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 9* 8. IV. Sept. 30,'99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 275 was the ancestor of the younger branch of the Fords of Totness and Ashburton (see Vivian's ' Visitation of Devon '). The Fords of Ember Court, according to Burke, were descended from a respectable family of that name in Devonshire, but whether from the above or Fords of Ford is not stated. John Radcliffe. "Steading " (9th S. iii. 226 ; iv. 77, 118, 177). — The following is from an advertising column in the Scotsman of 30 August :— "Kinross-shire.—Farmstolet. Craigowmill,about 600 acres, as from Martinmas first, and Ledlanet, about 500, from Martinmas, 1900 ; steading and houses will be put in good order for tenant by proprietor." " The farm of Redheugh, in the parish of Cockpen [Midlothian] extending to 233 acres or thereoy. There are a substantial dwelling-house and suitable steading and cottages." Other examples might be quoted, but pro- bably these will suffice. Thomas Bayne. "The cloud-capped towers," 'Tempest,' IV. i. (9th S. iv. 188).—The following is an orthographical copy of the lines which ap- pear on an open scroll on the Shakespeare monument in Westminster Abbey :— The Cloud capt Tow'rs, The Gorgeous Palaces, The Solemn Temples, The Great Globe itself, Yea all which it Inherit, Shall Dissolve; And like the baseless Fabrick of a Vision Leave not a wreck behind. I possess a good many books in which these lines appear as ostensibly copied from the monument, but in no single instance are they printed correctly. I regret to find the greatest divergence in Mr. A. J. C. Hare's incomparable little Guide to Westminster,' where the lines are printed exactly as in the "Globe" edition of Shakespeare's works, and therefore very unlike the rendering on the monument. Re- ference to the lines as given at 7th S. v. 182 will also reveal several errors. I believe the word " wreck " is given in the glee as on the monument. I presume it was substituted for " rack " at the same time that the lines were torn from their context and "adapted" as a quotation. John T. Page. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. James Cox's Museum (9th S. ii. 7, 78).— Cox's Museum is referred to in Act II. sc. i. of Sheridan's 'Rivals,' first performed in 1775. Sir Anthony Absolute thus addresses his son :— " Zounds ! sirrah ! the lady shall be as ugly as I choose : she shall have a hump on each shoulder ; shall roll like the bull's in Cox's Museum : she shall have a skin like a mummy, and the beard of a Jew —she shall be all this, sirrah ! Yet I'll make you ogle her all day, and sit up all night to write sonnets on her beauty." Independently of the references to the various articles which have appeared in 'N. & Q.' and other publications descriptive of the contents of this wonderful collection of mechanical curiosities. I would now add the Antiquary for September, wherein much ad- ditional matter will be found. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Armorial: Harbron (9th S. iii. 308- iv. 89).—The reference given in Papworth to the Harbron family's arms is "V. Glover's Ordinary. Cotton MSS., Tiberius, D. 10; Harl. MSS., 1392 and 1459." I should be glad if any leader more versed in these matters could explain the application of the references to the family of Harbron. Geo. D. Harbron. Gledholt, Hull. Links with the Past (7th S. ii. 486, 515 : iii. 138, 178, 275, 358, 464).—I am acquainted with a clergyman, under thirty years of age, whose father was born in 1795. See also ' Links with the '45,' 7"' S. iii. 489, 510. Celer et Audax. "Fey"(9th S. iii. 224, 394 ; iv. 194).—Fey, or, as it is more commonly spelt, feigh, is fre- quently used in North Lincolnshire. It means to clean out a drain, gutter, cesspool, or any like thing. In the Kirton-in-Lindsey parish accounts for 1582 the following entry occurs: "To John Lavghton, in harvest, for feighinge the milne beck." A man of the same town made the following incontrovertible state- ment in my hearing a few weeks ago : "A lot o' oor parish dreans wants feighin' oot real bad." Edward Peacock. Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey. Perhaps the origin oifey may interest your querist. There is little doubt that it is one of the many remains of the Danish settle- ment of East Anglia. The modern Danish verb signifying "to sweep or cleanse" ia/eje ; a dustbin is fejebing, and as the j is pro- nounced like y, the sound of the Danish word is almost exactly the same as in the Norfolk dialect. Thomas Stevens. Brick dated 1383: Arabic Numerals (9th S. iv. 46, 93, 156, 184, 214). —Canon Taylor at the last reference seems to give me credit — or discredit—for an original assertion as to the early use of the Arabic she shall be a& crooked as the crescent; her one eye | numerals in Spain ; but, as I explained at