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known. What similar legends are to be found in British folk-lore? F. J. C.

Frankfurt a. Main.

" MACARONI FIDDLE " : " MACARONI TOOLS." A "macaroni fiddle" is mentioned in con- nexion with a French horn, a violin, a bass, a bassoon, &c., in Fanny Burney's 'Early Diary' (1889), ii. 185 (April, 1777). What kind of instrument is meant 1 And what are "macaroni tools," referred to, along with "skew chisels," in an article in Koutledge's 'Every Boy's Annual,' 1872? I should be glad of any other examples of either of these terms. HENRY BRADLEY.

Clarendon Press, Oxford.

BAND : WALDRON, c. 1760. I am trying to trace the father of Mary Waldron, a ward in Chancery, who married George Band, a farmer and woolstapler of Higham-on-the- Hill, Nuneaton, Leicestershire, about 1760. Mary Waldron Band had three daughters, Patience, Mary, and Nancy. Patience married

- Gubbins, and Mary married Cox.

Nancy went to London and married a banker of the name of Hatfield or Atwell. Elizabeth Cox married, c. 1800-5, William Hornsby, my grandfather, who lived and died at Cotes- bach, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire. The Coxes, I think, lived at Nuneaton or Ather- stone. I am directly descended from Mary Waldron and George Band, and shall be grateful to any one who can inform me where the marriage of Elizabeth Cox and William Hornsby took place. (Mrs.) ELIZA BAILEY.

2330, West Thompson Street, Philadelphia.

FRENCH QUOTATION. Who was the author of the phrase " Je prendsmon bien ou je le trouve"? I have heard it attributed to Moliere. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

["II m'est permis de reprendre raon bien," &c., is the saying attributed to Moliere on noting the borrowing of a phrase of his by Cyrano de Ber- gerac. See De Grimarest, ' Vie de Moliere.']

M.P.s FOR NORWICH IN 1558/9. Can some East Anglian correspondent throw light upon this uncertain return 1 According to the Blue-book list Sir William Wood house and Alderman Thomas Sotherton were elected on 30 January, 1558/9. Browne Willis gives as the members William [should be Edward] Flowerdew and Alderman John Aldrych, and it seems fairly certain that these two sat in this Parliament, if, as ' alleged, the local records state that the city of Norwich paid them 36J. for sixty-four days' knight's meat in 1 Elizabeth. Both Flowerdew and Aldrych were elected for Norwich in the Parliament of 1572, though the election of Flowerdew

was not allowed. Is it possible that this payment by the city has been assigned to the wrong Parliament? It is to be noted that the names of the members for the county are wanting in 1558/9. Sir William Wood- house was knight of the shire in the Par-' liaments both preceding and following that of 1558/9, and might well have been returned to this. But his colleague Thomas Sotherton could hardly have represented any other constituency than the city of which he was an alderman. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.

LEWIS CARROLL'S PEDIGREE. I have been asked many hundreds of times, and occa- sionally by correspondents of ' N. & Q.,' and that not in England alone, whether I am of the same family as C. L. Dodgson, the author of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' with whom I was acquainted. Not having studied the question by the aid of the official registers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, I can only answer that my grandfather, my father, and my paternal aunts, who were also acquainted with that author and his father, believed that they had a common ancestor. Will some correspondent of 'N. & Q.' let us know if this belief can be shown to be well grounded? I knew the uncle of Lewis Carroll. He was the first president of the Union Society in Oxford. E. S. DODGSON.

THE UNITED STATES AND ST. MAR.

GARET'S, WESTMINSTER.

(9 th S. xii. 1, 63, 123, 164.)

WITH reference to the Kalegh memorial inscription in the south aisle of this church, your correspondent affirms it to be "the ancient one from the oaken tablet of 1618." This statement is assuredly incorrect, and opens the question whether an inscription or memorial of any kind, recording the death and interment of that great Elizabethan worthy, was to be found in that church until after the Stuart dynasty had passed away, or before the commencement or middle of the next century.

The well-known letter from Lady Kalegh to her brother Sir Nicholas Carew, in which she requested his permission for the remains of her " nobell hosban " to be interred in Beddington Church, expressly mentions, " The Lordes have geven me his ded boddi, though they denied me his life. This nit hee shall be brought you with two or three of my men." Although theletter is undated, Edwards