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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s.v. JUNE 23,1000.

jtiqn a house upside down. It stands on its chimneys and a portion of the roof, but as it was not completed my friend could not inspect the interior. I have seen no notice of this in the newspapers, and therefore venture to ask if any of your readers can explain what possible purpose is intended to be served by so eccentric a proceeding.

HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.

[It has been notified widely in the newspapers. The modern exhibition does not, we think, pretend to be entirely useful, but generally contains some freaks merely calculated to attract attention.]

MICHAEL MARKS. Can any reader of concerning the marriage, parentage, and ancestry of Mr. Michael Marks, born at South Petherton, co. Somerset, 1784 ; employee of his Majesty's Dockyard, Portsmouth, A.D. 1805-19; died at Yeovil ? The family to which the above belonged had a separate grave to themselves in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, South Petherton, but recent inquiries seem to indicate that it has disappeared. A. G. MARKS.
 * N. & Q.' oblige the writer with particulars

24, Hewlitt Road, Bow.

reference to the passage in which Garth praises King William III. H. T. B.
 * THE DISPENSARY.' I should be glad of a

SOLDIER ANCESTORS. "My grandfather drew a good bow at Hastings." So says Hubert in 'Ivanhoe,' about A.D. 1194, or'a hundred and twenty-eight years after Hast- ings. Yes but who is able to say that his grandfather drew a good sword at Culloden, a hundred and fifty-four years ago ? Amongst my acquaintance I number one only who can do so, viz., Sir Wm. Wedderburn, Bart., M.P., whose grandfather was a cornet in Lord Airlie's regiment, cetat. seventeen. Is this a record? D. K.

SAMUEL CLARKE, M.P. for Exeter, 1646, until secluded in 1648. He was a merchant of Exeter, and one of the committee for that city to put in execution the ordinances of Parliament. On 3 July, 1647, the Committee of the West were ordered to pay him 2,000. " in satisfaction of a greater debt owing unto him." Is anything known of his parentage and family? As he did not return to West- minster in 1660 with the secluded members, it is probable that he was dead before that date. A Christopher Clarke was Mayor of Exeter in 1643. W. D. PINK.

Leigh, Lancashire.

COUNTING ANOTHER'S BUTTONS. This insult, which in the Highlands was a

favourite way of provoking a fight at school, may perhaps have originated in the custom of cutting off the silver buttons of the slain. Can any one give me a reference to it? Was it peculiar to the Highlands ? GEO. WILL. CAMPBELL.

Leamington.

LOLLARD TOWERS. In Blunt's ' Dictionary of Theology ' (1872, p. 431, col. 2) it is stated :

" That the bishops were, on the whole, inclined to deal leniently with it [Lollardism] is curiously evidenced by the existence of the ' Lollard ' towers attached to some episcopal palaces ; the true origin of which is that the bishops, unwilling to subject the heretics brought before them to the extreme punishment, did not hand them over to the civil power, but imprisoned them within their own domains, the prisoners being maintained at their expense."

How many such Lollard towers are known ; and is it not rather the case that pre-existing episcopal prisons, after being tenanted by Lollards, were named after them ?

JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

PHILOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. References requested to authorities (preferably recent), and especially to any systematic treatise, con- cerning the relation between ethnology and the divergent phonetic tendencies of the Romance peoples, the phenomenon of con- flicting and contradictory tendencies obtain- ing in what was once the same language, in particular. C. G. S.-M.

CHARLETON : CAREY. Were the above families identical? Thomas Charleton bore (A.D. 1420) a chevron between three swans. This shield is identical with that of the more ancient coat of Carey. Was this Thomas (Carey) of Charleton? T. W. C.

LATIN QUOTATION. The following is attri- buted to St. Augustine in 'Riddles of the Sphinx,' by A Troglodite, p. 50 : " Non est factus mundus in tempo re, sed cum tempore." Can any one tell me in what part of the father's works it occurs? I am anxious to see the context. ASTARTE.

ARCHIDIACONAL VISITATIONS IN THE SIX- TEENTH CENTURY. I shall be grateful for any assistance in determining whether there are in existence, and if so, where, any of the records of Archidiaconal (Middlesex) and Episcopal (London) Visitations during the sixteenth century. What 1 specially want are the churchwardens' answers to the Visita- tion Articles, and the presentments which they made in the Archdeacons' and Bishops' Courts. No such documents are known of at