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 12 B. ii. NOV. 25, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Your correspondent may be glad to have as full a list of references as possible, so

1 refer him first of all to R. W. Eyton's


 * Somerset Domesday,' London, 1880.

2 vols. Eyton stands alone as a county historian; and specially in his various works

-on Domesday. In 5 S. xii. and 6 S. i. there is A discussion upon Harding, to which R. W. Eyton contributed an important article and Mr. A. S. Ellis a valuable pedigree. Mr. Freeman in his ' Xorman Conquest,' vol. iv. p. 164, and in the same volume (a long appendix note), pp. 757-60, gives a mass of facts. Mr. Freeman's long residence in Somerset made him take special interest in local history. John Smyth's 'Lives of the Berkeleys '

contains numerous "Harding" references;

-and in this connexion your correspondent should read the Rev. W. Hunt's biography of Robert Fit zharding in the ' D.N.B.' Mr. Hunt demolishes some legendary stuff which found a place in Seyer's ' History of Bristol,' and in Collinson, too. The long paragraph at the foot of p. 124 of vol. ii. of ' The Complete Peerage ' ( Vicary Gibbs

edition) should be seen by your corre- spondent.

John Harding, Sheriff of Somerset in 1752, is stated in the official list of sheriffs (P.R.O.) to have been " of Charterhouse Hinton " '(near Bath). A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

FABMEKS' SAYINGS (12 S. ii. 289, 358). In ' Lean's Collectanea,' 1902, vol. i. p. 437, the late Vincent Stuckey Lean gives " Pigs see the wind,. i.e., the coming tempest, which makes them the most restless of animals. W-" W- means " Withals, John, Diet.
 * >i English and Latin, by W. de Worde

[1521], 4to ; numerous editions up to 1634." ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Pigs seeing the wind formed the subject of -cveral communications in 1889-90. See7S. viii. 367, 457 ; ix. 14. JOHN T. PAGE.

WILL OF PRINCE RUPERT (12 S. ii. 201). May I venture to suggest one or two altera- tions or amendments in MR. PHILIP XORMAN'S interesting article on the will of Prince Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and Cumberland, who died in 1682 and was buried in Henry VII. 's Chapel in West- minster Abbey ?

1. MR. NORMAN states (p. 202) that the

name of the mother of " Dudley Bart " was

Francesca, eldest daughter of Sir Henry

Bard, Bart., created Viscount Bellamont by

Charles I. In a foot-note to the printed

will by the editors, John Gough Nichols and John Bruce, at p. 142 of the selection of ' Wills from Doctors' Commons ' published by the Camden Society in 1863, from which MR. NORMAN takes his material, the name is given as Anne.

2. MR. NORMAN gives " August, 1686," as the date when Dudley Bard was killed at the siege of Buda. The above note states that it was " on the 13th July, 1686."

3. This is a very trivial correction. MR. NORMAN gives 4,62<M. as the sum paid by " Mrs. Ellen Gwynne " for the " Great Pearl Necklace," whereas in a foot-note at p. 144 it is stated as 4,5201.

I presume MR. NORMAN made his state- ment on the authority of the above notes ; if not, it is only right that I should call his attention to them. J. S. UDAL.

THE THIRD YELLOW QUILT (12 S. i. 248). There has so far been no reply to my query about a Yellow Quilt supposed to have been given to a member of the Bloxam family by the Emperor of China, and I thought that possibly some information I have lately gleaned on the subject might be of interest.

In July, 1824, King Tamehameha II. of the Sandwich Islands and his Queen both died of the measles while on a visit to London, and their bodies were conveyed back to Hawaii on board the Blonde frigate (Captain Lord Byron). The Rev. Richard Rowland Bloxam went with the expedition as chaplain, and his brother, the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, as naturalist. After the funeral ceremonies, the Queen's mother, Kahumanu, presented the Rev. Richard Bloxam with a costly feather war-cloak, which was always greatly prized by himself and his family. At his death, most of his collection of antiquities went to the Rugby School Museum, but the war-cloak remained in the family. I have not yet learnt which particular member has it, but I feel pretty certain that the Yellow Quilt tradition must have been founded on this war-cloak. There is an interesting account of the illness and death of King Tamehameha and Queen Tame- hamelu in The London Magazine for August, 1824. The 'D.N.B.' gives a notice of Andrew Bloxam, but for the information about the war-cloak I am indebted to Mr. Treen, Chairman of the Museum Committee, Rugby.

(Lovers of Lamb may be interested to know that the above-mentioned Richard and Andrew were nephews of Sam Bloxam, schoolfellow and friend of Charles Lamb.) G. A. ANDERSON.