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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.m. NOV., 1917.

" WHITES " (12 S. iii. 447). Examples of " whites " in the sense of white vestments are supplied in T. L. O. Davies's ' Supple- mentary English Glossary.' One is from Thomas Adams, " the prose Shakespeare of puritan theologians " ; the other is from Charles I.'s " Instructions " sent under <iate of Oct. 8, 1633, to " Ballentine, then Bishop of Dumblaine, and Dean of the happel of that kingdom." See Heylin's ' Cyprianus Anglicus ' (the Life of Laud), 1671, p. 262. In these Instructions the Dean of " Our Chappel " is directed to " come duly thither to Prayers upon Sundays, and such Holidays as the Church observes, in his Whites." EDWARD BENSLY.

Jos. GIRDLESTONE (12 S. iii. 447). John -and Ezra Girdleston figure in ' The Firm of Girdleston,' by Sir A. Conan Doyle ; but a hasty glance at the book does not disclose a, Joseph. ROBERT HUDSON.

13 Dean's Yard, Westminster Abbey, S.W.

WARDEN PIES (12 S. iii. 273, 402, 454). In ' Antiquitates Culinarise ; or Curious Tracts relating to the Culinary affairs of the Old English,' edited by the Rev. Richard Warner, 1791, p. 72, is the following receipt (fifteenth century or earlier, see p. lix) : Warduns in syruppe.

Take wardens (pears), and pare horn clene, and sethe horn in red wyn with mulberryes, or saunders, tyl thai byn tendur, and then take horn up, and cut horn, and do horn in a pot ; and do thereto wyn crete, or vernage, or other gode swete wyne, and blaunch pouder, and sugur, and pouder of gynger, and let horn boyle awhile, and then serve hit forth.

A foot-note says : " Vernage. Vernaccia a sort of Italian white wyne. Pegge." John Horio in his ' Queen Anna's New World of Words,' 1611, describes Vernaccia as " a kind of wine like Malmesie."

" Crete," according to Halliwell, was " a kind of sweet wine." Tournefort, who visited Crete in 1700, writes in praise of its wines :

" The Wines are exquisite, Bed, White, and Claret [clairets in the original French, i.e., pale red] .... The Wines of this Climate have just Tartness enough to qualify their Lusciousiiess : this Luscionsuess, far from being fulsom, is attended with that delicious Balm, which, in those who have once tasted the Candia .wines, begets a Contempt for all other Wine whatever." ' A Voyage into the Levant,' by M. Tournefort (Joseph Pitton de Tournefort), John Ozell's translation, 1718, vol. i. p. 70.

" Saunders," considering the colour wanted, probably means red sandal (or ganders) wood. Compare ' Antiquitates Culinariae,' p. 7, No. 20 in ' The Forme of Cury.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.

TOAD AT THE HEART (12 S. iii. 360). It is believed at Flamborough that Sir Marmaduke Constable swallowed a toad in some water that he was drinking, and had his heart eaten by the reptile. Dozens of tales are rife concerning the adventures of outsiders suddenty introduced into the human interior. If Sir Marmaduke did bolt a toad, I daresay the action of his heart was locked, and that he died, as we now eay, of heart failure. ST. SWITHIN.

UVEDALE, GARY, AND PRICE FAMILIES (12 S. iii. 91, 371). Uvedale Price, born at Foxley, Herefordshire, Sept. 17, 1685, son of Robert Price, Baron of the Ex- chequer, was M.P. for Weobley, Hereford- shire, 1713, and married at Chelsea, 1714, Anne, daughter and coheir of Lord Arthur Somerset, son of Henry, 1st Duke of Beau- fort. He died at Bath, Mar. 17, 1764. His only son Robert Price, who married in June, 1746, Sarah, daughter of John, 1st Viscount Barrington, predeceased him in September, 1761, and was succeeded by his son Uvedale Price, born 1747, who was created a Baronet Feb. 12, 1828, He was author of ' Essay on the Picturesque, 1794, and was succeeded by his son Sir Robert Price, second baronet of Foxley, M.P. for Herefordshire, who died Nov. 5, 1857, without issue, when the baronetcy became extinct. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

Uvedale Price of Foxley, co. Hereford, the elder and only surviving son of Baron Price (by Lucy, eldest dau. and coheir of Robert Rodd of Foxley), married Anne (who d. 1741), dau. and coheir of Lord Arthur Somerset, second son of Henry, first Duke of Beaufort, and d. Mar. 17, 1764. His only child to survive infancy, Robert Price of Foxley, born May 13, 1717, married, June, 1746, the Hon. Sarah Barrington (who d. Mar. 13, 1759), dau. of John, first Viscount Barrington, and died v.p., Oct. 2, 1761, having had seven sons and three daughters (the latter of whom all died infants). Robert's eldest son Uvedale (1747- 1829) was created a Baronet, Feb. 12, 1828, and his only son Sir Robert Price of Foxley (1786-1857), second and last Baronet, was M.P. co. Hereford, 1818-41, and Hereford City, 1845 to Jan., 1857, and died Nov. 5, 1857, when the title expired with him (Debrett's ' Baronetage of England,' ed. by Geo. Wm. Collen, 1840 ; an article on ' A Herefordshire Courtier ' in ' Old Wales,' vol. ii., 1906). W. R. W.