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 12 S. II. JULY 22, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

secured pride of place in his own way their paths being not only separate, but widely sundered and it is very unfair to both that they should be accused together of practising literary deception. THOMAS BAYNE.

THE SIDE-SADDLE (12 S. ii. 28). In the privately printed Memoirs of Mr. Lennox Tredcroft there is a letter from Miss Caroline Kincr, dated Dec. 10, 1845, and containing the following description :

" A man's saddle, with only a pommel to hang your right knee over, and then another pommel lower down to hook down the other knee, and that lower pommel too a movable concern, always turning and getting out of its proper position a barbarous alteration of the good old-fashioned side-saddle."

G. W. E. R.

EQUESTRIAN would find a list of books on this subject in B. Quaritch's ' Rough List,' No. 185, pp. 23-6 ; also in ' Works on Horses and Equitation.' a bibliography published by F. H. Huth, London, 1887. I have written myself about the side-saddle in Revue archeologique, 1895, i. p. 193.

S. REINACH.

Saint Germain-en-Laye.

RICHARD SWIFT ( 12 S. ii. 9, 58). Walford's ' County Families,' 1860, gives him as :

" Richard Swift esq. (of Herongate). Son of the late Timothy Swift esq., by Susannah dau. of J. Cary esq. ; b. 1811, m. 1830 Kate dau. of John O'Brien esq. Is a merchant and wholesale manufacturer in London ; was Sheriff of London 1851-2; M.P. for co. Sligo 1852-7. St. Mary's, Herongate, near Brentwood, Essex ; Westhill House, Wandsworth, Surrey ; Parthenon Club, \\Y

W. R. WILLIAMS. Talybont, Brecon.

Richard Swift (son of Timothy Swift, army contractor), born Malta, 1811 ; an importer and exporter of leather ; a wholesale and export shoe manufacturer, and agent in London for Northamptonshire shoemakers ; Sheriff of London October, 1851, to October, 1852 ; presented his Roman Catholic chaplain Monsignor Francis Searle to the Queen at her levee at St. James's Palace, Feb. 26, 1852 ; this presentation was cancelled March 23, 1852, on the ground that Searle's title was assumed without required authority. Searle died Shoreham, Sussex, May 30, 1889. Swift was M.P. for Sligo July 26, 1852, to March 20, 1857, and contested it April 11, 1857. He died at 6 Upper Montague Street Kussell Square, London, March 24, 1872. FREDERIC BOASE.

MONTAGU AND MANCHKSTKK (12 S. i. 267,. 339). The reply of G. \V. H. K.,at the latter reference, that the Manchester from which Sir Henry Montagu took his title is God- manchester in the county of Huntingdon, ia not in agreement with the statements in Collins's ' Peerage,' 4th edit., 1748, vol. ii. p. 206 :

" On the accession of King Charles I. March 27, 1625, his Lordship [Sir Henry Montagu, Lord Montagu of Kimbolton, and Viscount Mandevil, Lord President of the Council] was continued Lord President, and created Earl of Manchester in com. Pal. Lane, on Feb. 5, in the first year of his reign."

The reference given as to the creation of the earldom is Pat. 1 Car. I, p. 7, n. 24, Under ' Creations,' on p. 238 of Collins, is the following :

" Baron Montagu, of Kimbolton, in com. Huntingdon, and Viscount Mandeville (the name of a family) Dec. 19, 1620, 18 Jac. I. Earl of Manchester, hi com. Lane. Feb. 5, 1625-6, 1 Car. I. and Duke of the same place, April 30, 1719 r 5 Geo. I."

These statements are repeated verbatim ia the Egerton Brydges edition of Collins. 1812, vol. ii. pp. 52, 88, except that the year of the earldom is on the latter page given as 1624 an obvious error.

It will be seen that Montagu was created Lord Montagu of Kimbolton, in the county of Huntingdon, 1620 (reference in Collins : " Pat. 18 Jac. p. 6"), and that a few years later he was created Earl of Manchester in the county Palatine of Lancaster. Ia both editions of Collins, Mandevil becomes Mandeville in the summing up of the titles and creations.

In his ' Complete Peerage,' vol. v., 1 93, p. 206, G. E. Cfokayne] saya : " cr. 5 Feb., 1625/6 Earl of Manchester, co. Lancaster.

Peter Heylin, in his 'Help to English History,' 1674, pp. 373, 374, describes Manchester as " a good Town of Lancashire situate in the hithermost part thereof where it joyneth to the county of Darby." He goes on to say : " It is yet more famous, in being

made the honourary Title of Henr y

Montague, Vise. Mandeville, created Earl of Manchester, 1 Car. I."

Samuel Lewis, in ' A Topographical ] tionary of England,' 1835, at the end of the account of Manchester, county palatine of Lancaster, says: "Manchester gives I titles of Duke and Earl to the family of Montagu."

Apart from G. W. E. R.'s reply I have found no trace of the Godmanchester deriva- tion. On the other hand, I have found i connexion, other than the title, of