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and a white pig, so that you can witch us ; you ought to be scragged !" The one so addressed, it seems, has lived in her cottage some twenty years. She has during this period, it is said, always keptacouple of pigs,oneof each colour ; and her neighbours consider she does this so that she may enjoy the very questionable powers of witchcraft. No butcher in the neighbourhood will buy her pigs, as if he was known to do so, he would certainly lose the local custom upon which he relies.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

TITLES. Let us not laugh too loudly at foreigners who blunder when they meddle with English titles; the Graphic of to-day (5 Nov.) has a portrait of "The late Lady Theodore Martin (Helen Faucit)."

ST. SWITHIN.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" FOOR " = SCENT. In Brogden's 'Lincoln- shire Glossary ' (1866), s.v. 'Fomard,'the word "foor" occurs, in the sense of a strong smell : "To discover the foor of a fomard (polecat) get on the wind side of him." I should be glad to get corroboration of the use and meaning of this word, and to know whether it has ever been heard out of Lincolnshire. The word occurs in Halliwell.

A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

ATTRIBUTES OF PRUDENCE. In Reynolds's window, New College Chapel, and also on the floor of the Cathedral, Oxford, the cardinal virtue Prudence is depicted, holding in one hand an arrow with a serpent twined round it. Can any one say what is meant by these? I read in an Oxford guide-book that she holds an arrow with a remora (sucking-fish), betokening the union of speed with restraint, the lentafestinatio characteristic of Prudence. Not amiss, if we admit the thing assumed ; but as the remora is an unmistakable fish, and the animal in both places portrayed is a no less palpable serpent, we cannot with confidence accept this explanation. A. W.

THE GENEALOGY OF LORD CURZON. In the historic records of this family it is stated that they are the descendants of Geraldine de Curson, and came over with the Conqueror, being rewarded by large

grants of land in several counties. The ancestry of the family consists of a long list of illustrious names, and in one instance we are told that Sir Nathaniel Curzon, Bart., married Sarah, daughter of William Penn, of Penn, in the county of Bucks. Can any of your readers inform me whether the father of this lady was the noted William Penn, who was one of the Pilgrim Fathers, and who gave his name to the American settlement since known as Pennsylvania ? CLERICUS.

F. S., BELLFOUNDER. Can any one give me information relating to a bellfounder who cast bells between 1650 and 1700, and whose initials were F. S. ? I have lately heard of a mortar which I believe to have been cast by this person, and I wish to know all that is to be found out regarding him.

FLORENCE PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

CHAUSSEY. Can one of your readers give the origin of the name of this islet, the largest of a group situated between Jersey and the French coast, a few miles from Granville ?

W. T. LYNN.

BASKERVILLE FAMILY. -I shall be much obliged for any information regarding the family, especially the sons, of George Basker- ville, of Winterbourne Basset, who died in May, 1755; also for information regarding William Baskerville and Mary his wife, who lived in the parish of St. Michael, Bristol, in the years 1769-72. The latter was pre- sumably a son of the former.

CHARLES BASKERVILLE.

Mayfield, Sanderstead Road, Croydon.

JOHN OXENBRIDGE. In 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. ii. 381, mention is made of John Oxenbridge, B.D., of Southam and Coventry, " the preacher." Who was his father? Adam Oxenbridge, of Rye (d. 1497), owned property in Surrey, which he devised to his son Robert and his heirs with remainder to his son John and his heirs. John Ocksonbridge, of Croydon, who owned the Surrey property left by Adam Oxenbridge, of Rye, t>y his will, proved 14 Nov., 1575, appointed his brother John, " the preacher," one of the overseers. This John, of Croydon, was probably the grandson of Adam (see ' Sussex Arch. Coll.,' xii. 203). Can any one give me further particulars ? C. HOWARD COLKET.

Philadelphia.

ORGAN STOP. I have somewhere read that at the funeral service of one of the Georges in Westminster Abbey, a stop in the organ was used which caused so much vibration to