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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XL MAY 23, MOB.

site was sold by auction on the 14th inst., Mr. B. F. Breach, of Messrs. Farebrother & Ellis, being the auctioneer. The price realized was 100,000*. Y. Z.

"ADVERTISE." With reference to the former use of this word in the meaning of to advise or to inform, the earliest occasion on which it was so used would appear to be in the book of Ruth, iv. 3, 4 :

" And he [BoazJ said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's : and I thought to advertise thee, say- ing. Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people."

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

179, Marylebone Road, N.W.

[This quotation from the A.V. duly appears in the 'H.E.D.,' where the earliest illustration of this sense of advertise is from Caxton in 1490.]

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in orderthat the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

SIR THOMAS CRAIG AND SIR THOMAS HOPE. Looking into the ' D.N.B.' for information about Sir Thomas Craig, author of 'Jus Feudale,' I found the following statement :

" Shortly before his death he was made advocate for the Church, and as such defended in 1606 the six ministers who were tried for treason for holding a General Assembly at Aberdeen."

But on turning to the memoir of Sir Thomas Hope, Lord Advocate, I found :

"He defended John Forbes and five other minis- ters tried at Linlithgow, in 1606, upon a charge of having committed treason in declining to acknow- ledge the jurisdiction claimed by the Privy Council over the General Assembly. He, like his leaders Thomas Craig, William Oliphant, and Thomas Gray, counselled submission, but when the two former declined to appear at the trial on 10 Jan., Hope made so vigorous a defence that, although his clients were convicted, he speedily ranked among the foremost men at the bar.

There is a life of Craig by P. F. Tytler, 1 823, but I have not been able to see a copy of it. Did Craig defend in 1606 the ministers who were tried for treason, or did he decline to do so? W. S.

GILLYGATE AT YORK. We have here in York an archway or gate in the wall of St. Mary's Abbey, which a tablet affixed by the Corporation states was made in July, 1503, when the Princess Margaret was a guest for two days while on her way to become the bride of James IV. of Scotland

This gateway, made by request, it is said, of Henry VII., is known as Gillygate, but whether from the old pronunciation of July, which was Gilly, or after a church dedicated to St. Giles, of which no trace remains, or from the Italian form of Lilium, giglio, which, by metonomy or trope, was a term used in fortification, no one seems to know definitely. As the Public Library does not contain, as it should do, a complete set of 'N. & Q.,' I am unable, without thus troubling you, to ascertain whether it has ever been explained. As the word has been in use at least four hundred years, I shall be glad if any of your readers will clear up the real meaning. P. M. CAMPBELL.

33, Vyner Street, York.

[Gillygate is mentioned 8 th S. x. 69, but its ety- mology is not supplied.]

MADRAS CHAPLAINS. Robert Wynch was appointed by the E.I. Co. in 1731, and Richard Rider in 1746. I shall be much obliged if any one can tell me their place of birth and education. Both died in the East.

FRANK PENNY, LL.M.

DEDICATION TO THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND. A book entitled * Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects,' by the Rev. John Bennett (fifth American edition, Philadelphia, 1809), was originally dedicated to the Queen of England. What queen is this likely to be ?

E. C. COIT.

9, West Mohawk Street, Buffalo, U.S.

MOHAMMED'S COFFIN IN MID AIR. Can any of your readers give me some information on the subject of that absurd superstition, according to which Mohammed's coffin is suspended in mid-air? I know, of course, that the Moors occasionally hung the coffins of dead Christian captives from the battle- ments of fortresses. C. E. D. A.

Philadelphia.

[See 7 th S. viii. 188, 274 ; 8 th S. i. 68, 197.]

EQUATORIAL AFRICA : ITS BIBLIOGRAPHY. I am desirous of obtaining a complete list of all the books that have been published relating to Equatorial Africa, particularly the Congo region, since about 1887. Can you advise me how to obtain this ? L. M. P.

JOHN FOSTER. In 1825 an octavo pam- phlet of sixty -six pages was printed by A. Glanvill at Taunton, entitled ' ' Strictures on the Address of Mr. R. Towers to the Protestant Inhabitants of Taunton ; or, an Investigation of Popery, &c. By J. Foster." Can any correspondent of * N. & Q.' inform me whether the writer of the pamphlet was John Foster