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events had frequently happened in such notable succession that they came to be considered as cause and effect. Observation on the spot makes it possible to say now that, whether it was coincidence or not, the rain came in three cases out of four after the reverberations of what were popularly called " the Corporal's big guns."

THOMAS BAYNE.

The hypothesis has been stated thus :

" When any violent agitation of the air, such as the sound waves due to thunder, or cannonad- ing, or other explosions, sets the cloud particles in motion, they may be driven together until brought into contact and united with larger drops."

However plausible this may be, it must be confessed that no one has ever yet observed precipitation actually formed by this pro- cess. See the articles on meteorology in pp. 289, 290, sub ' Formation of Rain.'
 * The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' 1911 ed.,

TOM JONES.

FALCONER : ST. DUNSTAN-IN-THE-WEST (11 S. xii. 501). The garden-graveyard in Bream's Buildings is only a small portion of the burial-ground secured before 1597 for the parishioners of St. Dunstan's-in-the- West (vide Bell, ' Fleet Street in Seven Centuries,' p. 251). Bream's Buildings and the school in Graystoke Place cover part of its area.

I have always understood it was identified as the " Upper Ground " to distinguish it irom the old graveyard, " the Lower Ground," adjoining the church on its north side. Denham's ' History of St. Dunstan's-in- the-West ' provides illustrations and epi- taphs of the monuments in the church demolished in 1829, but probably many of the older monuments were lost and graves obliterated when this edifice was enlarged and improved ,'n 1701.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

HAYCOCK OR HEYCOCK FAMILY (US. xii. 442, 507). Joane, daughter of Richard Haycock, married Alexander Woodd of Shine Wood, co. Salop (died 1546), son of Lawrence Woodd of Holly Hall, co. York, "by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Philip Yonge of Caynton, co. Salop. They had a daughter Ellen, wife of John Pershouse of Sedgeley Hall, co. Salop ; and four sons, viz. : 1. Peter Woodd of Shine Wood, who was father of Alexander Woodd of White Abbey, and six other sons. 2. Wil- liam Woodd, who died s.p. 3. John Woodd of Shawbury, co. Salop, whose son William died 1576, leaving by Catherine his wife

a son, Rev. Richard Woodd, Vicar of Shaw- bury and Cound, who died 1648, leaving a son William, of Muckleton, who was born about 1597, and married his relative Anne Woodd. 4. Rowland Woodd.

Richard Haycock's residence is not re- corded. WALTER A. PENTHORNE.

A branch of this family was settled at West Haddon, Northamptonshire, until well into the last century, when it became extinct. The first entry in the parish registers is the birth (not baptism) of Elizabeth, daughter of John and Em' Heicock, April 10, 1656. The name is variously spelt Heicock, Heicccke, Heycocke, Haycocke, Heycock, and Haycock.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

DUCHESSES WHO HAVE MARRIED COM- MONERS (11 S. xii. 501 ; 12 S. i. 36). Mary Maria Winifred Francisca (Sherburne), widow of Thomas, eighth Duke of Norfolk, married Peregrine Widdrington in 1733.

Frances (Scudamore), divorced wife of Henry, third Duke of Beaufort, married in or after 1734 Charles Fitzroy, natural son of the first Duke of Grafton.

Anna Maria (Stanhope), widow of Thomas, third Duke of Newcastle, married in 1800 Lieut.-General Sir Charles Crauford, G.C.B. H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridge.

TAVERN SIGNS : MOTHER HUFFCAP, TOM o' BEDLAM, GEORGE IN THE TREE, &c. (11 S. xii. 279, 346, 385, 446, 506). What I wished to know was how MR. H. H. JOHNSON could prove that Mother Huffcap and Mother Damnable, and others unnamed, were one and the same person. J. C. Hotten gives a whole page to the sign of Mother Redcap, presumably included in the others, and what he says would lead to another conclusion. He tells us that the sign of Mother Redcap is ancient and widespread ; that at one time the Mother Redcap in Kentish Town was kept by an old crone, from her amiable temper surnamed Mother Damnable ; and adds that this was probably the same person elsewhere alluded to .as Mother Huff, as in Baker's ' Comedy of Hampstead Heath,' Act-.IL, sc. i. : "Well, this Hampstead's a charming place, to dance all night at the Wells, and be treated at Mother Huff's." He does not mention Mother Huffcap, from which one may con- clude it is a modern sign. In any case there seems to be no equation of a person who kept a tavern and the original alewife personified in its sign.