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 308 NOTES AND QUERIES. Elisander ffairebanck was buried the xvtk of September 1603. Mary ffairebanck daughter of Edw : ffairbanck was baptized the xth or xith of October 1591. Edward ffairebanck died upon daie in the morning between 4 & 5 of the clock, 1594, at wch time Mr Bretterton (?) of Windespr preached upon the viith of Luke xitti verse at the request of his loving mother. Ellen Haile late wiefe of the said Edward ffairebanck my father and mother departed this Liefe uppon Satturdaie the ivth of March, 1611, betweene ix and x of the clock in the forenoone and was buried the daie following a stranger preaching upon the xiith of the Rom. i verse. Edward ffairebanck the (my uncle) of Kingeston scriptor died upon Fridaie 16tb of February 1615 between 4 and 5 of the clock in thafternoone and was buried on Sonday following the 18th of the same at his fun'all Mr Becket vicar of Kingeston preached upon the ixth of Hebrues the last verse. ERSKINE E. WEST. Shoyswell, Highfield Road, Dublin. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. THE DEATH OF WILLIAM RUFUS. Can any reader give me chapter and verse relating to the tradition of William Rufus's death in the New Forest ? I am anxious to re- examine the evidence for this having taken place at the spot now pointed out. References to first-hand authorities only, or to concise summaries with references, are required. O. G. S. CRAWFORD. Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. BANQUO. What was the nationality of this thane, who, according to the Shake- speare drama, was in the line of succession to the Crown on Duncan's death ? Hollinshed spells the name Banqu-ho, but does not thereby throw more light on the point. The termination ' o ' is as rare in Scotland as it is common in Cornwall, both to names and places. But whereas Thurso in Scotland and Tromsoe in Norway alike connect the place with an island, Truro in the south would hardly be so described. Does any trace of Banquo's name or of his son's, Fleance, remain in Scotland, unless by some miracle ' Banchory ' on the Don may be associated with Macbeth' s rival and victim ? L. G. R. Bournemouth. JOHN PYM (The Parliamentary States- man). Can any correspondent say if he ever lived at Little Wymondley House, near Stevenage, the present owner having been told that Pym once lived in it ? E. E. LEGGATT. 62, Cheapside, E.C. CAREW FAMILY OF BEDDINGTON, SURREY, BART. I should be very grateful if any one could tell me the name of the family repre- sented in the fourth quartering in the small book-plate of Sir Nicholas Carew, Bart., of Beddington, Surrey, namely, Quarterly, sable and argent. LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell, Surrey. PATRICIUS WALKER : " JUAN DE VEGA." Can any reader tell me anything of the i following : 1. Patricius Walker, aiithor of a book of ' Rambles,' published by Longman, 1873, containing some interesting notes on Cobbctt, Barnes, Gilpiri, &c. 2. "An English Gentleman," who adopted the name of Juan de Vega and the dress of a Spanish minstrel, and toured with a guitar the towns of Southern England and Ireland I in 1828-9. His Journal was published by PRESCOTT Row. " WARE THE BAG." In the 14th Report , Part IV., of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1894, the manuscripts of Lord Kenyon are dealt with, and at No. 1 195, June 14th, 1725, there is an extract from a letter, dated from Leigh, to George Kenyon from i Thomas Gelly brand, in which he says :- " I make bould to retorn you thanks for your former kiimess to me and my poor wife, who continus in a wacke condishen, in so much that she is not abell to help her selef, without one or j two to help her, and the town will not do nothing i towards her relife, unless she and I will ware the bag, which she is unwilling." What is the meaning of " ware the bag " ? ! Is it a misspelling of " badge," as the letter is so it will prove an extended answer to your correspondents at 12 S. vi. 230 and 301, where " Parish mark " is discussed, the former dealing with a Somerset Book of Workhouse Accounts in which doles are recorded to persons if they will wear the mark, or parish mark, and the latter with extracts from a William and Mary Statute which compels persons in receipt of parish relief to wear a badge. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
 * Simpkin Marshall in 1830 in two volumes.
 * is clearly from an illiterate person. If this