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 12 S. III. OCT., 1917.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CHARLES LAMB ON " ALL ROUND THE WREKIN " (12 S. iii. 417). I am unable at the moment to refer to the ' Letters ' o: Charles Lamb, and cannot, therefore, consult the context of the expression referred to bj MR. ADAM BLACK, " Love to all round the Wrekin " ; but I have no doubt that this particular letter was addressed to some one resident in Shropshire, and that the genia essayist had in mind the after-dinner toast once much in vogue amongst the gentry o! the county " All friends round the Wrekin ! ' Owing to its peculiar conformation, and to the fact that it lies nearly in the centre of this historic district, " the bold isolated form of the Wrekin " (I quote from Mr. Thomas Wright's ' Ruins of the City oi Uriconium ' ) has from very early days been regarded as a rallying-point by all good and true Salopians. It is not generally realized that the hill shares its name with the once prosperous and highly civilized Roman town, which was known in the earlier Romano-British period as Vircconium, and metamorphosed by its Anglo-Saxon captors into the corrupted form of Wroxeter.

G. H. HOSTE. Dawlish.

On Christmas Day and other anniversaries it was the custom at my father's table to drink the greeting " To all round the Wrekin." Whether he learnt it when serving in the Royal Xavy (1804-14) or when living in India (1816-25) I cannot say, but the custom was constantly observed as far as my recollection can go back. The idea was that the Wrekin in Shropshire was the centre of England, and that all English friends were necessarily " round " it north, south, east, or west. L. G. R.

Bournemouth.

" To all friends round the Wrekin " is a Shropshire toast. George Farquhar, who was at one time stationed at Shrewsbury, and who laid the scene of his ' Recruiting Officer ' in that city, dedicates the play " To all Friends round the Wrekin." He writes :

"The kingdom cannot shew better bodies cf men, better inclinations for the service, more generosity, more good understanding, nor more politeness, than is to be found at the foot of the Wrekin."

Charles Lamb was assuredly familiar with this dedication. He may, too, have heard the words from Hazlitt, who lived at one time at Wem in Shropshire.

EDWARD BENSLY.

[MR. J. PAUL DE CASTRO, MR. J. FOSTER PALMER, and MR. W. PEARCE also thanked for replies.]

WEST : DE MORGAN : BANNEBMAN r TURING (12 S. iii. 358). John de Morgan (b. 1684, d. 1760 at Pulicat), by his second wife, Mrs. Tivill, had four sons and five daughters. The eldest daughter married three times, and three other daughters married twice. Their husbands were Cal- land, De Voeux, Wilson, West, Taylor,, Turing, Innes, Campbell, Buchanan, and Maitland. By his first wife, Sarah Pom- mare, nee Clarke, who had three husbands,. he was ancestor of Augustus de Morgan;- mathematician (1806-71).

One of the daughters of Capt. John de Morgan was Anne, whose first husband wa> Capt. John Innes, by whom she had two sons. Her second husband (to whom she was married at Fort St. George, Madras,, April 21, 1761) was Capt. James West A.D.C. to General Draper. Mary, cne o. her daughters bv the second hu&tand (bapt. Oct. 11, 1761), married The mas Pearce, Nov. 8, 1785, and Thomas Parry r. April 28, 1794. Another daughter, Ann (bapt. Feb. 9, 1769, d. June, 1833), married Capt. John Alexander Bannerman, Sept. 8.. 1789, at Fort St. George, Madras.

LEO C.

CREST ON SCOTTISH CAKE-DISH (12 S* iii. 385). The motto " Remember " is attributed by Burke's ' General Armory ' to> Home of Wedderburn, co. Berwick, and to no other family ; but Fairbairn's ' Book of Crests ' assigns it also to Allen and Gavin^ and to " The Order of the White Rose."

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN, F. S.A.Scot. Walsall.

BANBURY (12 S. iii. 360, 393). Compare the earlier allusion in Brat h wait's' Strap- pado,' 1615, p. 109 :

To the Precisian.

I will not taxe that man that's wont to slay His Cat for killing mise on th' Sabboth day : No : know my resolution it is thus, I'de rather be thy foe then be thy pus r szc].

H. J. BAYLISS. Oxford.

ROLLS OF LORDS LIEUTENANT (12 S..

ii. 385). I believe that there are no official' rolls of the Lords Lieutenant of the various

ounties. Lists more or less complete are

printed in Haydn's ' Book of Dignities ' ;

>ut these must be supplemented from the Patent Rolls, Military Entry Books, and other State papers and documents at the

3 ublic Record Office. It is strange that County Histories, whilst they give lists of members of Parliament, Sheriffs, Mayors,.