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expression as an equivalent, so there only remains the Latin " Absit omen."

It is noteworthy that Webster's ' Dic- tionary,' 1864, does not include " unberufeii" in the quotations, words, &c., from foreign languages, showing that the use of it is recen^. ALFRED WELBY, Lieut .-Col.

18 Chester Street, S.W.I.

[The use of " unberufen " and its variants or equivalents is discussed at 10 S. vi. 130, 17-1, 230, 476, under " Touching Wood."]

MRS. ORD. I am trying to obtain some information about Mrs. Ord, the celebrated " blue-slocking " so often mentioned in Fanny Burney's diary. What I already know is that her maiden name was Delling- ham, that she was the daughter pf a North- Country surgeon, and that she was " a widow with means " when she married Mr. Ord.

Can any of your readers give me particulars as to dates of her birth, death, and two marriages ? I do not know her first hus- band's name, or who Mr. Ord, her second husband, was. Tom Taylor in his ' Life of Reynolds ' calls him " a wealthy Northum- berland gentleman."

I cannot find any of Mrs. Ord's writings in the British Museum Library.

E. E. LEGGATT.

Chase Side. Enfield.

CHARLES BROWNE, a brother of Anthony, first Viscount Montagu, left Madrid for Lisbon, March 18, 1577/8, in the company of Cornelius O'Mulryan, Bishop of Killaloe, Edward, Lord Dacre, and Filiberto Cotto, Thomas Stucley's secretary. Mgr. Sega, Bishop of Piacenza, Papal Nuncio at Madrid, at the request of Dr. Nicolas Sander, obtained a pension for Browne from King Philip. On June 17, 1580, he was reported to be in Spain and " captain of a company for Ireland." He was living in Flanders in 1596. As he is unknown to the Peerages, I should be grateful for further particulars about him. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

PELL AND MILDMAY FAMILIES. I shal be grateful for assistance in tracing the connexion between the Mildmays of Essex and the Pell family of Lincolnshire. I think it came through a marriage between Paul Francis Pell and one of the Brackenburys. My relative Capt. Mildmay Pell was con- nected with the Mildmay family, and I have now in my possession a small oil painting of Carew Hervey Mildmay, evidently of the seventeenth c*ntury. This, with other paintings, formerly belonged to the wife of the above Paul Francis Pell. M. F. H.

MARK ANTONY SAURIN, aged 10, son of the Bishop of Dromore, Palace, Dromore, entered St. Paul's School on March 21, 1823. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me further information concerning the bishop or his son ? Was the former the son of Mark Anthony Saurin, referred to at 12 S. ii. 4, 75, 474 ? MICHAEL F. J. MCDONNELL.

Bathurst, Gambia, British West Africa.

"BLACK MARIA "= PRISON VAN. Can

you tell me the origin of " Black Maria," the name of the van which conveys prisoners between the house of detention and the place of trial ? The name is used here in Boston and also in New Orleans, and I know that it is in London.

CHARLES E. STRATTON. 70 State Street, Boston, Mass.

[A similar question was asked in ' N. & Q.' in 1883 (6 S. vii. 309) with' reference to the use of the term in London, but no satisfactory explana- tion was forthcoming. The story about Maria Lee, the big negress, was reprinted at 8 S. iv. 272, but nothing was added to show when her name was first introduced to explain the term. Farmer and Henley's one-volume ' Dictionary of Slang ' says the origin is unknown.]

PEDIGREES REQUIRED. 1. Of the Stan- hopes of Linby, Notts, descended from a half-brother of Philip, .first Earl of Chester- field. Not given in Thoroton's ' Notts.' They were extinct in the first half of the eighteenth century.

2. Detailed pedigree of the Stewarts of Mount Stewart, ancestors of the Stewarts, Marquis of Londonderry.

3. Of the Edwards of Talgarth created baronet in 1838, and of Cornelia Owen of Garth, wife of John Edwards, and mother of the first baronet. .

These pedigrees are not in the usual works of reference, Burke, or any modern

MARY TERESA FORTESCUE. Whitemoor House, Ollerton 3 Newark-on-Trent.

THE MELOLOGUE IN ENGLAND. Can any of your readers tell me where I can learn something of the history of the use of the melologue in England, or give me any information on the subject ?

L. COLLISON-MORLEY. 3 Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, W.8.

VAUGHN AND WELCH AS SURNAMES. In 1874 there died in the United States Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Vaughn, aged 80. The official record of death recites that she was born in England, and had resided in