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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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understood to mean that the Egyptians were careful to avoid sacrificing oxen that resem- bled the sacred Apis in colour or marks (the colours of Apis were black and white). Plu- tarch, Tiepl "lo-iSos /ecu 'Ocr/piSos, 31 ( = 363B), says that the Egyptians sacrificed red oxen (TCOV /3owv TOUS Trvppous), and rejected them if a single black or white hair was present. Diodorus Siculus (i. 88, 4) says that the Egyptians sacrificed red oxen (TOVS Trvppovs /?ous) The Jewish practice has been com- pared of sacrificing a red heifer without spot (Numbers xix. 2), and the statement of Mai- monides (' De vacca rufa,' i.) that if two white or black hairs are found on the beast it is not fit for sacrifice. Those interested in the question may be referred to 'Herodot's zweites Buch mit sachlichen Erlauterungen heraus-

Ssgeben von Alfred Wiederaann ' (Leipzig, . G. Teubner, 1890), pp. 180, 181, and the references there given. EDWARD BENSLY. The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

CASTLE CAREWE, PEMBROKE (9 th S. ix. 428, 490). Opinions vary as to the pronunciation of Carew. Wintering in Wales for some years, I have perambulated there by aid of MR. C. S. WARD'S excellent guide-book, which informs us that " Carew is locally pronounced Carey.' MR F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY, writing from Cardiff (6 th S. ii. 456), states that while in Tenby he " usually heard Carew pronounced as Carroo "; and though my late friend Sir John Maclean, the historian, warned me that the natives would not understand my in- quiries for Carewe, I reached there by means of "Carroo," and never once heard Carey, remained there two days, and discoursec much with the incumbent. For specia reasons I have sought information from Welsh gentlemen, and a few weeks since a reverend magistrate in Wales decided for "Carroo." I asked the Hon. Mrs. P. B (daughter of the late centenarian Lady Jan Carew of Wexford, who did not dance at th Waterloo ball, and whose parents fled tc Haverf ord west, not Holy head, as the news papers stated) how she pronounced her familj name, and she rendered it rather a tri syllable, in accord with the ancient spelling in the public records Cariou, temp. Hen. II. Karrieu, temp. Ric. I.; Carrio, temp. John and Karreu, temp. Ed. I.

Above seventy years ago the Carews o Antony were not known as Careys. Carew from north of Cornwall annually visitec Antony and cut a turf from the lawn t sustain an alleged title to the estate. Fo explanation see Vivian's 'Visitation o Devon.' Jonathan Rashleigh married Jane

aughter of Sir John Carew of Antony ; heir daughter married the Rev. Charles Pole, 'hose son Reginald assumed the additional ame of Carew, in compliance with the will f his kinsman Sir Coventry Carew ; and his on (father of General Reginald Pole Carew) vas, I imagine, persuaded by Sir John Mac- ean to become a Carey. Sir John, in an article headed 'The Families of Carew and Jarey Distinguished,' stated that the " repre- entation of the elder line of this distin- guished family devolved " eventually on George Carew, Baron Clopton and Earl of Totnes, and ultimately on myself by descent Tom his only sister (Herald and Genealogist, vii. 21, 23), by virtue of which I presumed, hrough a friend, to recommend the general ,o abjure Carey, especially as his ancestor Richard Carew wrote

Carew of ancient Carru was, And Carru is a plowe.

'Survey of Cornw.,' fo. 103, ed. 1602.

And charrue, French for plough, is phonetic- ally somewhat remote from Carey.

SHAMROCK, under 'Castle Carew = Carey' (7 th S. iii. 447), alluding to the conveyance of bhe castle by Rhys ap Tudor, Prince of South Wales, to Gerald de Windsor in marriage with his daughter Nesta, states in error that the Fitz Geralds descended from the De Mor- taines who accompanied the Conqueror, mean- ing Robert, Comte de Mortain, his uterine brother, of whom Planche knew little, and of whom I may, if spared, have something to say touching the Bayeux tapestry. His daughter Agnes married Andrew de Vitre, whose grandson Robert married Emma de Dinan. Their issue took the name of Dinan, from whom descended Lord Dynham, K.G., Treasurer of the Exchequer to K. Henry VII., ob. sp. A.D. 1500 leaving his eldest sister and coheiress Margaret, the wife of Nicholas, Baron Carew. These were grandparents of the Earl of Totnes above. Their mural altar- tomb is in Westminster Abbey. I hardly think SHAMROCK knew this descent when describing "the Dukes of Leinster, the Earls of Desmond and Totnes, and Barons Carew, also the Marquess of Lansdowne," as descen- dants from the Mortaines.

The Duke of Leinster, when Marquis of Kildare, in 1858, published " A Notice of the Fitz Geralds or Geraldines, descendants from ' Dominus Otho,' who in 1057 was an honorary Baron of England, and said to have been of the family of the Gherardini of Florence." His son Walter, castellan of Windsor, married Gladys, daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynvyn, Prince of North Wales. His grandson Gerald married the Princess Nesta aforesaid, and