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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAR. 5, '98.

Ronan's Well '). If not trespassing too much I the holding of a fair, such glove being a on space, I may add that there is a second symbol of protection to all traders while the class of these surnames which, like those fair lasted. I gather that this practice was prefixed with Gille, throw the accent forward I at one time prevalent at Barnstaple, Chester, on to the Mac. I_refer, of course, to those j Newport, Macclesfield, Liverpool, Portsmouth,

Southampton, and Exeter. I shall be glad to know whether it still exists, and, if so.

that contain the Gaelic definite article in, such as Macintosh (son of the chief) and Macintyre (son of the mason).

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

KICHARD WAINWRIGHT. Who were, the parents of Richard Wainwright, of Monton and Swinton, gentleman, who was executor of the will of Thomas Froggatt, 1773, exe- cutor of the will of Mary Omerod, 1767, who married, first, Martha Leigh; secondly, Martha Moss: thirdly, Betty Lansdale 1 ? What are the dates of his birth and death ? (Miss) C. J. SHAWCROSS.

Worsley, near Manchester.

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at what places. I may mention that there is no allusion to such a practice in Mr. Ditch- field's ' Old English Customs extant at the Present Time' (London, 1896).

H. ANDREWS.

EARLIEST DATE OF QUOTATION. In the ' Day of Doom,' by the Rev. Michael Wiggles- worth, will be found the easiest room in Hell " (see stanza 181, 1. 4). The ' Day of Doom ' was first published in 1662. Can this expression be found at an earlier date ? JOHN WARD DEAN.

-r, T, 18, Somerset Street, Boston, Mass.

ENGRAVING. I have an engraving in my J

possession entitled ' View of the Interior of MOUNTGYMRU. The following entries the House of Commons during the Sessions J appear in the record book of the Walsh Tract of 1821-3,' published 1 Jan., 1836, by M. Baptist Church of Pencader Hundred, Dela- Parkes, 22, Golden Square, London, and also ware (founded in 1701) : "David Rees was by Ritner & Goupil, Paris. The architectural received by vertue of a letter from Mount- part of the picture is stated to be drawn by gymru, 31 March, 1733"- and "The same day A. Pugin, the composition and figures by [August 2, 1735] was William Rees received L. Stephanoff, the portraits by Robert j in full communion by vertue of a letter from Bowyer, and the whole engraved by James Mountgymru, bearing date June y e 15, 1735. Scott. I shall be glad if some one of your I Will some one kindly inform me where readers will kindly inform me in whose pos- Mountgymru was 1 Was it the Welsh way session the original now is, and if it may be of spelling Montgomery 1 viewed. D. K. T. THOS. HALE STREETS,

LONDON BRIDGE.-! have indubitable evi- L HERALDRY.-What rule in heraldry governs

dence that the present London Bridge was the position of the arms of Ulster m the chief

renamed Trafalgar Bridge. Can any one of a baronet s shield ?

supply the date? C. E. CLARK. JoHN J ' GREGSON SLATER.

" So PLEASED." " The Tobaco came safe,

DANIEL HOOPER. John Hooper, Bishop of my bro : was soe pleased with it," says

Gloucester, was burned at the stake in 1555. Elizabeth Cromwell, a granddaughter of the

He Iett two children Rachel and Daniel, but great Protector. The words occur in a rough

no trace ot them has been discovered. I find draft of a reply written on the back of the

History ot harbadoes, published twelfth letter in the correspondence of

1768, that Daniel Hooper Esq., was a Member Richard Cromwell (Encj. Hist. Review, January,

of Council for the parish of Christchurch. 1898). When did "so" in this sense come Is anything known of him or his family 1

R. P. H.

REGISTERS OP GUILDHALL CHAPEL. I should be glad of any information as to the whereabouts of the registers of the old Guild- hall Chapel (London). They are not to be Turkey," he remarks, " A farmer may be gent found at the Guildhall, the Bishop of London's I in ms present." Office, Somerset House, or the Record Office.

RECORD.

into use? Richard himself, in the twenty- first letter, employs the phrase, " I chew the quid of all yo r kindnesse "; and in the thirty- nrst, speaking of a gift consisting of a statly chine accompaned with a fatt

THE HORSE AND WATER-LORE.-In a recent number of the Antiquary there is an interest-

GLOVES AT FAIRS. The custom once pre- ing article on ' Tlie Horse in Relation to vailed at various places in England of hang- Water-lore.' Among the folk-tales noted, I ing out a large glove from the window of the find the demon horse is said to tempt cattle town hall or other public building during j into mires ? and that the drowning of a horse