatever to say of Beatson in relation to the staff. E. L. H. Tew. Upham Rectory, Hants. I well remember the appearance of a wood engraving in The Illustrated Times, depicting General Beatson in the act of giving evidence before the General Officers' Board of Inquiry, which sat at Chelsea Hospital from April to July, 1856. 1 W. B. H. Richard Andrewes (11 S. vii. 70).— The I.P.M. and will of Richard Andrewes are printed in Trails. Bristol and Gloucs. Arch. Soc., xix. 362-3, as Appendix II. of the Rev. J. M. Halls paper on ' Haresfield Manor and Church,' in which will be found other matter relating to Andrewes and his descendants, though there is none as to his ancestry. Information as to some of the grants of lands in Gloucestershire made to him will be found ibid., iii. 9 (note); xiii. 373 ; xiv. 161. Mr. W. St. Clair Baddeley in his history of Hailes ('A Cotteswold Shrine,' 1908), p. 126, gives particulars of the grant of Hailes to Richard Andrewes, who was called "Constable of Hailes." In the Gurney MSS. it is stated (Baddeley, op. at., pp. 131, 139) that Andrewes held the " scites of nine monasteries." Roland Austin. Public Library, Gloucester. Chauncy, in his ' Historical Antiquities of Herts,' has several references to this man : " The Grant of this Mannor [Bradfield, now called the Flyers Parish of Rushden] was con- flrm'd again to the aforesaid Monastery of Wardon in Beds, by Rich. I. in the 10th Year of his Reign and remained there until the time of its Dissolution, when it came to the Crown : then King H. VIII. granted it to Richard Andrews of Hayles in the County of Gloucester. Hayles is now spelt Hailes, a cliapelry in the parish of Didbrook. Henry VIII. " gave the Mannor of Little Amwell, Hertford, to the same Rich. Andrews, Gent." M.A.Oxon. A John Andrews of Haresfield married, in 1551, Derrick, daughter of the notorious Sir Anthony Kingston, who in 1555, as Sheriff, superintended the burning of Bishop Hooper at Gloucester (see ' A History of Painswick,' by Welbore St. Clair Baddeley, 1907). There are several references to Richard Andrews in the same authors history of Hailes, published in 1908. A, K.* Vy« "Apium" (11 S. vi. 489; vii. 55, 74).— Isidorus's derivation of this word from apex, mentioned at the second reference, might in kindness be allowed to die the natural, if often lingering, death of such "etymologies." In view, too, of the pas- sages in Greek and Latin literatiu-e in which the culinary uses of «A""" and opium are spoken of, is it not a little misleading to sav " the herb was never brought to table of old " ? Edward Bensly. In '' The Nomenclator; or, Roman Re- membrance, of Adrianus Junius, London, 1585, written by the sd. Ad. Ju. in Latine, Greeke," &c, I have an early authority for the Greek=apium, both = ' parsley. The Index to the ' Xomenclator contams about 1,400 principal words. Under A we have amum, and under the headmg De Re Herbaria': " Apium=Parsehe Apium pa- lustre, paludapium, wild parsehe, or water- parslie: smallage, as some say. Apium ^hreveliiis's 'Greek Dictionary' (1836) gives the Greek for parsley, but no equiva- lent for celery. It is fairly evident that