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 us. ix. JAN. 3, lou.] NOTES AND QUERIKS.

1535/6, Sir Thomas Dingley had licence to depart the realm to serve the duties of his religion with three servants, four horses, and baggage, and apparently took with him a recommendation from the King addressed to Perin del Pont for the next Commandery of Grace that should fall vacant. Perin del Pont having died, a similar letter was sent to the Grand Master Elect, Didier de St. Jalhe, who appointed Sir Thomas to the commandery of Shingay, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death of Sir Edward Hills, in which he was confirmed by royal grant 19 April, 1537, despite the opposition of Sir Ambrose Cave and Sir Clement West. On 18 Sept., 1537, he was deprived of his com- manderies, and committed to the Tower; and before 3 Nov. in that year Baddesley and Mayne had been given to Sir Thomas Seymour, and Shingay bestowed upon Sir Richard Long. His execution was errone- ously reported to have taken place before 6 Feb., 1538, and it was supposed that he had been condemned for having said that the King put men to death with " avanys moreskys," i.e., apparently, Moorish punish- ments. He was attainted by 31 Hen. VIII, <3. 15 on 18 May, 1539, together with " Robert Braunceter, late of London, merchant, and now in Italy devising the King's destruc- tion," for having been privy to the Pilgrim- age of Grace, and for having " moved divers outward princes to levy war against the King," and was beheaded on Tower Hill with Blessed Adrian Fortescue, Knight of <3race of the same Order, on the 8th or 9th of July, 1539. Both the Ch*ey Friars' Chronicle and Wriothesley's give the date 9 July, and allege that two of their servants were on the same day drawn from the Tower to Tyburn, and there hanged, beheaded,
 * and quartered.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" THE TALLEST ONE-PIECE FLAGSTAFF IN

THE BRITISH EMPIRE." The following para- graph from The Builder, 5 Dec., 1913, seems worthy of preservation in ' N. & Q.' :-

" A COLONIAL FLAGSTAFF.

" What is described as the tallest one-piece flag- staff in the British Empire is one that has recently been erected in front of the new Court House at Vancouver. The staff is a product of the British Columbian forests, and is 218 ft. long ; it weighs about 11 tons, and at the base is 3 ft. square, and place by guy cables set in concrete beds at each corner of the Court House lawn."
 * at the top 1 ft. in diameter. The staff is held in its

Perhaps some of your readers will be able to state whether the claim is a good one.

F. H. C.

CSJmrhs.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" TRAVERSE THE CART.'' This phrase occurs in Thackeray's * The Newcomes,' chap. lix. :

"The farewell [dinner] at Greenwich was so affecting that all 4 traversed the cart ' and took another farewell at Richmond, where there was crying too, but it was Eucharis cried because fair Calypso wanted to tear her eyes out."

I have not seen the expression anywhere else, and shall be glad to have an explana- tion of its meaning.

JAMES A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

[The Editor of The AfhencKum informs us that Thackeray was quoting from Prior's 'The Thief and the Cordelier. ' Scott used the lines in question as a motto for ' Ivanhoe' : Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave, but seem'd loth to depart !]

PERSONAL NAMES IN INDIA AND IN IRAN. In w T hat books or papers or essays may one find information concerning the system of personal names (for men and women) in India, ancient and modern, and in Iran ? I chiefly mean the social point of view.

A child is born : according to what use or principle is he named ? Will he retain this name during his whole life ? Will he receive another name in the course of life for instance, when being of age, or when becoming an ascetic or a rajah ? Will he have more than one name? and a nick- name ? Are any of these names given in memory of the father as a kind of patro- nymic, or in memory of an ancestor ? Are certain names peculiar, by use or by right, to certain castes or classes of the society ?

By the way, what is the oriomastic system kept up to this day by the Par sees ?

H. OAIDOZ.

22, rue Servandoni, Paris (VI.).

LISTS OF BISHOPS AND DEANS IN CATHE- DRALS. I should be glad to know :

1. In which of our cathedrals a list of the Bishops and Deans, or of either Bishops or Deans, is to be seen in a conspicuous place.

2. Whether the names are inscribed 011 brass tablets, or otherwise.

3. Whether the particular form in which the lists appear seems to be capable of pos- sible improvement. GEORGE AUSTEX.

The Residence, York.