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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. V. DEC., 1919.

-mundi pependit," and the choir respond -except the celebrant prostrate themselves. The celebrant then advances a little, still at the Epistle corner, and unveils the right arm -of the Cross, singing in a higher key " Ecce lignum Crucis," the sacred ministers and the choir joining in as before. Then going to the middle of the altar, he uncovers the whole cross and sings a third time, still higher, " Ecce lignum Crucis," the ministers a,nd choir again joining in, and all prostrating themselves as above. The rest of the rite --does not concern us here.
 * Venite, adoremus." At this response all

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [PROF. BKNSLY also thanked for reply.]

LORD JOHN VAUGHAN : DEHANY FAMILY '{12 S. v. 268). Archer in his monumental inscriptions of the British West Indies has seven inscriptions of the Dehanys, the latest date is 1767, p. 335. This footnote is interesting. According to the Kingston B. Reg. David Dehany was buried in a garden in that town. "It is said that the Dehanys claim descent from the Dehennins, -Counts de Bossu " (Roby). Such a claim was to have been expected.

Matthew Gregory, member in Assembly for St. James's, Jamaica, 1718, died in 1778, had among other children a daughter Mary who married Geo. Dehany. The Journals of House of Assembly were com- posed by Roby. A. M.

GENERAL JOHN NICHOLSON (12 S. v. 180).

According to the ' Life of Nicholson,' by

Capt. L. J. Trotter, he was descended from

a Rev. William Nicholson, who went to

'Ireland in 1589, and that prior to that date

the family lived in Cumberland. For

"William's descendants, &c., see chap. i.

G. H. W.

CHARLES MORRIS OF PORTMAN SQUARE '{12 S. v. 264). Charles Morris (1768-1844) was a younger son of James Morris, J.P., D.L., co. Surrey, High Sheriff 1764, by his second wife Mary Magdalen, daughter of Stephen, Matthew. Charles, who spent large sums in. improving Malvern, married Sarah, daughter of Anthony Francis Haldi- mand, who (in 1767) founded the firm of merchants and foreign bankers in Old Broad Street, subsequently known as Morris, Prevost & Co. Charles Morris resided at the Manor House, Wandsworth, co. Surrey, and in Portman Square. His eldest son Charles (d. 1806) was " like his father, a mosb munificent benefactor to the town of IVlalvern." A younger son, James Morris of

Belgrave Square, was a director of the Bar of England from 1827-1879.

The following authorities may be referre to : Burke's * Landed Gentry,' 1914 (Mori of York) ; Crisp's 'Visitations, Notes vol. viii. pp. 92-4 ; The Times, Dec. 8, 191 (obituary notice of Sir Augustus Prevost

M.

His country house was the Manor Hous East Hill, Wandsworth, where a daught was born Aug. 24, 1800. A description }he Manor House by the late S. W. Kersha^ F.S.A., appeared in ' Coll. of Surr. Archsec Soc.,' vol. x., 1890 ; also in ' Some Ancie: Houses of Wandsworth,' 1912.

LIBRARIAN.

Public Library, Wandsworth, S.W.18.

"DRINK BY WORD or MOUTH" (12 v. 98, 136). There is a more exalt< authority for the phrase than the hayfield ' The Squire of Alsatia.'

In the dinner scene in Swift's * Poli Conversation,' when the butler brings up t tankard of October, Lord Smart say " Come, Sir John, take it by Word of Mout and then give it to the Colonel."

To those who do not know Swift's c lightful treatise one may safely say that th ought to, and that angels will never lo them. EDWARD BENSLY.

PORTRAITS ON GRAVESTONES (12 S. 210, 277, 377, 459; iii. 14; v. 250, 306). Perhaps it was by an oversight that Itf JOHN DUXBURY omitted to mention at t third reference the handsome monume] with well - executed portrait, erected Blackburn cemetery to the memory George Ellis (1817-71), musician. Mr. E! gained celebrity in the North of England band instructor and conductor, being at c period tutor to the majority of the bands, this part of the country. He compos several hymn tunes.

The inscription states that the monunw was " erected by his pupils and friends ai tribute of respect and esteem for his musi abilities." R. GRIME

62 Duckworth Street, Blackburn.

TRANSLATIONS WANTED (12 S. v. 295) In reply to COL. SHAKESPEAR'S inqu the following translations can be reco mended :

' Book of Enoch,' as rendered by Car R. H. Charles, who is also believed to hf done ' Secrets of Enoch,' in addition t< rendering by the Slavonic scholar a Oxonian, W. R. Morfill, M.A.