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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9"> s. x. OCT. is, 1902.

death of Queen Anne, September the 17th, 1714."

We have then three different dates given by different writers as the day of the landing of George I. at Greenwich i.e., 17, 18, and 29 September ; and two dates as the day of coronation i.e., 20 and 31 October. The matter is of considerable historical interest, and doubtless the contributors to ' N. & Q.' will be able and anxious to arrive at a correct solution of the problem thus presented.

RONALD DIXON.

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ESQUIRES (9 th S. x. 148). MB. BRESLAR may like to be referred to the 'Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England ' (vol. v., s.v. ' Esquire') and the authorities there cited. URLLAD.

CASTLE CAREWE (9 th S. ix. 428, 490 : x. 92, 214). -H. V. might well exclude the peasantry. I doubt that their Welsh fathers mispro- nounced "in the beginning." I find Nicho- laus de Carriho mentioned (Glaus. 16 Hen. III. m. 15), and Johannes de Carreu apud Carru, in an inquisition taken at Pembroke (Esch. 18 Ed. I.). The REV. J. PICKFORD'S allusion to Bampfylde Moore Carew reminded me that the sturdy beggar often dandled my grand- father on his knee. My grandfather, who knew the Carews well as neighbours, entreated Bampfylde to mend his ways and return to his family. He replied, "No, no, Mr. Drake; I would rather be King of the Gipsies than King of England." My father, when narrat- ing the anecdote as he received it, always pro- nounced Carroo. My great-grandfather was, doubtless, the steward of Sir William, after- wards Viscount Cqurtenay, referred to in the gipsy king's memoirs. He, the viscount and his lady, in conversation, addressed each other by their Christian names, a significant matter. As these memoirs were referred to in ' N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. iii., iv., and 8 th S. i., it may not be out of place to correct some mistakes in them. My copy states that Bampfylde Moore Carew was born in July, 1693, and ran away from Newcastle with Miss G..y, daughter of an eminent apothecary there, their nuptials being celebrated in Bath with great gaiety and splendour. In searching through the bishop's transcripts at Exeter. I found the entry of his baptism 23 September, 1690, signed by his father, the Rev. Theodore Carew, the rector of Bickleigh, and in the register of marriages at Stoke Damarel, near Plymouth, 29 Decem- ber, 1733, Bampfylde Moore Carew and Mary Gray.

Sir Nicholas Carew, KG., of Beddington, and Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, were executed for conspiracy, which is also

significant touching the secret history of Sir Francis Drake. King Henry VIII. conferred the Garter on Sir Nicholas because " he was a fit person upon the eminence of his extrac- tion and fame" (Ashmole's 'Garter,' p. 286, 28 Hen. VEIL). So doubtless the Gherardini tradition was rife when Surrey wrote ; but, pleased as I am to be in agreement with COL. PRIDEAUX, I can neither accept Mr. Round's testimony (derived from the Marquess of Kildare) respecting the seniority of Maurice over William, sons of Gerald by the Princess Nesta, nor profess faith in the Gherardini story, flattering as it might be to trace my descent from a companion of pious ^Eneas.

The Earl of Totnes, a better antiquary than the Duke of Leinster, gave precedence to William, whose descendants inherited Carew Castle, and to whose grandson, Wil- liam de Carrio, King John, 25 May, 1213, restored the manor of Moulsford, Berks, which King Henry I. had granted to Gerald fitz Walter, grandfather of Odo, the father of William last named (Hardy, ' Rot. Chart.,' i. 186, Harl. MS. 1070). The sequence is Otheus (i.e., Odo), Constable of Windsor, temp. Edward the Confessor (Harl. MS. 1155, f. 69), Walter, Gerald, William, Odo, William. Had Maurice been the elder, Castle Carew and Moulsford would, most probably, have gone to the Earls of Kildare.

Though Walter fitz Otho, or Other (?), had a wife named Beatrice, he might have had another named Gladys.

Now Gerald Cambrensis, grandson of Nesta and Gerald de Windsor, relates that Rhys ap Griffith (his cousin-german, I believe, who ought to have known), in naming the children of his aunt Nesta, ranks William fitz Gerald first. H. H. DRAKE.

R. Ferguson derives Carr, Carry, from O. Norse name Kari, god of the winds ; and we have an O.G. Windo, Eng. Wind and Window, and a Mod.G. Wind and Wend. R. S. CHARNOCK, Ph.D.

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" TOUT LASSE TOUT CASSE TOUT PASSE "

(9 th S. vii. 247). I do not think any one has yet replied as to this phrase. I myself was informed some time ago I do not know on what authority that it was the motto of A. Dumas pere ; but to search for it in his works, even if there mentioned, would be like looking for a needle in the proverbial bottle of hay. However, it is in a volume that I have (and I have not been able to find it in any of my other collections of French pro- verbs) entitled 'Quelque six mille Proverbes et Aphorismes usuels empruntes a notre age