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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. ix. JUNE 27, 1914.

was granted 6s. 8d. per year to provide three forms in Lincoln Minster for the use of " those who have borne office in the City " (ibid., p. 97). WM. NORMAN.

Was not this family of Farley Hill, Berk- shire ? See ' Hist. Boyal Berkshire Militia,' by E. E. Thoyts. ORANGE.

SCOTT'S 'Bos ROY' (11 S. ix. 471). 2. Prince Prettyman is a character in the Duke of Buckingham's ' The Rehearsal,' in love with Clovis. He figures sometimes as a. fisher's son, sometimes as a prince, and is said to have been intended as a parody of the character of Leonidas in Dryden's ' Marriage a-la-Mode.' A. R. BAYLEY.

2. Prince Prettyman is a character in Villiers's ' Rehearsal.' The line

Sometimes a Fisher's Son, sometimes a Prince, is in Act III. sc. ii. DIEGO.

6. ' The Black Bull of Norroway ' is a well- known fairy-tale. I have not Andrew Lang's ' Blue Fairy Book ' to refer to, but I imagine that the story may be found in it. Scott may have written " bear " in mistake for bull, or he may have been acquainted with a version in which the hero had to appear as a bear. It is long since I read the story, but, according to a somewhat hazy recollec- tion, it is one of the " Beauty and the Beast " type. B. B. N

6. 1 s not this reference a slip for ' The Black Bull of Norroway ' ? See Lang's ' Blue Fairy Book,' p. 380, where it is quoted as being from ' Popular Traditions of Scotland,' by Robert Chambers. WM. H. PEET.

Quotation 7. This may be a mere coinci- dence. In Suffling's ' English Church Brasses ' the brass of Sir William Vemon, Constable of England, d. 1467, is illustrated on p. 77 and on the cover of the book, showing a shield with two pipes in a field crusily. This led me to consider these to be his arms, until I found in Ward's ' Manual of Brasses,' p. 26, the whole brass illustrated, where the shield is shown to be that of his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Pypis. The Vernon arms were a shield fretty.

D. L. GALBREATH. Montreux.

GRIMOL (11 S. ix. 410, 456). I may add to my previous reply that Mr. Sephton (loc. cit.} thinks Kilgrimol is the "cell" of Grimulf probably, he says, a local saint ; and he takes the name of the chapel, Kel- grim, as given to the owner of the erg (hill)

or horgr (altar) of Kelgrimesherege (modern Kellamergh). Wyld and Hurst (loc. cit.) say it is the hcerg or temple of, or built by, Kelfgrim, possibly a Norse compound per- sonal name.

" Earngaev " in my previous reply is a misprint for Earngaer. R. S. B.

THE ADELPHI (11 S. ix. 345, 477). I am obliged to MR. H. B. AVHEATLEY for his interesting discussion of my contention that the lottery was not promoted to finish the buildings, but to dispose of them.

It is perfectly clear that by 1774 the buildings were saleable as habitable houses, and any use of the word " unfinished " is intended to apply to the decorations admittedly an essential feature, but pos- sibly a work only commenced when a purchaser had been secured. This is a common practice to-day.

The Act (13 Geo. III. c. 75) recites that the petitioners

"have by means of subterranean streets pointed out a new and effectual method to keep the access to the houses distinct from the traffick of the wharfs and warehouses, thereby connecting grandeur and magnificence with utility and commerce ; and have also erected some great and expensive buildings in Queen Anne Street and Mansfield Street, and it will yet require a very considerable sum for the comple- tion thereof." Cited in The Builder, 6 Dec., 1902, p. 519.

It is admitted that this sale by lottery was necessary to discharge obligations incurred to creditors ; for this reason paintings and sculpture, mostly imported from Italy, were included. But this supports my contention that when the lottery was held, the buildings of the Adelphi had been completed.

ALECK ABRAHAM.

GENERAL BEATSON : BALACLAVA (11 S. vi. 430, 516 ; vii. 57, 135, 237 ; ix. 397, 455). I should not only have been " somewhat in error," but guilty of gross presumption in writing of that of which I was ignorant, had I confounded the charge of the Heavy Brigade, which, as W. S RR rightly says, preceded that of the Light Brigade, with its subsequent movement to cover the retreat of the latter. He is quite right in describing that glorious charge as a splendid success, and its results would have been still more disastrous to the Russians, had not Lord Cardigan, misinterpreting his orders, refused to let the Light Cavalry strike in on their flank, to the great chagrin of those under his command.

It was in the subsequent manoeuvre that Scarlett was " too forward," and Lord