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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAY 7, '98.

tho' she had a son by him, who was gentleman commoner of Christ Church (and the only child, as I have been informed, she ever had), yet he died very young, to her great grief. After this, Sir William Holford married her, chiefly for her wealth (her beauty being then much decayed), he being but poor himself, but dyed before her, and what he had came to his son, Sir William Holford, who dyed not a year agoe, being bachellor of arts, and fellow of New College, a rakish drunken sot, and would never acknowledge his mother-in-law, for which she allowed him nothing, and so he dyed poor. The woman dyed very rich (in the seventieth year or thereabouts of her age), and hath left a vast deal to several charitable uses. She was buried on Thurs- day night (Nov. 17) in great state in the church of St. Alhallows, Stay ning [sic], near that [qy., "tomb" omitted?] of Sir William, her late husband. The blew-coat boys belonging to Christ Hospital walked before the corps in procession, singing of psalms ; and twenty -seven clergymen attended at the funeral."

In Burke's ' Extinct Baronetage ' there is no pedigree or mention of Holford, nor is the name mentioned in Solly's ' Titles of Honour,' vet the title would seem to be that of a baronet, as Hearne notes the succession of a son to the title. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

The lady's maiden name was Elizabeth Lewis, the daughter of one Lewis, a coachman, of Stanton St. John's, near Oxford. She was first married to a Mr. Harbin, and sub- sequently to Sir William Holford. She was buried on 17 Nov., 1720, in a grave in All Hallows, Steyning, near to Sir William, her late husband. See 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. iv. 128, 316, article 'Bluecoat Boys at Aldermen's Funerals.' EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

The 'History of Pembroke College,' recently issued by the Oxford Historical Society, might probably be consulted with advantage.

W. C. B

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EYE HOUSE PLOT (9 th S. i. 68, 212). A further authority is the small folio : " A True Account | and | Declaration | of | the Horrid Conspiracy | against the Late Government. | In the Savoy : Printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1685." Also, article in 'Studies Kestudied,' by A. C. Evvald.
 * King | His Present Majesty | and the |

WALTER SYLVESTER.

About 1856 Reynolds' s Miscellany had a romance entitled ' The Rye House Plot,' by G. W. M. Reynolds or his brother.

RALPH THOMAS.

TAPESTRY (9 th S. i. 288). Fourteen articles on this interesting subject have appeared in the columns of ' N. & Q.' See 1 st S. i. ; 3 rd S. i. ; 4 th S. iii. ; 5 th S. iii., iv., ix., xi. ; 6 th S. iv., xii.

The English Illustrated Magazine for 1894 has a chapter with eleven illustrations ; also All the Year Round, First Series, xix. ; Second Series, iv., xx., xxxii. ; and for ' Derbyshire Tapestry ' consult the article in the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, by the Rev. Charles Kerry, xvi. 86-139. EVERARD HOME GOLEM AN. 71, Brecknock Road.

MELTON CLUB (9 th S. i. 308). S. will find full particulars about the Old Melton Club and the New Melton Club in Nimrod's (C. J. Apperley's) 'The Chase, the Road, and the Turf,' a new edition of which has just been published in Mr. Edward Arnold's " Sports- man's Library." HERBERT MAXWELL.

BREADALBANE (9 th S. i. 147). According to Moule and Gatfield, who give most (if not all) of the works written upon heraldry and family history, &c., no genealogy of the Breadalbane family by Joseph Mclntyre has been published. Your readers who are interested in this class of literature will be obliged if MR. CLAYPOOL, who doubtless, as a genealogist, will have extensive information respecting the above, will give further par- ticulars about it. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ARMORIAL (9 th S. i. 288). Saldo is one word, not two. Sta saldo is Italian, and means " stand firm." Neither this nor the motto, if any, used with the other crest is recorded by Fairbairn in his very imperfect work. Are not both families extinct ? That of Bamborough is said to be so.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

ROTTEN Row, NOTTINGHAM (8 th S. xii. 347 ; 9 th S. i. 217, 314). It is probable that Ration Row is from ration, a rat ; and that Rotten Row is, usually, only a variant of it. But we ought to know perfectly well that it cannot possibly mean red row, for the plain reason that red cannot turn into rotten in English. The family name Rottenherring is, we are told, not English, but German, as may well be the case, and is therefore entirely out of the question. This singular confusion illus- trates once more the utter inability under which many labour of distinguishing Anglo- Saxon from Old High German.

No English dialect turns the true Teutonic d into t; that extraordinary variation occurs in High German only. Not English alone, but Dutch, Friesic, Danish, and Swedish, all keep the Teutonic d; none of them, even in dialects, indulges in the substitution of t.

Once more, the vowel-sound of red in Eng- lish differs remarkably from the German o. It was formerly long ; whence we have such

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