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ST Lord Carlisle to his wife : ." 1778, June 21, i board the Trident, River Delaware : to

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"The gnats in this part of the river are as large sparrows ; I have armed myself against them by earing trousers, which is the constant dress of this untry." ' Historical MSS. Commission, Fifteenth eport,' Appendix, part vi. p. 345.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

SYNTAX OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS. The use f "and " or "but" before a relative pronoun ,ot already expressed is a solecism that is nnoyingly frequent. Often, however, a eeming regard for rule begets a ridiculous jlunder, as in the following, from M. A. P. f 11 January, p. 22, col. 1 :

"Edward Osborne, the founder of the dukedom f Leeds, was an apprentice to William Hewet, a ich old clothworker on London Bridge, whose only aughter he courageously rescued from drowning >y leaping into the Thames after her, and whom he ventually married."

The omission of the relative pronoun in >he following is a bit of slipshod for which Century, xli. 387) :
 * he Duke of Argyll is responsible (Nineteenth

"The method. .....is one for which I have myself

great predilection, and have continually used in il difficult subjects of inquiry."

There is a bit of his Grace's English far worse than this at p. 396 of the same volume ; but as it does not touch my present subject I leave the curious reader to find it for himself.

F. ADAMS.

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.

KEY TO 'AYLWIN,' BY THEODORE WATTS- DuNTON.--Can any of your readers furnish a key to this ? N. S. S.

0. DALTON, BLACK ROD, 1747. Who, and of which family, was he 1 C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

DAVID ANDRE. He was admitted to West- minster School, 21 March, 1766. I should be glad to have any particulars relating to him. In all probability he was a first cousin of Major Andre, but there is no record of his parentage in the school admission book.

G. F. R. B.

C THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL.' Can any of your readers give me further details concern- ing the authorship of a perennially popular nursery rhyme ? I find in the Lady's Maga-

zine for March, 1807, 'The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast ' among the poetical effusions. It is there stated that it was believed to have been written by Mr. Roscoe, M.P. for Liverpool, for the pleasure of his children, and set to music by their Royal Highnesses for the young princess.

C. C. STOPES. [See 5 th S. ii. 373, 458, &c.]

MICHAEL FLOYD. He was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westmin- ster School in 1593. Any information con- cerning him would be gratefully received.

G. F. R. B.

BARTON. In the Barebones Parliament Col. Henry Barton was M.P. for London, and Col. Nathaniel Barton was M.P. for Derby- shire. The latter also sat for the same county in the first Parliament of the Protectorate, 1654-5, and was for a few months in 1653 a member of the Council of State. I should be obliged by any information respecting these two colonels. W. D. PINK.

Leigh, Lancashire.

PRINCES ARTHUR AND HENRY AT SOUTH TAWTON, DEVON. (See 'Horseshoe Monu- ments,' 8 th S. vii. 392.) At this reference there is a quaint account of an adventure that befell the young princes Arthur and Henry, sons of Henry VII., while riding in the neigh- bourhood of a tenement held by Thos. Bruteton, said to be at South Tawton, Devon. Being particularly interested in that locality, I should feel greatly obliged if the contributor MR. F. BROOKSBANK GARNETT or any other of your readers could inform me of the class ana whereabouts of the " old record " from which this story is drawn, and assist me to identify the scene of action on an Ordnance Survey sheet. In John Gidley's ' History of Royal Visits to Exeter ' I see that Henry VII. stayed for several weeks (from 7 Oct., 1497) in that city. Were the young princes with him on that occasion ; or did they, in 1501, meet Princess Katherine of Aragon on her landing at Plymouth 1

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

ANGLO - SAXON : SCOTCH : SCOTCHMAN. When was the term Anglo-Saxon first used by literary men, and by whom ? What is the first instance of the use of the names Scotch and Scotchman by historical or other writers 1 I have traced the use of the terms to a docu- ment of James I. after the union of the crowns in the beginning of the seventeenth century ; and the adjective Scotch is fre- quently used in Camden's ' Britannia,' trans- lated from the Latin, and published in 1695.