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 ii s. vii. mau. 1,1913.) NOTES AND QUERIES. 175 John Norris, son of John, of Newton, Somerset, cler. University Coll., matric. 27 March, 1708, aged 16; B.A. 1711, M.A. from Sidney Sussex Coll., Cambridge, 1723 ; perhaps Rectorof Little Langford, Wilts, 1719, Ac- Foster's ' Alumni,' First Series, vol. iii. Old Cleeve.—Will of John Norris of Minehead, dated 25 Nov., 1068. Lands in Old Cleeve [59 Coke).—Vide supra under Minehead. Oldmixton.—Will of Roger Norreys of Olde Miston, pr. 1562, is in P.C.C. [30 Streat]. Overstowey.—The will of Richard Noris, 1561, is at Taunton.—Vide ' Taunton Wills,' part i. A. L. Humphreys. 187, Piccadilly, W. {To be continued.) Mablborough in Dublin (US. vii. 6).— Further details concerning this event may be of interest. I quote from ' Some Worthies of the Irish Church,' by George Thomas Stokes, 1900, p. 113 :— " John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, was educated in the Old Latin Schoolhouse of Dublin, which you will still find in ruins in Schoolhouse Lane, off High Street, at the back of the Synod Hall. I wonder, in passing, if any one has ever taken the trouble to photograph these ruins, where one of the greatest of England's generals received his education two hundred and fifty years ago." Two further notes are added at the bottom of the page :— " Information about the Free School of the City of Dublin in ' le Ram Lane,' afterwards known as Schoolhouse Lane, will be found in Gilbert's ' History of Dublin,' vol. i. p. 237; in articles in The Irish Builder (vol. xxviii. p. 78, and vol. xxxiii. p. 187) on the churches of St. Audoen and St. Michael; and especially in two exhaustive articles in the numbers of the same journal for May 1, 15, 1890. John Churchill attended the school for a year or more about 1602. Lord Wolseley's ' Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, to the Accession of Queen Anne,' vol. i. p. 29 sq." " In 1674 the schoolhouse was falling into decay, and the Corporation granted a lease of the site to one John Boit. Dorr built on it a residence for himself, and named it Borr's Court. Its name survives in a corrupt form—' Borris Court'—as the name of a narrow street off School- house Lane. The ruins which still exist are portions of the walls of Borr's house. Every Testige of the school has disappeared." W. R. B. Prideaux. Bertram Stote (11 S. vii. 110).— According to a pedigree in the fourth volume of the new ' County History of Northumber- land ' (1897), Bertram Stote was the only surviving son of Sir Richard Stote of Lincoln's Inn and of Jesmond, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, serjeant-at-law, who married, 24 Jan., 1653/4, Margaret, daughter of Henry Holmes of Newcastle, merchant. After her husband's death in December, 1682, she married Henry Basire, from whom she afterwards separated. Bertram was baptized 8 Feb., 1674/5, died unmarried, and was buried at St. Nicholas's Church, Newcastle, 22 July, 1707, leaving as co- heiresses three sisters—Margaret, Frances, and Dorothy. The last survivor of these ladies was Dorothy, widow of the Hon. Dixie Windsor, who died intestate and without issue 26 Dec, 1756. From her intestacy sprang a litigation of a hundred years respecting her estates, which culminated in an action of ejectment heard at the assizes in Newcastle in the spring of 1855. Samuel Warren, author of ' Ten Thousand a Year,' pleaded (it was said without fee) the cause of the last plaintiff, William Stote Manby, a gardener of Louth in Lincolnshire, and was nonsuited. An attempt was made to revive the cause in Chancery in April, 1857, the plaintiff having raised money by a promise to pay 201. for every 12. lent. The action was dismissed, with costs, against the plaintiff, and no attempt has since been made to revive it. " Sic transit gloria Manbi " was the comment of The Lincolnshire Journal of the period. Richakd Welford. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. TH. A. P. and Mr. R. Peacock—who mentions the pedigree of Stote of Stote Hall and Kirkheaton in J. Crawford Hodgson's ' History of Northum- berland,' iv. 383, and states that Bertram Stote's parents were married at St. John's, Newcastle— also thanked for replies] Makblemen (11 S. vii. 107).—The "great guild" of Lynn was the Guild of the Trinity. See Blomefield's ' History of Norfolk,' vol. viii. p. 502 (1808). The "skyveyns " were the wardens of the guild. See Spclman under 'Scabini.' W. C. Bolland. Is not "skyveyns" the same word as the French esquevins or echevins, through the Latin form skivinus? This occurs in a document relating to London in 1193 as " 8kivin[ia]" and " skivinorum " (' Com- mune of London,' pp. 235-6). Dr. Round adds in a note that the 'Liber Albus (pp. 423-4) uses "eskevyn" for the echevins of Amiens. G. H. White. St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk. Statues and Memorials in the British Isles (11 S. vii. 64).—There is an error in the description of the Wellington monument, Phoenix Park, Dublin. A smaller pedestal for a statue was built at one side, but, money for the statue not being forthcoming, the pedestal was removed. J. Ardaoh. 40, Richmond Road, Drumeondra, Dublin.