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 9". a. iv. Nov. 25, m] NOTES AND QUERIES. 435 P. 409 b. Lady Wharton, widow of Popham. See Hearne's 'Langtoft,' repr. 1810, i. clxvii. P. 412. The translation of De Vertot's ' Revol. of Portugal,' 1721, was ded. to Philip, Duke of Wharton. P. 416 a. Thomas Wharton, steward to Princess Mary. See Wordsworth, 'Eccl. Biog.,' iii. 304. P. 416 a. For " Heydon " read Hedon. P. 416 b. For " Burns's" read Burn's (xli. 57). Pp. 416-7. Thomas Wharton is mentioned in Garth's ' Dispensary.' P. 417 b. A later Dr. Wharton of Old Park was the friend and correspondent of the poet Gray. P. 422 a. Garth wrote a toast on Lady Wharton, for the Kit Kat Club, 1705,' Poems,' 1775, p. 118. P. 424 b, 1. 11. For "who" read each of whom. P. 428 b. Whately's 'Lectures on the Apostles,' 1851, were published as by "A Country Pastor." P. 431. Wm. Whately's 'New Birth' was highly praised by Richard Baxter, 'Reformed Pastor,' 1656, p. 85 : 'Conversion,' 1658, pref. P. 433 b. " Kersell." 1 Kersal. P. 435. Wheatly's 'Common Prayer' was also reissued as one of " Bohn's Standard Library." Pp. 445-6. Sir G. Wheler's 'Autobiography' is in the Genealogist, ed. by W. D. Selby, N.S. ii., 1885. The late Rev. T. Simpson Evans had his MS. ' Liturgy after the Model of the Ancients,' folio, 233 pp. His ' Life' by Zouch, in Wrangham's 'Zouch,' 1820, ii. 99-218. W. C. B. Trafalgar.—In the current number of the Nineteenth Century is a description of Tra- falgar as seen from the decks of the Bel- lerophon (the famous " Billy - ruffian ") by Lieut. William Cumby, who, as her first lieu- tenant, took command on the death of her captain, Capt. Cooke. Foot-notes are added by the late Admiral Robert Patton, who served as midshipman on board of her. Ad- miral Patton was the last of the admirals who inhabited a row of small houses in Fare- ham, Hants, known in old days as " Admiralty Row" from the number of admirals who in- habited them, on the reduction of establish- ment during the peace which followed the Napoleonic wars. Admiral Appleby, another inhabitant of Fareham, whom I recollect, was a midshipman at "Gib" when the relics of prizes, surviving the fierce gale, arrived under jury rig and in charge of prize crews. Would that more of these soul-stirring re- miniscences could be perused by us ! The two gallant admirals mentioned above now lie in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Fareham. Thos. A. Martin. 1, Hare Court, Temple, E.C. A Surviving Word.—An old woman of seventy, a farmer's wife, speaking of her daughter, said to me lately, "She's gone to seel t' cows up." This is the phonetic spelling. On being asked she could not spell the word, and did not know its precise meaning, except that it was used in connexion with stalling the cows ; and, so far as she knew, no other single word had ever been used to express the same circumstance. The derivation is from the A.-S. salan, to fasten with a cord. Sdl means a rope, cord, line, band. ' Promptorium Parvulorum,' p. 463, n. 2, reads: Sole, a bowe about a bestes necke. Sol, sole, a wooden band put round the neck of an ox or cow when tied up in a stall. The word is still in use in cer- tain local dialects, as in Herefordshire and Cheshire." It was in Cheshire that I heard the word used, but Derbyshire is just across the brookj and Lanes and Yorks are just over the hill. Arthur Mayall. The Date of the Death of King Alfred. —We supposed we were approaching the date of the millenary of the death of King Alfred ; but Mr. W. H. Stevenson has a very interesting paper in last year's English His- torical Review (vol. xlix. p. 71), in which he contends that the true date of the event was not 901, as given in the printed copies of the ' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, but 899, so that the millenary has already been completed, for there seems no reason to doubt that the day was 26 October (" six nights before the mass of All Saints"). It is evident that there is some mistake in the ' Chronicle' in this respect, for it is not consistent with itself, stating that, when Alfred died, he had reigned one year and a half less than thirty winters, which would bring his accession to the spring of a.d. 873; yet under 871 we are told that he took the kingdom on the death of his brother Ethelred after Easter. This, of course, proves that there is some blunder, but not what the blunder is. Mr. Stevenson's principal reasons for taking the duration of reign as correct and altering the date of the king's death to i 899 are that Ethelwerd (a descendant of the king, but not a very trustworthy authority in dates) says that Alfred's son Edward was crowned on Whitsunday, 900, and that a Latin manuscript (which he quotes), written in 912, says that that year was the thirteenth of the reign of Edward. But this thirteen is written