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NOTES AND QUERIES. D> s. x. OCT. 25, 1902.

It subsequently appears in the guise of Lurgeshall and Lutgashall.

Canon Jackson, in a note on p. 358 of his 'Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections, 1 says the ancient name was Lutegar's Hall, the resi- dence of some Saxon owner. Locally the pronunciation is Luggershull (sh as in shall).

In addition to the similar names given by C. H. SP. P. there is yet another Ludgershall in Bucks. CHAS. GILLMAN.

Church Fields, Salisbury.

This place-name is derived from the per- sonal name Luitgar, which may be found in the Anglo-Saxon charters. I am sorry I have mislaid my reference.

RALPH NEVILL, F.S.A.

Guildford.

According to the 'Index Geographicus ' and ' Clergy List ' there are two places bear- ing this name, one in Bucks and the other in Wilts, formerly known as Lurgeshall and Lutgashall. There is also a parish in Sussex known as Lurgasall. For the derivation of the place-name see 7 th S. vi. 287, 397.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

LADY NOTTINGHAM (9 th S. ix. 128, 213, 455 ; x. 11, 97) If legends on this subject are wanted and MR. DIXON'S story seems an obvious myth there is no better collection than that in Nathaniel Wanley's ' Wonders of the Little World,' book ii. chap, xxv., p. 40 of the edition of 1678. I notice that many of his instances " of the marvelous f ruitf ulness of some " are from an author whom he cites as "Schenk." Was this worthy, by chance, an ancestor of the ingenious Viennese pro- fessor who instructed the world some few years ago in the means for determining the sex of infants? O. O. H.

Several correspondents have cited instances of the number of children born to one wife exceeding that of thirty born to Lady Not- tingham, but have not substantiated their assertion. I have met with two instances of very numerous families, not quite reaching thirty, but well authenticated. In Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' under the pedigree of Massie of Coddington, co. Chester, is a record of twenty-two children by one wife born to the Rev, Richard Massie, rector of Eccleston, which proves the truth of the old Cheshire saying :

In Cheshire there are Leighs as thick as fleas,

Massies as asses, and Davenports as dog-tails.

In the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal

(vol. i. p. 228) the epitaph is recorded of Jane,

wife of Phineas Hodson, D.D., Chancellor of

York, who died in childbed in 1636, at the age of thirty-eight, having had the extra- ordinary number of twenty-four children. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

WESTPHALIE (9 th S. x. 247). Ce titre de baron de Westphalie applique au general Jalras, et non Jabras, est le resultat d'une erreur de scribe. Ce general recut, avec le titre de baron de 1'empire, de Napoleon I. une dotation de 2,000 francs de rentes a prendre sur des biens reserves a Erfurt en Westphalie. C'est ce rapprochement d'une partie du siege de la dotation qui a du causer I'erreur. Voir pour les details sur Jalras 'L' Armorial du l er Empire,' t. ii. p. 338, du Vte. A. Reverend (Paris, 1894-1900).

REVEREND. 25, Rue Fontaine, Paris.

CLOSE, OFFICER OF THE VICTORY (9 th S. x. 288). The pay-book of the Victory for 1805, which DR. YOUNGER can see at the Record Office, contains the names of every officer and man then serving in the ship.

J. K. LAUGHTON.

To assist my friend the late Mrs. Hilda Gamlin, of Birkenhead, with her work en- titled ' Nelson's Friendships,' about five years ago, I consulted many of the log-books of His Afajesty's ship Victory deposited in the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane. Probably the information required might be obtained from the same source.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

HERRICK'S ' HESPERIDES ' : " LUTES OF AMBER" (9 th S. ix. 408, 471 ; x. 17, 95). Your correspondent H. I. B. asks, "Is there any instance of rfAeKTpov as part of the material of a lute or harp ? " There is no instance, I believe, of rjXeKrpov (neut.) being so used ; but there is a pretty clear example of rjXeKTpos (fem.) = the amber ornament of a lyre, to be found in Aristophanes, ' Eq.,' 532 :

TWl/ TyAcKTjOWf KCU TOV TOVOV OVK

e CVOVTOS.

There can be little doubt that it is amber, and not electrum, the metallic compound, that is here alluded to ; and this view is sup- ported by the most recent and one of the best of English editors of the 'Equites,' the late Dr. R, A. Neil. ALEX. LEEPER.

Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

SATHALIA (9 th S. viii. 423 ; i. 250 ; x. 256). Allow me just to point out that the identi- fication of Sathalia with Attalia was ex- plained much more than a century ago (with