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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. V. JULY, 1919.

" AS JOLLY AS SANDBOYS." Has this

not very recondite simile been investigated ? For my own part I did not know what " sandboys " were until I read the following passage in the ' Letters of Dr. John Brown ' :

" The long strings of donkeys carrying neat little bags of white sand of the 'size and shape of Bologna sausages (these are brought from Brompton and are used for sanding the floors), winding through the narrow streets, with two or three boys in their pure white or yellow frocks, are very pretty."

This is in a letter written from Chatham in 1831. Is the industry quite of the past ? JOHN WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

DURBOW CASTLE, near Tullamore, King's County, was erected by Hugh de Lacy on the site of a famous monastery, which was given to the Herberts, and later passed into Lord Norbury's family. Any information will be appreciated. E. C. FINLAY.

1G34 Hyde Street, San Francisco, California.

Miss HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS. Infor- mation as to parentage and characteristics of this remarkable lady who enthusiastically espoused the French Revolution is de- siderated. ANETJRIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

MORBTJS ANGLICUS. What was this dis- ease in the fifteenth century ? Was it, or was it not, the sweating sickness ? On a brass on a stone in St. Laurence Church, Hatfield, Yorks, is the following :

Qui in cruoem moritur

Peccatis Thomse misereatur

Stones, gen. qui multis

Passus est serumneis.

Qui per morburn Anglicum

Mortuus eat demum Die pro anima Ave Maria et Pater Noster

Decessit M.CCCC.II. Septemb.

In the next century and later the disease of that name was the consumption ; and, Dr. Gideon Harvey published a work called ' Morbus Anglicus, or, an Anatomy of Con- sumption,' in 1671. J. W. FAWCETT. Consett, co. Durham.

GENERAL JOHN NICHOLSON. The pedigree of the celebrated John Nicholson is wanted.

(Mrs.) E. E. COPE. Finchampstead, Berks.

SIR THOMAS COLBY. I shall be glad of any information enabling me to trace the relationship between Sir Thomas Colby, Bart., who died Sept. 23, 1729, and the Thomas Colby mentioned in his will as his kinsman. CHARLES CLAY.

11 Tite Street, Chelsea.

HERALDIC : WOOLMER, LIPHOOK, HANTS. Can any one tell me whose is this coat of arms ? 1st grand quarter : 1st and 4th, paly of six or and gules, 2nd and 3rd, 01*, two bulls gules ; 3rd quarter : a saltire gules within a bordure of fleur de lys ; 4th : or, 3 bends gules ; 5th : az. 3 lions passant guardant or ; 6th : vair, az. and arg., a chief gules. Impaling : 1st grand quarter : 1st and 4th, France, 2nd and 3rd, gules ; 2nd grand quarter : 1st and 4th, arg., a dragon rampant gules ; 2nd and 3rd, gules, a lion rampant ; 3rd : gules, a chevron or between 2 stars arg. ; 4th : az., a bend or between 3 stars arg. ; 5th : az., semee of fleur de lis or, a bendlet gules ; 6th : or, a cross az. between 4 stars. Over all on a shield of pretence, az., a bar or, and in fesse a circle or.

The achievement is surrounded by the collar and badge of the French order of St. Michael, and underneath the latter is the eight-pointed cross badge with the dove on it of the French order of the St. Esprit, and the date 1647. Surmounting the coat of arms is a Marquis (?) coronet, and at each side of the latter smaller coronets round a large initial H.

The whole device is on a window in Woolmer House, Bramshott, Hants, for- merly the residence of Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart.

(Miss) A. F. MACONCHY.

Fowley, Liphook, Hants.

BOWSHOT : THE LONGEST. The Daily Mail of June 24, 1913, says :

" Mr. Ingo Simon, a member of the Royal Toxo- philite Society, shot an arrow 459 yards 8 in. on Friday at the annual archery meeting at Le Touquet, France. His next best shot was 2 yards shorter. This distance was measured by a quali- fied surveyor. Mr. Simon used two Turkish bows, made of buffalo horn and antelope sinew, pulling 80 Ib. and 60 Ib. Both bows were over 200 years old. The longest distance with a yew bow was 236 yards 7ft. [>'c]."

The newspaper states that this was the longest bow-and-arrow shot since 1794.

Where and on what occasion was the shot made in 1794, and what was the make and style of bow ? Is there any record of a longer shot previously ?

HERBERT SOTJTHAM. i

JEREMIAH WAINEWRIGHT. Can any one tell me where I can find the will of Jeremiah Wainewright or Wainwright, postmaster at Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, who died Dec. 1, and was buried Dec. 4, 1696, at Ferrybridge ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Union Club, Trafalgar Square, S.W.I.