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A short tabular pedigree will make all this clearer. The only point I wish to mention is

that Galf rid Martel might have been brother- in-law only of Hugh, but this is less likely.

1. Hugh fitz Grip or=Hawise, dau.= de Wareham, sheriff of Nicholas de of Dorset, dead 1086. Baschelville.

P=2 (?). Alured de Lin- coln or de Wareham, v. 1087.

Walter fitz Grip, avunculus W. Martel.

Galfrid Martel,= frater Hugonis, v. 1093.

pAlbreda.

Robert de Lincoln, son of Alured, holds=f=

Wareham Castle for Empress Maud, 1138. |

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The arms of the Martels were three martels or hammers, i. e., the weapon ; and three mallets or hammers, and not the buckles they afterwards bore, the arms of the Malets. For the latter occur as the arms of De Alengon, descended from John de Alengon, who married Alice, daughter of Robert Malet, of Dunwich. The later arms of the Dallisons, three crescents and a canton, were, I suspect, the arms of the Blanchards of Laughton, in Lincolnshire (a Norman Domesday family neglected by the genealogists), whose heiress one of them married in the next reign. (See the valuable notes of Mr. Boyd in Misc. Gen. et Her., Second Series, iii. 205.)

A. S. ELLIS.

Westminster.

AN OLD SCRAP-BOOK.

AN old-fashioned book belonging to my grandfather lies before me, dated on the out- side, "Collection, 18th February, 1817." I think the making of scrap-books is hereditary in my family, for I have heard of, but not seen, a book of scraps belonging to my great- great-grandfather. I find the taste and fashion of eighty years ago ran often to bits of poetry, comic pictures, and so forth. I come in the book before me on a coloured sketch of Tippa-Lee, King of New Zealand, done from life by Capt. Finnucane, dated 1809. He is attired in knee-breeches and blue stockings, and has a stick in his hand, so that he might easily pass for an Irishman. I pass on to the list of officers of the Royal Artillery, who subscribed among them 901. 6s. towards purchasing a piece of plate to be presented to the Spanish general Alava. The list is addressed to Lord Fitzroy Somerset.

I next come to a very different matter an almanac for fifty years from 1813, with a plan of the town of Cambrai. It is all in French, on one sheet, and there is at the bottom, " Dedie tres respectueusement aux Habitans de Cambrai par leur tres serviteur, B. Smith, Presonnier cfe guerre Anglais."

There is next one of the old lottery adver-

William Martel, dapifer=j=Albreda. to King Stephen.

tisements, date of year not given, but it is issued by Sivewright, contractors, 37, Corn- hill, 11, Holborn, and 38, Haymarket. The advertisement is in poetry, and the first four lines would do for 1898 :

All trades complain the times are bad,

And as to cash it can't be had.

The farmer says his lands lie fallow,

The chandler cannot melt his tallow, &c. Then comes an epitaph from an author unknown to me, Jaques de Loxens. It is stated that in his book ' Les Trois Siecles de notre Litterature' occurs this entry on his scolding wife : " Cy git ma femme. On, qu'elle est bien, pour son repos et pour le mien" (torn. ii. p. 250).

If these extracts seem somewhat wander- ing, I would add in excuse it is as they come out of the book.

There is no answer given to the following riddle :-

Come, tell me this riddle without any pother : Five legs on one side, and three on the other ; Two eyes in my forehead, and four on my back ; One tongue that is silent, and two that can clack.

The following lines are but specimens of courtly poetry, and are printed on old- fashioned paper :

Vers chantes a Milord Wellington ait Capitole,

le 21 Avril, 1814. Francais, celebrons ce beau jour Ou 1'Europe. enfin r^unie Dans sa noble et sainte harmonie, Rend les Bourbons a notre amour, Honneur au fils de la yictoire, De tout Francais il doit etre cheri. Ce^ noble lord rappelle h la memoire L'ame et les traits de notre bon Henri.

Still further is a letter written 24 Jan., 1827, by one of the King's A.D.C.s, describing the Duke of York's funeral. The writer left Woolwich by road at 12.30 A.M., and got to Windsor, I think, by 6 P.M. He had to carry the banner of the white rose. The funeral was over by 10 P.M., and he got home by 3.3 A.M. the next morning.

There occurs an interesting return, dated Woolwich, 27 Jan., 1836, of the strength of the Royal Artillery in Spain in December,