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SAXTON'S MAP OF LANCASHIRE. Could any correspondent kindly tell me the year in which Saxton's map of Lancashire was first published ? The copy which I have has no date ; but beneath the scale is : " Chris: Saxton descrip: Guliel: Hole sculp- sit." W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.

Kirkby Lonsdale.

GEOKGE REYNOLDS. Can any reader help me to obtain the date and place of marriage of George Reynolds, the father of Ke&ts's friend John Hamilton Reynolds ? Accord- ing to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' the latter was born at Shrewsbury on Sept. 9,1796. George Reynolds was a master at Christ's Hospital from 1817 to 1835. RAMSDEN WALKER.

32 Watling Street, E.C.4.

BELLOTT FAMILY, 1550-1600. Thomas Bellott, secretary to Lord Burleigh, and described as of London (St. Clement Danes), founded the Bellott Hospital, Bath, in 6 or 7 James I. In a Staffordshire will dated 1547 there appears a " Thomas Bellott of Gresford." Was there a connexion between the two ? If not, can any one identify the latter ? CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

ASHBOTJRNE, DERBYSHIRE. ' The His- tory and Topography of Ashbourn, the Valley of the Dove, and the Adjacent Villages ' was published at Ashbourne by Messrs. Dawson & Hobson in 1839. I should be glad to learn the name of the author.

G. F. R. B.

PIGUEUIT. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me information concerning Danby Pigueuit, who was admitted to Westminster School in 1748, aged 8, and Csesar Pigueuit, described as the son of John Pigueuit of Brentford, Middlesex, who was at the same school in 1755 ?

G. F. R. B.

"FACING AND BRACING," 1604. In the charter of incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, granted by James I. in 1604, is a clause which states that no member of the fellowship " shall unseemly revile, rebuke, smite, or abuse any brother .... either by facing, bracing, evil reproach- ing, or affray ing." What was meant by " facing and bracing " ?

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

[The ' New English Dictionary ' marks this sense of the verb brace as obsolete, and defines it as "to bluster, domineer ; to assume a defiant attitude ; chiefly in phrase to face and brace." The earliest quotation supplied is 1447, and the latest 1563.J

" DOUBLET." Why does the word " doublet," signifying a body -garment, get a derivation from "double," i.e., folded, made in two parts ? I fail to see just how the term came into use.

FRANK WARREN HACKETT.

Washington, D.O.

[The ' New English Dictionary ' gives this as the earliest meaning of the word, and says it is from the French doublet (twelfth cent, in Hatzfeld- Darmesteter), something folded, a furred coat, &c. from double with the dim. suffix -el.]

" GONE WEST." I have not met with anjr explanation of the origin of the soldiers' phrase " Gone west," to denote the death of a comrade. Can any reader of ' N. & Q., enlighten me ? W. E. J.

[Does it not come from the old idea that the Fortunate Isles or Islands of the Blest, where the souls of the good are made happy, are situated in the western ocean ?]

" THE GLAD EYE." Has this phrase occurred in literature yet ? In Act I. sc. ii. of Wycherley's ' Love in a Wood ' I find : " He beat his wench for giving me les douces yeux once." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

SHAW OF BOWES. Can any reader give particulars of the Shaw family who are reputed to have kept " Dotheboys Hall " (Bowes) ? Has any one a copy of the inscription on the gravestone of the " old dominie" ? Was Dr. Shaw, a North- Country doctor of the nineteenth century (he lived in the '60's, I believe), a son of the master ? TEESDALIAN.

[At 10 S. vi. 244 some advertisements of Bowes schools are quoted by MR. (now SIR) ALFRED ROBBINS.]

" STROPIAT." I shall be grateful if any readers of ' N. & Q.' can furnish me with other instances of the use of the adjective " stropiat " in seventeenth-century English literature, with the object of elucidating its meaning in the following passage from William Lithgow's ' Travels ' (1632). Speak- ing of the demerits of the rival Spanish and French schools of horsemanship, he says ix. 395) :

" The Frenchman hangeth in the stirrop, at full reach of his gre_at toe, with such long - legged ostentation, pricking his horse with neck-stropiat spurres, and beating the wind with his long waving limbes."

The two Dutch translations of the ' Travels,' published at Amsterdam in 1652 and 1656, give us no help as both leave out the words from " pricking " to the end of the passage. Cotgrave's French - English dictionary (1632) gives " Estropiat.^ Lame, criple,