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 NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. VJ. FEB., 1920.

with descriptions of these " Military Sports and Pastimes." This is illustrated by a woodcut depicting little pigs, dressed up, playing in school. The severest comment however is the cartoon (full-page), " Selling Out," in the same number. This represents a young officer in uniform, with "46" on his shoulder-belt, saying to a regular Bill Sykes I of a coster monger : " My good fellow, I think I shall sell out. Will you buy my com- mission ? Have it a bargain." To which the coster replies : " Why, thank' ee, obliged for the offer ; but the fact is, all my life I've been 'customed to the society of genTmen."

One result of the inquiry was that the 46th were delayed sailing for the Crimea, the regiment (with the exception of two companies) arriving too late to take part in the earlier operations of the campaign, including the battles of the Alma and Inkerman. T. F. D.

"Now THEN!" (12 S. v. 295). The " N.E.D." gives the following references :

c. 1000. Ags. Ps. (Thorpe), xxxiii. 8.

c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), iii. 1970 : Now thanne, yower puer blyssyng gravnt us tylle.

c. 1500. Melusine, 238 : Now thenne, noble cousyne, seace your wepyng-

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

The ' N.E.D.' describing this as frequent in modern use begins with a quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Psalter (c. 1000), the next instance given being from the ' Digby Mysteries ' (c. 1485). One is reminded of the governess who taught Latin conversa- tionally and was heard to exhort her pupils with "Nunc tune ! " EDWARD BENSLY.

[MR. A. R. BAYLEY and MB. N. W. HILL also thanked for replies.]

LEWKNOR FAMILY (12 S. v. 201). Pro- bably George Lewkner the Winchester scholar took the degree of M.D. at Padua, for he went there in the company of Fr. Robert Persons, S.J., in 1574, and afterwards became M.D. The Winchester Scholar and New College Fellow Luke Atslowe (brother to Edward Atslowe, M.D., as to whom see the ' D.N.B.') also went in their company to Padua, where he died in the following V ear (see Cath. Rec. Soc., ii. 23).

John Lewkenor was rector of Broadwater from 1521 to 1541.

One Nicholas Lewkenor, who may have been the Winchester Scholar of 1529, became rector of Rusper in 1560 and vicar of West- ham in 1574, being succeeded at Westham in 1585/6 and at Rusper in 1590.

There was a Thomas Lewkenor who was Vicar of Hamsey from 1563 to 1568/9, Probably this was the person of this nam who matriculated from Trinity College,. Cambridge, in 1557/8, and took the degree of B.A. in 1562/3.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

THE ANGLO - FRENCH ' DE SANCTIS ' : ST. BETHOTHE EN COPLAND (12 S. v. 281).. Under this designation seems to be concealed the name of the saint who has- given her name to the westernmost nead- land of Cumberland (St. Bees Head), to the little village which nestles at its foot (Kirkby Beacock or St. Bees) and to the 'eading public school in Cumberland. The name Begogh or Begoth is said by Dentcn to be Irish and to mean, little, young. The form Bega is the most common, and has prevailed at least from the date of the foundation of the priory early in the twelfth century.. Copland or Coupland is the great barony also called the barony of Egremont which extends from the Derwent to the Duddon along the Cumberland coast.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

YEARDYE FAMILY OF HUNTINGDON (12 S^ v. 209). This personal name is most likely derived from the surname Yard, or Yarde (from M.E. yerd, an enclosure), the terminal t/j being diminutive, as in Hickey. Bardsley traces the Yards back to the reign of Henry III., but the examples he quotes occur in parishes in the south of England.

N. W. HILL.

HIDDEN NAMES IN DEDICATIONS, &c., TO ELIZABETHAN BOOKS (12 S. vi. 10). The following works should be found useful : Henry Benjamin Wheatley, ' The Dedica- tions of Books,' cr. 8vo, 1887. Rudolf Graefenhain, ' De more libros dedicandi apud scriptores Graecos et Romanos obvio,' 8vo, 1892. H. G. HARRISON.

BISHOPS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY (12 S. iv. 330 ; v. 107, 161, 273). At the penultimate reference I stated that the succession of Irish bishops was very un- certain, and the See of Dromore seems to- furnish another instance of a disputed bishop, besides William who is stated to occur in 1491. This was John who as John Dromorens, Bishop (translated as John Bishop of Dromore) was Rector of St. Mary Somerset, London, from some time after 1415 to his death between April and June, 1433, He was also Rector of Stisted in.