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probably at that early stage of the Presby- terian settlement they would. Admission to one of the Inns of Court, taken by itself, is, of course, no indication of after professional employment, but enrolment among the Benchers, as well as the Recordership of Weymouth, clearly denote that Dr. Bond was a practising barrister, and therefore not at all likely to be at the same time in Orders, whether Presbyterian or Episcopal.

In Carter's 'History of Oamb. University' Dr. Bond is stated, though somewhat doubt- fully, to have died in 1649, and to have been followed in that year as Master of Trinity by

a Dell. This is an error. Dr. Bond

was one of the members of the House secluded in Pride's Purge ; but there is no reason for supposing that he then vacated his Mastership. We have it upon the same authority that he was Vice-Chancellor of his university in 1658-59, and he doubtless held the Mastership of Trinity Hall until 3 Aug., 1660, when Dr. King, who had been displaced by Parliament in 1645 to make way for Dr. Bond, was restored.

Dr. Bond is named in one of Prynne's numerous pamphlets amongst the secluded members who were living in 1659, and in another list is stated to have been one of those who returned to Westminster when Monck enforced the re-entry into the House of the secluded members. Although no evi- dence of his presence in the House during the closing two months of the restored Long Parliament can be found in the 'Journals,' there seems no reason for doubting the fact of his return. He, however, took no further part in Parliamentary life. The statement in Noble's ' Regicides ' is probably accurate, that he died at Sandwich in the Isle of Pur- beck, and was buried in Steeple Churchyard on 30 July, 1676.

With reference to his namesake the Puritan divine and Master of the Savoy I can add but little. He was not one of the original members of the Westminster Assembly, but was appointed in the place of Archbishop Ussher, who declined the nomination. He is mentioned repeatedly in the minutes of the Assembly as being present as late as June, 1648, but is always styled "Mr." Bond. His D.C.L. degree I regard, with H. C., as exceedingly dubious. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton le Willows.

"DIFFERENT THAN" (9 th S. x. 128, 192). Mr. Fitzedward Hall, who held that we may follow " the vast majority " of educated people, in preference to obeying the behests of " transcendental grammarians," neverthe-

less condemned "different than," although he found it in the writings of Addison, Steele, De Foe, Richardson, Coleridge, De Quincey, Thackeray, Cardinal Newman, and other eminent writers. C. C. B.

Ford's lines would be all right if the super- lative surest were altered to the comparative surer. It is probable that surest is a mistake of the printer, or inadvertency in the author.

E. YARDLEY.

" STEER " OF WOOD OR BARK (9 th S. ix. 509). It is remarkable that an Act of Parliament passed in the 24th-25th year (1861) of our late Queen's reign should contain a word requir- ing a gloss, if, indeed, it be native. ^Steer at once brings to mind the French stere or cubic metre, used for measuring firewood, equivalent, to 35'3156 English cubic feet. ''Stere" is mentioned in connexion with "cord of wood "in Rees's 'Cyclopaedia,' voc. ' Cord ' :

"Cord of wood is now measured, particularly

in Worcestershire, where the same has been regu- lated by statute, Between two stakes of wood four feet high and" eight feet apart ;' and is to be four feet broad and high and eight feet long=128 cubic feet=4 74 cubic yards=3'622 steres or cubic inches [sic] of France." Will this help your correspondent ?

F. ADAMS.

LACY OR DE LACY FAMILY (9 th S. x. 148). The illustrious Norman house of Lacy has produced many exalted characters. In 1642 there were three branches of the family settled in the county of Limerick alone, at Bruree, Bruff, and Ballingarry, all descended from the celebrated Hugo de Lacy (by his second wife the Princess Rose, daughter of the ex-Ard-Righ, or monarch of Erin, and King ,of Connaught, Ruadri or Roderic O'Conor), who in 1172 received from King Henry II. the whole of the province of Meath, theretofore the ancient mensal lands of the O'Melaghlins while kings of Ireland. The Count Lacy referred to by MR. FRED. G. ACKERLEY was the famous Field-Marshal Peter Lacy, who was born at Killidy, or Killeedy, on 29 September, 1678, his father having been Peter of Ballingarry, who married Maria Courteney. At the capitu- lation of Limerick in 1691 Peter Lacy was an ensign in Sarsfield's army, and, quit- ting Ireland with his uncle Col. John Lacy, he joined the Irish Brigade in France, and was appointed a lieutenant in the regi- ment of Athlone. He served with Marshal Cautinet's army in Italy until the end of 1696. and his regiment having been dis- banded at the Peace of Ryswick, he entered the Polish service, under Marshal Due de