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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. MAY 23,

TOWARD CASTLE, ARGYLESHIRE. Will some reader of ' N. & Q.' give me a descrip- tion of this beautiful ruin, arid its history ? How was the name derived ? Was there a Toward family ? If so, what was their coat of arms ? Surtees in the record of the Durham Visitation gives the name of " Yoward " ; might this be a corrupted form of " Toward " ? There were families of the latter name residing in Durham during last century.

Again, Antony Toward was a trusted servant of Queen Victoria in the Isle of Wight, and upon his death she caused a stone to be erected to him in Whippingham Churchyard. What is the inscription on this stone ? and is any family of this name still existing in that locality ?

J. C. ORMOND.

5, Park Road, High Barnet, Herts.

GRIMOL. Can any of your readers give me information about the Grimol after whom this district was originally named, before the foundation of the modern town of St. Annes ?

Prof. Cooper of Glasgow University, to whom I wrote for information, said there was an Irish saint Grunnmhael who lived about a century later than Columba. On the other hand, the ' History of Blackpool ' gives the name as derived from the Welsh 'kilgury, a corner, and meol, a sand-heap.

I should feel highly obliged by being directed to any authorities.

St. Annes-on-the-Sea. J ' MACDONALD.

" DOUSE." May not this slang word in its meaning of "to put out," " to extin- guish," be the German austun = ausmachen, equal to " do out," " dout " a light ? It would not be the only case of a cant word being imported from Germany.

Berlin. G - KRUEGER.

LLEWELYN AP REES A? GRONO, 1359. When Edward le Despenssr, fifth Baron le De- spenser, Lord of Glamorgan and Morganwg, granted to the town of Neath, Glam., a charter of liberties, dated at Cardiff, 8 Nov., 1359, one of the two Welsh witnesses named as testing the grant was " Lewelyn ap Rees ap Gronowe " (G. G. Francis, ' Charters relating to Neath '; G. T. Clark, ' Cartse,' No. MCXCIV., p. 1631). Who was this Llewelyn ? I am of opinion he was the grandson of that Grono whose father, Cradoc ab Richard, is styled in the Gla- morgan genealogies (first of his family) Lord of Glyn Nedd (i.e., of the Vale of Neath).

This is quite contrary to the generally received opinion that Cradoc ab Richard was grandson of that Eineon ab Collwyn who brought Robert Fitz Hamon into Glamorgan in 1093. AP THOMAS.

BATTLE OF LOHFELDT. When, and be- tween whom, was the battle of Lohfeldt fought ? BLADUD.

NELL GWYN : ROSE GWYN. Mr. Cecil Chesterton, in his book on Nell Gwyn, makes mention of a Rose Gwyn who was arrested for theft in 1663 and sent to New- gate, and subsequently released because her father had lost all in the royal cause. Could any reader oblige me with the date of this arrest or the name of the book or paper where the above particulars are given ? There is no mention of it in the ' D.N.B.' under Nell Gwyn. VERA.

HELMETS IN CHURCHES. Can any of your readers tell me what was the origin of fixing helmets in churches, some of which, from their fragile substance, could not have been used in warfare ? Specimens exist in the following Surrey churches : Cheam, Croydon, Sutton, Wimbledon, and Ewell. The first four named are made of iron ; that of Ewell is a mixture of steel and brass, the owner of which is unknown. I shall be most grateful for any information.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex T/>dge, Ewell.

MISSIONARY SHIP DUFF. This, said to be the first missionary expedition to leave England, sailed in November, 1798, and returned in 1799. Will any reader inform me where I may obtain an account of this expedition, or any particulars relative there- to ? H. H. [See 10 S. x. 503 ; xi. 112.]

DICK'S * SUMMER MORNING ON THE THAMES.' I should be grateful if any of your readers could give me any information respecting a painting that has come into my possession. It is a landscape with cattle, and is entitled ' A Summer Morning on the Thames ' ; it is signed B. Dick, and dated 1875. Any information respecting this artist would oblige. G. ELLIS.

Liverpool.

' OLD ROSE ' was a song mentioned by Izaak Walton in the " second day " of ' The Compleat Angler.' Where can the whole song be found ? Bohn (1856) gives two verses of it in a foot-note, but he supplies no reference. E. O.