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 12 s. ix. AUG. is, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 133 the Queen. It is between the Archbishops' and the Bishops' benches. Written in pencil in my copy of the Kingston trial is " Sir George Xayler's copy with an extra drawing inserted by Sir George." George Nayler was appointed York Herald in or about 1795. There can be little doubt that Sir George was the former owner. ROBERT PIERPOINT. WILD-CAT SCHEME (12 S. ix. 11). The following appears in ' A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English,' abridged from ' Slang and its Analogues,' by John S. Farmer and W. E. Henley, 1912 : A bank in Michigan had a large vignette on its notes representing a panther, familiarly called a wild-cat. This bank failed, a large amount of its notes were in circulation, which were denomi- nated wild-cat money, and the bank issuing them the wild-cat bank. Other banks stopped payment soon after, and the term became general in Michigan to denote banking institutions of an unsound character. This is apparently quoted from John R. Bartlett's ' Dictionary of American Words and Phrases ' (ed. of 1877); it may be that the original (1848) edition of Bartlett con- tained the passage. Farmer and Henley add, concerning the quotation : " Hence wild-cat currency, schemes, etc. (1842)." In Barrere and Leland's ' Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant,' 1890, appears : Wild-cat villages (American), places with odd names. The following are all in existence : A.B.C., Accident, Axle-Town, <fcc., &c. No authority is quoted. Nothing is said about wild -cat money and the like. ROBERT PIERPOINT. DEMAGOGUE (12 S. viii. 447). The Italian form appears in John Florio's ' Queen Anna's Xew World of Words,' 1611 : Demagogia, turbulency, factiousnesse. Dema- gogo, a factious, turbulent man. The cognate Latin words are given in tliea Onomastica,' Lucae, 1640 : Demagogue, populi ductor, ut qui illi sit gratiosus, demagogia, populi ductio. It was not long before the adages collected by Cousin were absorbed in the book of E. W. appears in the 1599 edition under hujus operis ' one of the items is : Gilberti Cognati Adagiorum etiam disposita. ROBERT PIERPOINT. ROBERT DE MORLEY AND ROBERT DE MONT ALT (12 S. vi. 312). In a plea at Chester of 1405 concerning the advowson of Hawarden Church, Elizabeth, widow of William de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, being claimant against John de Stanley, chivaler, it was stated that Robert de Montalt presented one Robert de Watford to the rectory in the time of Edward II. From that Robert de Montalt the right descended to Robert de Morley, knight, as kinsman and heir, namely, son of Isabel, sister of the said Robert de Montalt. Sir Robert de Morley afterwards gave the same to Isabel, lately Queen of England, in exchange for the manor of Framelesden in Suffolk (Chester Plea Roll 109, m. 6). This plea is referred to in the pedigree of Montalt in Harl. MS., 1988, fo. 180 (174). It supplies the name (Isabel) missing in the deed of 1334 recited in Blomefield's " Norfolk," ix. 46, which is probably the deed of gift referred to above. According to the inquisition taken after his death, Robert de Montalt died in December, 1329, and his heir was Robert de Morley, the exact kinship not being recorded ("Cal. ' Inq. p.m.," vii. 471). The reported exchange for Framsden raises a doubt, for this was a Montalt manor, held of the earldom of Chester. In later times it belonged to the Morleys. J. J. B. DR. ARNDELL, HOBART (12 S. viii. 410). The family of Arndell, apothecaries, was connected with those of Carter of Totten- ham and St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and of Price of Radnorshire, by marriage. John Carter, farmer and gentleman, of Hanger's Green, Tottenham High Cross, by his will, 368 Warburton, dated March 13, 1773, proved in September, 1779, left, inter alia, to his daughter, Mary Ann, wife of Thos. Arndell, apothecary of Moorfields. I can assist with the pedigree of this John Carter if necessary. His son, of Staple's Inn and Tottenham, died in 1798. His will is 16 Howe, P.C.C. In 1781, Thos. Arndell, then of Buck's Row, Hoxton, was legatee of Geo. Carter of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, butcher. Thos. Arndell died in 1792, leaving a widow, Mary Ann, and a son, Benjamin, sometime resident upon his bequeathed estate at Leddicoat, near Shepden, in the county of Hereford. The town residence of himself and his widowed mother was at
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