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 428 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9th s. iv. NOV. is, -m Committee to 60,000£. A dispute followed as to the various interests in this sum—life and reversionary. Culpepper Court House, which gave its name to a battle in Virginia in the Civil War of our time, was on the Fairfax estate. D. ROSMER (9th S. iv. 348).—Walter de Evereux, Lord of Roumare (" a vill not far distant from Rouen," which "gives name to the forest of Roumare," Top. and Gen., i. 17), had two sons, Walter or Geroldus (le Gros) and Edward (of Salisbury). The former had two sons, William (le Meschin), Lord of Roumare, and Roger. William le Meschin had a son William, who died without issue (Dugdale, ' Mon. Ang.,' first edition, vol. ii. 341, a, 60). Roger married Lucy, heiress of Spalding, daughter or widow of Ivo Taillebois, and had a son William, Lord of Roumare, born c. 1095, created Earl of Lincoln c. 1140, and died c. 1155. He married Hawyse, sister of Baldwin, Earl of Devon, and had a son William, o.v.p. 1151. He married Agnes, daughter of Stephen de Blois, Earl of Albemarle, and left a son William; who was never recognized as Earl of Lincoln. He married first Alicia; second, Philippa, daughter of John, Count of Alencon, but died 1198, leaving no issue. See G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,' s.vv. Lincoln, Salisbury. This family never held the county of Evereux, and no county of Rosnaer or Roumare ever existed (see 4th S. xii. 476). H. L. O. Walter de Eureux, Earl de Rosmar (temp. William I.), who obtained a grant of the lord- ships of Salisbury and Ambresbury, had two sons — (1) Geroldus, who succeeded to the Rosmar earldom, which line became extinct in his great-grandson William, who died without issue; (2) Edward de Salisbury, whose grandson Patrick was created Earl of Salisbury. This branch ended with his son Walter, who had two daughters—(1) Ella, who married William, surnatned Longspee; (2) Mabel, wife of Lord Nigel de Mowbray. In Vincent's ' Discoverie of Errors,' 1623, p. 442, Geroldus is styled " Comes de Rosinar Mantelec in Normannia." I can find no information respecting Rosmar. JOHN RADCLIFFE. THE FAMILY OF FROWYK (9th S. iv. 2441— The Henry de Frowyk of 1276 is described as a pepperer ; he was sheriff in 1275, Aldemian of Cheap_ in 1279, and Gustos or Mayor in 1272, dying in 1286. A Laurence Fr-jwyk had been sheriff in 1246 and 1251 ; another Henry, described as a mercer, was sheriff in 1427 and Lord Mayor in 1435, again in 1444. Much about this family is given by Mr. Cass in his 'History of South Minims,' Herts, a publication of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. A. HALL. "RIGHTS AND ROYALTIES OF THE SEA" (9th S. iv. 309).—I remember this subject being discussed on the coming ashore of a log of mahogany at Hove, Brighton, nearly forty years ago. I think the log was sawn into three pieces—one for the lord of the manor, one for the Crown, and one for the finder. THOMAS J. JEAKES. ROMAN NUMERALS : 1900 (9th S. iii. 90, 214, 423; iv. 57, 151, 233).- In Mr. Quaritch's Octo- ber catalogue (No. 193) is a description (p. 11) of a MS. of the ' Pricke of Conscience," dated at the end MCDI = 1401. Q. V. A FLAMING BERYL (9th S. iv. 288). —The chrysoberyl "often presents a fine opalescent play of light." See the plate at the end of ' The Imperial Dictionary,' vol. iv., where two coloured illustrations are given. Also see the ' H.E.D.' under ' Chrysoberyl,' especially the last two quotations. ARTHUR MAY ALL. "jfHutllscttttmt. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered and in part Re- arranged. By Samuel Butler, Author of 'Ere- whon,' &c. (Longmans & Co.) HAVING dealt with—we will not say solved—the mystery of the authorship of the 'Odyssey,' Mr. Butler has now turned his attention to that, not less dense, of the W. H. of Shakespeare's Sonnets. All that Mr. Butler says is scholarly, ingenious, and worthy of attention. We have, accordingly, studied carefully his new book, and if it leaves us delighted and unconvinced, the pleasure and the fault are alike our own. To mention the author- ship of the book is to declare it full of good things. Like many—alas ! too many—clever cooks, it is admirable so far aa it is destructive. Only when it attempts to be constructive do we realize how much is conjectural and inconclusive. No difficulty attends Mr. Butler's attempts to disprove the various theories that have during the past century been maintained or dismissed. That Mr. W. H., " the onlie begetter of these insving sonnets," to whom T(homas) T(horpe), " the well-wishing adyen- tvrer in Betting forth, dedicated the first edition, is neither William Herbert, Lord Pembroke, nor Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, is easily shown, and those who have advanced or accepted either view are duly castigated. Other theories that have been ventilated are also rejected. On the whole, the view that W. H. is William Hughes, Hewes, or Hews—see the line in Sonnet xx., A man in hue, all Hues in his controlling, Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth —is regarded with most favour. The question is to find out what William Hughes or Hews will fit the conditions and date. None is suggested by Mr. Butler, who points out the difficulties in the way