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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. vi. APRIL 3 1920.

BISHOPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. iv. 330; v. 107, 161, 273; vi. 44). There was certainly a John, Bishop of Dromore, in the fifteenth century, but there is nothing to indicate that his succession was disputed. According to Gams (" Series Episcoporum," ' Ecclesise Cajholicae,' Ratis- bon, 1873, p. 217) he held the see from 1410 to 1418. and died in 1433. He resigned in 1418. Eubel ('Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi.' Minister, 1898, i. 236) gives the same dates, adding that he was a Benedictine monk of Bury St. Edmund's, was a Bachelor of Theology, and a " noblis," while his surname was " Curlw or de Choules." Neither work mentions any foreign see with a name resembling " Dromorens " the Latin form of Dromore is Dromorensis.

W. A. B. C.

HALLOWE'EN (12 S. vi. 39). MB. CHAPMAN will find desirable information in Brand's ' Antiquities,' vol. i., p. 377 ; Chambers's ' Book of Days,' vol. ii., p. 319 ; Hone's ' Everyday Book,' vol. i., p. 630 ; vol. ii., p. 704 ; Spence's ' Shetland Folk-Lore,' p. 169 ; Campbell's ' Superstitions of the Scottish Highlands,' pp. 18, 260; and, I should think, in almost all books treating of North British manners and customs. I hope I have copied these figures accurately. I am getting humiliatingly blind.

ST. SWITHIN.

EPIGRAM : "A LITTLE GARDEN LITTLE JOWETT MADE " (12 S. v. 288 ; vi. 19, 50). In n. 200, are two English versions of the epigram, both different from that given at the last reference. Also a Latin version, be- ginning : " Exiguum hunc hortum fecit Jowettulus iste." One of the English versions had appeared in Blackwood 's Magazine, no reference given, authorship not known, " unless it originated with Porson, as was declared to xis by a Gentleman, in whose veracitv we have great confidence."
 * Facetia Cantabridgienses,' London, 1836,

J. T. F.

Winterton. Doncaster.

LIEUT. -GENERAL SHAKPE (12 S. v. 321). Hoddam Castle is in Cummertrus parish, Dumfries-shire, and is now the residence of Mr. E. J. Brook, whose father, I believe, acquired it from the Sharpe family.

Matthew Sharpe was born 1773 ; cornet 16th (the Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Feb. 18, 1791 ; lieutenant, Feb. 19, 1793 ; captain 26th (the Duke of York's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons Mar. 25, 1795; major, Feb.^27, 1796; lieutenant-

colonel, Aug. 5, 1799 ; colonel, Oct. 25, 1809 ;. on half-pay, Dec. 28, 1809 ; major-general,- Jan. 1, 1812 ; lieutenant-general, May 27,. 1 825. He served in all the earlier continental campaigns in Flanders, Holland, &c., up to his appointment as general officer. Under the Reform Bills of 1832 he was the first M.P. (Whig) for Dumfries Burghs, from 1832-41. He died 1845.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

There is no such place as Haddam Castle, co. Northumberland. Hoddam Castle is- intended. This ancient biiilding is beauti- fully situated on the south bank of the River - Annan, 1 mile from Ecclefechan, a village in the parish of Hoddam, Annandale, Dumfries- shire, and in 1826 is described as in excellent conditions, being then the residence of - Sharpe, Esq. (see the 18th ed. of Paterson's ' Road Book,' p. 230).

Jas. Finlay's 'Directory of Gentlemen's Seats, Villages, &c., in Scotland ' for 1843 gives Hoddam Castle as the residence of" General Sharpe, while the 1851 edition has Admiral Sharpe. Hoddam Castle does not occur in the 1862 edition, but in the 1868 edition (edited by N. W. Halliburton) the Castle is given as the residence of Wm. J. Sharpe.

Since writing the above I have looked up- ' The Scottish Nation,' by Wm. Anderson, 1863, and in vol. iii., pp. 445-6, find an interesting account of the Sharpes of" Hoddam. The full name of Lieut. -General Sharpe is General Matthew Sharpe. His ancestor John Sharpe purchased the estate and castle of Hoddam from the Earl of Southesk in 1690. The granduncle of the General was Matthew Sharpe of Hoddam who fought at Preston on the side of Prince Charles, and died in 1769, aged 76. The General was the eldest son of Charles Kirk- patrick (afterwards Chas. K. Sharpe, on succeeding to the estate of Hoddam), grandson of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, the second baronet of his line.

General Matthew Sharpe was M.P. for the Dumfries Burghs from 1832 to 1841. and was a Whig of extremely liberal politics. His mother was Eleanor, daughter of John Renton of Lamberton (not Lammerton as in Burke' s ' Peerage and Baronetage '), a lady whose- charms have been commemorated by Smollett in ' Humphry Clinker.' The father of the General matriculated from the University of Glasgow (see ' The Matricula- tion Albums,' 1728-1858, by W. Innes Addison, 1913) in 1762. and is there described

" filius unicus Gulielmi de Ellies Land in