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dagmakers belonged to the craft of hammer- men. Steps should be taken to preserve this interesting old slab, which is daily trodden by visitors to the abbey. The inscription and emblems on Wotherspone's slab, which is dated 1520, have been almost entirely obliterated.

I do not know the date of the incorpora- tion of the Canongate hammermen, but the hammermen of Edinburgh were first erected into a body corporate in 1483, when they included smiths of all sorts, saddlers, and bucklers or armourers. Dagmakers are seldom mentioned in the Burgh Records of Edinburgh, and it is probable that their trade was a small one, dags being imported from the Continent in large numbers. For example, a list of articles shipped on one occasion from Flanders to England in 1559 includes " 18,000 dagges" (see Scott's 'British Army,' vol. ii. pp. 198, 301).

Among instructions from the Privy Council to the citizens of Norwich in 1584 we read that

"light horsemen's saddles should bee light, according to those of the Northern light horsemen, and yet suche as a case of daggs may be fastened to the pommell thereof."

The dag was a kind of pistol, about two feet long. W. S.

FIRST FOLIO FACSIMILE. In Mr. Sidney Lee's introduction to the facsimile of the First Folio there occurs a slight error : in a foot-note Mr. Lee mentions a sixth edition of < Henry VI.,' 1622 ; it should be 'Henry IV.' MAUKICE JONAS.

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 may be addressed to them direct.

FLEETWOOD FAMILY. Hester Fleetwood, a daughter of Sir William Fleetwood, of Cardington Manor, Beds, Receiver of the Court of Wards, married before 1600 Sir Oliver Lambart, created afterwards Lord Lambart, Baron of Cavan. On the death of her husband in 1618, Hester, Lady Lambart, became entitled to a life interest in his West- meath estates ; and on 13 July, 1628, when residing in the family mansion in Kilbeggan, co. Westmeath, she presented to the perpetual curacy of Kilbeggan the Rev. Thomas Fleet- wood, who had obtained deacon's orders on 15 April, 1628, and priest's on 12 July, 1628. Information is sought as to the parentage of

this Rev. Thomas Fleetwood. He was the pro- genitor of a branch of the Fleetwood family that continued to live in or near Kilbeggan until the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Fleetwood pedigree contained in Browne's 'History of Stoke Newington 3 ('Bibl. Top. Britann.,' vol. ii. part ii. p. 28) shows that Hester, Lady Lambart, had, amongst other brothers, a Thomas Fleetwood and a John Fleetwood. Was the Rev. Thomas Fleet- wood a son of either of these ? A John Fleet- wood, apparently a son of the Rev. Thomas, was living in Kilbeggan in 1664.

Has the pedigree of the Fleetwood family compiled by Mr. J. P. Earwaker (referred to in 'D.N.B.' in the article on Charles Fleet- wood) been published 1 It would be of great value to those interested in the history of the Fleet woods. EDMUND T. BEWLEY.

40, Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin.

" KAIMAKAM." I wonder whether any of your readers could help me to a quotation I wish to get illustrating the word kaimakam or caimacam, a lieutenant or deputy. It appeared in a song which Ronconi used to sing, with much applause, from Mozart's opera * II Ratto dal Seraglio,' and the words were like these :

Kaimakam e Pappataci Mangiare, bere, e poi dormir.

Possibly some one may have the song, or even the Italian version of the opera, and be able to quote the name of the song and a few lines suitable for my purpose.

W. BROADFOOT, Major.

WESLEY QUERIES. Can any of your readers put me upon the track of illustrative or ex- planatory material connected with Wesley's references in his ' Journals ' as noted below 1

1. San ton Barsisa and his story (vol. ii. p. 79).

2. Joseph Rule, the White Quaker (vol. iii. p. 81).

3. Mompesson's ghost at Tedworth (vol. iii. p. 325). Addison's " Drummer of Tedworth," introduced into Hogarth's ' Credulity, Super- stition, &c., a Medley,' must be an entirely different matter.

4. A pond, between Wincaunton and Bris- tol, " in which a great man, a few weeks since (circ. 14 Oct., 1765), put an end to a wretched life. And is death more welcome than life, even to a man that wallows in gold and silver? " (Vol. iii. p. 238.)

The references are to Wesley's 'Works,' ed. 1829, London, 8vo. F.

" CYCLOPEDIA " : " ENCYCLOPAEDIA." We are all familiar with these words, either of