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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[2nd g. NO 23., JUNE 7. '56

Isle of Man. If the Isle of Man is not the ancient Mona (as it is a disputed matter), what is the origin of the name ? EASBT.

Antigallican Backstays. What is the deriva- tion of the term Antigallican backstays f I know what the thing is. C. F. B.

Archbishop Lauds Relations. Abp. Laud men- tions several relations, whose connection with him I am unable to trace. I shall be obliged to any of your contributors who can assist me in making out their relationship. I would add that I am seeking for this information in order to complete a pedigree of the archbishop, which I propose in- serting in the sixth vol. of his Works.

1. In his will he speaks of his kinsman John Walker, son to Dr. Thomas Walker.

2. In his defence before the House of Lords he names among those whom he has reclaimed from Itomanism,

" Sir W. Webb, my kinsman, and two of his daughters ; and the better to secure them in religion I was at the charges, their father being utterly decayed, to marry them to two religious Protestants. And his eldest son I took from him, placed him with a careful divine, main- tained him divers years, and then settled him with a gentleman of good worth."

The son here spoken of was Thomas Webb, who was under the charge of Bancroft, Bp. of Oxford. But I should be glad to learn who was the Sir W. Webb. Was he the son of Laud's uncle, of the same names ? And who were his two daughters, and who were the religious Protestants to whom they were married ?

3. Was one of them Mrs. Browne, of whom Laud thus writes to Bp. Bramhall :

" I thank your lordship for your respect to my kins- woman Mrs. Browne ; and if your lordship and my Lord Deputy do think her daughter will be a fit match for Mr. Howlett, I shall easily rest satisfied."

4. In the History of his Troubles and Trial he speaks of one Badger who married a kinswoman of his. Badger was a great sectary, and, as it ap- pears, a considerable annoyance to the archbishop.

If any of your contributors possess this infor- mation I shall be obliged by their communicating direct with myself, as well as sending their reply to your publication. JAMES Buss.

Ogbourne St. Andrew.

Hogarth's Portrait of Huggins. Hogarth both painted and engraved the portrait of William Huggins, sometime Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, author of a Translation of Ariosto, &c. Is it known in whose possession this portrait, now is ? MAGDALENENSIS.

Le Comte de Montijo. Can you or any of your correspondents throw any light on the authors of the following works, relating to the subject of the

Spanish succession ? They are to be found in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, but do not appear in the Catalogue of the Bodleian Library, and I can discover no trace of the Count of Montijo, or of any one of the above-mentioned treatises in Barbier or the Biographic Universelle. An additional interest is imparted to the subject at the present time, from the Empress of the French having borne the name of Montijo previous to her marriage.

" Bina scripta ab Plispano oratore comite Montijo Francofurti exhibita. 1741. 4to."

" Responsum ad Bina scripta ab Hispano oratore comite Montijo Francofurti exhibita. 1741. 4to."

" Reflexions d'un particulier sur 1'ecrit public sous le nom du comte de Montijo, au sujet des pretensions de la cour d'Espagne. La Haye, 1741. 8vo."

Dublin.

Mignonette the Badge of the Counts of Saxony. Can any of your readers explain why the Counts of Saxony adopted the mignonette flower for their badge ? D. L.

Henley -on- Thames. Can any of your readers give me information towards a history of this ancient town ? I have Plott's Oxfordshire ; State Trials; D r ay ton's Poly-Olbion; Henley, a Poem ; and Vallis Henlegensis. J. S. BUBN.

Henley.

Urceola elastica, Caoutchouc, Sec. Can you or any of your readers inform me where I could obtain correct drawings of the Urceola elastica and Siphonia elastica f

Also, in what number of the Journal of the Royal Institution (about the year 1823-24) may be found a notice of Thomas Hancock's mode of producing solid blocks and sheets of caoutchouc, and some experiments made by the Professor Faraday at the Institution about that time.

THOMAS HANCOCK.

Milner Square, Islington.

Booh of Common Prayer. On attending divine service lately in the evening at a church, where I was a stranger, and making use of a prayer-book in the pew to which I had been conducted, I was rather surprised on finding that the form in the absolution ran as follows : " Wherefore beseech we him," instead of " Wherefore let us beseech him." The wonder was greater, inasmuch as the prayer- book was printed at the Cambridge University Press, so lately as in 1837. I should be glad to know whether the same error appears in other copies of the above year's Cambridge edition ; and I am moreover anxious to be informed whether some penalty is not attached to the issue of spu- rious editions of the Book of Common Prayer, although I by no means ask this question with reference to the trifling inaccuracy I have quoted ;