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 12 S. VIII. MARCH 26, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 257 MAUGHFLING FAMILY (12 S. vii. 332). Ambrose Maughling of Newcastle-on-Tyne married c. 1720-30, Frances, daughter of ^William Crumlington, gentleman, of New- 'castle-on-Tyne, by his wife, Eleanor Blakiston. They were both dead in 1763, in which year was living their only son -George Maughfling. J. W. FAWCETT. Templetown House, Consett. INSCRIPTION ON CLARET JUG (12 S. viii. 211). This was probably sarcastic. John Perceval, the second Earl of Egmont, was said to have entertained a scheme as a young man of making himself King of the Jews. -See Walpole's ' Memoirs of the 'Reign of George II,' i. 35 n. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. MERIDIANS OF!LONDON AND OF GREEN- WICH (12 S. viii.' 209). The meridian of London is found first on Seller's maps (1676) and continued to be used until nearly the -end of the next century. It was only occasionally located as going through St. PaulLs Cathedral. Greenwich did not super- sede it until the end of the eighteenth -century. For a detailed account consult vSir George Fordham's paper on the ' Maps of Hertfordshire ' ( Transactions of the Herts. History Society, vol. xi. pt. 1, October, 1901, p. 9). Apparently Cory was the first to use the meridian of Greenwich in 1794. H. HANNEN. West Farleigh. RICHARD III. (12 S. viii. 169, 215). W. "Toone, in ' The Chronological Historian ' (third edn., 1834), vol. i. p. 110, says : " Richard left but one natural son, surnamed John of Gloucester, a minor, whom he had ^appointed governor of Calais, Guisnes, and all the marches of Picardy, and a natural daughter, named Catherine Plantagenet, who died young." JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. There is an interesting article with the above title, and dealing with the last of the Plantagenet kings and his natural children, by George Munford (of East Winch) in 'N. & Q.', Dec. 18, 1852 (pp. 583-4). His authorities include Peck's 'Desiderata 'Guriosa,' The Gentleman's Magazine (vol. xxxvii. pp. 344, 408, and vol. Ixii. p. 1106): Rymer's * Foedera ' (vol. xii. p. 215); Sandford's 'Genealogical History' (p. 335, edn. 1707) ; and the ' History of the "CJivil Wars between York and Lancaster : comprehending the Lives of Edward IV. and his Brother Richard III.,' by W. Whittingham, of Lynn in Norfolk (London, Baldwin, 1792). Another correspondent, 0. H. Cooper (of Cambridge) in the issue of Dec. 25, 1852, pp. 615-16) also states : " I have a poem by Mr. Hull entitled ' Richard Plantagenet, a Legendary Tale,' dedicated to David Garrick : printed at London, in quarto, without date, and containing eighty-one stanzas ; and, if my memory serves me, a novel called The Last of the Plant agenets ' (founded on the story or legend given in Peck's work) appeared about twenty years ago." ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. " COLLY MY Cow " (12 S. viii. 190, 238). The following explanation is taken from the ' English Dialect Dictionary ' : ' ' Colly : - a term of endearment for a cow . ' Goo an' fetch the collies whoam.' I have heard cows called by the words ' Colly, Colly, Colly.' Sing, oh, poor Colly, Colly, my cow,' Halliwell, ' Nursery Rhymes ' (1886), 86.] "Hence Colley - strawker, a milker, ' cow- stroker.' [Cp. Norw. dial; kolla, a cow without horns, frequently used as an element in the names of cows (Aasen) ; O.N. kolla, a cow, also a deer without horns.]" E. B. MILLER. William Salt Library, Stafford. GASTON DE Foix (12 S. viii. 211). The relationship between the two men of this name is given in the Grand Dictionnaire Larousse, and, better, in a table in Betham's 'Genealogical Tables,' 1795. If J. W. H. wishes I should be happy to send him a copy of the table. DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE. 49 Nevern Square, S.W.o. Catherine de Foix who married Jea,n d'Albret and was the great-grandmother of Henri IV. was the first cousin of Gaston de Foix who was killed at the battle of Ravenna. She was the daughter of Gaston, son of Gaston IV. Count of Foix and Eleonore, heiress of Navarre. The hero of Ravenna was the son of Jean, a younger son of Gaston IV. Their relationship to Gaston III. (1331-1391), the subject of G. H. Powell's ' A Gascon Tragedy ' in ' Excursions in Libraria,' was distant. When Gaston III. died childless, King Charles VT. granted his fief to Mathieu, comte de Castelbon. On Mathieu's death in 1398 his sister Isabella succeeded. She was the wife of Archam- baud de Grailly, and their grandson was Gaston IV., mentioned above. As for the connexion of Mathieu with the main line of the Counts de Foix, the state- ment in ' L'Art de verifier les dates ' is that he was " arriere-petit-fils " of Roger I., and