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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Emanuel Turner (born 1825), assistan comptroller, cashier, and committee clerk to the Manchester Corporation from 1842 to 1857, was, I understand, a nephew of William, the member of Parliament. Was he a son of Robert ?

Please reply direct.

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

18 Culverden Down, Tunbridge Wells.

RICHARD BURTON c. 1681. Richard Burton's " Historical Remarques and Ob- servations of the Ancient and Present State of London and Westminster .... London. Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell next to Kemps Coffee house in Exchange Alley, over against the Royal Exchange in Corn- hill. 1681." neat half -calf, 18mo, has a number of very quaint cuts. I should be glad of any information about the author. ANETJRIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

[" Richard Burton " was one of the pseudonyms of Nathaniel Crouch who published the book. He had a very busy pen, the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' de- voting nearly four columns to him, s.v, 'Barton, Robert or Richard,' and recording 45 works com- piled or edited by him. They were mostly issued at a shilling each, and had a great popularity.]

GRIM OR GRIME : ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME. There is a Grim's Dyke near Salisbury, a Grimesditch in Cheshire ; the Roman Wall of Antoninus in Scotland is called Grime's Dyke ; and there is a wooded hill near Huddersfield called Grimesca. What is the significance of this name Grim or Grime ? Is it Celtic ?

W. A. HIRST.

DEVEY FAMILY. I shall be glad of genealogical information regarding the Deveys who held Kingslow, co. Salop, near Wolverhampton, from 1640 to 1881, and the Deveys who resided in the manor of Trysull, co. Stafford, during the eighteenth century. The former, and probably the latter, family was descended from the Deveys of Patting- ham, co. Stafford, temp. Edward II. ; and as late as 1730 a John Devey, gent., who graduated at Oxford in 1725, had an estate there. Thomas and William Devey of Trysull graduated in 1734 and 1764 respec- tively. G. M. N.

GEORGE BORROW : LIEUT. PARRY. Who was Lieut. Parry, and for what offence was he punished at the time of the Crimean War ? Borrow has three separate references to the topic in his ' Wild Wales,' in relation to his Welsh tour July-November, 1854. In his decisive style he writes of " poor Parry,

whose only crime was trying to defend himself from the manual assaults of his brutal messmates " ; and of Parry's punish- ment as " a deed of infamous injustice and cruelty." I find no allusion to the affair in works where it might be expected to be mentioned. W. B. H.

THE SWIN. Kipling mentions this channel in one of his poems,

From the Ducies to the Swin. It is, I believe, to the north of the mouth of the Thames. What is the meaning of the name '' Saxo-Grammaticus mentions a similarly named stretch of water as Zwina (p. 333), Zuins (p. 347), Suin (p. 359), identi- fied as the Zwein, the middle channel of the Oder as it reaches the sea. And where is the Ducies ?

J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B.

[Bartholomew's ' Gazetteer of the British Isles ' describes the Swin Channel thus : "in mouth of river Thames, between the Maplin and Barrow Sands ; is the main channel from the Nore to the north."]

BOASE BROTHERS. I should be glad if some reader of ' N. & Q.' could furnish me with portraits of one or all of those dis- tinguished brothers, the Rev. Charles William, George Clement, and Frederic Boase. Or some one may be able to indicate a periodical in which their portraits have appeared. J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B.

[MR. RALPH THOMAS, who knew the brothers well (see ante, p. 88), informs us that he does not remember to have seen any portrait of them.]

QUEEN ANNE : THE SOVEREIGN'S VETO. I have often read in books on constitu- tional history that Queen Anne was the last sovereign to veto a Bill passed by Lords and Commons, but have never lighted on any particulars of this. Justin McCarthy in lis volume on Queen Anne says nothing of t ; Mr. Herbert Paul has but a passing reference. Can any reader enlighten me ?

W. KENT.

HERVEY OR HERVIT. In the Index to the printed Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem n the reign of Henry III. occurs the name of William Hervit alias Hervey. The date of the inquisition is January, 1256. About forty years ago, as I came out from a political meeting, I heard a man in an excited crowd sing out, " Let Bill Harvet have one." " One " meant an egg not laid that morning, and " Bill Harvet " meant a Mr. William Harvey who was at the meeting, and there- fore deserved an egg not laid that morning.