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 NOTES ANJ) QUERIES. [12 s. m. JI-XE, 1917.

I cannot say if he was of kin to Thomas Hassel, barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's Inn, who was made one of the four Common Pleaders of the City of London, 1727, and one of the two judges of the Sheriff's Court, June, 1746, till he died, Dec. 8, 1749.

W. R. W.

EDMUND FIELDING (12 S. iii. 132, 217). Edmund Fielding, senior, succeeded Col. Kilner Brazier as colonel of a regiment of foot in Ireland, Aug. 1, 1709, but this was disbanded 1712, before the son was bom. The father was ensign 1st Foot Guards, Dec. 15, 1696 ; captain in Col. Webb's (8th) Foot before 1704, which fought at Blenheim, and he received "the 301. bounty therefor ; was major of Lord Tunbridge's Foot, April 12, 1706, to 1709; and colonel of the (new) 41st Regiment or Invalids, March 11, 1719, till he died a lieutenant-general in 1741. Webb's Regiment also fought at Malplaquet, 1709, but Fielding had quitted it three years before. I have no doubt the ensign of 1733 was his son. W. R. W.

" TEREBUS Y TEBEODIN " (12 S. ii. 507 ; iii. 50). These words are generally printed locally " Teribus y Teriodin." A local .archaeologist (Mr. J. W. Kennedy) states that they are a corruption from Icelandic. Mr. Andrew Lang once declared that Teriodin had no more to do with Odin than it had to do with Gamaliel, but was a word coined to rime with Flodden. The words have produced a good deal of discussion as to their meaning, and in The Antiquary, about the year 1895, there was a lengthy corre- spondence regairdng them, including two valuable articles by the late Karl Blind.

W. E. WILSON. Hawick.

JAMES I. AND SIB HENRY MILD MAY'S MARRIAGE (12 S. iii. 107, 195, 255). One of your correspondents stated that in the great dining - room at Dogmersfield Park are four large pictures given to Sir Henry Mildmay, Master of the Jewel Office, by ^Charles I., and representing King James I. ; 'Gustavus Adolphus ; Villiers, Duke of Buck- ingham ; and Vere, Lord Tilbury.

It is interesting, in this connexion, to notice in the second volume of ' The Com- plete Peerage ' (now being re-edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs) the following statement, under the memoir of George Villiers, 5th Duke of Buckingham (p. 395) :

" He married Sept. 15, 1657, at Bolton Percy, co. York, Mary, daughter and heir of Thotnas {Fairfax), 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron, the celebrated Parliamentary general (to whom his

forfeited estates had been granted), by Anne, daughter and coheir of Horatio (Vere), Lord Vere of Tilbury."

I do not know whether the picture at Dogmersfield is that of " Steenie," the 4th Duke, or of his son the 5th Duke, perhaps the latter.

Speaking of George Villiers, 4th Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Gibbs says (p. 394) : " His extreme beauty caused King James to give him the pet name of ' Steenie ' an allusion to St. Stephen, who had ' the face of an angel ' (Acts vii. 15)." Is there authority for the statement, or is it con- jectural ? STEPNEY GREEN.

VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117j 193, 275, 416, 474 ; ii. 14, 77, 197, 319, 457, 498). There is a square enclosure, now with very dilapidated walls, known as the " pound yard," often called " pund garth " or " pund yard," at the- western entrance into the village of Witton Gilbert, co. Durham. It has not been used since the " seventies " of the last century, and at present seems to be without an owner to repair its walls. In a few more years it will, in all probability, be annexed to the adjoining field.

Another and similar enclosure, with a similar name, and in a similar condition, exists in the village of Old Cornsay, in the same county, and will in a short while share a (probable) like fate. A few years ago a request was made to the Parish Council to have it leased as a site on which to erect a galvanized-iron Wesleyan Methodist chapel, at a shilling a year acknowledgment, but the Council declared they had no jurisdiction over the site. Query : To whom do the old village pound yards now belong ?

J. W. FAWCETT.

THE ALPHABET IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (12 S. iii. 271). This subject was brought forward and discussed at 7 S. ii. 309, 411 ; iii. Ill ; x. 346 ; xi. 134. As in the case of MB. KEALY, Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk, prcvoked the correspondence. The alpha- bets traced in the ceremony of consecrating a church symbolize the elements cf the Christian faith which will be taught there, and it seems likely that the ABC stones in walls were regarded as a summary of worship, which might be used by people when they felt they had but scant time in which to repeat the ordinary forms of prayer. Re- velation and religious aspirations were, so to speak, materialized by means of letters, and, I believe, it came to be thought that a repetition of the alphabet presented, or