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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XIL SEPT. 19, 1903.

means of consulting the whole of the baroness's correspondence. L. L. K.

NICHOLAS RUTS. I am anxious for a few biographical particulars of this man, whose portrait .Rembrandt painted in 1631.

W. ROBERTS.

Royal Societies' Club, S.W.

SIR RICHARD BONNYCASTLE. Some details of the life and military career of this man are desired. He was lieutenant-colonel of Royal Engineers in 1841. J. T. THORP. [An account is supplied in the ' D.N.B.']

HERALDIC. Will any of your readers kindly inform me to whom the following arms belong 1 Gules, on a chevron argent three roses of the field.

MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

F. I. SCUDAMORE'S POEMS Can any of your correspondents kindly tell me where I can find any poems in the lighter vein by Frank Ives Scudamore ?

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

Royal Institution, Hull.

"NOUMENA." Can any of your readers say what are the derivation and the proper pro- nunciation of " noumena " (things thought, as contrasted with phenomena, things which appear) ? Obviously it comes somehow from voou/xeva, but this should appear in English as " nooumena "or " no-umena," in either case as a word of four syllables. Is "noumena" properly a word of four syllables, and is the pronunciation of it as a word of three syl- lables a mere modern usage 1 I can find no such word as vov/j.tva in ancient Greek, arid it is not a possible ancient contraction.

KESH.

[The word clearly represents voov/xei'ot, and the desire to connect it with vovs probably led to the use of a similar contraction in the first syllable.]

DESECRATION OF HEMINGTON CHURCH. Can any reader give me information as to the date and circumstances of the desecra- tion of the church at Hemington, about a mile from Castle Donington, Leicestershire, where the ruined tower and nave are still to be seen 1 In a county directory published about 1860 it is stated that part of the ruins | was then occupied as a cottage. W. B. H.

DE MESMES AND MEMES FAMILIES. Can your readers give me information as to what are the crest and motto of the old i French family of De Mesmes, and as to any members of such family who settled in Scotland or England prior to the eighteenth

century? One is said to have been Governor of Berwick circa 1570. There was a family named Memes (also spelt Memess, Memis, Memmis, and Miemes) settled in Kincardine- shire and in Aberdeen in the eighteenth cen- tury, and, according to a tradition in one branch of this family, they are descended from a French De Mesmes, who came over to Scotland. Is the name Memes found else- where in Scotland or in England prior to 1800? The name seems now to have died out, except for one family in Australia. In Rob- son's ' The British Herald ' (3 vols. 1830) and Burke's 'General Armory' may be found the crest and arms of a family of Memes or Mennys (Kent and London, 1616) ; but as far as I can ascertain the name of the family thus referred to was spelt either Mennes or Mennys, and accordingly I suspect that Memes in * The British Herald ' is a misprint for Mennes, and that Burke has copied the misprint. W. M. H.

GOTT. Henry and Richard Gott were admitted to Westminster School on 19 Janu- ary, 1775. I should be glad to obtain any paVticulars concerning their parentage and career. G. F. R. B.

MILLER. Can any one tell me the name of the wife of Hugh Miller, of Greencroft, Peter- borough, Virginia? His daughter, Anne Miller, married Sir Peyton Skipwith, seventh baronet. KATHLEEN WARD.

" COUNTER-JUMPERS " : DRAPERS' SHOPS IN OLDEN TIMES. Can you or any of your readers refer me to literary references to the word " counter-jumper," or to references to drapers and the drapery trade in literature, or to engravings or pictures relating to the same trade ? W. G. PIPER.

Melbourne, Australia.

[The 'N.E.D.' gives quotations for "counter- jumper" and "counter-jumping" from Warren's ' Ten Thousand a Year,' Miss Braddon's ' Just as I Am, 3 Albert Smith's 'Christopher Tadpole,' and Hamerton's ' Intellectual Life.' It does not limit the use of the word to the drapery trade, but extends it to a shopman or shopkeeper's assistant.]

BRISTOL PUZZLE-RING. Mr. J. W. Baily exhibited before the British Archaeological Association on 12 January, 1870, a Bristol puzzle-ring. Can any reader of f N. & Q.' say what is meant by this ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

REBEL FLAG OF IRELAND. Sir Thomas Lipton is said by the Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent to have objected to the Irish flag, because there was no golden crown