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advantage, that it could be retailed atfourpence a bottle ! Now I strongly suspect that_ more than half the champagne (owing to the failure of the grape crops, and the vine disease) imported into this country and sent to America, is made from rhubarb; and I should like to be enlightened _ on the subject by some of our continental tourists and residents, as well as by all honest wine mer- chants. At the same time, perhaps, some of your informants will be kind enough to send you the recipe and directions, if the wine is (as I fancy it is) made in France, in order that we may try our hand at it in this country. Js. BRUCE NEIL.

Family of Dallawage, co. Devon. In 1575, John Dallawage, a cornet in the army of Queen Elizabeth, and the Earl of Essex migrated from Devon to co. Antrim. Can any of your readers inform me from what part of Devon he came, or if any trace of the name or family remain in that county ? ALFRED T. LEE.

Peveritt of the Peak's Bones. In the Rambles round Nottingham, five parts of which have now appeared, the writer suggests that an extraor- dinary sarcophagus, about eight feet long, and bones of a skeleton which must have been seven feet high, were found at Lenton Priory (March 12, 1849), and the latter transmitted to Dr. Hood of London. From the position in which they were found, they are conjectured to have been the re- mains of the founder, William Peveril, bastard son of William the Conqueror. Can Dr. Hood give any account of them ? S. M. D.

"View of the Highlands." What is the com- plete title of a tract, A View of the Highlands, Sfc. The preface is dated, "Richmond, Surrey, April, 1754," and, together with the introduction, makes up Ixx. pages. The work itself consists of 80, and there is an appendix, paged continuously with the work, of 53. W. H. C.

Edinburgh.

Roper and Curzon. Burke says :

" Henry Francis Eoper, fourteenth Baron Teynham, assumed the additional arms and surname of Curzon, by royal license, upon inheriting the estate of Waterperry, co. Oxford."

He inherited that estate by descent from Fran- cis (? Henry), nephew of the eleventh lord, born 1767.

Can any of your readers inform me how this Francis (or Henry) became possessor of that estate ; especially whether he intermarried into the family of Curzon ? Collins says of him " who has taken the name of Curzon for the estate of Waterperry ; " and again, " Francis Roper, son of the Hon. F. Roper, has taken the name [of Curzon], and in- herits the estate." J. I.

The College, Ely.

" The right man in the right place." At a recent meeting of the Administrative Reform As- sociation, a speaker is reported to have said, that if the Society had only originated this famous maxim, it would not have lived and worked in vain. The assertion that a truism like the above is of such recent^ coinage is simply absurd ; but I doubt even if the Society has any fair claim to the honour of bringing it into vogue. Can any reader point out the first expression of the idea in its present form ? V. T. STEBNBERG.

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Daniel Pulteney. The parliamentary debates of 1722 to 1731, contain several speeches delivered by this member of parliament, who represented Preston, and was for a portion of the time a Lord of the Admiralty. He died in the latter year. Of what family was he a member ? Was he a rela- tion of his contemporary, the celebrated William Pulteney, afterwards Earl of Bath ?

PRESTONIENSIS.

[Daniel Pulteney and the Earl of Bath were cousins, and connected with the Poultneys of Poultney, co. Lei- cester. Sir William Pulteney, knighted by Charles II., 1660, had two sons: I. William, ob. 1715, the father of William, created Earl Bath; and II. John, M.P. for Hastings, 16951708, ob. 1726, the father of Daniel Pul- teney, M.P. for Preston, who died Jan. 13, 1732. Sir William Johnstone Pulteney, Bart., M. P., married Frances, third, but only surviving daughter of Daniel, who became heiress of the princely fortune of the Pul- teney family. Sir William's daughter, Henrietta Laura Pulteney, was created Countess of Bath, 1803.]

" Scarbabe," its meaning ? Inscription in the Cathedral of Peterborough. I happened to be passing through Peterborough a few days ago, and took a hasty survey of the cathedral. At the west end of the nave, there is a quaint old picture of " olde Scarlett," as the inscription beneath sets forth ; which also says, that he had a " scarbabe mighty voice, and visage grim." I had no writing materials with me, or I would have transcribed the whole inscription. Can any of your readers tell me what is the meaning of the word scarbabe ? Can it be from scare-babe f The date of the stone beneath is A.D. 1590. W. T. SHERBORNE.

Cambridge.

[Scarbabe is synonymous with Scarecrow, anything terrifying without danger. Hence Drayton, Polyolb., xviii." p. 1013 :

" Our Talbot, to the French so terrible in war, That with his name their babes they used to scar.".

And Eobin Goodfellow, in A Pleasant Comedy called Wily Beguiled, says :

" Now there's a fine device comes into my head to scare the scholar: you shall see, I'll make fine sport with him. They say, that every day he keeps his walk amongst these woods and melancholy shades ; and on the