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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JAN. 15, '98.

bearing in mind that ' N. & Q.' has long been an advocate of systematic indexing, I venture to ask you to insert this query, in the hope that it will lead to uniformity of treatment in the future, settling contradictory dicta, and the promulgation of rules dealing with cases which have hitherto escaped attention.

BIBLIOPHILE.

[1. Andrea del Sarto is indexed under Vannucchi in the 'Nouvelle Biographic Ge'ne'rale' of Didot, under Sarto in Phillips a ' Dictionary of Biographical Reference,' and Andrea d'Agnolo in Bryan's ' Dic- tionary of Painters.'

2. Under Brink in London Library Catalogue.

3. Goes naturally under Bartolommeo.

4. Under Thomas in 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' other & Becketts under A.

5. Under Las, 'Nouyelle Biog. Ge"n.'

6. Under Van in 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' under Dyck \n Bryan.

7. Verteuil. See Que"rard, ' Dictionnaire Biblio- graphique.'

8. Under D, London Library Cat. 9 and 10. Under Witt.

11. Under Anne, 'Diet. Nat. Biog.'

12. Beaufort, ib.; Margaret, Lond. Lib. Cat.

13. Joan, Lond. Lib. Cat. ; under Dare in the 'Nouvelle Biographic Gene"rale,' by an afterthought, since under Arc you are referred to Joanne.

14. Manners.

15. Montfort, general consent.

16. Dudley, ' Diet. Nat. Biog.'

We will ourselves lay down no law but this, that

in names such as De Musset you should index under Musset, as you should speak of Musset unless you put before it the prefix M. or Monsieur or the name

Alfred or Paul. It is, of course, different with names such as Delepierre or Dele'cluze, which appear under D. We agree with you that it is desirable, though difficult, to establish authoritative rules.]

" CREAS." This word appears to be a not uncommon word in Yorkshire and Lanca- shire for the measles. It occurs in texts and glossaries, written also crees, creeas, creease. Grose (1790) has " crewds, measles," which is probably a distinct word. Is this word creas as a name for measles known in any part of the United Kingdom besides the shires above named 1

THE EDITOR OF THE
 * ENGLISH DIALECT DICTIONARY.'

The Clarendon Press, Oxford.

" DEFAIS LE [sic] FOI " is the motto to the armorial bearings cut on the vault of the Key family at Christ Church, Chaptico, Maryland. Hon. Philip Key, a native of London, and son of Philip and Mary Key, of London (and ancestor of Francis Scott key, author of the ' Star-Spangled Banner '), Lord High Sheriff of St. Mary's County, who died in 1767, is there buried, as also are many of his descendants. The shield is impaled, dexter, having a cross engrailed ; crest, a griffin's head holding a key in the beak. The

tinctures are not known. What are the source and meaning of the motto ?

T. H. M.

Philadelphia.

STEWART : LAMBART. Can any one give me the lineage of Frances Stewart, the wife of the Hon. Oliver Lambart, fourth, but second surviving son of Charles, third Earl of Cavan? Oliver Lambart died 18 April, 1738, aged fifty-five ; buried in North Cross, Westminster Abbey. Mrs. Lambart died on 3 January, 1750/1, in her sixty-seventh year, and was buried in the North Cross, Westminster Abbey. I do not want any account of this lady's complicated matrimonial relations, but her lineage. C. L. D.

ASSES BRAYING FOR TINKERS' DEATHS. In the south of Ireland the people used to say, when they heard a donkey bray, " There 's a tinker dead ! " What origin may be assigned to this expression ? On p. 24 of ' A Tour in Connaught,' by C. O. (Dublin, 1839), the words, "The tinker's ass brays responsively as the guard blows," suggest that Irishmen are wont to associate tinkers and donkeys in their thoughts. PALAMEDES.

JOHN STEVENSON, THE COVENANTER. I wish some Scotch antiquary would enlighten me with regard to this ancient Ayrshire hero. Were there two men enjoying these same two names at the period, and both devoted to disturbing the peace of the Crown autho- rities? I ask because my ancestor, one Kev. Wm. Cupples, of Kirkoswald, in 1729 put together (reprinted several times) a curious morsel of religiosity called 'Coraial for Christians, by John (Stevenson, Land Labourer, of Dailly, Ayrshire.' But the deeds of this lachrymal labourer in my an- cestor's account, which he asserts in his preface is a record in the actual words of the suffering Covenanter, seem altogether far too tame to have warranted the erection of the fine statue standing, I believe, in May- bole to the memory of a John Stevenson.

J. G. C.

GENEALOGIES OF NORTH-EAST FRANCE. What antiquarian magazine published on the Continent would be most likely to give information as to the history of a family which was settled in French Flanders, Hain- ault, and the Cambresis in the sixteenth and preceding centuries? Kindly give the full address of the publisher. STONE MAN.

THE ORDER OF THE LOBSTER. There is a local tradition in Heligoland that one of the governors instituted an order of the lobster,