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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. ix. JUNE 27, wu.

" SOUGH " (11 S. ix. 198, 253). As supple- mentary to the discussion of this word in ' N. & Q.,' it seems worth while to mention the article ' Sugh,' 9 S. xii. 223. I failed to find this when preparing my reply the other week, and have now come upon it accident- ally. THOMAS BAYNE.

THOMAS BUTLER, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR (9 S. xi. 227, 350 ; 11 S. viii. 409). Thomas Butler, U.J.D., was appointed Governor of Pontecorvo by a brief of Gregory XIII., dated 4 March, 1579 (Archivio Vaticano, Arm. xlii., vol. 37, f. 372, n. 150).

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

DUKE OF SUSSEX: MORGANATIC MAR- RIAGES (11 S. ix. 470). Both H.R.H.'s " marriages " were equally null and void in view of the Boyal Marriage Act, then and now the law of the land, there being no such contract known to our lawyers as a " morganatic marriage." I am doubtful whether the Duke of Sussex was ever " com- pelled to separate from Lady Augusta Murray," who was granted, by Royal licence in 1806, the name of De Ameland, their two children being known by that of D'Este. The title of Duchess of Inverness conferred on Lady Cecilia Underwood appears, from Charles Greville and other diarists of the period, to have been part of a bargain by which the Duke of Sussex agreed to waive objection to the high precedence which Queen Victoria was anxious to confer on Prince Albert, and no spontaneous mark of affection on the part of Her Majesty towards the lady, whom the Queen is said to have generally alluded to as " my Aunt Buggin," Lady Cecilia's husband having been one Sir George Buggin. H.

No doubt " Queen Victoria looked on the matter in a different light from that in which George III. regarded it." Shortly after the birth of the Duke's son, (Sir) Augustus Frederick (d'Este), on 13 Jan., 1794, news of the second marriage with Lady Augusta Murray, second daughter of the fourth Earl of Dunmore, reached the King, who, in accordance with the regulations of the Royal Marriage Act of 1772 (12 George III. c. 11), declared it void in August, 1794. In 1806 Lady Augusta received Royal licence to assume the name of D' Ameland instead of Murray. In 1840 the Duke's second wife, Lady Cecilia, ninth daughter of the Earl of Arran and widow of Sir George Buggin, was created Duchess of Inverness, one of the Duke's titles being Earl of Inverness. There was no issue by this marriage. A. R. BAYLEY.

(11 S. ix. 471). This is commonly attributed to the pen of Walter Savage Landor, although the real writer is said to have been Bertie Greathead of Guy's Cliffe, near Warwick. WM. JAGGARD.
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Memorials of St. Margaret's Chwch, Westminster v Edited by Arthur Meredyth Burke. (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 21. 2s. net.)

MR. BURKE has here recorded the names of all the persons christened, married, and buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster, from 1539 to 1660. There is a prefatory note by the former- rector, Dr. Hensley Henson (now Dean of Durham), who refers to the mediaeval tradition that the church was coeval with the Abbey r owing its origin to the same royal saint. " The two churches, conventual and parochial, have stood side by side for more than eight centuries not, of course, the existing fabrics,. but older churches of which the existing fabrics are successors on the same sites."

Some people have objected to the proximity of St. Margaret's to the larger building, and have suggested its being removed elsewhere ; but,. apart from the historical associations which would be thus destroyed, we agree with Dean Henson that " students of Gothic architecture will find in the relatively humble building a twofold advantage. It ' gives scale ' to the Abbey, and in itself it exhibits an excellent example of ' popular ' close beside a supreme example of ' aristocratic ' Gothic."

Mr. Burke, who has " brought to his task, not only large experience, but a genuine enthusiasm," tells us that the present work, produced and pub- lished under the auspices of Dean Henson " stands as the fulfilment of his public-spirited and munificent design." The lists of baptisms, mairiages, and burials are given separately, and at the end of the volume is a complete index of names, the total number of entries being 100,896.

The registers of burials abound with references to those appalling visitations of the plague or pestis which devastated this country at intervals in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first reference to the bubonic plague, as distinct from the sweating sickness and other early pandemics to which the name " plague " used to be given indiscriminately, occurs on 23 June, 1563, and from that date to the close of the year 1647 no fewer than 5,830 of the burial entries are deaths from plague or pestilence.

We are given twenty-six portraits of cele- brities associated in some way with the church, in- cluding Richavd Neile, Archbishop of York, whose father was buried here on the 16th of June, 1574. Sir Philip Warwick was christened 24 Dec., 1609. Christopher Gibbons, christened 22 Aug., 1615, became organist of Westminster Abbey, where he was buried 24 Oct., 1676. Thomas Betterton, christened 11 Aug., 1635, was buried in the Abbey 2 May, 1710. Sir John Glynne married Mrs. Frances Squibb on 2 May, 1633, and was buried in St. Margaret's in November, 1666 ; his eldest son was christened in the church