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 9th S. IV. July 8, '99.] 31 NOTES AND QUERIES. tagu, Earl of Sandwich, who was at that time First Lord of the Admiralty, and on an en- graved title-page are many naval emblems and a shield of arms, Montagu quartering Monthermer. John Pickfoed, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. "London" and "Lonnon" (9th S. iii. 304, 416). — So far as Canon Venables's state- ment in a letter to the Spectator, 1 March, 1893—as mentioned by your correspondent at the first reference — concerns the aris- tocratic pronunciation of Rome as Room in the time of George IV., the same appears to receive some support by the fact that the site of the quay at Billingsgate, properly called " Romeland " (or " Rome Land "), in and formerly belonging to the parish of St. Mary- at-Hill, in the City of London, is shown as "Room Land" on a plan, dated 10 July, 1823, in the office of the late Mr. Laing, the parish surveyor. Probably this "Romeland" was so named from having been granted by one of our early kings to the then Pope, as was also a parcel of land of the same name, near the Abbey of VValtham in Essex, granted by Henry II. to Pope Alexander III., where- on Henry VIII. had a small house, to which he occasionally resorted for his private amusements. W. I. R. V. Sir Walter Scott (9th S. iii. 346, 434).— The 'Chaldee Manuscript,' conceived and initiated by James Hogg, and most ably—and sometimes a little unscrupulously—elaborated by Wilson and Lockhart, concludes Wilson's 'Noctes Ambrosianse,' vol. iv. (Blackwood, 1864). Scott figures in chap. i. pp. 44-48. In these days, when it is so fashionable to read works in Scotch dealing with Scottish people and interests, there ought to be a revival of popularity for the ' Noctes,' in which there is an easy grip of Scottish idiom not surpassed by Sir Walter Scott himself. Thomas Bayne. If Mr. Ford had consulted 'Iliad,' viii. 192, he would have seen that the last four words in the epigram are taken from it, and that, in the version given by Mr. Breslar at the first reference, vvv appears as oov. R. M. Spence, D.D. "Twilly Toes" (9th S. iii. 406).—" Twilly - toed" lads were common enough when I went to school; and although so many walked in that fashion, the rest who did not made " gam "of them, partly because of the peculiar gait of those who walked " twilly," as we called it. Looking directly in front or directly behind, one sees at once why infooted folk are called " twilly - toed," for each foot in turn makes a " twirl " or half-circular move- ment at each step. It seems an awkward gait; but to my thinking it is the natural one, for nearly all children walk in this way at the outset. The best runners when I was at school were those inclined to walk " twilly." Thos. Ratcliffe. Worksop. The following is taken from ' My Diary in India, 1858-9,' by W. H. Russell, LL.D. (Routledge, 1860), p. 113 :— " Simla, 1 July, Thursday.—On ray way I encoun- tered a native gentleman who was taking a stroll, followed by two or three attendants—a portly, middle-aged man, light-coloured, dark-eyed, with delicate touches of yellow paint on the bridge of his nose and lobes of his ears. He carried a large heavy cane, like that borne by stage-doctors, and, as he walked, he turned out his toes in a modulated, dignified way which attracted one's notice, no less than his flowing robes, his huge turban, and his general air." I remember old Sergeant Keeting, of the Berks Militia, shouting at me when acting as fugle- man of the drill-squad at Caversham on this account. Thomas J. Jeakes. Bingham Armorial (9th S. iii. 48, 355).— " Binsli or Binly " must be a misprint. The name seems always spelt de Busli or de Builli or Builly, never with n. I do not know that Tickhill was conveyed by Idonea, the lady who married Vipont; she died 1235. The second baron, Roger de Busli, died about 1102, and it seems probable his male heir, Ernald, did not inherit, or at least possess, Tickhill. Idonea descended from this Ernald. In 1106 Roger's "cognatus," RobertdeBelesme, got Rogers lands, giving a large sum to Rufus for them ; so Ordericus Vitalis says. Stephen gave Tickhill to the Comte d'Eu, who claimed through Beatrix, daughter of one of the Rogers, probably of the father of the first baron. The difficulty lies in the fact that the only Beatrix, Countess of Eu, I have seen recognized died in 1060 on the ides of April. ' The History of Hallamshire,' I think, makes her daughter of Ernald and wife of William, the Count of Eu who was blinded in 1093. Anyhow Tickhill somehow came to the Crown a second time (it had reverted once on the banishment of Robert de Belesme). It was in the hands of the king 1156 and 1165. It was granted to Ralph de Isoudoun, then Count of Eu, by King John as "jus Alic uxoris sue." This lady, daughter and heiress of Count Henry, was living 1245. The grant is in Lit. Pat., 16 John. In 18 Ed- ward I., John de Brienne, " com. de Dew," the great-great-grandson of Alice, claimed Hast-