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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JUNE 4, '98.

that the Parliament had been previously dis- solved, and that there was, therefore, no Speaker, and that, moreover, the old Speaker had definitely resigned his seat, upon whom was this noble perquisite bestowed 1

Ev. M. W.

ST. VIARS. Dr. Conyers Middleton, in his ment, which he says he met with in a manu- script in the Barbarine Library. It appears that Pope Urban VIII. was petitioned to grant special indulgences to the altars of Viars, a saint held in great reverence in some parts of Spain. In order to satisfy the Pope's aesire to know something definite of this personage, the petitioners produced a stone on which was inscribed in ancient letters SVIAR. This was, however, readily seen by the antiquaries who examined it to be a frag- ment of a Roman tablet in memory of a Prcefectus VIARMW. Is it a fact that any such imaginary saint was ever reverenced in Spain? HENRY ATTWELL.
 * Letter from Rome,' mentions a curious state-

JBarnes.

PEKIN, PEKING : NANKIN, NANKING. The customary spelling of the northern and southern capitals of China in English and French is Pekin and Nankin, and likewise in Russian, Spanish, and Italian (in the last language adding a final o and shifting the accent Pekino and Nanchino). The Germans, on the other hand, insist upon writing Peking and Nanking. Is the latter not in accordance with the native Chinese pronunciation, and consequently preferable in English? Has the French spelling of Pekin and Nankin, according to the French nasal sound of in, not misguided the other languages which adopted it? INQUIRER.

PENGILLY, ALIAS PENGELLY. Pengilly, alias Pengelly, of St. Neot, St. Teath, Penzance, Helston, St. Hilary, Ruan Major, Tuckingmill, St. Keverne, in the county of Cornwall, and of Bideford, Clovelly, Tavis- tock, Litford, and Torquay, in the county of Devon. I am compiling a genealogical and armorial history of the foregoing family and its branches, and shall be glad of any information that readers of ' N. & Q.' may be able to send me. W. G. PENGELLY.

Columbus, Ohio, U.S.

KISFALUDY. The Kisfaludy Society is one of the learned societies of Hungary. Can any one tell me how this name is pronounced, and its meaning ? WM. RICHARDSON.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGES OF RESIDENCE. Can any of your readers say what is the

largest university college of residence in the United Kingdom outside Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin ? It is also desired to know the number of students at present in residence in such college. RIENZI.

SIR WILLIAM BEAUMARIS RUSH, of Roydon, Suffolk, and Wimbledon, Surrey. His eldest daughter, Laura, was married to Words- worth's friend Basil Montagu (second wife) at Glasgow in 1801. Can any of your readers say who was Sir W. B. Rush, and how he got

his title ?

R. A. P.

JOHANNA PEPYS. A friend of mine, who has in the press a history of Strood, in Kent, informs me that he has found the following entry in the register of marriages : " 21 Jan. 1703. Bartholomew Stanstropp and Johanna Pepys, both of Chatham." Can this be a relative of the great diarist ? AYEAHR.

POPLADIES. In the sixty-fifth instalment of ' The Pleasures of a Chaperon,' a series of monologues of which the editor of the World never seems to tire, the speaker, who is not often worth quoting, makes, on 4 May, for once an interesting remark. She says :

" We used to eat popladies when we were

children just as we eat hot-cross buns now, only

popladies were flat, with three currants in them, and hot-cross buns are round, with an occasional sultana." P. 32.

Where are popladies enjoyed, and when, and why? In Lincolnshire our hot-cross buns were wont to be triangular, and to be sufficiently endowed with currants.

ST. SWITHIN.

JOHN WEAVER, DANCING MASTER. I should be grateful for references to any biographical notices of John Weaver, dancing master, who was born at Shrewsbury in 1673, and died in 1760. Where was he buried? Whom did he marry? What books did he write besides 'An Essay on the History of Dancing,' 1712, and 'Lectures on Dancing,' 1721? W. G. D. FLETCHER.

St. Michael's Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

SIR RICHARD HOTHAM, KNT. The Gentle- man's Magazine records his death 13 March, 1799, at Bognor, Sussex, at an advanced age. He appears to have been a successful hatter and to have engaged in shipping for the East India Company; to have bought property at Bognor, at one time called, apparently, Hothamton; to have beaten Mr. Thrale in 1780 at the election for the borough of South wark; and to have been succeeded in his estates by his great-nephew William Knott. Sir Richard Hotham is referred to at p. 101, vol. i., Third Series, Miscellanea