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 12 S. IV. MAY, 1918.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

expression seems to have a Welsh sound, to say the least of it. Lady Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII., lived at Westthorpe, in the immediate neighbourhood, and Tyrrel may have married a Welsh lady, one of her suite. Is it possible to discover the meaning of the two inscriptions ?

ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

SOL AS A WOMAN'S NAME IN ENGLAND. One instance is believed to be an abbess, or daughter of some pre-Norman, Saxon, or British queen in Somerset or thereabouts. Where can mention or information be found ? W. J. B.

LINCOLNSHIRE Es CREATORS. What printed volumes (Public Record Office or others) can be obtained relating to Lincoln- shire prior to 1400 ? I wish to gain in- formation respecting the Escheators of Lincolnshire. Replies may be sent direct.

H. HULME.

Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire.

THOMAS POSTLETHWAITE, M.P. He was M.P. for Haslemere, and resigned in June, 1786. I am informed that he was the son of the Rev. James Postlethwaite of Heckney, Leicestershire, and I shall be glad if any one can say to what place the Rev. James's family belonged. DIEOO.

DRURY, FLINTSHIRE. I should very much like to know how and when a hamlet in Flintshire came to be' called Drury. When I was there last autumn I was informed that it has borne the name for quite two hundred years. It is situated near Buckley, and only a few miles from Hawarden. If any of the old court rolls are in existence, they may throw some light on the matter. CHARLES DRURY.

12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.

BOYS BORN IN MAY. There is in the Black_ Country a superstition that boys born in May are always cruel to animals. Does this superstition extend to other parts of the country ? E. WEST.

Birmingham.

WASHINGTON FAMILY. Can some Ameri- can friend identify, and give any particulars of, the three following officers of the British Army ? (1) Capt. Richard Bushrod, and (2) Capt. Laurence Washington, both serv- ing in the same regiment in America in 1742 ; (3) Cornet en Second George Washing- ton, serving at home in a cavalry regiment in 1746. As the President had a nephew

Judge Bushrod Washington, I assume there was some relationship with No. 1. About twenty-five years ago there was, I believe, an excellent series of articles relating to the family portraits at Mount Vernon published in The Century Magazine, to which, however, I have not access at present.

W. R. W.

BISHOP DAWSON OF CLONFERT. On a stone in the floor of Kendal Church, West- morland, is the following inscription:

" Hie jacet reverendus in Christo pater Robertus Dawson, episcopus Clpnefertensis et Ducensis Hibernicxis. Qui obiit die decima tertia Aprilis, 1643."

How was this Bishop of Clonfert Duke of Ireland ? Can any one give more parti- culars of him ? J. W. F.

TYRANNICIDE. It has been stated that John of Salisbury, who died in 1180 Bishop of Chartres, was the first British writer to recognize the possible duty of tyrannicide, and that his teaching was followed in 1556 by John Ponet, the dispossessed Bishop of Winchester, in his work ' A Short Treatise of Politique Power,' and in 1558 in ' How Superior Powers ought to be Obeyed,' by Christopher Goodman, and in ' The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women,' by John Knox. If this is so, the dictum that

A Scot and a Jesuit, hand in hand, First taught the world to say

That subjects ought to have command,

And monarchs to obey

(as to which see 11 S. iii. 147, 177, 233), is manifestly false. I have, however, never seen any quotations from John of Salisbury, Ponet, Goodman, or Knox adduced to substantiate this statement, and being too much occupied at present in what I trust is work of national importance, I cannot look up the matter for myself. Perhaps one of the correspondents of ' N. & Q.' may be able to supply some.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

FREDERICK THE GREAT AND A FRENCH- MAN.: In what work can I find an account of the barbarous treatment of a French gentleman, either by Frederick the Great or his father Frederick William I. ?

The victim was decoyed to Berlin under bhe promise of being appointed to a dis- tinguished position at the Court, but, once in the clutches of the tyrant, was forced into the ranks of the Guard as a common soldier. He attempted to escape, but was recaptured and immured in a dungeon, where he was treated with horrible bar-