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 12 s. VIIL JUNE 18, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 489 either the history or the diary referred to ? A small private diary in two volumes of the 1st Earl of Anglesea, Arthur Annesley, here referred to, is in existence ; one volume being in the possession of General Sir Arthur Lyttelton-Annesley and the other in the British Museum, but this diary is merely a domestic one and cannot be described as a " Diary of his own Times." GERARD THARP, Lt.-Col. 4, Lancaster Gate Terrace, W.2. HERALDS' VISITATIONS. These visita- tions ceased in or about 1686. The reason was, according to my recollection, that the Court of King's Bench in that year refused to proceed against a person for using arms to which the Heralds' College alleged he was not entitled. Can any one say if my recol- lection is correct, and refer to the case or to some authority where it is mentioned ? C. A. COOK. COCKNEY PRONUNCIATION. I have been frequently puzzled over the difference be- tween the Cockney pronunciation occurring in Dickens' s novels and that which at present prevails among the same class in London. Can any one inform me as to how and when the one bagan to merge into the other ? KATHLEEN A. N. WARD. " MOBS HOLE." What is the meaning of this name ? There is a Mobs Hole in the parish of Wanstead, Essex, and there is a Mobs Hole marked on Bryant's Map of Bedfordshire, 1825. It is actually in the parish of Ashwell, Herts. Both are in low -lying ground, and both near a river. Is it from the surname Mobbs ? CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 204, Hermon Hill, Wanstead. HAIR-BRUSHES. Combs are ancient, but when were hair-brushes first commonly used ? B. B. ROYAL SUCCESSION BY MARRIAGE TO LAST KING'S WIDOW. I have mislaid a reference to this custom in a work written fairly recently. The writer also said that Mr. H. M. Chadwick (author of ' The Heroic Age,' &c.) was investigating the Scandina- vian evidence for the custom, which is of course exemplified in ' Hamlet.' Could any reader of ' N. & Q.' give the reference and also say if Mr. Chadwick has published anything on this subject since about 1915 ? H. A. ROSE. Milton House, La Haule, Jersey. HICKS' s MS. HISTORY OF ST. IVES, CORNWALL. Nicholas Harris Nicolas, the antiquary, who died in 1848, seems to have been the possessor of Alderman John Hicks's MS. History of St. Ives (Cornwall). He lent it to Chas. Landor Gilbert, author of ' A History of Cornwall ' (1820). Since then this MS. has vanished. The late Sir Edward Hain made great efforts to trace it but failed, and I am now making a further attempt through the readers of ' N. & Q.' The Rev. Dr. Cornelius Cardew, who was rector of Lelant and St. Ives in 1782, made extracts from it, and the location of ' Cardew' s Extracts J is also asked for. Who are the present representatives of N. H. Nicolas ? He had at least two sons; one, N. H. Nicolas, was in the Ex- chequer and Audit Department; and another, the Rev. Percy Nicolas, was senior chaplain at Calcutta. It is possible that this MS. may be in the care of their children or in that of their nephews. J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B. Bradford. SWINDON : " DAMAS." In the oldest part of Swindon, Wilts, leading from the Market Square to the grounds of the Manor House is a lane called " Damas." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give a clue to the origin of this word ? I have some old deeds relating to property in this lane, in which there are frequent allusions to garden ground and fruit-trees. Can the word be derived from damson or from Damascus ? I have never been able to obtain any information locally that throws any light on the origin of this word. H. W. REYNOLDS. PETER BECKFORD, author of * Thoughts upon Hare and Fox Hunting,' is described in the 'D.N.B.' iv. 79, as a Master of Fox- hounds. I should be glad to learn the name of the pack which he'hunted, and the period of his mastership. G. F. R. B. CHRISTOPHER MILLES, Chief Justice of Senegambia, died at Madeira, Oct. 22, 1771. When and where was he called to the Bar ? When was he appointed Chief Justice ? G. F. R. B. " SINGLE WHISKEY." What is the mean- ing of this expression. I have a glass de- canter with the words engraved on it, and have never been able to learn what they mean. FRIDZWEDE BERNEY.