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at so early a date, but on inquiring from an expert, I was informed that the late Sir Edwin Chad wick was really the first to call attention to the importance of preserving open spaces in our large towns. We have now several Open Spaces Acts, the necessity of such "lungs," as I think Charles Dickens called them, being recognized on all hands.

R. B. P.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

" HOGNAYLE." In a MS. churchwardens account book of the parish of Ashurst, near Steyning, in the county of Sussex, the word "Hognayle" (spelt also "Hogneylle," "Hog- nell," and " Hogney ") occurs very frequently among the items of receipts between the years 1522 and 1543. The average sum col- lected under the head of " Hognayle money " was about nine or ten shillings, "Pascall money " standing at about one shilling and sixpence, and "James's Ale" at over one pound. What is the derivation of the word "Hognayle"? I see that there is a note

Perhaps these two terms may be connected with the Sussex word. A. L. MAYHEW.

MOURNING IN 1661. I have tried in many directions in vain to acquire certain informa- tion respecting mourning garb in the reign of Charles II., such as to enable me to portray as veraciously as may be a scene in the family history which occurred on the day after the funeral of the late young master of the house, when many relatives and guests were assembled at supper in the hall.

One of these was a Gentleman Pensioner of the King (equivalent to member of the hon. corps of Gen tlemen-at-Arrns), and I wonder whether his dress would have been modified at all for the occasion. In an engraving in Sandford's 'Order and Ceremonies used for

and at the Solemn Interment of George,

Duke of Albemarle 1670,' I note that the

Gentlemen Pensioners appear to be wearing their usual costume (shown in Planche's * Cy- clopaedia '), of \vhich, however, I do not know the proper colours. Other mourners are clad in a long black cloak with cowl (to be seen also in the quaint pictureof Sir Henry Unton's funeral procession at the National Portrait

Gallery), recalling the dismal envelopment of the Fraternita della Misericordia at Florence. Would these have been retained after the funeral was over ? Were women as well as men provided with them ; and did the chief mourners, as well as friends, " poor men," &c., thus appear ? Can any one kindly direct me to any engravings, or, better still, paintings, showing the ordinary indoor mourning dress of widow, mother, sister, father, brother, about 1661-2? Were all the rooms of the house treated with " black hangings," or onlv that in which the corpse lay on the " Black Bed " ? Was this ever a downstairs room, not a bedroom ? How long would such hangings have been kept up ? Were hatchments ever displayed inside as well as outside the house ? For answers to any of these questions I should feel greatly obliged. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

COATS OF AKMS WANTED. Garnett, of

Green Park and Arch Hall ; Sampey, of

Boyle ; Gossage, of Spratton ; Jones, of Ves-

sington : Cooper, of Cooper's Hill, Queen's Co.

(Mrs.) E. E. COPE.

AUTHOR OF EPIGRAM WANTED. Who was the author of the epigram on an epigram ?

What is an epigram ? A whole,

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

STAPLETON MARTIN.

[The word you omit is presumably "dwarfish." The epigram is so given in ' The Wild Garland ' of Isaac J. Reeve, a compilation of no authority. No author is named, nor are \ve aware to whom the distich is to be attributed.]

'THE INFERNAL MARRIAGE.' Can any of your readers inform me in what year or years written and first published? I cannot find the date in any book of reference I have access to. Allibone omits it entirely, Lowndes is silent about the author, and the 'Dic- tionary of National Biography ' gives a date, 1828, but in such a way tnat it is doubtful whether it refers to the composition or not. I have what is called " a new edition," dated 1853, and published by David Bryce, London, with ' Ixion in Heaven ' and other pieces. In this ' The Infernal Marriage ' is in four parts, but appears to be unfinished. Is that its completest form ? J. S. M. T.
 * The Infernal Marriage,' by B. Disraeli, was

[' The Infernal Marriage ' appeared in 1834 in the 'ew Monthly Magazine, vols. xli. and xlii. Only four parts were published. See 8 th S. iii. 361.]

FILLIOL FAMILY. In vol. ii. p. 150 of Morant's ' History of Essex ' reference is made to a deed of gift by William Filliol to Coggeshall Abbey, to which is affixed a seal Bearing a representation of a font, with a