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 332 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.vin.APim.23, 1021. Marten Lindsay of Charlton, brother of Perhaps some Continental Catholic cor- James Lindsay of Merton in Surrey, respondent of * N. & Q.' could say where Merchant, London. The General Register information respecting the Gravelin.es part of Sasines describes William Scott as might be obtained. As Browne was in " Chirurgeon in Classe Britannica, the line of succession to the extinct Viscount y Royal Navy. " Can any reader with a of Montagu, for which at different times knowledge of naval records give particulars there have been claimants, (though the of this William Scott, especially regarding question is not of interest to me in that his parentage, marriage and issue, if any, direction), the pedigree may have been or say where such particulars are likely to fully worked out. The parish registers be obtained ? These lands were later of Kiddington do not give any informa- in possession of John Scott of St. Mildred's tion. G. B. M. Court, London, and of Rockhills and Penge REPEBEXCE WANTED. I am desirous of finding Place, Kent, whose parentage is also sought ; a passage in Burke running somewhat as follows : lie was born about 1763, married Ruth " Fables made up by the knaves of one generation Lovelace and had issue, and died in Paris to deceive the fools of the next.'' . . . Can in 1828. C. CLABKSON SHAW, Capt. an ^ reader of * & Q- assist INQUIRER. The Citadel, Quebec. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED :, , " Yet to the remnants of thy splendour past, THE THAMES RUNNING DRY. [ am asked shall pi i grims pensive but unwearied throng." to inquire from ' N & Q.' as to the follow- L.B. ing statement : " Years ago after a very long and very dry i&ttlt& summer it was possible to cross the Thames on foot from some place not far from London." ROSE-COLOURED VESTMENTS ON Where could this have been and in MOTHERING SUNDAY, what year ? C. DE BEAUFORT. Radnor Club, Folkestone. (12 S. viii. 249, 296.) ,, r, T T /m. r> g 4.1- I DO not think that Mr. Bumpus's account is . < * K *J"ftS - Bazaar for / quite accurate. After stating that dalmatics 1st, 8th, and 15th mst has appeared an pose colour uged Qn M f d. Lent Sund interesting article on Metal and Enamel i Bottle-Labels. The writer suggests that ', these first m ade i for f the flack glass ; ^ISfJ^ *Z^ tuT bottles which superseded the named Lam- being festal garments, and ministered in the beth delft bottles, which ceased to be made planeta, or folded chasuble, or in their albs. On about 1660. There is a list of over 150 the Third Sunday in Advent and the Fourth names found on labels from which I cull Sunday in Lent the dalmatic and tunicle weiv the following : Boal, Camp, Casses, Cercial res med for the da f on ^ (and Sercial), Frontignac, Leo villa Lunel, This would imply that only the epistoler Mischanza, Rota, Sietges, Termo, Tinta, and gospeller wore rose-coloured vestments and Vin de Vierge. Perhaps some of your on tho f e Sundays ; but the priest wears a readers versed in wine lore can give the rose-coloured chasuble and m poor churches, locale of these wines. J. C. ]T hlch cannot afford the, ful1 fV ha seei { the priest in a rose-coloured chasuble and BROWNE FAMILY OF KIDDINGTON, the assistant ministers in albs, with rose- OXON. Burke, in his ' Extinct Baronet- coloured stoles and maniples, or even with age,' states that Sir Henry Browne of the red dalmatic, and tunicle of another Kiddington married, first, Anne, daughter set. of Sir William Catesby, of Ashby St. Ledgers, j The attempt to connect this usage with the by whom he had two daughters, who be- ceremony of the blessing of the Golden Rose came nuns at Gravelines. But Burke (Father Thurston, quoted by MR. WAINE- gives the name of Browne's second wife | WRIGHT at ante. 296) seems to me hope- as Mary, when she is named Elizabeth in | lessly far-fetched. I imagine that it arose his will. Is the year of Anne Lady Browne's ! from an attempt to represent in liturgical death or the names and ages of those | form the character of the mass-lessons for the daughters known ? She was not married days which are cheerful compared with at the date of the marriage settlement, on | the sad seasons in which they occur, and in March 2, 1591/2, of her brother, Robert! which these Sundays form a period of re- Catesby, the Gunpowder Plot conspirator, freshment and relaxation.