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and blue colours of these flags presumably bespeak the connexion with St. Andrew, whose cross was " Azure, a salt ire argent." Dr. Woodward gives no indication of any Slav origin as suggested by G. J.

6. The Spanish and Italian flags would seem to be derived from their national arms ; and so with other nationalities not mentioned by your correspondent, (-.-/-. Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

To the list of books given ante, p. 358, should be added ' Flags of the World, Past and Present : their Story and Associations,' by W. J. Gordon, illustrated, F. Warne & Co., 1915. This book is a natural sticcessor of Hulme's book. J. H. L.

UNIDENTIFIED M.P.s (12 S. ii. 251, 297). John Bladen Taylor, Hythe, 1818-19, second son of John Taylor of Townhead, Lancashire, and Abbott Hall, Kendal, Westmorland, Esq., by Dorothy his wife, only daughter of William Rumbold, Esq., and sister of Sir Thomas Rumbold, first Baronet, Governor of Madras, and widow of Capt. Xorthall, R.A. Born July 2, 1764, he married Rachel, daughter of Sir William Dunkin, Judge of the Supreme Court, Cal- cutta. He died at Ambleside, near Kendal, Aug. 20, 1820 ; his wife died March 31, 1814, leaving an only child and heiress, Eliza Alicia, who married her cousin Hugh Clerk, Esq., of Burford, co. Somerset, J.P.

LEONARD C. PRICE

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

A predecessor of J. Bladen Taylor as M.P. for Hythe was Matthew White. This man's election address was dated June 17, 1802, from Finsbury Square ; see Kentish Gazette (Canterbury), June 25, 1802 ; and, in the same journal, Sept. 7, 1802 :

" Lately at his seat at Crouch End, Middlesex, the lady of Matthew White, Esq., M.P. for Hythe, was safely delivered of a son."

Pigot's ' Directory, 1823-4,' has " Matthew White, merchant, 44 Lothbury."

In ' The Barons of the Cinque Ports,' by the late G. Wilk-s, Town Clerk of Hythe the election is described as an exciting one, but there is nothing to show who Matthew White was, or why he should have, any claim on the electors ; he was returned, however, at the top of the poll. At the annual assembly on Feb. 2, 1803, a motion for conferring the freedom of the town on Matthew White and Thomas Godfrey, the two boron.-* in Parliament, was, as the

minute expresses it, " Carried in the nega- tive," there being six for the motion anct seventeen against it.

At the next election, 1806, White was not returned ; Godfrey was, and the freedom of the town given him.

In 1812 White was returned and t Freedom conferred. He was finally rejected in 1818, when J. Bladen Taylor and Sir Joint Perring were elected ; the former only sat for one year, accepting the Chiltern Hun- dreds. R. J. FYNMORE.

SONS OF MRS. BRIDGET BENDYSH (12 S* ii. 391). According to J. W T aylen's ' The- House of Cromwell' (1897), p. 107 :

" Henry Bendysh of Bedford Row, London,, where he died in 1740, married Martha Shute r sister of the first Viscount Barrington, and had (1) Henry of Chingford, and of the Salt-pans at Southtown, died unmarried in 1753, when the name of Bendysh became extinct in this branch, of the family ; (2) Mary, married to William Berners and had issue ; (3) Elizabeth, married,. 1756, to John Hagar of Waresley Park, son of Admiral Hagar."

No issue of Thomas, elder brother of Henry r are given. A. R. BAYLEY.

EPITAPHS IN OLD LONDON AND SUBURBAN GRAVEYARDS (12 S. ii. 308, 377). The whole of the churchyard inscriptions in the- graveyards within the precincts of the City of London were copied and edited by Mr. Percy C. Rushen, and issued by Messrs- Phillimore & Co., 124 Chancery Lane, W.C., in 1910. The price of the volume is 8s. 6d. O. E. MARKWEIX.

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' THE LAND o' THE LEAL ' (12 S. ii. 369). Contributed anonymously, about 1825, to R. A. Smith's ' Scottish Minstrel,' vol. iii. y Lady Nairne's song is described in the table of contents as being set to the tune ' Hey Tutti, Taiti.' In the text the phrase " with tender feeling " is placed at the head of the- melody. Its special movement, together with one or two small variations of setting, distinguishes the tune in this application from that which it presents through Bums' s vivid and energetic war ode, ' Scots whahae.' Owing to diversity of deliverance, the melody in each case has distinctive value.

THOMAS BAYNE.

"To WEEP IRISH": "To WAR'' (12 S.

ii. 328). I never heard the second, but when any one was making a pretence of .sorrow I have often heard it described in derision as " crying Irish." " A sham " is spoken o as " Doin'~Irish." THOS. RATCLIFFE.