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gr es, and I am anxious to obtain a copy of th pedigree of the Sanderson family, which n told was among them. I should be ob iged if any correspondent could tell me th< whereabouts of these pedigrees. Any pa -ticulars relating to the Sandersons of Di rham would be very thankfully received. I lave seen Surtees's 'Durham,' also the registers of Durham Cathedral, published by
 * th( Harleian Society. How were the Sander-

n s of Brancepeth Castle connected with

iose of Hedley Hope? I should be happy correspond with any one interested in this

,mily. CHAS. H. CROUCH.

Nightingale Lane, Wanstead.

THE COLOURED Cow OP HAMBURG. Be- Itieath the Hamburg new Rathhaus there is a staurant, one of the dining-rooms in which known as " Die Bunte Kuh," yet there is hot a representation of a cow of any colour n the room ; but hanging from the roof there s a quaint model of an old broad-beamed ship. What is the tradition of the "Bunte Kun" and the connexion between ship and ywl R. HEDGER WALLACE.

OCHILTREE FAMILY. In Mr. George Bain's I History of Nairnshire ' (pp. 107-8) it is stated hat about July, 1292, " the Sheriff of Nairn, fir Reginald Chien, had died, arid Edward [I. f England] graciously reinstates his wife s heiress of the family of Ochiltree in her states." I should be greatly obliged for jrther information on the point.

A. CALDER.

GREN. Can any of your readers corrobo- e a statement that the surname Gren sted in Normandy? It may have had rt in the formation of Grenville. It is a >rse name. It also in a dialect as Gren is ntical with Gernon or Grenon.

BRANCH.

)R. LINDSAY, ARCHBISHOP OP ARMAGH. Drake's 'Hundred of Blackheath,' on the thority of Cotton's 'Fasti Hibern.,' it is ted that this Thomas Lindsay was born Blandford, in Dorset ; son of a Scot- ti minister; matriculated at Wadham liege, Oxford; B.A. 6 April, 1676; M.A. March, 1678 ; B.D. and D.D. 5 July, 1693. lile rector of Woolwich he was chaplain Capel, Baron Tewkesbury, one of the Lords .stices of Ireland, and was appointed Dean ^St. Patrick's, Dublin, by letters patent ^eb., 1693, the see of Dublin being vacant ; March, 1695/6, he was consecrated Bishop Killaloe and enthroned 25 April ; was trans- ed to the see of Raphoe, 1713, admitted June ; he was raised to the Archbishopric

of Armagh 4 Jan., 1713/14, enthroned 14 Jan. ; died 13 July, 1724 ; buried north side of choir of Christ Church, Dublin. He pub- lished a sermon, preached in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, 1692. We have his autograph in the Woolwich vestry books, and I should like to hear if anything further is known of him. I should be especially grateful to know of a portrait of him, or even of a likely place to inquire about one.

WM. NORMAN.

MARY LLOYD. Is anything known of this lady, who wrote a descriptive poem on Brigh- ton extending to some 600 lines, published by subscription, with a few other poems, in 1809 1 Her name is mentioned in the ' Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors,' 1816, but no particulars are given. JOHN PATCHING.

Brighton.

YEED OR YEEDITH. In the parochial re- cords of the parish of East Budleigh the name " Yeedith Westcott " appears in the list of churchwardens ; and among the ratepayers in 1626 and 1627 "Yeed Westcott and her Son" are enumerated. Will any of your correspondents explain this prenomen, which is unmentioned in Miss Yonge's well-known work ? T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D.

Salterton, Devon.

BOCCACCIO. (9 th S. iii. 247.)

IN addition to the English poems men- tioned above I may notice the following as derived from the same source, for in Milton's words

Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.

Chaucer.

' The Knight's Tale ' is a recasting of Boc- caccio's ' Teseide.'

novel of the ninth day of the 'Decameron' through Jean de Boves's ' De Gombert et des Deux Clercs,' the original fabliau.
 * The Reeve's Tale ' is traceable to the sixth

"The Compleynt of feire Anelida and fals Arcite ' derives ten opening stanzas from ' II Teseide.'

4 The Parlement of Foules ' contains over a hundred lines freely translated from 'II Teseide.'

' Troilus and Criseyde ' is Chaucer's version of ' II Filostrato.'

'TheShipman's Tale' is the first novel of the eighth day of the 'Decameron.'

The catalogue in ' The Monk's Tale ' follows