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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vn. OCT. 23,1920.

by the Earl of Banbury. Did this gentle- man occupy any position on the staff of the Duke of Wellington ? The papers in question are not sorted or docketed.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

REMINGTON. Can any reader supply information regarding the descendants of the Rev. William Remington of St. Michael's, Lichfield,and/or of his brother Rev. Edward Simeon Remington of the same church.

They were sons of the Rev. Danield William Remington, subchanter of Lichfield Cathedral and vicar of St. Mary's, Lichfield, and Mary his wife. The Rev. William died June 26, 1826, aged 70, and a tablet to the memory of his father, mother and himself is still to be. found in the Cathedral.

Similar information is requested regarding the Rev. Richard Remington, vicar of Quernmore, Lancaster, in 1843, and /or of his brother the Rev. Thomas Remington, chaplain to the Earl of Burlington in the same year.

They were sons of Richard Remington, Capt. (half pay) 86th Regt., who died 1797, and his second wife Anne who remarried Capt. Richard Kentish of Cambridge Militia, 1799. A. C. REMINGTON.

73 Gravelly Hill North, Erdington, Birmingham.

"AT 'OME." Among the many " idiot - isms " of cultured English, one of the oddest is that which imposes on a person who would be shocked if asked whether he was going 'ome the duty of saying that Mrs. X. " was at 'ome on Sunday afternoon," that " her at 'ome was a very agreeable one."

I don't think the officials of the House of Commons ('umble as it may be see ante 170, 195, 236, 277) call out: "Who goes 'ome ? " When and why did we start to save our breath in this single collocation of the word "home " ? Q. V.

DR. JOHNSON : G. A. SALA. In ' The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala, written by Himself,' 1894, chan. Hi., it is said of St. Paul's Cathedral, "Dr. John- son likened it to a ' sundial in a grave, ' ' for gloominess. The index volume of Dr. Birkbeck Hill's ' Boswell's Life ' gives no clue to the expression, which may be as apochryphal on his part as was the invention by him of "And now, Sir," said Dr. Johnson, " we will take a walk down Fleet Street," as the motto for Temple Bar Magazine in 1860, of which he made a clean breast in chap, xxxii. of the same autobio- graphy. W. B. H.

QUARR ABBEY : FOUNDATION CHARTER. The abbey, one of the earliest settlements of Cistercians in England, was founded in- 1131-2 by Baldwin de Redvers, during the- lifetime of his father.

I shall be very grateful to any reader of ' N. & Q. ' who can supply me with a list of witnesses to the charter. Isle of Wight histories are all alike silent in giving the particulars in question.

JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D. Ventnor.

MAUGHFLING FAMILY. Any information, relating to this family would be much, appreciated by the undersigned. I am. particularly anxious to ascertain the- parentage and ancestry of Thomas Maugh- fling of Rotherhithe, Surrey, whose will* dated 1785, was proved in 1791. He was afterwards of St. Paul's, Shadwell, Middlesex. Was he descended from the Maughling family of Newcastle? Burke's 'Landed Gentry ' in the Cramlington pedigree shows that Lancelot Cramlington (died 1602) had a great-granddaughter, Frances Cramlington, who married Ambrose Maughling of New- castle. In more recent times members of the family were on the livery of the Cooper's Company, London. Any references to the name would be of interest.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

204 Hermon Hill, South Woodford.

INSCRIPTION ON BELL. One of the Win- chester College bells, upon being recast by John Wallis, of Salisbury, in 1593, was inscribed :

Cselestes audite mortales sonos.

This seems to be a quotation, possibly taken from a Latin hymn. I should be glad to learn its source. H. C.

GRAY FAMILY.- -Particulars concerning the clerical family of Grays are required,, chiefly between 1780 and 1850. Have they any family connexion with the Grays of Northumberland. HAYDN T. GILES.

11 Ravensbourne Terrace, South Shields.

' BUDEUS. In Chalmers's 'Biographical' Dictionary,' 1813, vol. vii. p. 245, we are told that Budeus complains in his book hours' study on his wedding day. Wilk some one kindly oblige with the Latin words used ? They do not appear to be in the preface of the edition of 1516.
 * De Asse ' that he had not more than six

S. J. COTTERELL. John Bright Street, Birmingham.