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fcowever, gives quite another etymology, namely, Evans, Jonreth, surnamed Drwydwn, the father of Llewelyn, was the eldest son of Owain Groynedd, but was not suffered to enjoy his right on account of that blemish ! ' Who Jonreth was, or when he lived, Mr. Arthur does not inform us, though we cannot but regret that in a two -fold sense Ms nose was thus ' put out of joint.' "
 * Welsh, drwydwn, broken nose. According to

The name does not appear in Hitching' s '' References to English Surnames in 1601.' This is an index giving 19,650 references to surnames contained in the printed registers of 778 parishes during the first year of the seventeenth century. It would appear, therefore, that the name of Driden or Dryden was not common at that date.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

' THE STANDARD ' (12 S. i. 341, 363, 381, 414). I am told that Mr. Dasent has been misinformed as to the name of the writer of the article which appeared in The Standard on Delane's death. It was written by Mr. T. H. S. Escott, and not by Alfred Austin. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.

It may be interesting to record that the establishment of a steamship at Calais by Baldwin for the Indian mail of The Morning Herald was rivalled by that of a steamship 8it Boulogne for a similar purpose. When I was staying at Boulogne, as a small boy, during the summer of 1849, there was a very smart steamship stationed there to convey an Indian mail across the Channel. This ^vessel, the Ondine, was commanded by Capt. Jenkins, at whose house we were lodging, and whose son was my playmate. If I remember right, the owner was Mr. 'Churchward, and The Morning Chronicle was the newspaper for which the mail was carried. The Ondine had succeeded a steamship named the Undine ; and it was still working in 1851 when I passed through Boulogne on my way home from Paris.

EDWARD NICHOLSON.

Les Oycas, Cannes.

SIR ROBERT MANSEL (12 S. i. 308, 398, 438). I have not seen it for many years, but I^have a very strong impression that the hand preserved in a bottle of spirits of wine in the Museum at Canterbury (see ante, p. 398) was formerly labelled as that of Sir Edmund Verney, who was killed at Edgehill.

B. B.

When I visited Canterbury Museum some years ago I inspected the relic de- scribed as " the dissevered hand of Sir John Heydon." There was with it a long manu- script entitled ' Report of Sir Robert

Mansfield,' giving a detailed report of this strange duel. The little Catalogue by John Brent, F.S.A., dated 1875, contains a re- production of the document. From the proceding letterpress I gather that the hand and accompanying manuscript were pre- sented to the Museum probably about 1822 by Mr. Daniel Jarvis, a doctor of medicine, resident at Margate. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VIRGINIAN LETTERS (12 S. i. 309, 354, 415). It would seem that the arms which are mentioned at the last reference as borne by the family of Haddock (of Wrotham Place, Kent ; see Hasted's ' History of Kent,' ii. 236) belonged properly to the family of Haydock of Greywell, Hants ; see ante, p. 363 ; ' Viet. Hist. Hants,' iv. 77 ; ' Visitation of Hampshire ' (Harl. Soc.), 11 ;' Grantees of Arms ' (Harl. Soc.), 119; Burke's 'Armory' (1884), 472. Ac- cording to Le Neve, these arms were assumed, without right thereto, by Admiral Sir Richard Haddock, a native of Leigh, Essex, who was knighted in 1675 (' Le Neve's Knights,' Harl. Soc., 300). Sir Richard Haddock, who became Comptroller of the Navy, was returned M.P. for Aldburgh in 1678/9, and for Shoreham in 1684/5, and died, aet. 85, on Feb. 26, 1714 (Le Neve, ^Idest son was Admiral Nicholas Haddock, who died on Sept. 26, 1746, " vice-admiral of the blue, member for Rochester [1734 and 1741], and late commander of the Mediter- ranean fleet " (Gentleman's Magazine, xvi. 497) ; his wife having predeceased him on Nov. 22, 1735, when he was Rear- Admiral of the White (ibid., v. 682). Their eldest son, Nicholas Haddock, became M.P. for Rochester in 1754, and died at Wrotham on July 19, 1781 (ibid., li. 394). H. C.
 * Monumenta Anglicana,' iv. 291). His

AN EPIGRAM BY JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGER (12 S. i. 67, 130, 193). Referring to the famous epigram supposedly written by Scaliger, I find the following in ' Mena- giana,' Paris, 1741 (vol. iv. p. 96) :

" Magnus liber, magnum malum. Cela est bien vrai : Par exemple, le Bocuoil des Poesies de Scaliger le P6re est un gros volume in-octavo, cependant il n'y a gu&re de plus me" chant livre ; a peinc y trouve-t-on quatre cm cinq e"pigrammes qui puissent p.asser a la montre. En voici une de celles-la que je dis. O'est sur les Gascons qui prononcent le v comme le b, et le b comme le v :

Non temere antiquas mutat Vasconia voces,

Cui nihil est aliud vivere quam bibere.'*

^EGIDIUS FAUTEUX.

Bibliotheque Saint-Sulpice, Montreal.