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 9* S- VL AUG-25.190111 NOTES AND QUERIES. 149 any Of your readers give these seven name- days, with English translationl _ CHARLES GODFREY LELAND. Hotel Freyberg, Homburg les Bains. TH; Rav. Hsrmv Rows, LL.D., was Rector of Ringshall, Suffolk, and published in 1810 a volume of ‘Fables in Verse ’( rinted for J. J. ggggggigisa, 3, BPa11 MRHEH. ling volume is aron 0 tevenstone g€l_;g2¢G8~I;g pginted by(}%rettall, Marshall _ ‘ 0 en uare. ‘an any correspon - ent of N. &  supply further particulars with regard to im, especially dates of birth and death? X_ Y_ Z_ “DomNABUs.”-In 1311 William le Vava- sour? Kntz, made his will, and therein refers to ` Dominabus Elenae de Mowbray, Mar- Kl-retae de Nevile, Eleanor de Walays and
 * cue de Walays,” dzc. (Raine’s ‘Test.’). On

15 May, 1321, Richard Waleys was summoned to_Par lament as a baron (Burke’s ‘ Historical Dictionary, dzc., of Dormant, &c., Peerages,’ London, 1883). Will any one kindly inform me what persons would at that date be 90vjered by the above “ Dominabus ”'l Would it include wives of barons and of knights and other persons, and if so whom? ILEX. “LovIo'r.”-Thiskl believe, is a name for the Breen woodpec er, and in Bailey’s ‘ Dic- tionary_’ (1728) it is described as “a bird, that being looked upon by one that has the yellow; Jaundice, cures the lperson, and dies itself! Whence did the od lexicographer dergive tlilis curious fable? J AMES Hoorlm. 0l"WlC . ADAM.-Samuel and Walter Adam were respectively admitted to Westminster School m September, 1775, and Slelptember, 1806. Can any correspondent of ‘ . & (if help me to identify these boysl G. . R. B. Akxns.-George and John Akers were admitted to Westminster School on 5 Decem- ber,_1774. I shall be glad to learn any particulars concerning them. G. F. R. B. Cmurrumav or Fn1s'roN, LINCOLNSHIBE.- I should esteem it as a great favour if you, or any _one of your readers, could ive me in- formation as to the whereabouts 0% the Char- tulary of Friston, Lincolnshire, mentioned and extracted from by Dugdale (vide his ‘Monasticon’), or give a reference to it in szinted form if it has been so treated. Dug- le copied out of it a genealogy of the e Creons. Nothing is known about it at the Old Palace, Lincoln. W. G. J ons Govan Nlcnoas. (See 1" S. ii. 89, 110, l4O.)--At the third reference Joan Gouen NICHOLS says he has made a collection for a list of pictures, eiiigies, and sepulchral brasses exhibiting liver collars (SS collars) and that, in addition toluis lists of collars of SS, he has large collections on the same subject, “sufficient to form a small volume.” Who is likely to possess his papers, &c., and how can I communicate with him? L. R. [Nichols died at Holmwood Park, near Dorkin, 14 November, 1873, aged sixty-seven. See 4° i‘?3' 1}B°'1}‘f°‘l‘2>§” %§§Sé.§3“§»1E»" %"ééé` sell iiif 4~2;`iv. 117, mo,    456; v. ’l6, és, si, 182: ZW, 255; vi. 182, 352; vii. 297, 584; viii. 398' x. 357; 2” s. xi. 438; xii. 35; nh s. ii.485; ix. 527; X. 93, 280; 6* S. ii. 215; iii. 86, 231.] more particularly the later editions called ‘ Wa1ker’s Manly Exercises! I believe the last edition the author edited was that previous to the sixth, 1839. _ _ As no ccipy of the fifth is in the British Museum or odleian,I have not been able to see it. The edition of 1839 is “edited by Craven.” What is curious about this is that Walker’s ‘ Defensive Exercises’ was published the year following which would seem to imipg that he was then alive. Why then, di raven edit the other book if Walker was alivel In the preface to ‘Defensive Exercises’ the author says “ universal skill in the arts of defence" is “ the surest means of freedom and perpetual peace.” ~ I shall be glad to know when Donald Walker died, or to receive any other infor- mation. RALPH Tnomxs. 13, Clifford’s Inn, E.C. DONALD WALKER is known for a work ln MARSHAL BRUNE.-What is known of the relatives of the French Marshal Brune (temp. Napoleon I.)'l A portrait of the marshal used to hang ig the Igsllbof llilarshsgs, but, I su pose, was estroy re. oes any cogy, engraving, or print of, this picture exist; or of any other portrait of Brunel I shoul bebograteful for any inforinatgcin Iupgnnhfhe a ve points. . . . _ [Brune left a widow. See ‘Nouvelle Biographie Universella’ There is a ‘ Notice Histori ue sur la Vie du Maréchal Brune,’ 8vo., Paris, 18213 THkcxEnAY’s CONTRIBUTIONS 'ro ‘PUNcH.’ -In an early volume of Punch is a short poem illustrative of what used to be called the humours or absurdities of Italian opera. The poem, which is ver delicate in construc- tion, I have been inclined to attribute to Thackeray, but cannot find it among the