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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. XIL DEC. 12,

impressions, earmarking inaccuracies, the display of new literary discoveries, or inter- esting matter generally.

I do not see the relevancy of J. B. P.'s reference to the length of my last reply, any more than if I now said his reply extends to about a column. There was not any attempt on my part to court an expression of kindness or favour, so far as the sub- ject under consideration is concerned : cer- tainly I was anxious any additional light that might be possible should be thrown on the matter, which I do not see that J. B. P. has done, even in the most infinitesimal way. The question is, Did or did not William Turnbull do homage for lands? To cavil over the fact that when he did homage for lands the lands were not particularly specified in the Ragman Roll, to which I referred, is playing with the important point. To my mind the same applies to the remarks concerning " Tremblee." What matters it whether I spelt the name with one e in my last reply, when reference to my first supplies the variant with two e's ? What importance is to be attached to the fact, if fact it be, that " Trembeley " was a Kincar- dineshire man, any more than we have Turn- bulls in Ayrshire, Trumbles in Surrey, and Turneboles somewhere else? It is the'origin of the name we were dealing with. As to Mr. Stodart being a competent authority, I never said he was not, any more than I am prepared to accept his every statement ex cathedra. If my first communication had been duly noted, it would have been remem- bered that I actually quoted that gentleman Now I say that in my experience "com- petent authorities on history, science art and literature have often been proved in- accurate, at least in some respects.

This is where 'N.&Q.' even more than fulfils its mission, for personally I would prefer to take as my authority many a con-

ributor's dictum to not a few so-called authorities." In fact, a student who has tor many years read, and still reads, *N. & O ' must have been, and still be, thoroughly impressed with the same feeling, weekly monthly, or yearly, as the case may be For instance, J. B. P. stated that Bruce had no power to make grants of land before he was king. But see MR. R. BARCLAY- ALL^E-

ICES letter ante, p. 417, under the head- ing Lord Palatine.' Let me anticipate any observation which might be made as to the sovereign power of a Lord Palatine In a previous note it will be seen that Bruce was

Amrfc f "'ft ??- d V 8 mentioned as Regent. Apart from all this I am prepared to show

if it was necessary, that charters granting lands have been made by parties much below the then social scale of Bruce.

It appears that I ought to have said " that the date was not certain " in place of " he frankly owns." I did not put "frankly owns' 7 in inverted commas ; but no matter : if J. B. P. objects to his " frankly owning," then I withdraw the expression.

ALFRED CHAS. JONA&.

SIR HENRY WOTTON : MALLORIE : CANDISHE : DR. JOHNSTON (9 th S. xii. 367). In John Harris's ' Navigantium ' there is an account of Thomas Candish, or Cavendish, of Trimley, in Suffolk, Esq. ; he is described as a genfcle- man of honourable family near Ipswich. Amongst other voyages he sailed round the world with the Desire (140 tons), the Con- tent (60 tons), and the Hugh Gallant (40 tons). He had with him 126 officers and men, and provision for two years. He left Harwich 8 July and London 10 July, 1586, on a trading and privateering voyage, which lasted two years and two months.

A Timothy Mallory went to India in 1614 ; he was not in the Company's service, but got his passage out (as other adventurous men did in early days) as the servant of one of the Company's servants. As soon as he arrived in India work was found for him, and he was sent as a junior merchant to Masulipatam, 1615. Is that the man 1 ? See Bird wood and Foster, * Early Letters of the East India Company,' vol. iii.

FRANK PENNY.

PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE, TOTTENHAM STREET (9 th S. xii. 365). I do not understand MR. CLARKE to say that all Robertson's plays were first produced at this theatre, but his reference to the revival of some of them in "other and larger arenas " prompts the ques- tion whether the one I remember with most pleasure thanks partly, no doubt, to the capital acting of Miss Ada Cavendish and Mr, Compton, who appeared in it was not originally produced at the Haymarket. I refer to 'Home,' which I certainly saw acted there some time in the sixties. I "saw several other plays of "this elegant set" at the Tottenham Street house, but I do not think ' Home ' was ever given there. Speaking of the Haymarket and Mr. Compton reminds me of my first night in a London theatre, when I saw ' The Heir-at-Law ' at this house, with Mr. and Mrs. Chippendale, Mr. Buck- stone, Mr. Compton, and Miss Nelly Moore " that rare and radiant maiden " of Mr. Hi S. Leigh's 'Chateaux d'Espagne' in the cast. What a cast it was ! I should be glad to be