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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 19, me.

13. Harriet, dau. of John Cam den, Esq. d. Feb. 24, 1795. She was w. of John Mangles, Esq., who d. at Bath, Feb. 21, 1837, and is bur. in the Abbey Church.

14. Edward Wynter, Kt., India merchant, forty-two years in India. He mar. Emma, dau. of Richard Howe, ar., of Norfolk, and d. Mar. 2, 1685/6, a. 64. Catherine, relict of William Winter, Esq., gr.s. to the above, d. Aug. 20, 1771, a. 56. Her son. Wm. Woodstock Wynter, d. Oct. 30, 1747, a. 14. Erected by Edward Hampson Wynter, Esq., great-gr.s. of Sir Edward.

45. Holies St. John, Esq., youngest son of the Right Hon. Henry, Lord Viscount St. John, by his second Lady, Angelica Magdalena Pelissary,

one of the Equerries to her late Majesty Queen Carolina. He d. Oct. 6, 1738, a. 27. Erected by his only sister, the Hon. Henrietta Knight.

ON THE GALLERY STAIRS.

46. James Bull, d. Aug. 16, 1713, a., leaving a relict and two children. John Bull, only son of James and Frances Bull, d. Feb. 2, 1729, a. 33, leaving a wid. and two sons, John and Edmund.

47. Russell Manners, fourth s. of Lord William Manners, a General in the Army and Colonel of H.M. 26th Regt. of Light Dragoons, d. at Billericay in Essex, Sept. 3, 1800, a. 62. Mrs. Mary Sneyd, dau. of the above, d. Feb. 14, 1839, a. 73. Russell Manners, Esq., s. of the above, d. Jan. 16, 1840,

-a. 68.

INDEX OP PERSONS.

.Ashness, 23 Astle, 21 Banks, 33 Bolingbroke,

Viscount, 32 Broadhurst, 14 Bull, 4, 46 Camden, 42-3

Chali4, 34-5, 38 Connor, 1, 25

-Crowder, 13

Oowe, 11 Dives, 6 Fitch, 15 Fleet, 36 Fletcher, 29 Prancis, 18 Franck, 2, 5 Gosling, 22 Hale, 24

Herbert, 8 Heylin, 22 Hodgkinson, 33 Hollingsworth, 5 Hoper, 35 Howe, 44 Hubbard, 28 Inglis, 7 Johnson, 16 Knight, 45 Mangles, 43 Manners, 47 Marcilly, 32 Middleton, 8 Mills, 22 Neild, 42 Pe(l)lis(s)ary,31,

45

Ponton, 10 Pounsett, 40

Rapp, 26 Richards, 37-8 Roberts, 10 Roth well, 39, 40 St. John, 30-32,

45

Scholey, 27 Singleton, 33 Sneyd. 47 Spice, 3 Vardon, 20 Vassall, 28 Verdon, 17 Williams, 3 Willis. 9, 11 Wix, 19 Wombwell, 12 Wynter, 44 Young, 41

INDEK OP PLACES.

Aldenhain, Herts, 11 Basle, 26 Bath, 43

Berkeley Square, 9 Billericay, Essex, 47 British Museum, 21

Leeds, 41

Lombard Street, 11 Madeira, 13 Mucross, Ireland, 8 Nine Elms, 5 Norfolk, 44

Brompton Cemetery, 12 Nova Scotia, 7

Chancery Lane, 41 Clapham, 13, 23, 27 Edwinsford, Cann., 33 Falmouth, 13 Prance, 31 Heston, MX., 33 .India, 44 Lambeth, 10 Xiedsham, Yorks, 41

Overton, Derby, 33 Revesby Abbey, Lines

33

St. James Street, 42 Stockwell, Surrey, 40 Tower of London, 21 Trin. Coll., Cambr., 13 Wandsworth, 9 Wombwell, Yorks, 12

G. S. PABBY, Lieut.-Col. 17 Ashley Mansions, S.W.

" MABU." (See 10 S. vii. 268, 311 ; viii. 131, 376.) The facts elicited by the correspondence in these columns regarding the meaning of this term will doubtless be readily recalled by readers of ' N. & Q.' ; but, inasmuch as the conclusion arrived at was that the equivalent of the word was not to be found in the English language, it may be as well to quote some remarks which I appended to an epitome of that corre- spondence contributed by me to Lloyd's List of June 13 last, at the request of the Secretary', Admiral E. F. Inglejield :

MB. KUMAGUSTJ MINAKATA, an eminent Japanese scholar, stated that mar a \\;'.< already used as a term of admiration at the end of male personal names in the seventh century as maro, which in the tenth century became maru, and that some time in the fourteenth century a Japanese shipowner thought it a good idea to add it to the names of his sailing ships ; and as the practice soon became general among shipowners, the Japanese Government, perceiving that many of their warships bore names in common with merchant ships, issued an order that for the future all ships engaged in tracte should have the additional name maru.

My suggestion as to its English equivalent is to the effect that

" to those acquainted with nautical matters the old-fashioned custom of describing a ship first, and then a steamer, both in conversation and in such documents as charter-parties and bills of lading, as the ' good ship ' Betty or Penelope, must long have been familiar ; though the signification of the appellation has doubtless become far more correct and material since the passing of the Plimsoll Act. It is evidently in this connexion that maru is used by the Japanese captain, who, like his brethren in other lands, regards his ship reverently, as a sort of mascot ; consequently the term maru is best translated into English by the old familiar phrase ' good ship,' without any regard to the vessel's actual soundness or seaworthiness."

In order to show that the expression goes back practically to Elizabethan times I -u-ill add an extract from the first known English insurance policy, which is given in exter in ' The History of Lloyd's,' by Frederick Martin, founder of ' The'Statesman's Year- Book.' The original was discovered among the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library, and bears the endorsement : " Mr. Morris Abbot's pollesye of Assurance, dated the 15 of ffebruary 1613, 11 Jacobi." It begins : " In the name of God Amen : Be it knowne vnto all men by these presents that Morris Abbot & Devereux Wogan of London, marchants, doe make assurance & cause themselues & euerye of them to be assured, lost or not lost, from London to Zante Petrasse fc Sapholonia, of any