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I have strong reason for thinking, but can- not be certain, that " The Gate " was by no means the first sign which this house oi refreshment bore. I have seen a deed, bearing date in or about the year 1750, in which men- tion is made of a tavern on the North Green known as "The Duke of Cumberland.' No inn except the one now called "The Queen's Head is known ever to have stood on the North Green, and it is not probable that one ever did so. " The Duke of Cum- berland " was fashionable as a sign for a few years after " the affair " of Culloden, but his fame, such as it was, soon waned, for most of us in these parts, except a few great land- owners and their followers, were Jacobites in those days. " The Duke of Cumberland," on whatever plot of land it stood, we may be sure was the Whig house.

EDWARD PEACOCK. Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

GILBERT GLOSSIN. It is mentioned on p ; 500 that the insertion of a u in the Chris- tian name of this character of Scott's is an error. It may, therefore, be well to note that " Guilbert " is the spelling occurring in the list of characters in 'Guy Mannering' given in May Rogers's ' Waverley Dictionary ' (Chicago, Griggs & Co., 1879), and also in the index. This useful work claims to include all the characters in the Waverley novels ; and if there is any authority for this variant spelling, the fact will no doubt be known to MR. JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

JOHN RANDALL.

MALISE GRAHAME'S DESCENDANTS. I am not sure, but think I am right in saying that Sir Harris Nicolas in his 'Earldom of Strath- erne and Menteith,' when questioning the various alleged descents, added to the doubt by saying, in relation to the Graham- Vere marriage, that " Anne" was not a Vere name. Perhaps I may be allowed to refer to Ken- nett's 'Parochial Antiquities of Oxford and Bucks,' where it is said, A.D. 1446 (24 and 25 Henry VI.), that Humphrey, Earl of Stafford and Duke of Buckingham, gave Anne, his eldest daughter, in marriage to Aubrey de Vere, eldest son and heir of John, Earl of Oxfprd. JAMES GRAHAME.

Clifton House, Nairn, N.B.

EARLY USE OF "FRANCE MODERN" AT LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. On the oak -leaf capital of the central shaft of the north door (the shaft itself evidently much later in date than the work around) is a shield with the following quarterings : first and fourth, a cross fleurie between five martlets ; second and third, France modern (three fleurs-de-

lis) quartered with the three lions passant guardant of England ; supporters dexter, a lion ; sinister, a hart. The change in the royal arms from blazoning "France ancient" to " France modern " is generally dated about the fifth year of Henry IV.

Richard II., who was fond of quartering the coat of Edward the Confessor, was ad- mitted with his queen into the fraternity of the canons of the cathedral on 26 March, 1387. This central pillar and coat of arms, as Avell as a wooden moulding in the arch above, may be the memorial of that royal visit. E. MANSEL SYMPSON.

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.

"FOSSEN EELS."-

" Eels, having passed the first two or three years of their lives in rivers or streams, make their way to the sea with the first flood tide in October. They are then called fossen eels." Quekett, ' Sayings and Doings' (1888), p. 18.

What is the meaning of " fossen " ? Is it a Somerset form of " first " 1

A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford.

BOOK WANTED. Could any of your readers inform me where I could see the following book 1 ? "Heraldry of Wales. Display of Her- aldry. Of the Particular Coat Armours now in use in the Six Counties of North Wales, <kc. By John Reynolds of Oswestry. Printed at Chester in 1739 ; republished by subscription by John Camden Hotten in 1867." I have been to the British Museum ; there is no copy there, neither is one to be obtained of Messrs. Chatto & Wind us, who took over Mr. Hotten's business. I should be very grateful for any assistance on the point.

ROBERT GLYNN.

Warlev Barracks, Essex.

"IT'S ALL THE SAME IN GREEK." What IS

the earliest form in which this appears ? Is it in the Latin "Idem Grsece redditur"; and who used this 1 Some grammarian, I suppose.

H. T.

ISLAND OP ICHABOE. Is there any student of works of travel in unknown parts of
 * he earth who can give me information

about the island of Ichaboe, on the west coast of Africa, which in 1844-5 proved to contain valuable guano beds of extreme