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Knights Grand Cross, Knights Commanders, and Companions. For further information see Sir Bernard Burke's ' Book of Orders of Knighthood.' T. LONSDALE.

[Very many similar replies are acknowledged.]

GRAY AND WALPOLE (9 th S. iv. 531). The lot to which COL. PRIDEAUX refers under this heading as sold at Strawberry Hill, 12 May, 1842, is mentioned in the catalogue of that sale, sixteenth day, lot 56, as "an agate puncheon seal, with the arms of Mr. Gray, the poet, and a goa stone. These two articles are extremely curious, and were presented to Mr. Walpole by Dr. Brewer [sic] and Mr. William Mason, the executors of Mr. Gray." George Robins's '^Edes Straw- berrianse ' reported the " names of purchasers and the prices to the Sale Catalogue," and of lot 56 stated that it fell to " Strong, Bristol," for three guineas. This person seems to have been a dealer or buyer on commission. His name frequently occurs in the * JEdes ' as having secured lots for small sums. O.

William Aislabie, who had succeeded to the estate of Studley, bought the adjoining property of Fountains, including the abbey, in 1768. See all the particulars in the late Mr. Walbran's 'Fountains Abbey,' vol. ii. 1878 (Surtees Soc., vol. Ixvii.). W. C. B.

With reference to a paragraph in the note on ' Gray and Walpole,' I may say that the latter part of Cunningham's note doubtless contains an error, for the place referred to as "once the property of Mr. Hudson, the Hail way King, now the property of Lord Londesborough," is Londesborough Park, near Market Weigh ton, between Beverley and York. T. LONSDALE.

"HORNING" (9 th S. iv. 496). I remember reading of this in one of Crockett's novels. I cannot now recollect which book it was, but it may have been 'The Men of the Moss Hags.' I think the term used was being " put on the horn." JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"NIMMET" (9 th S. iv. 438, 506). A West Hiding variant of this word is " minninon," applied to refreshment taken in the forenoon, usually bread and cheese and ale.

E. S. ALDERSON.

SCOTT QUOTATION WANTED (9 th S. iv. 518). The stanza quoted closes the fragmentary ' Shepherd's Tale ' of 1799. Of this Lockhart says : " Another imperfect ballad, in which he had meant to blend together two legends

familiar to every reader of Scottish history and romance, has been found in the same portfolio, and the handwriting proves it to be of the same early date " (' Life of Scott,' i. 307, ed. 1837). Lockhart quotes the fragment in extenso. See any good edition of the poems in the section "Lyrical and Miscel- laneous Pieces, in the Order of their Composition or Publication."

THOMAS BAYNE.

The stanza is correctly quoted from the seventh of the * Miscellaneous Poems,' arranged in chronological order. The title of the poem is ' The Covenanter's Fate,' written in 1799, exactly a century ago.

WALTER W. SKEAT. [Other replies are acknowledged.]

SCANDAL ABOUT QUEEN ELIZABETH (9 th S. iv. 187, 272, 541). If the next time your correspondent PALAMEDES happens to be at Penshurst Place (it is not a castle) he will examine the well-known picture of the queen dancing, he will see nothing shocking about it. She is dancing a dance of the period, in which the gentleman at certain intervals fell gracefully on one knee whilst his partner took a short rest on the other. A modifica- tion of this dance would be a welcome change from our eternal waltz. HENRY TAYLOR.

Braeside, Tunbridge Wells.

CLERKS OF THE BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH (9 th S. iv. 329, 388, 443, 486).! was wrong in stating that Beatson does not give a list of these. It occurs in part iii. p. 110, infra the general heading of * Suppressed Offices,' edition 1786. There were three editions of this most useful compilation, viz., 1786, 1804, 1806. The scheme was modernized and, to a certain extent, brought up to date by Joseph Haydn in 'The Book of Dignities,' published by Messrs. Longman in 1851.

W. EGBERTS.

RIGHT OF SANCTUARY (9 th S. iv. 437) By 21 James I. cap. 28, sec. 7 (1623), the privilege of sanctuary was taken from churchyards, as from all other places : " That no sanctuary or privilege of sanctuary shall be hereafter admitted or allowed in any case." Did the repeal of the law in England affect the de- cision in the case at Malta, in or about the year 1807 1 EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

"FRAIL" (9 th S. iv. 436, 507). "He chose out saw, hammer, plane, and auger, and packed them in a carpenter's frail, with a few other tools" ('The Ship of Stars,' by A. T. Quiller-Couch, 1899, p. 121). 'The Ship of Stars' is a Cornish story. C. C. B.