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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. n. JULY i, me.

ADMIRAL XICHOLAS HADDOCK, 1686-1746 (12 S. i. 488). Cf. 'Eighteenth-Century Virginian Letters' (12 S. i. 309, 354, 415, 454), whereby it would seem, from what is said at the last two references, that the Admiral's wife (who died in 1735) bore the Christian name of Frances. Moreover, he called her " Fanny " in a letter of Aug. 4, 1718 (' Correspondence of Family of Had- dock, 1657-1719,' Camden Soc. Miscellany, viir. 53). It may be, therefore, that they were the " Xicholas Haddock, of St. Olives, Southwark, batchelor, and Francess Emmes, of Allhallows, Barking, spinster," who were married (by licence from the Archbishop's Office) at St. Paul's Cathedral on Feb. 9, 1713/4. See ' Registers of St. Paul's Cathe- dral, 1697-1899' (Harl. Soc.), 35. I have examined at Somerset House the Admiral's will (P.C.C., 297 Edmunds), but it throws no light on the point. In this will, dated Xov. 6, 1741, the Admiral is described as " Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet." He mentions, besides the executors, his three sons, Xicholas, Richard, and Charles, and his daughter Elizabeth (to whom he bequeathed the ring presented to him by the King of Portugal), and his " sister Katherine Wragg," " sister Hay," and his nephews Richard Lyddell, Clarke, and Richard Haddock. The will was proved, Oct. 1, 1746, by his brother, Richard Had- dock, Comptroller of the Xavy ; his nephew the Rev. Charles Lyddell, Rector of Ardingly, Sussex ; and his secretary, Walter Harris. Charles Lyddell, who was of Christ Church, Oxford, B.C.L. (Foster's ' A. O.'), was son of Dennis Lyddell, of Wakehurst Place, Ard- ingly, a commissioner of the Xavy (see Horsfield's ' Sussex,' i. 259), by his marriage with the Admiral's sister Martha (see ' Marriage Licences, Faculty Office of Arch- bishop of Canterbury,' Harl/Soc. ,197). I was wrong in saying at 12 S. i. 454, that the Admiral was his father's eldest son. See ' D.X.B.,' xxiii. 428. Was the Admiral's wife related to Capt. Fleetwood Emms or Ernes, R.X., who was lost, with " his wife and son and all ye men in ye Restauration," on " ye Goodwin," in 1703 ? See the above- mentioned ' Correspondence,' p. 45.

H. C.

"BEVERE" (12 S. i. 389, 458, 516). If MR. HOBBS consults Xash's ' Worcestershire,' he will find a good deal of information as to Bevere. There is a pleasing small illustra- tion on the title-page of one of the volumes, due, I think, to the fact that one of the Xash family lived there. \y. H. QUARRELL.

MEDIAEVAL LATIN (12 S. i. 489). A mediaeval or Low Latin-English dictionary remains still a desideratum. There is, of course, the well-known ' Promptorium Par- vulorum ' by Geoffrey the Grammarian, c. 1440, edited by A. Way for the Camden Society, 3 vols., 1843-65 ; and by A. L. Mayhew for the Early English Text Society,. E.S., 1908, which is useful. Then, again, one has in the late Mr. Charles Trice Martin's ' Record Interpreter,' 1910, an excellent " Glossary of Latin Words found in Records and Other English MSS., but not occurring^ in Classical Authors"; see pp. 177-344. Would that this author had lived to produce^ an English Du Cange !

There is a delightful article, which ap- peared in The Scotsman, July 28, 1895, by the late Dr. Thomas Graves Law of Edin- burgh, and was reprinted in the ' Collected Essays and Reviews,' Edinburgh, 1904, of this- learned author. It is entitled ' Some Curious- Translations of Mediaeval Latin,' see pp. 98- 104, in which the author says :

" It is rumoured that a competent scholar has- in hand the preparation of a lexicon or glossarjr of Low Latin, based exclusively on Scottish charters and records. If this be true, it is good news. Few private students can be expected to- provide themselves with the seven quarto volume* of Du Cange (ed. 1840-50) ; and the wretchedly inadequate Compendium, compiled by Maigne- d'Arnis for the Abo4 Migne (1866), is often mis- leading A portable mediaeval dictionary, at

once abbreviating and supplementing Du Cange,. and specially adapted for the student of Scottish records, would indeed be a boon for us all."

Those who have never read these ' Col- lected Essays and Reviews ' of the lat& learned Dr. Law have a treat in store for them, if they come across this charm ing^ work. J. C. H.

Thornton, Horncastle.

[SiR HERBERT MAXWELL and MR. ARCHIBALD- SPARKE thanked for replies.]

PACE-EGGING (12 S. i. 488). At Rochdale- boys go round " pace-egging " on Good Friday, and probably more " pace-eggers " can be seen there than at any other place in the country. Messrs. Edwards & Bryning, Castle Works, Rochdale, publish a book of words (two copies for a penny), and also self swords and sashes for the use of the players. The printed version appears to follow the traditional very closely, as I found on testing it recently on men who had taken part in. the pace-egg forty years ago. The songs which usually conclude the performance are not included in the book.

F. WILLIAMSON.

Derby.