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 s. v. JUNE 23, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUEEIES.

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

THE DERIVATION OF THE NAME OF WAD- DINGTON. Can any one inform me which is the correct derivation of this name 1 Does it mean the "town of the Wadings," or does it mean the " town of Woden " ? The former is the signification usually accepted, but I am inclined to think the latter is the true meaning. In Domesday Book it is written Wadetun, and there is a place in France named Wadenthun, and one in Northampton- shire named Wadenhoe. Also Wuodensberg in Germany, and Wodensholt; and Vaude- mont, formerly Wodani Mons, in Lorraine. The following English names are said to be derived from Woden : Wednesbury, Wis- borow, Wanborough, Wanstead, Woodnes- borough, Wanstrow (formerly Wodnestrow), Wambrook, Wadley, Wonston, and Wansdike (formerly Wodnesdik). But if Wambrook, Wadley, and Wonston are derived from Woden, surely Wadenhoe and Wadentun (Waddington) are also derived from Woden. There are two places of this name in England, one in Yorkshire arid the other in Lincoln- shire. The poet William of Wadington, who flourished about 1260 A.D., lived at one of these two places, but it is not known at which. Walter Wadington, whose daughter Alice married Sir Koger Tempest, Bart., about the same date, lived at Waddington in York- shire. S. WADDINGTON. 47, Connaught Street, W.

ADRIAN SCROPE, THE REGICIDE. I should be obliged to any of your correspondents who could give me information respecting the early pedigree of this person. According to Forster's ' Yorkshire Pedigrees ' he was of the Scrapes, or Scroopes, of that county, a branch of which migrated to the South. The pedi- gree commences with an Adrian Scrope, the regicide's grandfather, who was of Hamble- don, Bucks, and married Ursula, daughter of George Ludlow, of Hill Deverell, Wilts ; but the Wilts Visitation of 1623 gives the lady's name as Mary and her father's as William. According to Forster the regicide's father was Robert Scrope, of Wormsley, Oxon, and his mother Margaret, daughter of Richard Corn- wall, of London, merchant. The regicide's son was Thomas Scrope, of Bristol, whose only son, John Scrope, of Worrnsley, dying s.p., left three daughters his coheiresses, one

of whom, Ann, was the wife of Henry Fane, of Bristol, who, by his will in 1726, gives a legacy to his brother-in-law, John Scrope. He was buried at Westbury -on-Trim, and his

grandson was Thomas Fane, a solicitor of ristol, who, by the unexampled fatality in his family, became eighth Earl of Westmor- land. INQUIRER.

STAPLETON'S. What club was this? It is mentioned by Horace Walpole in a letter of 1777. H. T. B.

MRS. CADWALLADER. In what play does she appear? H. T. B.

[In ' The Author,' by Foote, Drury Lane, 5 Feb., 1757, first played by " Kitty" Clive.]

JAMES DILLY was admitted to Westminster School on 24 September, 1772. Can corre- spondents of 'N. <fc Q.' give me any par- ticulars concerning him 1 G. F. R. B.

GLOVER. Three boys of this name were at Westminster School in October, 1803. Can any one help me to identify them 1

G. F. R. B.

' JOHN BULL,' A NEWSPAPER. I am anxious to know the history of the rise and fall of a sheet so named, which bore on its front page the semblance of a huge Bible, a crown, and a mace. I remember to have seen a copy of that somewhat stolid journal in 1875, but I never could find out who read its contents, where it was published, and what became of it. From my recollection of its general ap- pearance it must have had a large circulation.

RICHARD EDGCUMBE. 33, Tedworth Square, Chelsea.

[Sir Walter Scott obtained, in 1820, the editorship ! or Theodore Hook, who, by the severity of his strictures, is said to have driven from the stage Conway, the actor, who soon afterwards committed suicide. Consult Grant's ' History of the Press.']

MONASTERY AT BIARRITZ. There is a monastery near this place resorted to by ecluses who wish a retreat from the society >f women. Into it no woman can enter. Over jiy reader kindly quote it? FORGETFUL.
 * he portal is a long inscription in Latin. Can

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPORTING RECORD.

s there any sporting publication giving de-

,ails of races, steeplechases, &c., circa 1750

and later? The Sportsman's Magazine began

>nly in 1830. M.F.H.

14, Chester Square, S.W.

HOUSE INVERTED. I am informed by a riend recently returned from Paris that here is in course of erection at the Exhibi-