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 12 s. ix. AUG. 20, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 149 and its Analogues,' give, s.v. " Glasgow magistrate" ( = herring), many synonyms, among which are " Cornish duck ; Digby chicken ; Dunbar wethor ; Gourock ham ; Billingsgate pheasant ; Taunt on turkey ; Yarmouth capon." They also quote Strang's Glasgow and its City Clubs ' : This club. . . better known by the title of the Tinkler's Club, particularly when the brother- hood changed the hour of meeting. . . and when the steak was exchanged for a Welsh rabbit or Glasgow magistrate. ROBERT PIERPOINT. uerte*. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. THE MARNEY TOMBS AT LAYER MARNEY CHURCH, ESSEX. On the altar tomb at Layer Maroey Church of Henry, first Lord Marney, is a shield, several times repeated, which bears, on the dexter side, the rampant guardant lion, of Marney, and, on the sinister side, a coat which reads, " paly wavy of 6 argent and gules, 2 bars paly wavy counter- changed of the field. ' ' There can be no doubt of the paly wavy character of the field, for the pales are sharply carved and are raised nearly a quarter of an inch above the field, and there are distinct remains of red paly wavy colouring, both on the field and on the bars. The suggestion which has been made that the pales are merely a form of diaper- ing is quite untenable, and may be dismissed as fantastic. Another idea, that the sinister coat is only a fancy of a foreign sculptor seems too far- fetched. No doubt this sinister coat bears some resemblance to the arms of Venables azure 2 bars argent a Marney quartering which appears in painted glass in. three sixteenth- century panels now in the east window of the Xorth Chapel at Layer Marney, and is impaled, wrongly, with Marney on tjie tomb of John, second Lord Marney, also at Layer Marney. The wavy pales on the first lord's tomb are, however, too clear to enable us to identify these two coats as one. This sinister coat ought to belong to a wife of Henry, Lord Marney. Now he is known to have been married twice first to an Arundell, and secondly to Bridget alde- grave, who survived him and whose brass is in Little Horkesley Church. The paly wavy coat does not pertain to either of these ladies. For whom is it meant ? Can. any- one cast light on the puzzle ? F. SYDNEY EDEN. THE " CHALK FARM PISTOLEER." In Carlyle's essay on Boswell's ' Life of John- son ' (1832) there is a reference to someone whom he describes as a " Chalk Farm Pistoleer " committing suicide, and he con- trasts the cowardice of suicide with the courage of those who elect to live under unhappy conditions. Can any one of your readers inform me if any particularly notorious episode occurred at Chalk Farm in 1832 ? I rather think it was the haunt of duellists. CLEMENT SHORTER. QUALIFICATIONS OF GRAND JURORS in THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. By Statute of Westminster the 2nd, 13 Edward. I., no one should " be put on assise or juries, though they ought to be taken in their own county, who hold a tenement of less value than 205. yearly. And if such assises or juries ought to be taken out of the county, none to be placed in them who have a tenement worth less than 40s. yearly." Did any statutes of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries alter these qualifications in any way ? M. H. DODDS. GREENHOUSE. How did a greenhouse come to be so called ? The * N.E.D.' does not explain. It notes the use of the term in 1664. Exotic plants at this period were generally spoken of as " greens," and the structure for their winter shelter came to be called " greenhouse." The N.E.D.' quotes " Myrtles, Laurels and other curious greens " in 1664. The earliest quotation in the ' N.E.D.' for " greens " as applied to certain vegetables that are boiled for the table is 1725. In a description of London and Wise's Brompton Park Nursery, written in 1692, it is stated " it has a large greenhouse, the front of glass and board, the north side brick. Here the King's greens, which were in summer at Kensington, are placed." Professor Weekley, in his ' Etymological Dic- tionary of Modern English,' does not give us the origin of "greenhouses" that are always painted white. R. HEDGER WALLACE.