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following counties : Beds, Berks, Cambridge, Glos, Herts, Hunts, Leics, Northampton, Oxford, Rutland, Salop, Warwick and Worcester.

The list, being a complete Directory of males is of the greatest interest and value to the genealogist.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

HERALDIC. In the county of Durham one or more instances occur, of coats of arms upon memorial tombs having one corner of the shield charged with inter- laced links. What significance would these links have ? A. E. OUGHTRED.

Scagglethorpe, Malton,

throw any light on the above review, pub- lished in London ? From 1822 onwards for several years articles appeared in it by the French writer Stendhal (Henri Beyle). I have been unable to trace either the review or its editor Stritch. DORIS GUNNELL.
 * THE GERMAN REVIEW. ' Can any reader

The University, Leeds.

FRIDAY STREET. (See 10 S. x. 129.)- No answer seems to have been given to this query, and I should be glad to know the probable origin of this name for streets. There is a Friday Street in Cheapside, and others occur 4 miles N.E. of Woodbridge, Suffolk ; 3| miles S.W. of Dorking ; 4 miles N. of Horsham : 5 miles N.N.E. of Cbippen- ham : 3 miles N.N.E. Eastbourne, and there are many more.

(Rev.) ETHELBERT HORNE.

Louis NAPOLEON : POETIC WORKS. 'The Poetic Works of Louis Napoleon, now first done into plain English.' London, David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, 1852. Illus- trated. Can any reader explain the origin of this little book ? CLEMENT SHORTER.

Gozzi AND TRAGIC SITUATIONS. One reads from time to time that Carlo Gozzi declared that there can be only thirty-six situations utilisable for the purposes ol tragedy. Where does he make this de claration ? Does he anywhere tabulate these situations ? Through the courteous assistance of Prof. C. H. Grandgent of of Harvard University, 1 learn that George? Pplti in a small volume, ' Les Trente-six Situations Dramatiques ' (Mercure de France 1895) mentions Gozzi initially, withou comment or even specification, and proceed to furnish thirty-six situations of his own. PAUL T. LAFLEUR.

McGill University, Montreal.

BALLARD. John Toft Ballard, and Martin Ballard were admitted to Westminster School, Apr. 29, 1775. Another Ballard without a Christian name appears in a School List for 1764. Any information ,bout these Ballards would be of use.

G. F. R. B.

COLBAN, EARL OF FIFE. Who was his nother and who was his wife ? His father, Malcolm, Earl of Fife (1228-66) appears to ave had three wives. By the first and robably divorced wife he had issue Macduff ; y the second he had Colban, his heir and successor ; by the third and only named wife, Helen, daughter of Llewelyn ap Griffith, Prince of Wales, he does not appear have had issue.

Colban's wife was named Anne. She was )robably one of the three daughters of Alan Durward (Douglas, 'Scots Peerage ').

L. G.

CODDINGTON : ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

Where will one find a copy of an English dictionary, edited and printed by William ^oddington of Chester, date not known ? He published in 1799 an edition of the 'Life of J. Bruen,' by William Hindle, which is in the British Museum.

C. B. A.

BAPTISM OF INFANT ON ITS MOTHER'S COFFIN. On Apr. 17, 1920 this appeared in The Daily Chronicle :

At the funeral of Madame May Roberts, the South Wales contralto, her six-months old child was christened over the coffin."

In the ' Newton Longville Register ' (Bucks) five entries like the following appear during the eighteenth century :

IS.'Oct. 1749 John son of John and Ann Chilton, yeoman, baptised on his mother's coffin.

18 Oct. 1749 Ann wife of John Chilton buried.

Is this baptismal custom met with else- where, and is it still observed anywhere ? Is any particular reason associated with the practice ? It is not now in use at Newton Longville. W. BRADBROOK.

Bletchley.

GERVASE DE CORNHILL. In Dr. Horace Round's 'Geoffrey de Mandeville,' Appen- dix K, it is shown that Gervase was son of Roger "nepos Huberti," Sheriff of London, 1125, but no suggestion is made as to which of several prominent Huberts of the age may have been the uncle (or grandfather) of the Sheriff. This remarkable pedigree is based on the descent of the (Kentish) Manor of Chalk where we find in Domesday, Adam