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portraits at the British Museum or else- where which I have examined, any earlier representation of the First Folio than that in the 1789 engraving. I do not think MB. JAGGABD will seriously maintain that the original portrait of the Earl of South- ampton contains a representation of the First Folio such as is in the engraving of the portrait on p. 638 of his ' Shakespeare Bibliography.' I have always been sus- picious of the Felton picture, which purports, -as MB. JAGGABD says, to date back to 1595, but I never thought so badly of it as to suggest that it contained a representation of a book dated 1623.

EDWABD B. HABBIS. .% Sussex Place, Regent's Park, N.W.

PBIOB BOLTON'S WINDOW (US. vii. 29). Ben Jonson refers to " Bolton with his bolt-in -tun " in his play of ' The New Inn,' sc. i. 1. 20, which runs, " Or prior Bolton with his bolt and ton." An account of Prior Bolton is given in the ' D.N.B.'

R. A. POTTS.

It may interest MB. E. A. WEBB to know

that the White Friars had a grant of the

' Hospitium vocatum le Bolt-en-ton " in

1443. See Cunningham's ' Handbook of

London.' REGINALD JACOBS.

LINGEN FAMILY (11 S. vii. 48). The oldest surviving member of the Lingen family (who was married just fifty years ago) tells me that Mr. Robert Burton of Longner Hall (1796-1860) sold Radbrook because he could not afford to keep up two houses Longner and Radbrook.

Sir Ralph de Lingen served in the French wars of Edward III. in 1346-7, in the first division which was commanded by the Black Prince, and died during the campaign (see Wrottesley's ' Crecy and Calais,' in ' William Salt Collections,' vol. xviii. part ii. pp. 32, 114, 153, 281). It was in respect of his lands at Radbrook that he served at Crecy. General Wrottesley, writing in 1897, gives a list of fifteen families who still "hold the lands for which their ancestors per- formed service at Crecy," and includes Lingen in his list. But in this he is, I think, mistaken, for Mr. Burton parted with his Radbrook estate long before 1897.

The Longner estate certainly belonged to the Burtons in the fourteenth century, but it passed in 1730 to Robert Lingen, who assumed tho surname of Burton in 1748.

Many years ago, when some alterations were being made at Radbrook, an illu- minated pedigree of the Lingens drawn up

in 1611 was found stowed away in a chimney, together with some silver. The workmen employed took the silver, but the pedigree is still existing, and is preserved at Longner Hall. A copy of this Lingen pedigree is printed in the Shropshire Archaeological Society's Transactions for 1910 (Third Series, vol. x., * Miscellanea,' pp. i, ii).

W. G. D. FLETCHEB, F.S,A.

See the Lingen pedigree in ' Burke's Landed Gentry, 1906,' at p. 236, from which it appears that Sir John Lingen, Kt., of Sutton and Lingen, Sheriff of co. Hereford in 1469, 1486, and 1496, married Elizabeth (who died 3 Feb., 1522, and was buried at Aymestry), third daughter and coheir of Sir John Burgh (by Jane his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir William Clop ton, of Clop ton, co. Warwick, and Radbrook, co. Gloucester), and died 1506. Most of A. C. C.'s other queries are answered by the above-mentioned pedigree. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

LOCHOW (11 S. vii. 29). Lochow is the proper local pronunciation of Lochawe. The lake is probably named from the river, the monosyllable abh (b silenced by aspira- tion) meaning a river. The same mutation between a and o may be seen in the deriva- tive abJian, or amhan, which is more commonly used to denote a river. This word, which gives the names Avon and Evan to many rivers both in England and Scotland, appears in Ireland in the com- pounds Oweiimore and Owenbeg, two rivers in Mayo. HEBBEBT MAXWELL.

Moureith.

In answer to G. M. H. P., I find that in Brewer's ' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ' (1895) occurs the proverb "It is a far cry to Lochow (Lochawe)." In Brewer's ' Reader's Handbook ' (1902) :

"It is a far cry to Lochaw, Lochaw being the original seat of the Campbells, and so extensive were their possessions that no cry or challenge could reach from one end of them to the other."

A. GWYTHEB. [MR. R. A. POTTS also thanked for reply.]

GEBMAN FUNEBAL CUSTOM (11 S. vi. 368, 436, 500). Between 1890 and 1902, while living in Hanover, I had frequent occa- sion to notice the survival of the custom of carrying lemons at funerals. At the funeral of a member of one of the city guilds the members accompanied the funeral procession, carrying lemons stuck on walking-sticks over their shoulders. The custom is probably still flourishing D. L. GALBBEATH.