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 12 S. I. JAN. 22, 1916.] 1 NOTES AND QUERIES.

VILLAGE POUNDS ( 12 S. i. 29). The Pound at West Haddon, Northampton- shire, was sold by auction and abolished on Oct. 1, 1875. The site, of only a few yards in extent, was bought by Mr. H. Newcombe for mi., being at the rate of about 4,0002. per acre. According to a vestry minute (April 27, 1875), the Lord of the Manor, Mr. H. Atterbury, was empowered to act as vendor, and after the sale the proceeds were equally divided between himself and the parish authorities.

(See 7 S. v. 85, 297 ; vi. 408 ; vii. 31, 158.) JOHN T. PAGE.

The following village pounds yet remain, or portions of them : Darby Green, Yateley, Hants ; Waltham St. Lawrence, Berks ; Pound Green, Lower Sulhamstead, Berks. There are many others in Berks.

E. E. COPE.

Finchampstead.

LATTON FAMILY (11 S. xii. 400, 450)'. There are six gentlemen of this name in Foster's ' Al. Ox.' M.A.OxoN.

COLD HANDS, WARM HEART (11 S. xii. 480). The French say : " Froides mains, chaudes amours." ST. S WITHIN.

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BurJce's Peerage and Baronetage, 1916. (Harrison

& Sons, 27. 2s. net.)

WE welcome the 78th edition of this valuable and hardy annual. The publishers point out that all successions and extinctions of title are dealt with during the Whole of the past year, and we think this correct as we find, incorporated in the text, the death of the Earl of Cranbrook on Dec. 23 last, and the lineage of Sir John French, although the letters patent of his Viscounty have not yet been signed. We also find in the lineage of the Royal Family that H.R.H. Prince Albert, Midshipman R.N., served with the Grand Fleet in the European War, 1914. The lineage of the Lords Wharton is included, but this seems slightly premature as, under the deci- cision of the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords on Dec. 15 last, it was decided that this Barony was in abeyance, and was at His Majesty's disposal. However, it may be hoped that Mr. Ashworth Burke's prophecy may be correct, and that it may be called out of abeyance in favour of Mr. Kerne ys-Tynte (see ante, p. 46).

There is no doubt that the compilation of this work since the commencement of the War must have entailed a great addition of labour, owing to the constant addition of distinctions to those serving the country at the front, to the lists of casualties, and to the naval and military pro- motions almost daily forthcoming. The editor points out that his task has been made more difficult by the withdrawal from circulation of the usual official lists, more particularlv the Army List and the Navy List.

From the record of the Peerage in 1915 it appears that five new Peers (including Sir John French) have been created, viz., Lord W T renbury,_ Lord Buckmaster, Lord Mackenzie, and Lord Bertie ; and that nine additional Baronets were created. On the debit side of the account thirty-seven Peers and fifty-five Baronets died, seven of the former and eight of the latter on active service at the front. Owing to death, nine Peerages became extinct, but if Peerages merged in higher dignities are counted, three more must be added to the number. It is not often that the extinction of Peerages outnumbers the new creations, as it does during the year under review.

On looking casually through the volume, we note that Edward VII. is the only monarch who died " universally lamented " ; we do not know why this phrase should not be applicable to Queen Victoria and perhaps to " Harry the King."

W 7 e observe that the editor still chronicles Lord Donoughmore's eldest son with the courtesy title of Lord Suirdale, though he has not yet informed us when and by whom this title was created.

It appears that in- many instances the Peerage have reverted to the wholesome custom of having large families. Two Countesses have lately given birth to an eighth child. The, Queen has six children, and so has Lady Bate ; the Duchess of Devonshire and Lady Hill seven each ; Lady Dundonald and the Duchess of Abercorn five each ; and the Duchess of Buccleuch eight. This show's that large families are by no means out of fashion in the Peerage, and long may the fashion continue.

Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. BiograpMca Supplement. Part I. By F. A. Hyett and Roland Austin. (Printed for the Subscribers by John Bellows, Gloucester.) BIBLIOGRAPHERS should certainly make a note of this Work. It is one of the best examples of its kind that we have come across, and the matters thus carefully and ably dealt with are, in them- selves, of no slight interest ; for Gloucestershire if it has not quite the claim on an Englishman's pious regard that Warwickshire or the Lakes or Middlesex can make has, nevertheless, a fine show of worthies in many walks of life to boast of, as well as a long tale of writings about them.

This first part of the Biographical Supplement to the ' Manual of Gloucestershire Literature ' takes us as far as Lysons, and we may say at once that, so far as the personages to be dealt with

go, we have found no omissions. The compilers ave been as generous as they have been from the standpoint of utility wise in admitting a large number of names which have never been known beyond the locality to which they belonged,, nor there much beyond their own generation. Such, when details concerning them are wanted, are apt to be difficult to trace, and their very un- importance aggravates the irksomeness of a search. Great, in proportion, should be the gratitude of the writer who requires such detail, and finds the whereabouts of it here to his hand.

Among the most interesting of the articles are those on the Atkynses, on the poet Beddoes, on Sir Thomas Lawrence, on the Berkeleys, on William Cartwright, Richard Graves, 'the Lysonses this is to mention but a few out of many. Careful note is made of the material collected in our own.