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capons, and dayes " is given, and the entry proceeds, " whereof there is payd out unto the Castle of Lanceston for the mullett money due of Kennall, 13s. 6d." See, too, Oliver, ' Monasticon Dio. Exon.,' p. 24. What was this motiled, motlet, or mullett ? Has it any con- nexion with mullett = a spur, the money being a contribution towards the providing of the castle garrison, or a payment in lieu of an acknowledgment in shape of gilded spurs ?

YGREC.

DR. DALE'S ANCESTRY. Can no local anti- quary supply the missing link connecting the great Congregational minister of 'Birmingham with Dr. Samuel Dale, of Rocking, friend of John Ray, the naturalist, fellow of the Royal Society, practising as physician at Booking from 1730, and verify or refute the family tradition that the Dales of Booking were descended from Flemish silk-worker refugees 1

T. WILSON.

Harpenden.

[See ' Dale, Samuel,' in ' Diet. Nat. Biog.']

GROUCUTT. Can you tell me where to trace back this family name of Groucutt 1

J. P. ROBERTS.

LE BOUTEILLIER : BUTLER. Did the Butlers descend from the Norman house of Le Bou- teillier? Haimon Le Bouteillier (de Albini) was Count of Sussex. He acted as cup- bearer to his relative the great Earl of Chester (Hugh Lupus). The arms of this family were Azure, seven chevrons or, a stag argent, possibly referring to Le Grosveneur, viz., the great hunter. Crest, a hand holding a sprig of oak, crimson and white sleeve. This latter may refer to the D'Albinis.

T. W. CAREY.

MALKETON, ALIAS MALTON, GAMES. What is the origin of this name ? It is the name of a farm standing on some rising ground close to the bank of the Cam in the parish of Orwell. There were formerly a small village and a church here. The village was de- populated by enclosures in the reign of Henry VII., and when the farm was given to Christ's College by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, she obtained licence to appropriate to this body the revenues of the rectory. Only a portion of one side of the church is now above ground. Malketon is not mentioned in Domesday Book. The first mention I have met with is in 1222, when a Nicholas le Vava- sour was in possession. It was held of the honour of Richmond. The church is first heard of in 1254. The form Mai ton appears in the fifteenth century. W. M. PALMER.

Meldreth.

DEFINITION OF A PREFACE. In whal book occurs a passage somewhat to th<i following effect : " A preface, according t< Tobias Smollett(?), is something which, thougll usually put at the beginning of a book, ough really to be at the end " ? There is a passagi, in the preface to ' Waverley ' expressing i somewhat similar idea, but that is not th<l one to which I refer. H. HAES. I

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES. Can any reader tel me of a year-book or other publication whicl contains a list of the historical and genea logical societies throughout the English speaking world ? Twenty years ago such E book, I believe, was published in America i but of late I have found none.

W. REED LEWIS.

Bedford.

"Kiss THE ROD." -In 'The Two Gentlemer of Verona,' I. ii. 58, 59, Shakespeare says :

A testy babe will scratch the nurse, And presently all humbled kiss the rod.

Is there here allusion to any custom in school*! or other places where culprits were whipped '< JAMES D. BUTLER. | Madison, Wis.

EARLY ENGLISH POEM. I have a fragmenl of a poem in eight-line stanzas, printed black-letter quarto, the last line of stanza reading Loke in thy myrrour and deme none other wyght Can any one tell me its author and title ?

C.S.

CARLOW. In old Irish for example, in 'Annals of Loch Ce' this name is writt Cetharlach, whence the old English for Catherlagh, Catherlogh. These and tl modern English abbreviated form existed centuries side by side. Carlaghe appears early as 1399. Catherlogh is still the spellii on Butler's map of 1789. Can any tell me of an earlier date for the short, or a later date for the longer name in Englif What is the modern Irish form 1

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

DATE OF WEDDING. I am very anxious find the date of Mistress Jane Lane's weddi to Sir Clement Fisher of Partington Hill.

E. A. S.

JOHNSON'S HOUSE AT FROGNAL. An art in the Standard of 6 March, alluding to threatened destruction of the house in whi< Dr. Johnson lodged with his wife at Frogm near Hampstead, led me to look at what w* said on the subject in Walford's ' Old and Ne\ London.' It is there stated (vol. v. p. that "the house has been rebuilt, or at