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 9*s. iv. DEC. 541 NOTES AND QUERIES. particular locality he wants me to deal with, I shall be glad to help him. Four gentlemen of this name—three travelling drapers and the other a tailor—are residents of this city. CHAS. F. FOESHAW, LL.D. Hanover Gardens, Bradford. SCANDAL ABOUT QUEEN ELIZABETH (9th S. iv. 187, 272).—About twenty-two years ago I saw at Penshurst Castle, the seat of the Lord Delisle and Dudley, in Kent, a contemporary painting representing Queen Elizabeth dancing, in the arms of Leicester I think, in a way which must have shocked the Puritans of her time. PALAMEDES. ROSMBR (9th S. iv. 348, 428).—It seems doubt- ful whether Edward of Salisbury was son of Walter d'Evreux, Sieur de Roumara, or of Gerald his son. Gerald, the son of Gerald who rebuilt the church of St. George in Roumara Forest, confirmed the gift of his father, and the duke gave his confirmation, calling him " meus magister aulaque et camera mea princeps." Walter's descendants never had the county of Evreux certainly, but his father, brother, and nephew had. A funny entry in Powell's ' History of Wales' makes" WalterEvreux,Earl of Sarum, Rosmer, and Mantilake," to be killed by the Welsh between Cardiff and Brecon in 1094. If he was Earl Patrick's father, his son must have been seventy-four when he himself was killed. Ralph de Briquesard, who married Roger de Romara's widow Lucia, is said to have given Romara or Rosmar Forest to the king in exchange for the earldom of Chester, or rather to induce the king to allow or his succession to Chester. Romara was, as your correspondent says, not a county. By-the- by, was William's wife (daughter of Ric. de Redvers) Hawice? Ordericus Vitalis calls her Mathildis. Planche gives it Hawice. T. W. Aston Clinton. "LE MOT DE CAMBRONNE" (9th S. iv. 265, 355).—The expression, a vigorous, but very gross form ot refusal, is much older than Cambronne or Waterloo. In this sense it is not" Cambronne's mot." He may have used it —so may hundreds of Frenchmen—at Water- loo. If so it was certainly not worth re- membering. To say that it had no existence is too easy to prove anything. Its use would not imply Cambronne's death at Waterloo. He was, of course, an active officer years after. What is the authority for saying that he died in England ? With regard to romance in history very few will be found to agree with MR. EDGCUMBE. An historical method in France at present has been condemned for the exact opposite. Admitting the love for romance, however, France would not be alone in preferring it. A good example from Water- loo can be seen at any bookstall. A big Christmas picture is called ' Up, Guards, ana at 'em !' a query concerning which appeared ante, p. 497. It is much admired, and, as an illustration of our passion for facts, will doubtless add to the amusement caused by another nation's passion for fiction. GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool. GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE REGISTERS (9th S. iv. 309).—Mr. Bogg, in his very interesting book entitled ' The Border Country,' says :— " Here in a cottage on our visit dwelt William Long or Laing, whose years had exceeded by four the Biblical measure of three score and ten, a veteran of Gretna marriages, the priestly office having been held by father, son, and grandson. The old man of my visit [since dead] has still a good eye to business, for to my inquiries as to examining the marriage registers, ic., he replied, ' Ah sal want to know what yer after, 'cause if it'saboot money matters I charge middlin' for that.' Finding I was not to be drawn, appearing not to be in- terested in seeking through the register on money matters, and on telling him that I had journeyed hither solely to see a living representative of the old priesthood of Gretna, ne became more com- municative, and brought forth three volumes containing the marriage registers, which date from 1790, amongst which are the signatures of many celebrated people." H. PATTISON. Stockton-on-Tees. VERSES BY EARL OF NORFOLK (9th S. iv. 457). — The lines referred to are those, I believe, accurately quoted by Kirby in ' The Suffolk Traveller,' second edition, "London, Printed by J. Shawe at the Stationers' Arms in the Butter Market, Ipswich, and sold by T. Layman in Pater- noster Row, London, MDCCLXIV.," p. 157. Kirby gives them thus :— Were I in my Castle of Bungay Upon the River Waveney I would ne care for the King of Cockney. Kirby, of Wickham Market, who took an actual survey of the whole of the county of Suffolk in the years 1732, 1733, and 1734, and appears to have been assisted by the most learned of the local antiquaries of his day, in speaking of Bungay Castle, then in ruins. tells us it was built by the Bygods, Earls of Norfolk, and that " in the Barons' Wars it was fortified and made so strong by Hugh Bygod that he was wont to boast of it as impregnable, but notwithstanding his great confidence in this Castle he was forced to compound with King Henry IL for a great sum of money with sufficient hostages to save it from being demolished. In the reign of King Henry III. this