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 470 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL JUNE 11,1921. ray who wrote ' Two Summers in the Pyrenees ' (2nd ed., 1837) ? F. LUCAS BENHAM, M.D. WBINGING THE HANDS. A well-known sonnet of D. G. Rossetti begins : Rend, rend thine hair. Cassandra, he will go. Yea, rend thy garments, wring thine hands. The tearing of the hair and of the garments are ancient modes of signifying grief ; but, so far as I am aware, the wringing of the hands is not. One knows it, of course, from the famous pun of Sir Robert Wai- pole, " They are ringing the bells now ; but they will be wringing their hands soon." But how far does it go back and what is the raison d'etre of the action ? SHBEWSBEBBY HALL. In the ' Catalogue of Inhabitants of the Several Parishes in London,' A.D. 1638, Lambeth Palace Library, MS. 272, under heading of St. Michaell Bassishaw (Basinghall Street), appears the following : " Shrewsberry hall, and a Cellar Usually Lett, Tithe now paid, 0.0.0, The Moderate Rent, 15 . . 0." I shall be glad to know the origin of the above name. Had it anything to do with the Earl of Shrewsbury ? In the list, made May 21, 1638, of the inhabitants of the parish of " St. Andrew Holborne," he is given as the inhabitant of a house of which the " Moderate Rent " was 50, and the " Tyth paid," 2. 13 . 4. He would, of course, be John, 10th Earl, who succeeded his uncle in 1630. HEBBEBT SOUTHAM. ALBEBT SMITH'S ' STOBY OF MONT BLANC,' 1st ed. 1853, 2nd ed. 1854, both pub- lished by David Bogue. In the second edition there is some slight substitution of the illustrations, but in the main the wood- cuts are intended to be identical with those of the previous edition ; and at a first glance no difference is apparent. On closer inspec- tion, however, the details especially the i 326, his first wife was Anne, or Amy, O'Mear a arrangement of the lines of engraving i f Lisany, Tipperary, by whom he had are exactly similar in only a very few ; ! several sons and daughters. I should be in others there is, at any rate, considerable g la d to know where I could find further alteration, and the rest seem to be altogether ; particulars of his family, the date of the _ j 1_ _ 1 1 --n4- ,,4-C^ ,-, --I ^,-, 4-"U J 4-l~ A * "U-IsM Cambridge. J. P. POSTGATE. MILNEB. Robert Milner was admitted to Westminster School in May, 1778, Thomas Milner in Sept. 1772, and William Milner in July, 1784. I am desirous of ascertain- ing the parentage of these three Milners. G. F/R. B. MEILEB MAGBATH, ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL. According to the ' D.N.B.,' xxxv. new though close copies. Is any reason known why the wood- blocks should have required to be re-cut or replaced in this particular case ? F. LUCAS BENHAM, M.D. ' MUBBAY'S EXPEDITION TO BOBNEO ' is the title of a small pamphlet by W. Cave Thomas, F.S.S., edited by Temple Orme, published by Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, first wife's death, second wife. and the name of his G. F. R. B. ROBEBT MUSTEBS was admitted to West- minster School in July, 1720, aged eight. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q ' help me to identify him ? G. F. R. B. IDENTIFICATION OF ABMS. Per fess a pale countercharged between three swans INQTJIBEB. HACKNEY. Hackney in London has been said to have a Danish origin, dating to times price 4d. ; "it is most likely now 'out of ! ducall y g or ed and chained, print and unprocurable. It describes a romantic and rather wild attempt by the Hon. Erskine Murray, with a few followers, to found a settlement on the coast of i when these Northmen came up the Lea -and Borneo, somewhat after the example of ' a Hacon landed on an island, " ey," hence Rajah Brooke, in 1843-4. Unfortunately Hacon's " ey," Hackney. This explana- the leader was killed in an encounter with i tion is not well received by the authorities, the natives ; the expedition therefore Now there is another Hackney in England failed and the rest of the party returned. a * Matlock and should this meet the eye of As far as I know, this is the only published a Hackneyite of that place any knowledge account of the expedition. Murray's name possessed by him as to the origin of Hackney is not mentioned in the ' D.N.B.' Was he, as j at Matlock would be much appreciated. I presume he was, the Hon. Jas. Erskine Mur- ! WILLIAM R. POWEB.