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words should by-and-by, in writing, coalesce, so as to form one word, the resulting English "fullup" would then be identical with the Dutch volop, which may be compared with the German vollauf.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. Bath.

The use, or misuse, of the word "up," though general, is not entirely of recent ori- gin. This morning we had glorious sunshine for a February day not a cloud to be seen before noon. In the afternoon, as it became overcast, with every appearance of rain, I remarked to a carter on the Cotswolds that it was not likely to be fine much longer. He replied, " It do seem to be lowering up." This is a remark he would have heard as a boy fifty or sixty years ago, and not a new- mode of expression. B. B.

PLASHED HEDGES (9 th S. v. 127, 235). Your correspondent would find in ' The Formal Garden in England,' by Reginald Blomfield, 1892, an interesting dissertation on the pleaching of box trees, yews, &c., a custom said to have been derived from Italy, and well established in England by Eliza- beth's reign. Bacon's garden, for instance, was to have "a hedge 4ft. high ornamented with little turrets and figures." There is a distinction between the terms "pleaching" and " plashing," the former being applied to the clipping and trimming of the trees often into fanciful forms such as cocks, ships, pyramids, &c., and the latter to the weaving of hedges into living lattices by cutting half through the boughs and bending them down. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

VICE - ADMIRAL (9 th S. v. 149, 252). I am obliged to MR. RICHARD WELFORD, MR. I. S. LEADAM, and COL. J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC for their information in reference to the office of vice-admiral in the north of England, but I hardly think their remarks can apply to the county palatine of Durham, as my father was certainly one about 1840; but when he was appointed I cannot say, and he was neither a peer nor a solicitor, but simply a magistrate, &c., and I believe was appointed by the first Duke of Cleveland, who was then Lord -Lieutenant of the county of Durham. Can any one inform me whether there was any special uniform attached to this office for State occasions 1 CHARLES WM. BELL.

MAWDESLEY FAMILY (9 th S. v. 248). Mawdesley is in the parish of Croston (not Crorton), and from it undoubtedly came a family of the name of Nelson, of which pedigrees were entered at St. George's Visita-

tion of 1613 and Dugdale's of 1664-5. Both of these begin with Richard Nelson of Mawdesley, whose son Thomas removed to Fairhurst, in Wrightington, which is a town- ship in the adjoining parish of Eccleston. Maxey Nelson, the great-grandson of Richard of Mawdesley, was a captain in the king's army, and was killed at Marston Moor. Both the pedigrees are little more than outlines, dates being almost invariably absent.

The earliest volume of the Croston parish registers had been lost for over seventy years, but a few months ago it was discovered, haying in the interim been in private hands. This volume contains the register (almost without a gap) from 1537 to 1684. 1 have tran- scribed it, and the MS. is now in the printer's hands, and will form one of the volumes of the Lancashire Parish Register Society. In the sixteenth arid seventeenth centuries Nelson was a rather common Croston sur- name, but as soon as I have prepared the index to the registers I think I shall be able to considerably amplify the Heralds' pedigree, more especially as several wills of Nelsons of Wrightington have recently been discovered at Chester. I should like to have the parti- culars of the bequest from Thomas Nelson in 1608. Will MR. HALL favour me with a letter on the subject ? HENRY FISHWICK.

The Heights, Rochdale.

Our family resided at Mawdesley from the time of Henry I. until the death of the Rev. Thomas Mawdesley in 1735, when Mawdesley Hall and Heskin Hall (which latter had been acquired from the Molyneuxes temj). Charles I.) both passed out of the family.

MR. HALL will find references in Baines's 'Lancashire,' St. George's Visitation, 1613, and Dugdale's in 1664. It is in the former pedigree that the Mawdesley -Nelson marriage is recorded. If your correspondent cares to write to me direct I shall be pleased to afford him any information I may be in possession of. Croston was the name of the parish in which Mawdesley was situated up to 1843, when the latter became a separate parish.

F. L. MAWDESLEY. Delwood Croft, York.

Baines's 'Lancashire '(1891), vol. iv.pp. 130-2, gives some information about Mawdesley and the Mawdesley family. See also Dugdale's ' Visitation of Lancashire,' 1664-5 (Chetham Society, vol. Ixxxv. p. 195), and St. George's 'Visitation,' 1613 (Chetham Society, vol. Ixxxii. p. 75). EDWARD MCKNIGHT.

Chorley Public Library.

"HlPPlN" (9 th S. v. 47, 154). A Swiss friend tells me that Hiippen is a word applied