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woodwork at the expense of the late T. A. Green, Esq.," who (from p. 307), it would appear, came into possession of Pavenham Bury about 1840 or 1841, expending a large sum in transforming this house into a mansion of Elizabethan character. The indices to ' N. & Q.' and to the Archceologia, as well as the only volume of Bedfordshire Notes and Queries to which I have access, give no result so far as concerns the wood york. Can any one furnish its history ?

FRANK REDE FOWKE. 24, Netherton Grove, Chelsea, S. W.

ARMIGEROUS FAMILIES. How can I find out whether an English family is armigerous 1 I have evidence from seals, monuments, and funeral certificates that its members have used the same arms since the time of Ed- ward III. One of its members was Garter King of Arms about the middle of the eigh- teenth century. H. M.

" LA TRISTE H^RITIERE ": LADY ROCHESTER. Can any one kindly tell me what became of the portrait of Elizabeth Malet, Countess of Rochester, " La Triste Heritiere " of Gram- mont's memoirs, which was advertised for sale in London, but not by Messrs. Christie, in April or May, 1899, and where it can be seen at present? I rather think it passed through Messrs. Graves's hands, but will not be certain. Z.

SALE OF MYTTON AND HARDWICK COLLEC- TION OF MSS. This took place at Sotheby's on 2 May, 1877, consisted of 169 lots, and realized 1,5712. 9s. Could any one oblige me with information about the present owners other than the British Museum, which has about ten lots ? C. E. GUEST.

Ascot Lodge, Wood Lane, W.

PEGGE FAMILY. I should be glad if any reader could tell me what branch of the Pegge family Daniel Pegge came from (he died in Philadelphia some years since), and if it was the said Daniel or his father that joined Penn's colony in Pennsylvania. Any information from American or other readers of ' N. & Q.' will greatly oblige.

BEAUCHIEF.

JOHN GOOD. At 7 th S. viii. 143, in an article on ' The Bibliography of Dialling,' John Good is mentioned. Is anything known of him ; and can he be identified with John Good, a goldsmith of Devizes who died 1744?

FRANCIS R. RUSH TON.

Be tch worth.

[The John Good in question was admitted to the Clockmakers' Company, 1678. See Britten, p. 410.]

MORDAUNT COLLEGE. Can any one tell me where Mordaunt or Mordaunt's College is or was in the middle of the eighteenth century, and how I should proceed to obtain an extract from the parish or other register of a marriage which took place there in 1752? J. M. T. [Morden College, Blackheath, was founded in 1695.]

SIR JOHN WORSHAM. I find in 1640 a notice of the death of " Sir John Worsham, the great Farmer." Who was he; and what did he farm ? LOBUC.

" MUSKEG BERRY." What kind of berry is the " muskeg berry " ? The term is Canadian, and I found it in- a recent volume (1902) of the Idler magazine. It appears to be absent from all English dictionaries. Has it any. connexion with the Cree word muskeg (Odjibwa mashkig), which means merely " swamp " ? JAS. PLATT, Jun.

GLENCAIRN PEERAGE Can any one give me information respecting the now extinct Glencairn peerage, mentioning any claimants there may have been to it, and on what de- gree of relationship their claims were founded ?

MIRANDA.

KNIFE SUPERSTITION. I take the following paragraph from Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper of 16 November :

"The survival of a curious superstition was brought to light at Essex Assizes on Wednesday, when George Carrington, a dealer, was indicted for stabbing Frederick Glanfield, at Clacton. In order that the wounds might the more speedily heal the knife was greased and laid on the bed on which the prosecutor slept, and, added the learned counsel for the prosecution, it certainly happened that no serious results followed from the wounding."

Has this item of folk-lore ever been noticed in ' N. & Q.'-? F. ADAMS.

[The custom is mentioned at 7 th S. vi. 175, under the heading " A hair of the dog that bit you." An old nurse thirty years ago always, when the children cut or pricked themselves, put ointment on the thing that had caused the injury, and said that would heal the wound.]

MERIMEE'S "!NCONNUE." What is the latest information regarding the identity of this lady ? I am aware that various theories have from time to time been put forward. In 1889 Macmillan & Co. published in their "Colonial Library," under the title of 'An Author's Love,' her "unpublished letters " to Merimee. From the preface to that edition it would appear that the original theory of her being a myth and her letters a romance of Merimee's own creation was early set aside, equally with the belief that she was an " Englishwoman moving in brilliant society"; and it is there asserted that she has been con- fidently identified with a " respectable single