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Elizabeth, second daughter of Oliver Crom- well, and secondly, in 1671, Blanche (the rich) widow of Lancelot Staveleyof London, merchant, by whom he had an only daughter Bridget Claypole, married to Charles Price, Colonel in the Guards, and died his widow in October, 1738. To what family of Price did he belong, and what were his arms and crest ? I shall be grateful for any informa- tion respecting him.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

EDMUND WYNDHAM, J.U.D., is mentioned in Sander's ' De Visibili Monarchia ' as having been deprived of a benefice by Queen Elizabeth. One of this name compounded for the first fruits of the rectories of Aylmer- ton and Runton in Norfolk on Dec. 21, 1554.

In February, 1579, a letter reached the English College at Rheims, in^which it was stated that :

"The Suffolke and Norfolke gentlemen, that weare committed for there consciens sake in her ma*' prograce, remayne style prisoners in ther country, except D. VVyndam that is close prisoner on the fieete. '

Dr. Wyndham was still in the Fleet, July 31, 1580, but was removed to Wisbech Castle in or before October in that year. In 1595 he was at large in or near Norwich.

Is anything more known of him ?

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. 6 Grand Avenue, Hove, Sussex.

SIR HUGH CHOLMELEY. Could any of your readers inform me if an engraving or portrait of Sir Hugh Cholmeley. the defender of Scarborough Castle in the time of King Charles I., exists ? JOHN L. S. HATTON. 70 Hermon Hill, Wanstead.

' KATE or ABERDARE.' In a paper by Mr. Austin Dobson on ' Old Vauxhall Gardens,' it is stated that one of the " hymns " favoured at that resort was ' Kate of Aberdare ' (' Eighteenth Century Vignettes,' First Series, p. 237). What are the words of the song ? And why was it so named ? I am given to understand that it appeared in ' New Songs of Vauxhall,' so frequently reprinted in the magazines of the period. B. D.

Aberdare.

RISK OF ENTERING A NEW HOUSE.

Among seme of our English peasantry cer- tain precautions are taken on entering a new house. In India this takes the form of the ceremonial expulsion of the demons which are supposed to occupy it. Some time ago in ' N. & Q.' an interesting article appeared showing that this was based on practical reasons, and that the "demons"

were really bad air, or some other form o f danger to health. I shall feel obliged for a reference to this article, or to any work in which the question is fully discussed.

EMERITUS.

" DUITYONERS." In a deed of acquit- tance of 28 Elizabeth the guardians of infant children are described as " duity- oners," a word I have not met with before and which I cannot find in a dictionary. I shall be glad to know if any of your readers have come across it. T. WALTER HALL.

" GRAY'S INN PIECES." In Farquhar's comedy ' Sir Harry Wildair,' Act I. sc. i., Col. Standard giving his wife's maid a tip of five guineas, she exclaims : " Are they right*? No Gray's Inn pieces amongst them ? "

Is anything known of the expression which seems to imply base coin and does it occur elsewhere ? WM. DOUGLAS.

AUTHOR WANTED. Who was the author of " God is on the side of big battalions" ? Napoleon has been credited with the author- ship, but, I believe, wrongly.

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

[The tenth edition (1914) of Bartlett's 'Familiar Quotations ' supplies the following (p. 430, note 4) : "On dit que Dieu est toujpurs pour les gros bataillons (It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions). Voltaire : Letter to M. le Riche. 177Q. J'ai toujours vu Dieu du cote des gros bataillons (I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions). De Is Ferte to Anne of Austria."

The revised edition (1912) of 'Cassell's Book of Quotations' has also an earlier example (p. 715) than Voltaire's : " Dieu est d'ordinaire pour les gros escadrons centre les petits (God is generally for the big squadrons against the little ones). Letter by Bussy-Rabutin, Oct. 18, 1677."]

" EPHEDS." I should be glad of an ex- planation of this word, which occurs in a claim for allowances made by a tenant of Fountains Abbey, c. 1450 :

'It' for epheds a yere xiijs. iiijrf. H'm for twa yere at yon had skragfald for epheds to mende 6:8."

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Durham.

" SKULL SLYCE " (A FISH). In the House- hold Accounts of the ancient family of Lestrange of Hunstanton (Norfolk), which have been fortunately preserved from 1519 o 1578, many kinds of fish are mentioned, and among them one called the " skull slyce." Mr. H. le Strange, the present owner of these MS. accounts, also finds it spelt " sculleslyes," and " skulk, slyce " in one passage.