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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. xi. JUNE 20, 1903.

monumental inscription to the Bell family in that " God's Acre," part of which, I may incidentally add, is separated from the church by a road intersecting the burial- ground. CHAS. H. CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

"UTHER" AND "ARTHUR" (9 th S. xi. 327). May I put the previous question, and ask MR. E. S. DODGSON what ground he has for asserting that Uther was an " ancient British name " ? W. H. B.

I know that some high Celtic authorities hold that Arthur is a Roman n&me^Artorius, found in Juvenal. H. A. STRONG.

University College, Liverpool.

DR. EDMOND HALLEY (9 th S. x. 361 : xi. 85, 205, 366). In F. H. Hart's 'History of Lee' (Lee, 1882), p. 4, it is stated :

" On the east side [of the old churchyard of St. Margaret's], near the fence, about twenty-two yards from the road, is a plain table tomb to the memory of a late celebrated Astronomer Royal, Dr. Edmond Halley, who died in 1742, aged eighty-five ; also to his eldest daughter Margaret, died 1743, aged fifty-five ; and to his youngest daughter, Mrs. C. Price, died 1765, aged seventy-seven years. In the same vault lies buried John Pond, the Astro- nomer Royal, born 1767, died at Greenwich 1836, aged sixty-nine years."

It is not stated how Pond came to be buried in the Halley family vault.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JOHN CARTER, ANTIQUARY (9 th S. xi. 207, 352). A member of the squire's family in- forms me that at her request the historian of Partney, the Rev. G. G. Walker, the present rector, has searched the registers, &c., but has been unable to discover any trace of John Carter's residence in the parish. It is more than probable, therefore, that the famous antiquary was only a guest and not a resident there. L. L. K.

"TRAVAILLER POUR LE Roi DE PRUSSE" (9 th S. xi. 289, 392, 437). The Portuguese have a similar saying for work that is un- remunerative viz., " Trabalhar para obispo," to work for the bishop. E. S. DODGSON.

DUDLEY OF WILTSHIRE (9 th S. xi. 408). The bishop's certificate (at the Public Record Office) shows that on 8 April, 1665, Henry Dudley, clerk, was admitted vicar of Broad Hinton, Wilts, on the presentation of the warden and brothers and sisters of the hos- pital of St. Nicholas-juxta-Pontem, near Sarum. H. C.

CAPE GARDAFUI (9 th S. xi. 390). The meaning of this name is given in ' Hobson-

Jobson' (the second edition of which I am glad to see is now ready), and also in Burton's 'Camoens,' 1881, vol. i. p. 489. It is from the Egyptian Arabic Gardafun, where gard means bay and Hafun is the name of the adjoining district. Barbosa (1516) mentions the district under the name of Afuni, and the cape under that of Guardafun.

JAMES PLATT, Jun.

The more correct spelling is Guardafui, and the word is taken from the Portuguese guardafu="\)ew&re ye," from a supposed magnetic rock at the place, requiring caution in navigating round it. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

MR. BELLASIS will find that the derivation of this name is fully discussed in Yule and Burnell's ' Hobson-Jobson,' second edition, p. 398. It represents the Arabic Jard-Hafun.

EMERITUS.

POEMS ON MISCHIEF (9 th S. xi. 389). An excellent and very humorous example is Hood's ' Parental Ode to my Son.'

G. L APPERSON.

ROBERT ORME (9 th S. xi. 388). I possess a copy of KearsleyV Complete Peerage/ London, April, 1794, according to which Audrey, only daughter of Charles, third Viscount Towns- hend, married Roger (not Robert) Orme, Esq., of Devon. An inquiry respecting Robert Orme has already appeared in 1 st S. xi. 242, but elicited no reply.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

BLUE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BLESSED VIRGIN

(9 th S. xi. 388). In mediaeval times we some- times find blue used in Lent and on Good Friday. It is, in fact, like violet and purple, the ecclesiastical equivalent of black. After the establishment of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, black was used there for festivals of Our Lady : " Omnes sollemnitates beatse Marise cum pannis et vestibus nigris." In Spain to the present day blue is used, but I am not sure whether on all her festivals or only on some. Cf. 5 th S. i. 397, 494 ; 7 th S. iv. 148, 254. Most early pictures give her either a black or blue mantle, but white or green mantles are by no means uncommon, and in Gentile da Fabriano's ' Virgin and Child ' in the Louvre the mantle is brown.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

' VICAR OF WAKEFIELD' (9 th S. xi. 187, 274, 375). The reference in It. Soc. Lit. Trans., Second Series, xix. 93, is to the British Maga- zine, vii. 623 (December, 1766), where is a