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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. V. MAY, 1919,

Manure seems to have had the accent on tfche first syllable pretty commonly at one time. In some of our dialects it is still pronounced so as if spelt manner.

C. C. B.

"THE DERBY BLUES" (12 S. v. 97).

' The following extract relating to the

" forty-five " is from a local work of 1906 :

" The crisis arrived on Tuesday, December 3rd . . . .About 4 o'clock the volunteers (known as 'The Derby Blues') mustered in the Market Place, with the intention of marching against the foe ; but some hesitation manifested itself, and after several hours' deliberation, the regiment about 10 o'clock turned its back upon Ashbourne [where the rebels were reported to have come in], and marched out of the town by torchlight to Nottingham, leaving the inhabitants to treat with the enemy as best they might."

In 'N. & Q.,' 1 S. xii. 252, the editor mentioned ' The Chronicle of the Derby Blues ' as a published work, apparently of circa 1800. W. B. H.

BOUMPHREY FAMILY OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER (12 S. v. 67). Count Bourn - phre's family in all probability is related to a Welsh or Lancashire Boumphrey stock, in view of the fact that this surname is Welsh in origin from ap + Humphrey, "the son of Humphrey," as in many other instances, viz., Bowen (ap Owen), Price (ap Rhys), Pugh (ap Hugh), Pritchard (ap Richard), Upjohn (ap John, literally Johnson), &c. Boumphrey alternates with Pumphrey. N. W. HILL.

INSCRIPTIONS AT GIPPING (12 S. iv. 132). MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS inquires as to the meaning of two inscriptions in Gipping Church.

1. Amla might be an anagram for Alma or Alma Mater, alluding to the Blessed

Virgin as " Ave Maris Stella, Dei mater alma,'" or to "Alma Salvatoris mater."

2. Dineley in his ' Progress of Henry, Duke of Beaufort, President of Wa]es,' in 1684, has a statement that a Kemeys of the family of Cefn Mabley, Glamorganshire, was Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds in the time of Henry VII., and, if I remember rightly, gives his epitaph, which is the one that in 'A Tour through Suffolk, 1818' (a revised edition of Kirby's ' Suffolk Traveller '), is assigned to John Reeve of Melford, Suffolk. If there was really a Welsh Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds at or

.about the time when Gipping Church was built, this might account for the Welsh inscription, badly spelt by a rustic ma3;on.

H. R.

MR. MEDOP : DR. R. COSIN (12 S. iv. 132, 202). See 7 S. ix. 448. Miss Medhop, a King's County heiress, married in 1639 Trevor Lloyd ,of Gloster, King's Co., a captain in the army.

I have a reference in 1649 to Capt. Francis, supposed to be the grandson of Roger Medhop of Medhop Hall, Oxford.

Mr. Medop, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, is mentioned under 1581 in ' Cal. S.P. Dom., 1581-90.'

R. J. FYNMORE.

A Thomas Medopp, M.A., was Rector of Hanwell, Middlesex, from Aug. 29, 1575, to his death in Sept., 1591. Margaret, his relict, renounced execution of his will on Oct. 9, 1591, but it was proved on Oct. 17 of the same year. J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

CUTTING OFF THE HAIR AS A PRESERVA- TIVE AGAINST HEADACHE (12 S. iii. 20, 207, 484 ; iv. 32). Under this heading it may not be entirely amiss to produce the follow- ing passage from the nineteenth book of ' Han-fei-tsze,' a collection of political disquisitions of the celebrated Chinese philosopher Han Fei (killed B.C. 233) :

" Those who are ignorant of the art of govern- ment are wont to say, ' We have to gain over the people's mind.' Now to gain over the people's mind, thus to govern them, they need to follow only the rabble's advice, totally dis- carding the sage counsel of I Ying or Kwan Chung. But the wisdom of the rabble is as worthless as the simple children's mind. Should a child be left with the head unshaved, it would be attacked with stomach-ache ; should a child be left with a pustule unopened, the pain would much increase. Whence the necessity for the mother to perform the operation with her hands, making an assistant firmly hold the child, and un- retarded by its unceasing cries : the child would unceasingly cry in such a plight, quite unaware of the certainty of the comparatively small suf?ring exacting a large relief."

According to Aoki's ' Kon-yo Manroku,' 1763, the Japanese of his age stuck to the same opinion as the ancient Chinese that to leave the head of children unshaved is to make them suffer from stomaeh-ache.

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

ROSE OF DENMARK INN (12 S. iv. 326).

This sign is not mentioned in Lavwood and

Hotten s ' History of Signboards ' (Chatto

i & Windus, 1898). Can the inn at Bristol


 * referred to by your correspondent have

been called the Rose of Denmavk from a

ship trading at that port ?

WM. SELF WEEKS. Westwood, Clitheroe.