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centuries) are different from those of the Belmiz or Beimels of co. Salop, which are Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two, and one, a chief. See * Sheriffs of Shropshire/ by the Rev. John B. Blakeway, 1831, p. 31, for in- formation about the family.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

DALLAS FAMILY (9 th S. iii. 59). If refer- ences to the Dallas family of Cantray are required, your correspondent should turn to ' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. vii., xi. ; 7 th S. ii., v., xii. ; 8 th S. ii. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

HOLLING DAY (9 th S. iii. 108). Hone's ' Table Book ' (pp. 13, 14) gives a full account of "Holly Night" at Brough, in Westmoreland, with a pictorial representation of the pro- cession in celebration thereof. The distinctive name is an old spelling of " holly " (A.-S. holen, holegn ; Northern dialect holliri), a holly tree having been formerly used for the occasion, for which ash, being abundant, has been substituted. Halliwell's brief description will suffice to answer your correspondent's query:

" Holling. The eve of the Epiphany, so called at Brough, in Westmoreland, where there is an annual procession of an ash tree, lighted on the tops of its branches, to which combustible matter has been tied. This custom is in commemoration of the star of the wise men of the East."

F. ADAMS. 106A, Albany Road, Camberwell.

Halliwell, in his ' Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,' and Wright, in his ' Obsolete and Provincial English,' state it is a name given to the eve of the Epiphany at Brough, in Westmoreland, where there is an annual procession of an ash tree, lighted at the top of its branches. The custom is in commemoration of the star of the wise men in the East. Hone also notices this custom in his 'Table Book.'

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

SHAKSPEARE AND THE SEA (9 th S. i. 504 ; ii. 113, 189, 455 ; iii. 36). I knew the passage to which DR. SPENCE refers, but in all the three editions of Shakspeare to which I have access the reading is waves, not weeds. I perceive now for the first time that weeds is mentioned in a note. It is the reading of the first folio. Waves is the reading of the second folio. E. YARDLEY.

THE SISTER CHURCHES (9 th S. iii. 48, 115). St. Nicholas's, Withernsea, and St. Peter's, Owthorne, are known throughout Holderness (East Riding of Yorkshire) as the Sister

Churches ; the origin of the term is not known with any accuracy. If MR. MALDEN would like to read a somewhat discursive account of the origin of the town, and if he has not access to Poulson's * History of Holderness,' I shall be glad to lend him my copy. For his pur- pose (to locate the shipwreck) I may state that these two churches were (Owthorne has gone into the sea, and, indeed, Withernsea too, since the fifteenth century) not more than half a mile apart, and about ten miles north of Spurn Point. CLIFFORD DUNN.

FRENCH PROVERB (9 th S. ii. 344, 436, 513). In this locality the proverb is : Sing before breakfast, Cry before night,

so ST. SWITHIN certainly " knows his North- amptonshire" in this instance (see 9* h S..ii. 512). The variant given by C. C. B. is used by us in a totally different sense. We say : Rain before seven, Fine before eleven,

an assertion which is invariably proved to come true. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

RUBENS'S ' DESCENT FROM THE CROSS ' (9 th S. iii. 89). Whether the account of the origin of the picture is true or fictitious may be doubt- ful, but an article to the same purport appeared in ' N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. iii. 131.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

HOLY WELLS (9 th S. ii. 469, 535). For an exhaustive account of the worship of water with special reference to early and mediaeval Scotland, mention ought to be made of ' Folk- lore of Scottish Lochs and Springs,' by James M. MacKinlay, F.S.A., 1893, and also of ' Holy Wells, their Legends and Traditions,' by R. C. Hope. The latter treats of the subject with reference to England. J. EDWARDS.

Glasgow.

G. H. LEWES AND LOCKE (9 th S. iii. 25, 138). By " Kin Kina " Locke cannot have meant quinine, for this alkaloid was not discovered until 1820. Probably he meant the bark from which quinine is obtained, viz., cinchona, which in our older dispensatories appears as China, Chinee, and Quinquina, names due to the Peruvian name of the tree yielding the bark, which is kina. C. C. B.

ROYAL NAVY CLUB (9 th S. ii. 327, 411 ; iii. 36, 115). The club with this name about which MR. JULIAN MARSHALL inquires was originally called the Royal Navy and Marine Club. The first list of candidates and rules was issued on 4 August, 1886. The revised