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. ,0 Ralph Tennyson of Paul got a licence to i larry Agnes Gibson of Thorn Gumbold. ] ^ancelot is by no means a common name, but t here was a Lancelot Colman of Preston, \ hose administrator's bond at York is dated October, 1Q50. This shows at least that the name then existed at Preston,

A Half Tennyson of Keyingham was dead 1685, when Frances his widow was granted administration; and a William Tennyson of the same place died 1734, who had married at Holy Trinity, Hull, in 1711, Mary, daughter of Mr. Charles Robinson, of Beverley. They will in all probability be found to be related to, if not descended from, Marmaduke Tenny- son, of Long Ryston, who married Frances, daughter of Thomas Hellard, of Little Ryston (Visit. Yorks, 1665), and has been before men- tioned by me in ' N. & Q.'

I notice that a Mr. Collins, of Hobart Town,

has taken the name of Tenison as a descendant

of Archbishop Tenison, and his pedigree is

printed in Burke's ' Colonial Gentry,' vol. ii.

j He was, however, clearly indebted to ' N. & Q.'

for the archbishop's connexion with Holder-

I ness.

The poet's dialect poem ' The Northern

Farmer,' we read ('Life,' ii. 32), was recited by

a Mr. Creyke at a farmhouse in Holderness

one evening to some neighbouring farmers,

I and was not only greatly enjoyed, but tho-

i roughly understood by them. One said :

"Dang it, that caps owt. Now, sur, is that i'

print? because if it be I '11 buy the book, cost

what it may." A. S. ELLIS.

Westminster.

LONDON BRIDGE (9 th S. i. 188). If MR. CLARK will state the dates and nature of his evidence, probably one of your contributors will satisfy him. It is a trifle unreasonable to ask so incomplete a question, when his earliest date could so easily have been given as a terminus a quo for research in earlier records. Q. V.

A SETTLEMENT FROM THE PYRENEES IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES (8 th S. xii. 448). Is Crocus nudiflorus in England is 1738 ? There was certainly intercourse between the north of Spain and English herb-gardens before
 * .t quite certain that the earliest record of

700. Gerard, after describing the different varieties of " wilde Saffron," and among them Crocus montanus autumnalis flore maiore albido cceruleo (? Crocus nudiftorus), says :

" All these wilde Saffrons we have growing in our London gardens. Those which doe floure m Autumne do grow upon certaine craggv rocks in rortugall, not farre from the sea side. The other have been sent over unto us, some out of Italy, and

some out of Spaine, by the labour and diligence of that notable learned Herbarist Carolm Clusius, out of whose Observations, and partly by seeing them in our owne gardens, we have set downe their description."

If, as I suppose, Gerard here refers to C. nudiflorus among other varieties, may it not have escaped to the fields'? Some botanists have even supposed it to be indigenous in England. C. C. B.

OLD ENGLISH LETTERS (9 th S. i. 169, 211, 258). Will PROF. SKEAT kindly say how it can be with any certainty laid down that the name of the M.E. letter (g), namely, yee, was pronounced yea ? And by the language signals yea is the yay sound signified ? B.

SEPOY MUTINY (9 th S. i. 208). Your corre- spondent will find a rather full representation of the treacherous and cruel treatment of the English prisoners by Nana Sahib at Cawn- pore, before and at their final massacre in the boats, in ' Rujub the Juggler.'

CHAS. INMAN.

Otto Trevelyan, gives an account of the prisoners at Cawnpore. A. B.
 * Cawnpore,' by the Right Hon. Sir George

POEMS (9 th S. i. 227). The author of "Which is the happiest death to die?" is James Edmeston. SeeSchaff and Gilman's 'Library of Religious Poetry,' p. 871, " A Real Occur- rence," &c. C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

ARMORIAL (8 th S. xii. 467). The family of Hutten belonged originally to Franconia and divided into three branches : Hutten-Steckel- berg (arms, Gu., two bendlets or ; crest, a pair of wings gu., each charged with two bendlets as in the arms), Hutten-Frankenberg, and Hutten-Stolzenberg (arms, Gu., two bends or; crest, a man's head, <fec.). Ulrich von Hutten was a member of the Steckelberg branch. There is another family, Hutten-Czapski, not connected with the above Huttens.

The family Hutter, or Hiitter, von Hams- bach, extinct Bavarian nobility, lived at Landau-an-der-Isar (arms, Sa., a tent arg. ; crest, a wing sable charged with a tent arg.).

I hope MR. HUTT will excuse my saying that he has drawn rather too hasty a con- clusion with regard to the crests of the two families mentioned in his query. He states that, because a wing forms a part of the crest of each family, "both crests are similar." This cannot exactly be denied, but it should be pointed out, not only that in German heraldry wings are very common as crests, but also that the crest of Hutten v. Steckel-