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 12 S. IV. MAY, 1018.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Minores,' Vollmer's ' Poetas Latini Minores,' Riese's ' Anthologia Latina,' &c.

The motto " Vivitur ingenio " appears at one time to have been prominently displayed in Drury Lane Theatre. In the Epilogue to Farquhar's ' Love and a Bottle ' (December, 1698), written and spoken by Joseph Haynes, is the couplet,

Vivitur ingenio, that damn'd motto there,

[Looting up at it. Seduced me first to be a wicked player.

Haynes had been Latin secretary to Sir Joseph Williamson, and may be supposed to have been specially susceptible to Latin mottoes. EDWARD BENSLY.

SANIGAK SURNAME (12 S. iv. 12). On p. 5 of ' Notes on vVanswell Court a,,iJ its Occupants for Seven Centuries,' by James Herbert Cooke, F.S.A., is the following :

" Thomas de Stone died in 1310, leaving two daughters his coheiresses, between whom a paitition of his lands took pJace, when Wanswell, (Ugmented by the grant of Thomas, 6th Earl of Berkeley, was allotted to Alice, who married John Swanhnnger or Saniger, the Stone and Woodford estates being inherited by her other sister Joan, wife of John Sergeant. By deeds of partition in 1347-1353 other lands were allotted to the Swanhungers, who thus became consider- able landowners. They were an old Berkeley family whose patrimonial house and estate in the neighbourhood is still called Saniger Farm, and was sold by Edward, Saniger to the Earl of Berkeley in 1774. There is a tradition amongst the family that their original ancestor came to Berkeley with Robert Fitzharding."

THERESA J. PENNY.

Sanigar, Sinegar, and Senigar are doubtless early spellings of the personal name Sanger, from the Anglo-Saxon sangere, a singer or songster. Other variants of the name are Sangar, Sanggere, Sangster, Sanxter, and Synger. N. W. HILL.

ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL : STEWARDS OF THE SCHOOL FEASTS (12 S. iv. 68). Henry Bull was presumably 'the man who d. Aug. 30, 1728.

A Thomas Batson, barrister of the Middle Temple, d. Oct., 1740 (London Mag.).

A John Benson, Paymaster of the Lottery 1712, d. Jan. 27, 1715 (' Hist. Reg.').

A Henry Boon (p. 69), surgeon, d. July 8,

1719 (ibid.).

A Nicholas Field, surgeon, d, Jan. 12,

1720 (ibid.).

A John Fotherby of Great George Street, Hanover Square, d. Feb. 6, 1733 (ibid.).

A William Glanvil, Clerk of the Petitions in the Treasury, d. Dec. 31, 1717 (ibid.).

John Hall of the Six Clerks' Office in Chancery d. June 21, 1729.

Edward Gibbons (p. 68), a Commissioner of the Customs (1,OOOZ.), Jan. 25, 1711, to Nov. 9, 1714, and a director of the South Sea Company, d. Dec. 25, 1736

Henry Lovibond -was undoubtedly the Master in Chancery, Nov. 3, 1712, till he d. Aug. 9, 1727. His son d. May 30, 1733. Henrv's brother Edward, a director of the South Sea Company, d. July 2, 1737.

There was an Edward Nelthorpe elected F.R.S. 1666.

Richard Robinson, medicus, F.R.S. 1681, d. Jan. 30, 1733.

There was a Charles Smithen, goldsmith to Queen Anne in 1707, who d. April 18, 1720.

Samuel Stebbing was Somerset Herald, Secretary and Seal-Keeper of the Court of the Earl Marshal of England, and continuator of Sandford's ' GeneaL Hist.' ; he d. Aug. 20,. 1719.

Christopher Tilson of the Treasury d. Aug. 25, 1742 (not 1702), his wife having d. September, 1739. Probably brother of George Tilson, F R.S. 1735, Under-Secretary of State, who d. Nov. 18, 1738.

John Taylor may have been the Clerk of the Treasury who d. Aug. 30, 1735.

W. R. W.

NEPTUNE : CROSS-ING THE LINE (12 S. iv. 77). A very f Jl account of the origin and method of carrying out the mock ritual observed in bygone times when ships passed from north to south latitude, and vice versa, will be found in the second volume of ' Chambers's Book of Days,' on

pp. 653-4. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

NORTH-COUNTRY CUSTOMS (12 S. iv. 74). -MR. DODSON will find a large collection of old country customs lingering in Cumber- land (and Westmorland) in ' Bygone Cum- berland and Westmorland,' by Daniel Scott (London, William Andrews & Co., 5 Far- ringdon Avenue, E.G., 1899).

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

ALESTON, MIDDLESEX (12 S. iii. 475). With reference to my query as to the location of " Aleston, Middlesex," it has been suggested to me that Aleston may possibly be the old form of Harlesden.

I have an impression that there used to be a football team known as Barnet Aleston, - Can any reader verify this ?

H. HULME,

Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire.