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Meryon was a member of the firm of Sherer, Waugh & Meryon, wine merchants, St. Mary Axe.

' The Kentish Companion,' 1799, has L. Meryon, agent for the Sun Fire Office, Rye, and M. N. Meryon, stamp distributor of Rye. R. J. FYNMOBE.

I do not know whether the Meryon family is a branch of the Essex family of Maryon (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). If so, I have a large number of notes about them. (Mrs.) A. SAINTHILL.

104 Sloane Street, S.W.I.

COLLECTIONS OF ANIMALS OB BIRDS (12 S. iii. 446 ; iv. 26). M.D. (2) will find a great deal of, if not all, the information he requires in The Field of 1912 Oct. 19, p. 770 ; Nov. 2, p. 869 ; and Nov. 16, p. 1015.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

40 Lennox Gardens, S.W.I.

HTJTCHINSON FAMILY (12 S. iv. 106). Further information with regard to the above family will, I think, be found in the following works : Jewitt's Reliquary, ix. 240. Hutchin- Bon's ' Memoirs of the Life of Col. Hutchin- son,' 1806, 4to, pp. 144. Foster's ' Visita- tions of Yorkshire," 183. Harleian Society, iv. 115 ; xv. 408 ; xxxix. 979. Surtees's ' Durham,' iv. 155. Clutterbuck's ' Hert- ford,' ii. 437. Thoroton's ' Nottingham- shire,' i. 159. The Genealogist, ii. 305. Plantagenet-Harrison's ' History of York- shire,' i. 183. ' N. & Q.,' 2 S. vii. 344 ; 5 S. ix. 209. Brydges's ' Collins's Peerage, ix. 179. Foster's ' Visitations of Durham,' 177. New England Register, xix. " 13 ;' xx. 355 ; xxii. 236 ; xxvii. 81 ; xxviii. 183. In the ' Genealogical Memoranda relating to the Family of Martyn,' by W. Williams (London, 1873, 4to), there is a single sheet containing the Richmond and Hutchinson descents. ELDBED EDWABD BABKEB.

JAPANESE " CASTEBA " (12 S. iv. 158). It is a curious fact, and one which at first sight may seem to support MB. DODGSON'S suggestion, that in Florence and other Italian towns sponge cake is known by the name of pan di Spagna. But Spain is by no means a " land o' cakes" very much the contrary. In travelling through many parts of Spain, as I have done, I have often met with pan casero, which certainly has nothing in common with sponge cake, but is prac- tically identical with the Italian pan' casa- lingo, and very like our present Govern- ment bread, but more palatable and digestible. The root of both names is the

Latin cases. Whether the introduction of the letter t into the middle of a Japanese word would conduce to euphony is not for me to decide, but I should hardly think so. Might there not have been an alteration of pan' di Spagna into the English " sponge cake " on analogical principles ? The gn is not admissible in our language any more than the sound of the Spanish language.

JAMES T. Fox. Junior Constitutional Club, W.I.

The word used by the Sinhalese for " bread " is pan, which, like the Japanese, they have taken from the Portuguese, who were in occupation of the seaboard of the island of Ceylon for a century and a half.

PENBY LEWIS.

SUGAB : ITS INTBODUCTION INTO ENG- LAND (12 S. iii. 472 ; iv. 31, 61, 114, 199). There is evidence that sugar was introduced into this country at a much earlier date than any mentioned at the above references. In 1176, Ranulf de Glanvill being Sheriff of Yorkshire, and the honor of Conan, Earl of Richmond, being in the king's hands, the same Ranulf accounted for the issues of that honor, and in particular for 701 2s. 9d. from Hoiland fair, i.e., St. Botolph's or Boston Fair. This sum he paid into the Treasury, less 25s. 6d. ex- pended in the purchase of 34 Ib. of sugar (" zuccara ") for the king's use and by authority of the king's writ ' Pipe Roll,' 22 Henry II., Yorks., p. 122 (Pipe Roll Society). For this purchase Ranulf paid the then high price of ninepence per pound.

In Du Cange's ' Glossary ' (ed. Henschel), s.v. ' Canamellae,' authorities are cited to show that sugar was being extracted from sugar cane, then called " honey cane," in Sicily during the twelfth century, and the mode of operation is further described. The last reference in ' N. & Q.' and that which I have given relating to the year 1176 point to Boston as the chief market for this, commodity, whither it appears to have come from Flanders, with other articles from the Mediterranean and the Levant, to be exchanged for English wool.

W. FABBEB.

It may please some to learn, and others to be reminded, that there are sugar -loaves on the tomb of Hugh Sugar, Dean of Wells, in the nave of the cathedral. He died in 1489. Three sugar-loaves surmounted by a doctor's cap or bonnet were his armorial bearings.'^ ST. S WITHIN.