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of the marriage as " 26 Jan., 1863 " ; while Burke's ' Peerage ' for 1916, s.v. Waldegrave, says of George Edward, 7th Earl : " His

widow m 4thly, 20 Jan., 1871, Chi-

chester, Lord Carlingford." There is thus uncertainty as to the day of the month as well as the year. J. R. THORNE.

" BE vis MARKS." What are the meaning and derivation of this name, a street near Bishopsgate, in the east of London ?

WOOD GREEN.

UVEDALE, GARY, AND PRICE FAMILIES. Bartholomew Price, Esq., married at St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf, London, Aug. 14,

1653, Victoria, widow of Uvedale, Esq.,

of Wickham, Hants, and daughter of Sir Edward Gary, Kt. He was buried at Wick- ham. To what family of Price did he belong, and what were his arms and crest ? I shall be grateful for any information con- cerning him. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

ARGOSTOLI. Will any one be good enough to favour me with the name of a book in which there is a good description of " the seamills of Argostoli," or rather of the salt river running from the sea which drives these mills, and of the gorge or cavern into which it runs or falls ? A. B. C.

PETER CARSTAIRS was a Parliamentary candidate for Newcastle-on-Tyne in March, 1857, was a leading worker amongst the Free Churches, and is said to have died in the early nineties. I should be glad of biographical information about him.

W. H.

ALDERMAN THOMAS HOYLE was elected M.P. for York city in September, 1640. I should be glad to ascertain particulars of his parentage and career, and to learn the date and place of his death. G. F. R. B.

" OLD BEMBOW," 1702. I recently came across the rather roughly carved figure of a man dressed in seventeenth-century gar- ments, wearing a flat crowned hat, armed with a hanger and a brace of pistols at his belt, and bearing in one hand a curious implement like a short stilt. The foot bore the - "inscription : " Old Bembow. 1702." It would give me much pleasure to have light thrown upon it. WM. ETTLES.

Junior Constitutional Club.

[No doubt Admiral Benbow, who died on Nov. 4, 1702, from injuries received in a fight with the French fleet on Aug. 24, when his " right leg was shattered by a chain-shot." See ' D.N.B.'J

LADY MARY CHURCHILL. Whose daughter was this lady ? She was the second wife of Major-Gen. Horatio (or Horace) Churchill, M.P. Castle Rising, 1796-1802, who died Sept. 22, 1817. And was he the son of Charles Churchill of Farleigh, Bucks, M.P. Marlow, 1754-61, the date of whose death I am wishful to find ? I cannot trace Lady Mary's name in any contemporary Peerage, and have no ' Extinct Peerage ' to refer to. Lord Walpole at his death in 1797 left 'a legacy of 500Z. to Horace Churchill.

W.

TESTANCE : CHRISTIAN NAME. The Rev. Thomas Bedford, B.D., was a man of mark in his day. "Lecturer" at Plymouth from 1631 to 1643, when he was appointed to succeed Dr. Aaron Wilson in the Vicarage of St. Andrew, the growing feeling of an- tagonism between the Corporation and any who supported the Royalist cause led to his being suspended, thrown into prison, and eventually sent prisoner to London by the orders of Parliament itself. He died in 1652, Rector of St. Martin Outwich, and in his will dated 1651 he mentions his wife " Testance," and makes her the sole execu- trix. I have examined several treatises on Christian names, but can find no mention of Testance. Can any of your readers come to my help, by quoting other instances of this peculiar name, or by explaining its deri- vation and meaning ?

I have ventured to think it may be a shortened form of Attestance= attestation or witness. I should be glad also to learn the surname and familv of Mrs. Bedford.

W. S. B. H.

ANCIENT IRISH TITLES. (See 1 S. vi. 555.) At this far-away reference (Dec. 11, 1852) a most interesting question, as per heading, was started by T. O'G., Dublin, and it has not as yet been answered. I venture to revive it as more likely, owing to the wider knowledge and increased facilities of com- munication in these more advanced days, to obtain a speedy and satisfactory reply. The query, as propounded by the writer, is concerned witn the assumption by " cer- tain Irish gentlemen " of the article " The " prefixed to their names, and with the grounds of the assumption, seeing that " the dignity of chief of a sept was, according to the old Irish laws, elective and not heredi- tary." The querist furnishes no instances of the custom, but cases readily occur to one, such as " The O'Conor Don," " The O' Gorman Mahon," " The MacGauran or