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 12 s. ix. OCT. 22, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 331 GRANDEAU FAMILY IN THE STUART SERVICE. I desire to trace this family, which is understood to have come from Lorraine to Scotland in the train of Mary of Guise ; to have remained in the royal service and in the end to have returned to France with James II. in 1688 ; after which they entered the service of the French King re-entered it would perhaps be more correct. In 1721 Nicolas de Grandeau was Procureur du Hoi and possessed of land at Tincry (Lorraine). . His arms were : Azure, a sword in pale ppr. | bet ween eleven etoiles argent (2 224 1), and the crest, an etoile argent. It is possible that while in Scotland and England the family name was adapted or , translated (Grundy ?). . FAIRLEA. ALEXANDER SIMSON, BURGESS OF DUNDEE. I shall be grateful if anyone can help me to trace the connexion of the above with ' the family of Simson of Pitcorthie in Fife. | The connexion is undoubted ; he is believed j to have been the son or grandson of a younger i brother, and according to family tradition I was " cut off " on account of extravagance. I understand that he died in Dundee about | the end of the eighteenth century, and was j probably born about 1760, but date un- 1 certain. His sons were all well known in ' their day as artists. George was one of the j founders of the U.S.A. ; David was also sue- j cessful in Edinburgh ; William, R.A., made ; a considerable name in England. Alexander Simson was buried in Dundee. FAIRLEA. " FOP. "What is the origin of this j term ? I am aware of the reference to it j in The Spectator, No. 280, Monday, Jan. 21, j 1711/12. The article therein is said to have been written by Sir Richard Steele. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. STEELE AND ' THE SPECTATOR.' Is it a fact that the articles in The Spectator attri- buted to Sir Richard Steele were not written by him at all* but by Dr. Mandeville, the author of ' The Fable of the Bees ' ? JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. TRANSLATION OF MOTTO REQUIRED. What is the correct translation of the follow- ing Latin motto of a Canadian Mutual Insurance Society ? " Alterum alterius auxilio egit." T. HOLLAND CHEESES. In Archceologia, vol. xix. ( 1821), under ' Extracts from the House- hold Book of Lord North,' on Sept. 1, 1577, there is entered among the " provision " for the coming of the Queen to Kertlinge, " Holland Cheeses, vj -xx s ." No other variety of cheese is noted. In the same account we have as provision for the Queen, 4cwt. and 301b. of butter costing 6 Is. Qd., and a cartload and two horseloads of oysters costing 5. Were the six Holland cheeses dainty bits ? R. HEDGER WALLACE. CHEESE USED IN RITUALS : CHEESE CURES : CHEESE POISONING. 1 shall be glad of references to these subjects, suggested to me by your Boston contributor, ROCKING- HAM. R. HEDGER WALLACE. " MAKING BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW." Of course bricks are made without straw nowadays. Many theories have been ad- vanced as to the use of straw in ancient times, one of them being that making bricks with water in which straw had been steeped considerably improved their quality. Is not the simplest explanation that the bricks were sun-baked and consequently wanted straw to keep them together when they dried ? L. L. K. THISTLETHWAYTE FAMILIES. I should be grateful if anyone could give me an heraldic description of the arms and crests borne by families named Thistlethwayte. Those of the family at Winterslow, Wilts, seated in that county temp. Henry VII., are slightly different from those given on the book- plate of Catherine Thistlethwayte engraved in ' Ladies Book-Plates,' by Norna Labou- chere. To what family did C. T. belong ? LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell. JOHN JONES'S ' JEWELLERY.' Informa- tion concerning the author of ' The History and Objects of Jewellery,' a 12mo book, would be esteemed. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. SAMUEL MULLEN, POET. He is mentioned in Allibone's ' Dictionary of English Literature ' as being the author of two works, ' Cottager's Sabbath ; a Poem,' 1841, and 'Pilgrim of Beauty,' 1844. I believe his collected poems were published in one volume. Can anyone oblige me with biographical particulars, dates and places of birth and death, &c. ? RUSSELL MARKLAND.