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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JAN. 1, '98.

merely the name of the ancestral seat in that locality ? Also, where is Hamlake (anc. Hame- lac), co. Leicester ; and what is the connexion between this place and Hamlake, co. York ? Vide Britton and Brayley's ' Beauties of Eng- land and Wales,' vol. iii. p. 499, and articles on Ros and De Eos in Lower's ' English Sur- names,' ' Dictionary of National Biography,' and Burke's * Peerage.' JAMES TALBOT. Adelaide, South Australia.

" TEXTILE." This word appears to be getting into use to signify not only any- thing woven, but also the fibres from which textile fabrics are made. Of late several instances have been noted, the most recent being that in the Economist of 18 December, p. 1788, where mention is made of "the plots of land on which those textiles have Ibeen grown." What authority is there for this use of the word in question ? COL Y FLOR.

[In the ' Century Dictionary ' one of the meanings is " A material suitable for weaving into a textile fabric, as hemp and other textiles." "The Journal of the Society of Arts reports the discovery of a new

textile on the shores of the Caspian This plant,

called Kanoffby the natives, attains a height of

ten feet."]

HEATHCOTE FAMILY. I shall be grateful if any of your readers can tell me where an article of some length, with pedigrees of the Heathcote family, appeared, which was printed some few years ago in, I presume, some perio- dical, and who was the author of it. I have myself seen only those leaves which applied to the family in question, torn out of their place in some book, apparently, as the first page was numbered 353, arid at the top were only the words "The Pedigrees." The article must have been written since 1888, as Lord Wil- loughby D'Eresby is referred to in it, and he only succeeded to the title in that year. None of my family to whom I have applied can tell me anything about it. Answers may be sent to me direct.

(Rev.) EVELYN D. HEATHCOTE.

71, Oakley Street, Chelsea.

REFERENCE TO STORY WANTED. Some thirty odd years ago a story appeared in a serial publication if my memory serves me truly it was Chambers'' 's Journal relating a fraud perpetrated by an adventurer, moving for a brief period in good society, who, designing to abscond from the scene of his operations, raised the capital for his flight to the Antipodes by a daring trick. He invited his well-to-do intimates having taken the pains to ascertain beforehand the names of their respective bankers and the state of their current accounts to a farewell supper

on the eve of his embarkation, desiring that each friend should, in intimating his accept- ance, forward a carte-de-visite of himself, to be carried by the host in his exile as a souvenir. After the feast the rogue produced an album with all the photographs neatly mounted therein, and a space lef t iDeneath each portrait in which he pathetically implored the subject to add to the value of the card by subscribing his autograph. A few days after the dis- appearance of the sentimental rascal it was discovered that a blank cheque on each sub- scriber's bankers, surreptitiously interleaved, had received the necessary credential to enable drafts of more or less value to be presented, all of which had been duly^ honoured. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' kindly furnish me with a reference to this tale? No doubt it (the reference) is duly given in Poole's * Index to Periodical Litera- ture' ; but, unfortunately, I have forgotten the title, and so do not know under what head to search for it. NEMO.

JACOB GEORGE STRUTT, painter and etcher, author of ' Sylva Britannica ' and translator of Claudian. Is anything known as to his parentage or the date of his death 1 ? He exhibited for the last time in 1858.

F. M. O'D.

THOMAS EYRE, OF HELMDON, NORTHANTS. Can the readers of 'N. & Q.' supply anything bearing upon the parentage of Thomas Eyre, of Helmdon, Northantsl He was buried there 1773 (?), aged about seventy years. His wife's maiden name is thought to nave been Haynes. The above Thomas Eyre was a landowner and also a churchwarden in that parish. A square altar-tomb remains to his memory in the churchyard. He was grandfather of the late London physician Sir James Eyre, of Brook Street.

SWARRATON.

HERALD. Spelman quotes (' Glossarium/ ed. 1664, s.v. "Heraldus") "e quadam apocha anno 4 Edouardi I. (vel circiter) confecta "; in which "Petrus Rex Heraudorum itra aquam de Trent ex parte boreali " acknow- ledges the receipt of twenty marcs of silver from John, son of Master Ralph, of Horbery. Does this document still exist ; and where 1 ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

70, Banbury Road, Oxford.

KENTISH MEN: MEN OF KENT. I should be much obliged if you could tell me or refer me to some book on the nature of the dis- tinction between " Kentish men " and " Men of Kent." Does the distinction point to the privileges said to have been granted by