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of Deeds for Middlesex, and Lord Truro and he held the office in 1868 and 1871, but two years later Lord Truro was sole Registrar, so Meynell must have resigned or died in 1871 or 1872 (cf. ' Royal Kalendars '). Hugo Meynell of Bradley, co. Derby, H.S. 1758, 'and M.P. for Lichfield, Feb., 1762, to 1768, had by his second wife Anne, dau. of Thomas Boothby Scrimshire, M.P., of Tooley Park, co. Leicester, two sons, Hugo (d. 1801) and Charles of the Grove, near Ashbourne. Would this Charles be the grandfather of the M.P. ? W. R. W.

COL. WILLIAM BYRD (12 S. iii. 274). MB. LANDFEAR LUCAS will find all the information he wants in the introduction to Prof. John Spencer Bassett's edition of ' Writings of " Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia, Esq.," ' published at New York in 1901. Neither Col. William Byrd (1674-1744) nor his father William Byrd (1652-1704) was either a knight or a baronet. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

[MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE also thanked for reply.]

EGLINTON TOURNAMENT, 1839 (12 S. iii. 211, 285). One of the most delightful, as it is the most precocious, of artist diaries known to me is ' A Journal kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840' (London, ed. by J. H. Pollen ; the editor's introduction is dated 1885; the 2nd edition, 1886, lies before me). The diarist was 15 years of age, and a real boy even his spelling is somewhat defective : moreover, not merely a clever but a very attractive boy. His set of plates illustrating the Eglinton Tournament (at which his father had been present) was published in 1840 ; and there are naturally several references to it. The most amusing, perhaps, occurs under date Jan. 13 (p. 5) :

" Now just imagine if I was was [sic] walking along coolly, and suddenly came upon the Tour- nament in a shop window. Oh crikey it would be enough to turn me inside out." It should be added that the autograph of the diary, with its hundreds of astonishing illustrations, i* reproduced in facsimile ; and this particular entry is accompanied by a picture of Fores's print-shop in Piccadilly (happily still standing), with the boy in front of it in an attitude of anticipatory delight at seeing his pictures displayed in the window " just published." I have not seen Doyle's ' Tournament,' but, to judge from numerous kindred designs in this volume, it must be a very excellent piece of work, unless it lost in the process of litho- graphy. H. O.

MAW, A GAME OF CARDS (12 S. iii. 299).- XYLOGRAPHER will find the information he desires in Charles Cotton's ' Compleat Game- ster,' 1674 ; and references to the game in ' Shakespeare's England,' vol. i. p. 35, and vol. ii. pp. 452, 474, and in the various volumes on card games included in the Bibliography to the article en ' Games ' in the same volume, p. 483, by W. A. Chatto and S. W. Singer (inter alios).

A. FORBES SIEVEKING.

Savile Club.

Maw was played with a piquet pack (36 cards) by a party of-from two to six persons. The ' N.E.D.' has a number of references to the game, ranging over more than three centuries.

D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus.

A full description is given in the ' Maison Academique des Jeux ' under the title of " Rumstick." Particulars are also to be found on pp. 258 and 259 of Singer's ' History of Playing Cards,' where the spelling is " Mawe." JAMES CASTELLO.

New Oxford and Cambridge Club.

[MR. S. A. GRUNDY- NEWMAN also thanked for reply.]

GLOVES AT WEDDINGS (12 S. iii. 210,283). Gloves in connexion with weddings are mentioned in Swynton's memorandum book of expenses chiefly incurred by or for servants, at Fountains Abbey in the fifteenth century, but, as the number of pairs is not mentioned, it is not certain whether the gloves were for any besides the bride and bridegroom. In a fifteenth-century repre- sentation of the sacrament of marriage in painted glass, now in the Chapter House at Durham, the man is holding one glove in his unoccupied hand while with the un- gloved hand he is holding that of the woman. The passages referring to gloves for weddings are in Ingilby MS. No. 25, fo. 112 v., 114 (1455-6). The relict of Thomas Pymson re- ceived, among other things, in satisfaction for wages due to her late husband, " in Cjrothecis et pellibus ouium xviijd., et. .in i.j multonibus pro nupcijs suis ijs. iiijd. ' This seems as if she married again very soon, and- as if she had a son Thomas who married in 1456, for in an account of that date we find that Robert Glover claimed from the Abbey for " Th. Pymson in Cirothecis et pellibus ouium pro nupcijs xviijd." It was probably usual then, as now, for the bride and groom to wear gloves on the way to church, but to remove them