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 9 th S. II. Nov. 19, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The Chief Justice temp. Henry VII. 1 believe to have been one of the Redes oi Wrangle, Lines, whose arms are borne by the Reades 1 of Rossenarra. The Northum- brian and Oxon Reades bear garbs. My book tells the whole story.

COMPTON READE.

Kenchester Rectory, Hereford.

Many entries of this name from registers are given in one of Mr. F. A. Crisp's private publications. I think the book is entitled Tragmenta Genealogica' (Lond., 1889).

MARKEN.

Rede is a common name everywhere ; it occurs in many Berkshire parish registers.

E. E. T.

THE SURVIVAL OF DRUIDISM IN FRANCE (7 th S. xi. 305 ; 9 th S. ii. 353). I am sorry to be reminded by MR. JEAKES that I know nothing more of this than I did seven years ago. I am not a subscriber to La Tradition, but I should think it probable that further communications were provoked by M. Cunis- set-Carnot's assertions, and I would recommend MR. JEAKES to search for them. If I have a chance of doing so, I hope I may not neglect it. I cannot believe that M. Cunisset-Carnot was hoaxing ; a gentleman does not purposely make false statements and throw the re- sponsibility of them on his father. I was not born in France, but in Lincolnshire, and there, if I remember rightly, my first milk-tooth that fell was, with a pinch of salt, cremated in the kitchen fire. ST. SWITHIN.

"WHITSUL" OR " WHITESOWLE " (9 th S. ii. 68, 132). For a record of 1681, dealing ex- haustively with the question of the " Whitt Sowle" tithe, see my 'History of St. Ives,' p. 262 : " White sowle, that is to say, butter and cheese." JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

HOWTH CASTLE (8 th S. xii. 249, 354, 416 ; 9 th S. i. 54, 193). In the same category as the goblets of Eden Hall and Arniston is the cup of Muncaster. The following cutting gives the details :

"The visit which Lord Muncaster has just paid to the United States is, says M. A. P., alleged to have been for no less important an object than to make a personal research for an heir to the family title and estates. The Pennington family, who have owned the Muncaster estates from the time of the Conquest in almost unbroken succession from father to son, are now represented by the present holder of the title, who is sixty-five, and his brother, the Hon. Alan Pennington, both of whom are child- less. Lord Muncaster, who is the Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland, was last spring transformed from an Irish peer into a peer of the United Kingdom.

Among the principal possessions of his family is a curiously wrought glass cup, presented by the un- fortunate King Henry VI., after the disastrous battle of Hexham, to his faithful servant Sir John Pennington, the founder of Lord Muncaster's family, with the prayer that the latter should ever prosper, and never want a male heir as long as the cup re- mained unbroken. The cup, which is known as in connexion with baptisms in the Pennington family at Muncaster Castle, is still unbroken, but the only male heir is the present peer's childless brother. I understood that the object of Lord Muncaster's trip to America has been to try and discover the descendants of Capt. Joseph Penning- ton, a younger brother of the first Lord Muncaster, who died in the States during the latter part of the last century, in the hope of finding an heir to the title and estates."
 * The Luck of Muncaster,' and has always been used

Was not Uhland incorrect in describing the breaking of the Eden Hall cup, and the ruin of the family fortunes, in his ' Das Gliick von Edenhall' 1 ARTHUR MAYALL.

"CUTTING HIS STICK" (9 th S. ii. 326). To cut his stick, in the sense of going away in a hurry, has long been a common expression, though it is not heard by any means so fre- quently as it was forty and fifty years ago. " Hey 's cut his stick " = run away. " Now then! cut yer stick "= be off. In playing cricket, when I was a boy, the record of runs for each player was notched on a long stick, and runs were only known as " notches " in those days. I have seen the records of bigger matches also recorded on sticks by means of notches, say forty-five years ago.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN (9 th S. ii. 367). Of course F.R.I.B.A. knows of a similar piece of engineering at Armagh Cathedral. There the nave arcades, with the walls, tkc., above them, were pulled upright by means of the shrinkage of iron bars, heated and then cooled. There are those who think that something of the kind might have been done at Peterborough west front.

H. J. MOULE. Dorchester.

It would be very interesting to know which " mass " this would pull.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

A BOOKBINDING QUESTION (8 th S. xii. 207 292, 353, 452 ; 9 th S. i. 73, 151, 235). With our present arrangement of a series of volumes in a bookcase (i. e., with vol. i. on the left) it would be a mistake to stamp sidelong titles on such a series from top to bottom. In reading the titles consecutively the eye would have to travel from any one title to the next above instead of below, which would