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 110 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. AUG. 7, 1920. to these peoples by themselves or to be explicable from Teutonic sources. A view widely held is that it was the name given by the Gauls to their neighbours ; the Celtic derivations suggested are from Olr. cfair, neighbour (Zeuss), and from Irish qairm battlecry (Wachter, Grimm)." Tacitus, however, says ('Germania, 2,') that the people who first crossed the Rhine and expelled the Gauls, assumed the title of Germans ** in order to excite terror," and that this name was afterwards adopted by the nation in general. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. BE AD ON FAMILY. I shall be much obliged for information about Edward N. Beadon who in 1854 was curate of Milton near Sittingbourne, Kent. The Clergy Lists of that date do not give his University or other particulars. H. C. BARNARD. The Warren, Burnham, Somerset. PANNIER MARKET. An advertisement in The Launceston Weekly News of July 31, announces that the Town Council of the Borough of Dunheved, otherwise Launceston, has transferred to another site the Pannier and Vegetable Markets. What other pan- nier markets exist under this name ? DUNHEVED. ANCIENT HISTORY OF ASSAM. Where can information be found regarding the ancient history of Assam of the Koch, Kachari, and Chutiya peoples and the early days of the Ahom (Tai) race, conquerors of Assam ; also of the ancient ruined Cities covered with the densest forest, of which traces are to be seen in the Sadiya district, east of Dibrugarh, and which Colonel Hannay was the first Englishman to visit and des- cribe, in The Asiatic Quarterly of 1848. J. S. 'WANDSWORTH IN 1790.' What is the origin of this view reproduced in ' Old and New London,' vi. p. 481. J. ARDAGH. JOHN DAVIDSON : THE VALE AT LONG PITTON. The late John Davidson in his Once in June Upstream I went to hear the summer tune Ihe birds sing at Long Ditton in a vale bacred to him who wrote his own heart's tale Long Ditton k, I take it, the Thames-side village almost opposite Hampton Court. To whom did the poet refer ? J. R. H. HAMILTONS AT HOLYROOD. Can some reader please state what was the relationship of Margaret Hamilton, daughter of a Coimt Hamilton (holder of a French or Swedish peerage) to the Douglas ; Hamiltons, Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon, by virtue of which connexion she occupied apartments at Holyrood, of which the dukes are Hereditary Keepers ? She lived there for some period between 1800 and 1850. QUERIST. FAMILY OF HAGAR OF BOURN HALL. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. A pedigree of a younger branch of this family, which had settled in Hertford, was recorded in the College of Arms in 1841. Can any reader supply in- formation regarding the elder branch, after 1670, or the ancestry of the Rev. George Hagar, who is stated in Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage ' (under Kemp of Gissing Hall, Barts.) to have been heir male and representative of this family ? C. CLARKSON SHAW (Capt.) The Citadel, Quebec. BARR. Is anything known such as arms, &c., of the two following : 1. Henry, Earl of Barr, who married Eleanor, sixth child of Edward I. 2. The Duke of Baar (? Barr) who married as third husband Blanche, fifth child of Henry IV., and widow of Lewis of Bavaria, and of the King of Arragon. A family of Barr is believed to have originated at Barr-head, Ayrshire. There is extant a portrait of a Lady Isabella Barr ; can she be identified ? H. R. POPHAM BAKER. 77, Accrington Road, Blackburn. DOROTHY STANLEY of the parish of Over, co. Chester, married at Plempstall, Aug. 25, 1670, to John Coddington of Hoole, co. Chester. She was buried at Plempstall, Feb. 13, 1731-2 (?) From what family was she ? BARTLETT. FRENCH TITLES. In Martin's 'Histoire de France depuis 1780 ' (vol. iv. p. 256), there occurs the following passage : "II poussa M. de Richelieu a donner sa demis- sion, ce qui en train a tout le ministere & en faire autant. Cette manoeuvre parut d'abord r^ussir ; le roi effraye de la retraite du due de Richelieu, le COD jura de rester " Is it correct to call one and the same person Monsieur or Due ? Martin is writing about the events of the year 1818.. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG.
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