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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. APRIL 11,191*.

Lill, to lay on. 1622. " We layd lill on, both of vs, we cousen'd the poore. ' The Virgin Martyr,' D 2.

Mean. (Not meaning you.) 1632. " 'Tis not impossible but a king may have A foole to his kinsman, no way meaning you Sir." ' The Maid of Honour,' D 3.

Native. 1629. " For the Generall, Hee 's a mere natiue, and it matters not Which way we doe accost him." ' The Picture,' E.

Of it. 1629. " I haue had a long fast of it." Id., G.

Pass, let that.lQ32. " A legge without An artificiall calfe, I suspect yours, But let that passe." ' The Maid of Honour,' D 4. (Also ' Merry Wives,' I. iv.)

Poynado. (? a stimulant.) 1605. "She could haue had Poynados in her bed euery morning."
 * Eastward Hoe,' C 3.

Rood, as an exclamation. 1629. " Rood the euents [Rood, the events !] The sanctuary fooles and madmen flie to." ' The Picture,' M 2.

Sated. 1623. " When you are seated {sic} with all Earthly glories." ' Duke of Millaine,' C.

Slavonian. A boor. 1613. " I know I shall be fowly censured of some Slauonians that scarce haue any taste or feeling of inuention." H. Parrot, ' Springes for Woodcocks,' To the Reader.

Tightly. 1629. " Worke but titely And wee will not vse a dishe-cloute in the house But of your spinning." ' The Picture,' M 2.

Tit of tenpencc, A. 1632. " Scorn'd by A tit of pen-pence [sic]."

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

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.

DOYNELL FAMILY. I should be extremely obliged if any of your readers could give me any information about the old Norman family of Doynell, Doyngell, or Doisnell : whether any members of the English Doynell family have returned to France during the last 300 years ; and, more especially, stating whether a family of that name is still in existence in England.

In 1066 the old Norman family of Doynell was split into two branches : one came to England with William I., and settled in Wiltshire, and apparently, in the late four- teenth or early fifteenth century, moved to Cornwall ; the other branch remained in Normandy, the direct descendant being the present Comte de Ste. Quentin.

In 1096 there is a precept by William II. to Robert Doisnell. At the time of Henry III. Robert Doynell held the manor of " Huish Doynel " in the hundred of Swanborough, in Wiltshire. In 1337 Peter Doynell, who

held Yatesbury Manor, was Sheriff of Wilt- shire. He was knighted in the following year. Towards the end of the fourteenth century " Joane, daughter of Richard Doyne- gell and heire to her brother John," married William Trelawney of the celebrated Cornish family. In the Feudal Aids for 142S Nicholas Doyngell is mentioned. In the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum there is a genealogy of the Doynell family of Corn- wall down to 1620. I have been unable to- trace a Doynell in England after 1620.

JOHN R. NELSON. 1, Bruce Road, Harlesden, N.W.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE WARWICKSHIRE DIALECT. In a review of Mrs. Wright's appeared in The Athenceum for 6 Dec., 1913, it is stated that Shakespeare's intimate acquaintance with the Warwickshire dialect goes far to indicate his birthplace, and an instance is given from ' Othello,' II. i. 312 :
 * Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore ' which

If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash For his quick hunting, stand the putting on, I '11 have our Michael Cassio on the hip. In the dialects trash means (a) an old shoe, and (6) a cord used in checking a dog. The reviewer suggests that this double meaning indicates a possible play upon words.

I should be glad to have other instances of Shakespeare's use of .the Warwickshire dialect, as, being far from books of reference, I cannot hunt them up for myself.

In connexion with this subject I should like to express my appreciation shared, I am sure, by every student of our natonali poet of Mrs. C. C. Stopes's articles in The Athenceum for 14 and 21 March, entitled '. Shakespeare and Asbies,' from which it is clear that, but for the bad faith of John Shakespeare's brother-in-law, Edmund Lain- bert, and his son John Lambert, Shake- speare would have lived his life, and ended his days, as a small Warwickshire farmer. W. F. PRIDEAUX. Hyeres.

QUEEN ELIZABETH AND WALSINGHAM : PAINTING BY DEVIS. I have an engraving entitled ' Queen Elizabeth, attended by her Secretary Sir Francis Walsingham, detect- ing Babington's Conspiracy.' Painted by A. W. Devis, engraved by John Bromley, published by R. Bowyer & M. Parkes, 46, Pall Mall, and Trentelle & Co., Paris, 1 March, 1831. Can any reader tell me where the original picture may be seen ?

CLAN DHAI. Garrick Club, W.C.