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NOTES AND QUERIES. n s. ix. FEB. 28,

But must we accept " thrang " as mean- ing only busy, active, pressed for time, &c. ? Can it not be connected with the Scotch " thrawn " = cross - grained, ill - tempered (vide Chambers' s ' Scots Dialect Dictionary,' Warrack, London and Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1911, s.v.) ? The same word appears under a slightly different form in Patterson's ' Antrim and Down Glossary ' (English Dialect Society, 1880) : "A thraw mule = a perverse and obstinate person." I have heard natives of the North of Ireland use the word: e.g., " My ! but he 's thran th' day ! " " You 're thran, that 's all that ails ye," where the meaning is obviously peevish, contrary, ill-humoured. Were this meaning acceptable for the word " thrang " of the proverb, it surely would not lose, but rather gain in sense.

WM. A. MCLAUGHLIN.

Ann Arbor, Michigan.

CRICKET IN 1773 (11 S. ix. 46, 135). It is interesting to note that at this early period ladies played cricket, and the late Andrew Lang suggests this in his admirable Preface to the Badminton book on Cricket, with the reproduction of a rare print showing " Miss Wicket " with the curved bat and the two stumps of that date. In my posses- sion is a print, which I believe is very rare, representing twelve ladies playing or practis- ing cricket. All are dressed alike in a sort of Watteau costume. There are only two stumps to the wicket, which a batswoman is defending with a curved bat, and one of the ladies holds a tally - stick in one hand, and a knife in the other. The notches in the tally-stick can be seen with a glass. The fact that all the ladies are dressed alike proves the existence of a club.

GEORGE WHERRY.

EXTRACTS FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS OF ST. BOTOLPH WITHOUT ALDERSGATE (11 S. ix. 84). One of the baptisms given by MR. MUNDY at the above reference is of much interest, namely, that of Catherine, daughter of William, Lord Gray, and Dame Cicill, on 3 May, 1640. The William, Lord Gray (or properly Grey) here referred to was of Chillingham and Werke, co. Northumberland, created Baron Grey of Werke, 11 Feb., 1623/4. His wife's name is variously given as Cecilia or Priscilla ; this entry goes to prove it to have been Cecilia. Catherine, their daughter, married, 1, Sir Edward Moseley, Baron Hough ; 2, Charles North, Lord North of Kirtling ; 3, Col. Francis Russell. She died in 1695, her third hus- band surviving her.

The house in which Lord Grey of Werke lived was situate on the east side of Charter- house Churchyard, in St. Botolph's parish, and in Ogilby and Morgan's map of London, 1677, it will be found marked " A 14 Lord Grey's " the property then extending from the churchyard right through to Aldersgate Street.

I have been at some pains to trace the history of this site, but cannot ascertain when or how Lord Grey acquired it, which was certainly previous to 1672, a date with which documents in my possession commence. I have examined all the conventual leases now in existence at the Public Record Office, and many Patent and Close Rolls, Feet of Fines, &c., the only one that seems to con- cern the whole of the east side of the church- yard being a lease for thirty -five years granted by the Prior of Charterhouse to John Vowell, cleric, dated 20 Nov., 7 Henry VII., 1491.

Sir James Dyer, Chief Justice, had a grant by letters patent from Henry Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, in 1562, of a mansion ap- parently on this spot, which on his death in 1582 descended to his heir, his great-nephew Richard Dyer. After this I cannot trace the property till it appears in William, Lord Grey's hands in 1672.

If any one can assist in filling up the gap, I shall be very much obliged. I may men- tion that the documents in the hands of the Master of Charterhouse relate only to the Sutton property, and do not refer to the east side of the churchyard outside the walls of the Charterhouse.

EDW. ALEX. FRY.

THE COLONELS OF THE 24TH REGIMENT (11 S. ix. 127). I think COL. LEACH is in error in stating that the 24th was called " Howard's Greens." From reference to Richards's ' History of Her Majesty's Army * and to Major Lawrence- Archer's ' British Army, its Records and Badges,' I find that the " Green Howards " was the nickname of the 19th Foot ; and again, on reference to the ' Historical Records of the Nineteenth Regiment,' I find on p. 13 the following foot-note :

" Previously to the Royal Warrant of 1751 it \vas the practice to call Regiments by the names of their Colonels, adding in some instances the colour of their facings, particularly when two regiments were commanded by Colonels of the same name, as the 19th was commonly called the ' Green Howards ' from its Colonel George Howard 1738-1748, to dis- tinguish it from the ' Buffs,' commanded by Lieut. -General Thomas Howard."

A GWYTHER.