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but I should like to know whether they are compulsorily filed and preserved, and, if so, where. M.P.s must sometimes, and officials often (one would suppo.se), require to consult them in reference to proposed legislation.

W. S. B. H.

SIR JOHN LOMBE. Details invited con- cerning Sir John Lombe, Bart., a gentleman apparently of great wealth during the Napoleonic wars. He enlarged the church of St. Mary the Virgin at Bylaugh, in Norfolk, in 1810, and employed Charles Barry to erect the mansion at Bylaugh Park. Sir John died May 27, 1817.

J. LAND FE AH LUCAS.

Glendora, Elndhead, Surrey. [See Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' s.v. Lombe of Bylaugh.]

PBAGELL FAMILY. (See 8 S. ii. 308; viii. 315.) Morant's 'Essex,' vol. i. p. 21, states that this family had estates in West Ham and Dagenham in 1553. There are some memorials to them in West Ham Church. John Pragell (died 1590) is de- scribed as Governor of Berwick and Chief General of H.M. Queen Elizabeth's forces in the North.

What is the origin of the name ? There is a river Pregel near Konigsberg, mentioned in ' Barlasch of the Guard.'

R. J. FYNMORE.

SPURS : FEATHER-NECKS AND ROUGH- NECKS. The following passage occurs in Dr. Robert Plot's * Natural History of Staffordshire,' pub. 1686, chap. ix. 79. Speaking of the number of craftsmen whose production of each spur, he says :
 * 'joynt concurence " was required in the

" There is first the Head or Spurr-maker that makes the body of the Spurr. . . .and these with wan-necks, feather-necks, rough-necks."

I shall be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can furnish me with an authoritative ex- planation of the last two terms.

CHARLES BEARD.

"CAMOUFLAGE." In a recent number of The Catholic Federationist the Bishop of Salford writes :

" The one word which more than any other has forced its triumphant way definitely into our everyday speech as well as into those of other nations is the French term camouflage. This word like the influenza epidemic may be said to have spread and sained universal citizenship in little more than a single week from the time it first appeared in an American telegram. French authorities, like Littr in his great dictionary, discuss learnedly its origin. They do not appear

to have noticed that both the noun and its corresponding verb (camoufer) must almost cer- tainly be owing to the equivalent Italian words camuflo and camufiare, with like meanings (said by Italian scholars to be contracted from capo niuQare, ' to muffle the head '). We have not only adopted the noun camouflage, but in our queer English way have turned it into a verb, and say ' to camouflage ' a ship, a building, an opinion, &c."

What was the American telegram to which the bishop refers ?

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

EULER ON THE END OF THE WORLD.

Euler the mathematician (1707-83) is said to have predicted that the end of the world \vould take place in a certain year. It is likely that some reference to the statement would be found in the letters of Catherine II. (1729-96) to F. M. Grimm (1723-1807). Could a reader give some precise informa- tion ? R Cr. H.

DEACON IN LOVE. From Cantihipe's ' Register,' p. 58, we learn that this chantry, in Kington parish church, Herefordshire, for the service of Our Lady, was well endowed, and that Hugh de C'habbenor, Deacon in love, was admitted to the said church on the presentation of the religious men. What are the origin and meaning of " Deacon in love" ? ('Hist, of Kington,' 1845, p. 82.) Who was the author of this history ?

M.A.OxoN.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. I have found the following quotations in a manuscript written about 1620, and preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, and am anxious to know their source. 1 have copied them as they appear in the MS., but think they are probably misquotations, as I have found several misquotations from Virgil and the Bible in the same Mb.

1. Exemplo patrum commotus amore legendi | Jecit ad Hibernos Sophia mirabile claros.

2. Confluxerunt omni parte Europse in Hiberniae discendi causa tanquam ad mercatusbonariartmm.

3. Flocuerunt sancti in Hibernia quasi Stellae in caelo, et arenae in littore maris festus (?)

It is stated in the MS. that the last two quota- tions are from St. Bernard's works, but I have been unable to find precisely where they occur.

GEORGE BRTEN.

40 Northumberland Rond, Dublin.

4. Who is the author of the following lines, which are found upon an old picture ?

NIGHT.

Ncm nature sleeps. The silver Queen of Night Wide o'or the landscape sheds reflected light ; ,c w t>et thoughts of love th' enchanting scenes

inspire, And ev'ry bosom melts with soft desire.