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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. vi. MAY 29, 1920.

" SOLUTE." The earliest instance in the meaning " the substance dissolved in a solution " is dated 1904. It is to be found however, ten years earlier, as the heading to a letter printed in Nature (Dec. 27, 1894, p. 200) over the name of F. G. Donnan, in which the writer urges that " corresponding to the words ' solvent ' and ' solution ' some word is very badly wanted to express ' the dissolved substance.' The analogous word is evidently ' solute,' and it is as short and euphonious as the others."
 * N.E.D.' of this word used as a substantive

This is a good example of conscious and successful word -making W. PERRETT. University College, Gower Street.

We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direo*.

ROYAL ARMS FOR VILLAGE WAR MEMORIAL The inhabitants of the village to which I belong propose to erect a memorial of those belonging to the parish, who fell in the great War, to consist of marble panels inscribed with their names ; and it is proposed to place these panels upon a tower which stands at the head of the village. Would it be illegal to place the royal arms of England, that is, the arms of Charles I. which I have, in freestone above these panels ?

Surmounting the coat of arms referred to, there is a small half -size figure of Charles I., about 18 inches. My old Castle Killyleagh, co. Down, resisted a siege by one of Crom- well's generals, and we were permitted to put the royal arms over our hall-door ever after. The tower I allude to is a flanking tower of our courtyard, and belongs to the castle. I have the very old coat of arms and. a modern replica. G. R. H.

PORTRAIT OF THE " DUKE OF PENT- WEZEL." This is the title of a small oil painting on copper (7 in. by 6 in.) which was purchased at the third' day's sale at Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, on Saturday, Aug. 7, 1897, by W. Cole Plew- right (the last name is not very clearly written on the back of the frame) and has just come into my possession.

The wig and cravat are early eighteenth century in style, and the gilt 'frame is of

the same date. The lower portion of the wig on the left rests on the back of the left shoulder and a red cloak covers the left arm. The background is blue and the outside edges represent a dark oval frame. The portrait is almost full face, there is a slight turn to the left of the sitter.

I shall be grateful for any information as to the subject or artist. It has been sug- gested that it is a reproduction from a larger picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller.

A. P. A.

9 Walpole Street, Chelsea, S. W.3.

WATER COURTS. The undersigned would welcome a reply direct from any one who- has any information on the above Courts, which were in the early seventeenth century local Courts having jurisdiction in Ad- miralty matters, and, it is believed, functions such as are now carried on by the Trinity House. Reference number of documents at Record Office, or in other places, will be useful. The immediate purpose of the inquiry concerns a Water Court held in the neighbourhood of Topsham, on the Exe.

H. WILSON HOLMAN, F.S.A.

" Furlong," Topsham, Devon.

WILLIAM WRIGHT, third son of Hus- thwaite Wright of the Market Rasen family, by Margaret, dau. and co-heir of Lyon Skip- with of Walmsgate, living 1634, had a dau. Margaret who married Philip Laycock and became mother of Anne Laycock (b. Jan. 2, bapt. Jan. 10, 1682, d. Sept. 27, and bur. Oct. 16, 1718), who married (Aug. 19, 1708) John Story of East Stoke, co. Notts (bapt. July 22, 1686, d. Mar. 5, 1769), William Wright lived at Edingley, co. Notts. Who was his wife ? H. PnuE-GoRDON.

20 Warwick Gardens, Kensington, W.14.

IDENTIFICATION OF ARMS SOUGHT. Cart any one identify the following arms ? They occur on a pier glass some two hundred years old. Field uncertain (?Arg), three- boars' heads couped 2 and 1, impaling field semee of Latin crosses, three greyhounds at speed in pale, a canton charged with a lion passant. Crest, lion statant on trunk of tree recumbent and leaved.

A. G. KEALY.

CAROLINE ROBERT HERBERT, LL.B., was- rector of Iden in Sussex from 1786 to 1787. Is anything more known of him ? Is not the first Christian name Caroline rather singular ? Are any other instances known

J. W. F.