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 11 S. VII. MAR. 29, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIP^S.

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AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. v. 327). ASTARTE'S first quotation,

There in that smallest bud lay furled The secret and meaning of all the world,

is to be found in Alfred Noyes's long poem
 * The Forest of Wild Thyme,' pt. i.

M. H. DODDS.

(11 S. vii. 189.)

In reply to NIEMAND'S inquiry, I may say that the author of the lines beginning " There was a Knight of Bethlehem " was Henry Neville Maugham. They come from his play ' The Husband of Poverty,' and are entitled " a song of Saint Francis."

J. WILLCOCK, Jun. Lerwick.

(US. vii. 208.)

J. D. will find " Che quanto piace al mondo e breve sogno " in Petrarca's 'Rime.' It is the last line of the first sonnet ' In Vita di Madonna Laura.'

J. F. SCHELTEMA.

POLICEMEN ON POINT- DUTY (11 S. vii.

150). The following note on the regulation of street traffic in London may be of interest. It is taken from the biography of the Rev. Dr. Andrew Reed (1854) :

" Riding one day in a cab together, Sir G. Carroll and Dr. Reed were twice blocked up on their way to London Bridge Station, once at the junction of the five roads at Gracechurch Street and again at Monument Yard ; the delays lasted so long that they lost the train for Earlswood, which Asylum was then being built. The block had been caused by a Pickford's van, a costermonger's barrow, a disabled dust-cart, and a brewer's dray. * Well, doctor, we must go back, there 's no help for it.' 'Right, Sir George,' answered he, 'but if I were a City Alderman, I would take care there should be some help for it to-morrow.' 'What would you suggest ? ' 'I would order things differently on this bridge. I 'd make Pickford follow the donkey, the brewer follow Pickford, keeping close to left-hand kerb, and the right- hand kerb kept clear for the slow-going traffic from the Surrey side ; the midway then would be open for omnibuses and cabs; thus securing four lines of traffic : a luggage train on each side, and two express lines in the middle.' The suggestion was carried to the Common Council, and was at once adopted."

E. GILLSON.

" SEALING THE HENNERY": " MOUSE BUTTOCK" (11 S. vii. 110). MR. McGovERN's query recurred to me when I was reading Ferdinand Fabre's ' Monsieur Jean,' in which mention is made of a spot in the knuckle -bone of a leg of mutton " que mon oncle aim ait beaucoup et vul- gairement appele la souris " (p. 261). This is also known as the venison -piece.

A " mouse buttock," as the ' E.D.D.' testifies, is " the fleshy piece which is cut out from a round of beef." This may be sufficiently definite for some people, but I could welcome a more accurate indication.

ST. SWITHIN.

JOHANNA WILLIAMSCOTE ( 1 1 S. vii. 49, 92, 115, 192). As A. M. has rightly noted, a slip occurred in my first reply as to the wife of Sir John Greville III. of Dray ton (and Milcote), in some pedigrees called Johanna, or Joan, who Was not the Williamescote lady in question, but (as Philpott writes, MS.Ordin. p, 56) dau. of Humphrey Forster. The Wincote of Binton marriage, as I showed, came in with their second son ; but also there eventually came to them the Greville properties of their cousin, Sir John Greville II., who had married Johanna Williamescote, whom Dugdale figures. I do not think there is any getting over the fact of the name of Williamescote appearing in the glass as stated. But the arms of the latter family nowhere appear among the Greville quarterings (cf. Harl. MS. 4199, pp. 26, 88). Therefore I would venture to suggest ( 1 ) that she was the widow ( " relicta") of a Williamescote when she married Sir John Greville II., but was born a Vampage ; (2) that the window in Binton to commemo- rate kindred and ancestry was placed there by the children or grandchildren of Sir John Greville III. and Jane Forster, who, as we have seen, came into the World with. Wincote of Binton descent in them.

The Wilcott family came from Wyvel- cote (now W T ilcote), a hamlet in Northleigh, co. Oxon, in the church of which is the chapel of Sir Wm. Wilcote of Wilcote, who endowed it. The arms of the latter family appear in the fine brass of the Rainsfords at Clifford Chambers (1583).

The only contractions for Williamescote known to me are Wilmescot, Willascot, and Willscot. The possessive s dies hard, and Wilcot, as I have said, is the short form of Wyvelicot. I think with A. C. C. that Dugdale confused - Wilmcote with Wincote, at least clerically.

ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

WARREN ALIAS WALLER (US. vii. 189). In the ' Visitation of co. Herts,' 1634, three generations of the family of Warren, alias Waller of Ashwell are recorded, commencing with a certain William Warren alias Waller, who, " by reason of his arms," was adjudged by Robert Cook, King at Arms, to be " descended from the house of Warren in Poynton, Cheshire."