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12 ix. JULY 23, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 70 (not rebuilding) of the churches mentioned by him had begun before the year 1000. And why, one might ask, did the King of France fortify Laon in 990 and Abbeville in 996 if the world was to end so soon?

Mr. Armstrong is still more unfortunate in his reference to charters, for he shows himself to be probably unacquainted with the contents of such documents. The term "Appropinquante nmndi termino" is a mere legal formula and can be traced back at least as far as Gregory of Tours in the sixth century, and there are plenty of examples of its use in France in the eighth and ninth centuries, but few or none at the end of the tenth, though it is found again in the eleventh: while in Italy it is not found till after 1000, and in Germany not at all. The vague references to the opinions of a 'modern writer' in Mr. Armstrong's last paragraph are obviously not worth powder and shot.

SILVEB MEDAL:' IDENTIFICATION (12 S. j viii. 512, ; ix. 36). This is a memorial coin'or i medal, probably a coin, of Emerich Joseph ! von Breitbach-Biirresheim, Archbishop of j Mainz (Moguntinum), 1763-1774. Such ! coins were very common in Germany and I were known as sterbethaler. In the Adolph j Meyer sale at Frankfurt -am- Main, 1894, j there was, lot 2127, a J sterbethaler of this ; Archbishop, 1774, with arms crowned on 1 the obverse and an inscription on the reverse. ! I have also seen in lists l/6th and I/ 12th | thalers apparently of the same type. The weight will show what particular fraction of the thaler the example mentioned by your reader may be.* The weight of the Im- perial thaler of this period was about 28 grammes (430 grains) and the Prussian thaler rather lighter, about 22 grammes (339 grains). HORACE W. MONCKTON. For George I. of Fngland please read George II. The full force of the title " Erzsandstreuer " is realized when we remember not only the privileges of the individual Electors, the King of Bohemia, e.g., being Erzschenk. and the Elector of Brandenburg, Erzkammerer, but that Brc.ivkn^urg has been nicknamed the " Sandbiichse (sandtox) des Heiligen Romischen Reichs," because of the char- acter of its soil. As a correspondent, at p. 36, was unable to f nd Archbishop Emmerich in the ' Allge- meine Deutsche Biographie,' it should be said that his life is given under his Christian name, Emmerich ; the page-heading being " Emmerich v. Mainz." Bishops are elusive. For Joseph Butler's works one has some- times to look in German catalogues under Durham. EDWARD BENSLY. SIR HENRY PRICE (12 S. ix. 32). Is the Christian name Henry ascertained beyond any doubt ? If not, the name of the daugh- ter, Henrietta Maria, tempts one to suggest that Sir Herbert Price may be meant. For Sir Herbert, who died in 1677/8, see the account in G. E. C.'s ' Complete Baronetage,' vol iii., pp. 18, 19. He was Master of the Household to Queen Henrietta Maria and afterwards to Charles II., and his wife Goditha, second daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Arden, of Park Hall, Co. Warwick, whom he married in or before 1641, was at one time Lady of the Privy Chamber to the Queen Mother (Henrietta Maria). Evelyn mentions Sir Herbert as taking part in the coronation procession of Charbs II. EDWARD BENSLY. TRANSPORTATIONS AFTER THE FORTY-FIVE (12 S. viii. 510; ix. 33) Thera was some correspondence on this subject in the tenth series of ' N. & Q.' At p. 66 of vol. iv., under the heading ' Jacobite Rebels,' Mr. Gerald Fothergill mentioned the existence in the British Museum (Add. MS. 19,796) of a ' List of Persons engaged in the Rebellion in Scotland, showing their Places of Abode, their Present Place of Residence, 1764,' and added " In my own MSS. I have lists of the political prisoners transported in 1716 to Virginia, Jamaica, Maryland, South Carolina, Antigua and St. Christopher's. The total number of them is 623. My collections show that in 1747 a still larger number of rebels were sent to the Leeward Islands, Jamaica, Maryland and Barbadoes." In vol. viii. of the same series there were letters, at pp. 68, 135, 176, 235, 317, under the heading ' Highlanders " Barbadosed " after the 1715 and 1745 rebellions.' At the first of these references Mr. J. Graham Cruick- shank, writing from the Audit Office, British Guiana, spoke of a copy of an " In- denture " in his possession " signed by 127 Jacobite prisoners, who apparently were sent to Barbadoes in the ship Frere in 1746 (the list includes 20 McDonalds, 19 McKenzies, and 16 Grants : 112 of the prisoners sign by 'mark')." At pp. 135, 136, two lists are given from ' A Cloud of Witnesses,' Glasgow,