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proper, habited gules, cuff argent, the hand open and erect. Motto, " Droit et loyal."

These arms are quartered with Blackett and Vanneck. The Blackett connexion is through Elizabeth Parceval, whose mother was Ann Blackett, heiress of her uncle Michael Blackett. Of the Vanneck con- nexion nothing is known.

Any information about John Moule of Great Swan Alley, and any details as to his antecedents, or any information about the Moules of Bedfordshire, would be very grate- fully received. MARGARET MOULE. 5, Walsingham Mansions, Fulham Road, S.W.

" RAWHEAD " AND " BLOODY-BONES." T. M. Kettle's ' The Open Secret in Ireland ' contains the following expression :

" For followers reared in the tradition of hysteria depicted above, no rawhead is thought too raw, and no bloody-bones too bloody." These words brought back to my mind the vague memory of a tale I heard, as a child, about some such persons as " Rawhead " and " Bloody-bones." My only recollec- tion of it is that it was a rather fearful one, and that it was told me by a woman whose childhood and youth had been spent in Derry. From the above mention of it in Kettle's book I should suspect it to be a fairly common tale in Ireland, particularly in the North. Can any of your readers give me further information on the matter ? WM. A. MCLAUGHLIN.

Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[Dr. Cobham Brewer's ' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable' says: "Rawhead and Bloody - Bones A. bogie at one time the terror of children. * Servants awe children and keep them in subjection by telling them of Rawhead and Bloody-Bones' (Locke)." The 'New English Dictionary,' s.v. 'Raw-head' carries the story much further back than Locke', the earliest quotation being from ' Wyll of Deuyll ' ^ Pu : i- "^ by our faithful Secretaryes, Hobgoblin, Rawhed, & Bloody- bone."]

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

I should be glad to obtain any particulars concerning the following men who were educated at Westminster School: (1)

Blois, admitted Christmas, 1809,' and left

?oHl (2) C< H> Blount > a t school in 1803 ; (3) Charles Henry Bloxam, born 15 Jan 1812, admitted 13 Jan., 1824 ; (4) Fraser Houstoun Bloxam, born 26 May 1810 admitted 18 Jan., 1819; (5) George Frede- rick Bloxam, born 20 Sept., 1813. admitted 14 Jan. 1824 ; (6) Henry Boulton, ad- mitted June, 1740, aged 13 ; (7) James Boulton, admitted 17 Jan., 1771 ; an( j (8) Richard Bolton, admitted 11 Oct.', 1786

G. F. R. B.

MARSACK. At 7 S. xii. 409, 478, there are references to a certain Major Charles Marsack, who bought Caversham Park, Oxon, from the Earl of Cadogan (presumably) in or about the year 1787. This transaction is recorded in the ' Biog. Index of the House of Lords,' 1808, as follows :

" In consequence of some unhappy connubial events the late Earl sold land, house, furniture, wine in the cellar, and, if we are to believe report, the very roast beef on the spit to Major Marsac [sic I for a sum of money one day before dinner." As Caversham Park cost not less than 130,OOOZ. to build (see Neale's ' Views,' 1824), the Major must have been a wealthy man to take over such a property

I desire to find out who Major Charles Marsack, or Marsac, was, whence he came, and if he had any connexion with the French families of the same name. His career in the Indian Army is published in Dodswell and Miles's ' List,' 1834.

G. J., F.S.A.

BRUTTON. Can any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' supply particulars concerning the family history of Col. Nicholas Brutton, who, it is stated, sold the Lieutenant- Colonelcy of he llth Light Dragoons to the Earl of Cardigan for the record price of 17,500Z. ? F. W. R. GARNETT.

Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, S.W

PIRATES: CAPT. WOODES ROGERS. (US. viii. 488.)

CAPT. WOODES ROGERS came to the front owing to having achieved a name as a successful pirate. In the early part of the eighteenth century the West Indian seas were infested with a horde of these outlaws, the chief of whom was one Edward Teach, commonly known as " Blackbeard," whose head-quarters were at New Providence in the Bahama Islands; and there is little doubt that for a time Woodes Rogers was associated with him, and especially with one of Blackboard's comrades a certain Ben- jamin Hornygold, who with Woodes Rogers in 1717 sailed to the continent of America on a privateering expedition, which was very successful. In that year, however, the notorious Blackbeard had been attacked by a small expedition sent by the Governor of Virginia under Lieut. Maynard ; after a sanguinary encounter Blackbeard was killed, and those who survived of his crew