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Saxon origin, and would like to know if it occurs with any frequency in England. The name is extremely uncommon in the United States. E. F. EDGETT.

Boston, Mass.

CRESSET-STONES. -I am anxious to obtain a list of churches where cresset -stones still remain similar to those described by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould in his 'Strange Sur- vivals,' and shall feel grateful for any assist- ance your readers may be able to render. WILLIAM ANDREWS.

The Hull Press.

GORDON OF LESMOIR. This family received a baronetcy (of Nova Scotia) in 1625. If any reader of 'N. & Q.' can inform me when this title became extinct and who is the heir general, I shall be obliged. A. C. G. D.

MARTIN, A GAME. In 'Tennis Cuts and Quips' (1884), edited by Julian Marshall, this game is referred to (p. 89) in a paper relating to France and the fifteenth century as follows : "And that all sorts of people now played gleek or martin," the context show- ing martin to be a card game. I have been unable to find any description of or other reference to it. Can you, or any of your correspondents, enlighten me? Perhaps it may be simply an invention or joke of the author of the paper. J. S. M. T.

[Turberville, ' Ovid's Epistles,' F 5b, has : But if them long for warre or young lulus seeke By manly Mart to purchase praise, and give his

foes the gleeke.

Nares supposes Mart to signify war. This may point to something.]

CHINESE MEDICINE.

" The art of discovering whether a man has hanged himself, or been strangled by others ; and whether he has drowned himself, or been thrown into the water after his death, is a discovery which belongs to the Chinese only. In certain criminal cases it tends greatly to ease the embarrassment of their tribunals, and might in the like circumstance often serve to clear up the 'doubts of ours." ' A General Description of China,' translated from the French of the Abbe Grosier (London, 1788, 2 vols. 8vo.), vol. ii. p. 489. Is the Chinese procedure now known ?

FRANK KEDE FOWKE.

24, Victoria Grove, Chelsea.

LOVIBOND. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' give me the derivation of the name Lovi- bond ? Oglander, writing of the Isle of Wight, mentions as owner of Osborne in 1560 one John Lovybpnd, and then writes of "the owld man Livibone (or, as some say, de la bone Isle)." Sir John Maclean in his 'Parochial and Family History of the

Deanery of Trigg Minor, Cornwall,' men- tions the fact that on the moulding over the tower door of Egloshayle Church is to be seen "the device of Vicar Lovybound (c. 1450), viz., three hearts banded together by a fillet with the name Lovey bound inscribed thereon." This suggests quite a different derivation. I should be glad to receive any information about the name or the early bearers of it.

HUGH J. LOVIBOND. Havenstreet, Ryde, I.W.

QUARRE ABBEY. What is the origin of this name in the Isle of Wight? Had it any connexion with the Norman family of Quarre or Carrel (Carrev), and was it called after them 1 T. W. C.

QUEEN ELIZABETH AT HORHAM HALL. There is a letter extant from Lord Burghley, dated 5 September, 1571, to Lord Shrewsbury, "from the Court at Horeharn" (sic). This beautiful old Tudor building (the correct spelling is Horhara) is about three miles from Thaxted in Essex. Queen Elizabeth's visit there on one of her "progresses" is well known. The local tradition, however, is strong that she was there for some time as a State prisoner during the reign of her sister Mary. Is there any record or authority for this? JOHN C. PAGET.

11, Kingdon Road, West Hampstead, N.W.

DR. ANDREW GIFFORD. Can any one throw light on the descent of this worthy ? In Gent. Mag., vol. liv. part ii. pp. 485, 596, it is stated that his father was Emanuel and his grand- father Andrew Gifford ; that his father had a church at Bristol ; that two MS. volumes in Gifford's collection were entitled ' A. and E. Gifford's Kemaines' ; and that Andrew Gifford was the last of his particular line, which appears to have been of some antiquity. The doctor's connexion with the West Country and the name Emanuel appear to point to a possible connexion with the Giffords (more correctly Giffards ; but the difference in spell- ing is quite unimportant) of Devon. As Andrew Gifford was an antiquary, possibly his MSS., if they are to be found, may answer my query. The ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.' does i not help me.

CAUL. In the interesting account of caul superstitions given in Blakeborough's 'Wit, Character, Folk-lore, and Customs of the North Hiding of Yorkshire' the caul is some- times spoken of as the " mask " or the " veil. What other names, besides the commoner one of "silly-hood," are bestowed on it in the British ' Islands 1 Mr. Blakeborough tells