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 9"- S. IV. Nov. 25, '99.] 437 NOTES AND QUERIES. but I submit that there are only two ways of employing correctly Latin nouns in English, (1) giving them the proper Latin form, or (2) making them really English. Of a different kind is the word " bonafidedly," employed, according to the Times report, by the Irish Secretary (Mr. G. Balfour) in the course of some remarks in the Commons last spring. That is not at all a bad hybrid, but I do not remember having met with it before. A third expression, "imprimatur," the abuse of which has already been noted in these columns, was employed in the Academy of 28 October (p. 470) in a very unacademical way : " From 1887 till last year Miss Braddon's stories bore the imprimatur of Simpkin, Marshall & Co., the great distributors." From the com- Elacently ironical way in which the eminent rm referred to quoted the word in the succeeding number of the Academy, it is evidently high time for the Society of Authors to be on their guard. J. P. Owen. Queries. Wk must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only privato interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. " Ingate."—In Simmonds's ' Dictionary of Trade' (1858) ingate is explained as "an aperture in a mould for pouring in metal ; technically called the tedge." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell us if he has seen or heard this alleged name, and where ? From Sim- monds it would appear not to be in technical use, since he sees fit to add the technical name. By whom then is ingate used, or where does it come from 1 (To prevent irrelevant replies, I may add that we know all about ingate in the sense of " entrance " to a house, harbour, field, mine, ifec, and ask information solely about the sense alleged by Simmonds.) J. A. H. Murray. Oxford. William Tuckney was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Westminster School in 1607. I shall be glad to receive any particulars relating to his parentage and subsequent career. G. F. R. B. "Lief-hebber." — In Learmont's 'Poems,' Edinburgh, 1791, p. 13, I find the following : Her fause lief-hebber owre the ling Did wale his nichtly way : His glentin brand adown his side Defied the fellest fae. "Lief-hebber" clearly means "lover," and seems to have been suggested by the German Liebhaher. 1 should be glad to know whether "lief-hebber" occurs elsewhere in Scottish poetry. A. L. Mayhew. Oxford. Weather - lore : Forecasting, &c—Can any reader tell me the date of Admiral Fitzroy's letter to the Times, which I well remember reading—it must be forty or more years ago—in which he gave the result of his experience during a long course of years and the rules as to weather he deduced there- from ? That experience and those rules have, I believe, formed the basis of much of the knowledge now possessed by our Meteoro- logical Office (established many years after- wards). Edward P. Wolferstan. 45, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Goodere Family.—According to Hasted's ' History of Kent,' William Wyborn, of Shol- den, married Eleanor, daughter of Samuel Goodere, who achieved some notoriety by the murder of his brother, Sir John Dinely, at Bristol in 1741. I have found the baptism of Eleanor, daughter of Samuel and Jane Goodere, at Deal in 1713, and her marriage in 1737 to William Wyborn. Burke, in his account of the extinct baronetcy of Dinely, gives Elizabeth Watts, of Monmouth, as the wife of Samuel Goodere, and does not mention a daughter Eleanor. Can any reader help to clear up this discrepancy ? T. C. Colyer-Fergusson. Wombwell Hall, Gravesend. Stafford Castle.—What is the age of the present structure? Does it occupy the site of an earlier stronghold ? De Tojni. Short Family.—Can any of your readers give me information as to the origin and early history of the different Short families ? I believe that Short is a Wessex nickname, and, from the similarity of the arms of the various branches, they seem to have a common origin. Any pedigrees or general particulars would be much appreciated. I have not been able to obtain the accounts in ' Visit, of Stafford- shire, 1663-4,'' Har. Soc. Visit, of Devon, 1620,' or Tuckett's (?) ' Devonshire Pedigrees,' nor have I been able to get an account of Short of Essex, Short of London and Doncaster (arms granted 1663), nor of Short of Newham Hall, Yorks. George Dudley Short. 56, Preston Road, Brighton. Right of Sanctuary. — It is stated in Mazzinghi's 'Sanctuaries' (Stafford, 1887) :— " A few years after Malta had fallen into the power of this country, and had received a British garrison