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1700, and the Dodd family of Edge, Cheshire. Any biographical information about him would also be of interest.

W. E. GIBBONS. The Foxhills, Worn bourne, S. Staffs.

REGISTER OF DEATHS OF ROMAN CATHO- LICS BEFORE 1837. Where can I find the entry of the date of death of a French refugee who died in London in 1811 ? I have consulted Mr. Walter Rye's ' Records and Record Searching,' but without result.

L. L. K.

G. A. WALPOOLE. Every now and then a second-hand book catalogue contains, under the above name :

" British Traveller, a complete display of Great Britain and Ireland, comprising all that is worthy of observation in every County, Shire, &e., numerous copperplates, folio, 1784."

Priced 7s. 6d. in the cutting I have before me.

This writer does not appear in ' D.N.B.,' though his comprehensive work must be of considerable interest. Can any information be given concerning him ? Did he belong to the Walpole family of Norfolk ?

JAMES HOOPER.

92, Queen's Road, Norwioh.

" BUSHEL AND STRIKE." The village fire at Little Chesterford, Essex, on 7 April, destroyed several cottages, and two public- houses, one of the latter being known as " The Bushel -and Strike." What are the origin and meaning of this sign ?

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

JOSHUA WALKER, M.P. When did his death take place ? He represented Aide- burgh, Suffolk, in the Parliaments of 1818, 1820, and 1826, resigning his seat in 1829

A. F. R.

WALTER FENWICK : MAGDALENE HUNT. Walter Feriwick of Atwick (will dated 10 March, 1641 ; probated 21 August, 1644, York Probates) married 2 August, 1628, Magdalene Hunt. Who were her parents ? EDWIN JAQUETT SELLERS.

Philadelphia.

WILDGOOSE. Three generations of this surname are known to have lived in Liver- pool. Can any correspondent tell me from which part of England it originally hailed ? I find its derivation given as " Wild Goth." Are most authorities agreed in maintaining that it is quite different from " Goss " or " Gosse " ? Both of these latter appear to be the bird. Is that correct ? L. V.

LESCELINE DE VERDON. (US. viii. 371; ix. 130, 255.)

I WRITE far from a good library, but I propose to reply to MR. FRANCIS H. RELTON'S courteous questions as w r ell as I can.

1. I cannot fix the dates of Lesceline's birth and death with precision, but as regards the former the margin of possible error is not very wide. When I said in my previous communication (ante, p. 131) that Hugh de Lacy's marriage with Lesceline may have taken place about the time that he acquired Ratoath and Nobber from his brother Walter (i.e., c. 1196, not c. 1194 as printed, probably through a slip of mine), I meant to indicate that as the earliest

Erobable date. For it is probable that Hugh ad some property of his own when he got a wife with property, and, besides, I do not think that Hugh was of age before that date (see ' Ireland under the Normans,' ii. 112). The latest possible date for the marriage would be 1199, which seems to have been the date of Thomas de Verdon's death, and this is, perhaps, nearer the mark. If the date of the marriage of Lesceline's parents was c. 1179, Thomas, presumably the eldest son, may have been born in 1180, and Lesceline in 1181, or a year or two later. Where is the evidence that she was the youngest child ? Surely the order of the names of Bertram's children quoted from Burke does not even show that Burke con- sidered her the youngest child, as daughters in such lists are often placed after sons As to her death, I shall have a suggestion to make by and by.

2. MR. RELTON asks me,

" What were the names of the two castles held by Lesceline of the fee of Nicholas in Ireland of her maritagium (Pat. 10 Hen. III. in. 3, m. 5, and 5 dors.), referred to by Lynam ? "

The references given are clearly to the rolls abstracted in Sweetman's Calendar, Nos. 1371-4 and 1386, or to some of them. These are the documents which I said, " if correctly abstracted," are faulty, except No. 1372, which is correct. I have since taken an opportunity of comparing them with the printed Patent Rolls, and I find that my hypothetical clause was justified. The little word et is not rendered in Sweet- man's abstracts, and, though incorrect English speakers say " and which " when they mean " which," a Latin scribe would