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 9» s. iv. DM. 9, 487 NOTES AND QUERIES. June. Sir Richard Worsley, Bart., vice R. Hop- kins, Dec. 14. " 1779. Sir William Augustus Cunningham, Bart., vice Sir A. Gilmour, July 10. "1780. Sir William Gordon, K.B., vice Sir R. Worsley, and Lovell Stanhope, Esq., vice Hon. R. S. Nassau, Sept. 6." RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Beatson does not give a list of these, but the office is mentioned in part ii. pp. 8, 9, and is marked with an asterisk, to denote that the office was abolished at the date of the publication of his book, i.e., 1786. The office was in vogue in 1782, when W. M. compiled his very useful 'Court Register,' and the functions of the office are explained on pp. 50, 51. H. K. H. will find lists of the clerks of the Board of Green Cloth in the ' Court and City Registers' of each year, under the general heading of His Majesty's Household. The clerks for 1780, for instance, were G. Bridges Brudenell, Esq.. Richard Vernou, Esq., and the Hon. Richard Savage Nassau. In 1766 there were only two Clerks of the Green Cloth, Sir John Evelyn, Bart., and Simon Fanshaw, Esq., and their salary is given as 1,0181. each, a fairly comfortable amount for the time, I should imagine. W. ROBERTS. " THE STARRY GALILEO " (9th S. iv. 459).— "The starry Galileo," with his woes, is from ' Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' c. iv. st. liv. G. S. C. S. [Other replies received.] DOUBLE-NAME SIGNATURES FOR PEERS (9th S. iv. 399).—The following extract from Prof. Thorold Rogers's ' Protests of the Lords' (pref., pp. xxiv, xxv) may interest your corre- spondent :— " In the early part of the seventeenth century, almost all the peers signed with their Christian names as well as with their titles. Towards the close of the century the omission of the Christian name became general, though a few peers, e. </., the Whartons and Bridgewaters, continued the prac- tice after other peers wholly abandoned it. borne- times when a peer took an additional surname he prefixed it to his title. Thus Lord Halifax used the name of Dunk ; Lord Holland that of Vassall; Lord Fitzwilliam that of Wentworth ; and the late Lord Salisbury that of Gascoyne. Lord Brougham for a time adopted the old custom of prefixing the initial of his Christian name to his title. Spiritual lords have always signed by their Christian names and their sees." The last sentence suggests a question as to how bishops who were also temporal lords signed. I remember seeing in the newspapers a few years ago a letter of the late Lord Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin, which, to the best of my recollection, was signed " Plunket Dublin." Did the Lord Auckland who was Bishop of Sodor and Man sign in the same style f These peers, though bishops, were not .spiritual lords ; and therefore protests signed by them (if there are any) would not be likely to throw light on the question, as they would presumably in such a case use their temporal titles only, just as peers who sit under lower titles than those by which they are commonly known sign protests with the lower titles only. But their ordinary signatures would, of course, not be affected by the fact that they were not spiritual lords. F. W. READ. Two other instances may be given. The fourth Duke of Portland married a daughter and coheir of General Scott, of Balcomie, co. Fife, and assumed the arms and name of Scott, using the latter before his title. I find in my collection of franks "Scott Portland." In 1789 Lord Eliot was authorized to take the name and arms of Craggs, and to sub- scribe that name before all titles of honour. But this was discontinued by his successors in 1816, in 1849, and in 1879. I think it will be found that such assump- tion of names has to do with acquiring by marriage, or succeeding to, landed property, so that, if possible, the name and the property may go together. GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B. I have a collection of franks made in the early part of the century, and amongst a large number of franks by peers the follow- ing are the only examples of double signa- ture: Pindar Beauchamp (1828), Warren Bulkeley (1822), Wentworth Fitzwilliam (1810), Arundell Gallway (1801), and Scott Portland (1822). This list gives one the impression that a peer who altered by royal licence his surname or assumed a new one used the new name together with his title as a double signature. HORACE W. MONCKTON. Temple. It was formerly the custom for a peer who married an heiress to prefix her name to his title when signing his name. F. E. R. POLLARD-URQU HART. Craigston Castle, Turriff, N.B. I remember reading that Lord Holland signed his name " Vassall Holland " because Vassall was a amnted surname, not inherited. F. J. CANDY. Norwood. THE MONTREUX CHURCHYARD INSCRIPTION (9th S. iv. 188, 313, 444).—MR. MAURICE KUHN, who writes from Harvard University, had