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 516 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i 2 s.vm. JUNE 25, 1921. OLIVE SCHREINER (12 S. viii. 469). | The Annual Register, 1920, says she was born in Basutoland in 1859 ; * The American ' I says about 1860 ; " The New International Encyclopaedia/ 1862 ; ' Chambers's Ency- clopaedia of English Literature,' about j 1865; 'Who's Who,' early 'sixties; La- 1 rousse,' about 1862 ; and ' The Encyclo- j paedia Britannica ' says she issued ' The | Story of an African Farm ' in her teens. This book was published in Feb. 1883, when : she was a '' little over 20 years of age " (The Times, Dec. 13, 1920), under the! pseudonym of Ralph Iron. She wes a daughter of a Lutheran Missionary of German family in the service of the London Missionary Society ; her mother was a Londoner named Rebecca Lyndall. She married in 1894 Mr. S. C. Cronwright, and; had much sympathy with the Cape Dutch j and their grievances during the Boer War. I She lived at De Aar, Cape Colony, and died in South Africa on Dec. 11, 1920. ARCHIBALD SPARSE. " AUSTER " LAND TENURE (12 S. viii. j 109, 192, 233). Rutter says that " a tithing in Lympsham, Somerset, was anciently t named Austertown, a name descriptive ; of the tenure by which the property was ! held." THOS. G. SIMMONDS. Congresbury. VISCOUNT STAFFORD, 1680 (12 S. viii. 409, ' 454, 478, 497). On looking again at J. E. | (not J. A., as I wrote by mistake at p. 454) Doyle's ' Official Baronage,' I see that his description of Viscount Stafford's wife as daughter of Edward, 20th Baron Stafford, must be a pure slip, as her true relationship may be gathered from previous articles in the same book. That her brother is called sometimes 5th Baron and sometimes 21st is no doubt due to Henry Stafford (1501-; 1563), son of the Duke of Buckingham who ; was beheaded in 1521, having been declared! to be Baron Stafford by a new creation, ! when Edward VI.'s first parliament passed an Act for his restoration in blood. EDWARD BENSLY. " GOOD OLD " (12 S. viii. 468). A much earlier example of this can be quoted. The ' N.E.D.' gives as a colloquial use, under the date circa 1440, " Gode olde fyghtyng/' See vol. vii., p. 97, column 3, s.v. " Old." EDWARD BENSLY. JAMES MACBURNEY (12 S. viii. 431, 474). To the place of James Macburney's birth, given at the latter reference, the date has still to be added. Several writers about the Burneys make a point, as Goldsmith would have said, of omitting to mention this. But, according to Mrs. Raine Ellis, in her Preface to the ' Early Diary of Frances Burney ' (1889), James Macburney the younger, Madame d'Arblay's grand- father, was born in 1678. On the question of a Scottish or Irish ancestry, Mrs. Ellis writes' that a family tradition brings the Burneys from Scotland with James I. EDWARD BENSLY. S. E. THRUM (12 S. viii. 469). Mr. J. A. Jacob, the hon. curator of Sandwich Records, has kindly supplied the information which enables me to answer MR. G. D. JOHNSTON'S question. Mrs. Clara Elizabeth Thrum, who resided at No. 2 Battery, had been to Sandwich shopping. . Whilst returning home she was overtaken by a snow-storm and perished from exposure. The parish register records the date of Mrs. Thrum's burial as Dec. 8, therefore the- death must have occurred previous to Dec. 11. She was 48 years of age. I have been unable to find any account of the disaster in The Kentish Gazette for 1849. W. J. M. OLD LONDON : THE CLOTH FAIR (12 S. viii. 310, 353, 435, 477). At the last reference MR. SETON- ANDERSON rightly points out my omission of the word " asking " from his reply. This was not intentional, but I readily express my regret for thus misquoting him. The objection was not so mueh to the words of the explanation cited as to their source and the superfluous derision conveyed. A work of fiction and Rodwell's ' Old London Bridge ' only claims to be a romance is not a good source for historic facts, and his allusion to Rahere's history and achievements is at least undesirable. My principal regret _ is that it has been accepted above its face value by our esteemed contributor MR. J. SETON-ANDERSOX. ALECK ABRAHAMS. ARMS OF ELLINGHAM (12 S. viii. 391). As given in Burke's ' General Armory ' these are : Per chevron, sable and gules, three falcons' heads erased argent beaked or. LEONARD C. PRICE.