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 9 th S. I. JAN

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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jest remembered by his * Waiting for the Verdict.' * Madam Blaize ' was exhibited at
 * he Royal Academy in 1858.

ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Pr.iory.

"PEGAMOID" (8 th S. xii. 467). This word has neither meaning nor derivation. It is one jf a thousand fanciful names that merely serve the purpose of registered trade-marks. Why not send the query to the maker of the ' pegamoid " cartridges ? C. E. CLAKK.

This is a made-up substance, somewhat similar to " celluloid/' J. P. B.

Nottingham.

AUGUSTINE SKOTTOWE (9 th S. i. 28). A family of the name of Skottowe must at one time have been of social importance at Ches- ham in Buckinghamshire. They are tradi- tionally said to have possessed a manor house; of the building there remain no traces, though the small park which sur- rounded it is crossed by an avenue leading to the churchyard gate. The south transept of the fine parish church has, if I recollect rightly, something like ten or a dozen hatch- ments in good order, which, happily, were preserved when the church was restored by Sir Gilbert Scott some years ago. These hatchments are divided between the families of Skottowe and Lowndes, the latter of which is still resident at the adjacent Bury.

W. C. J.

HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS EDITORS (8 th S. xi. 346, 492 ; xii. 104, 290, 414, 493). Horace Walpole's letter to Montagu, dated " Thurs- day, 17," without date of year (Cunningham's ed., vol. iii. p. 90), and inserted amongst the letters of July, 1757, is undoubtedly mis- placed. In this letter Horace Walpole invites Miss Montagu to accompany her brothers on their proposed visits to Strawberry Hill and to the Vine, in Hampshire, which took place in October,' 1754 (see vol. ii. pp. 400, 401). From a letter of condolence addressed to Montagu by Horace Walpole, and dated 7 October, 1755 (vol. ii. p. 474), it appears that Miss Montagu died in that montn and year. This is confirmed by a statement in a letter to Bentley of October 19, 1755 (vol. ii. p. 476), ' Poor Miss Harriet Montagu is dead." The letter in question, therefore, is probably of 17 October, 1754 (which day was a Thursday in that year), and should be placed between Nos. 395 and 396 in vol. ii.

In a letter to the Earl of Hertford, dated 27 August, 1764 (vol. iv. p. 265), Walpole alludes to his recent quarrel with George Grenville, and to the necessity of avoiding

any meeting with him at the house of Lady Blandford, a near neighbour at Twickenham. Croker gives the following note, which has no bearing on the point in question : " Maria Catherine de Jonge, a Dutch lady and sister of Isabella, Countess of Denbigh ; they were near neighbours, and intimate acquaintances of Mr. Walpole." Cunningham follows this up with a reference to Horace Walpole's verses addressed to Lady Blandford ; but neither of these editors explains what to Horace Walpole constituted the real awkwardness of the situation. The Marquis of Blandford died in 1731, and his widow (retaining, of course, her title of Marchioness) married (as his second wife) Sir William Wyndham, Bart., the politician and intimate friend of Bpling- broke. By a previous marriage Sir W^Hani had a daughter Elizabeth, who married (in 1 749) George Grenville. This lady was, there- fore, Lady Blandford's step-daughter, and it was the possibility of meeting her and her husband, George Grenville, at Lady Bland - ford's house which was the cause of Walpole's embarrassment. HELEN TOYNBEE.

Dorney Wood, Burnham, Bucks.

" THE LONG AND THE SHORT OP IT " (8 th S. xii.

388, 452, 497). In further illustration of this

ghrase I send the following from Robert of runne's translation of Langtof t, ed. Hearne, p. 222 :

At ]>Q parlement was flemed barons fele ; t>e countas of Leicestre, hir sonnes wild no man

spele :

0]>erlordes inowe of erles & barouns, To ]>G wod som drowe, & som left in prisouns : To say longly or schorte, alle [pat] armes bare.

This is interesting for the arrangement of the words in present-day order so early as the middle of the fourteenth century.

F. ADAMS. 106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL (8 th S. xii. 486). Dean Milman who, if not infallible, is entitled to respect asserts, in his * Annals,' that Wren laid the first stone. If Compton officiated he was

gremature in performing his diocesan duties, )r Henchman, his predecessor, did not die until 7 October, and the stone was laid 21 June, 1675. See ' D. K B.', sub nn.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings.

DRUMMONDS OF BROICH AND STRAGEATH [8 th S. xii. 444, 504). To MR. BROUGH'S interesting summary of the history of this ancient family, now extinct in the roll of leritors of Strathearn, I may be allowed to add the following anecdote in regard to