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 9* 8. VI. SEPT. 22,1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 235 Prestbury, co. Gloucester, in vol. xviii. of Nay tor's 'Private Acts' in the Guildhall Library. A pedigree is also given in ' Family Notes on Harrison and Branfill Families.' Your correspondent will also find notes on the Capel family in Crisp's 'Somersetshire Wills,' vol. i. a_nd vols. iii., iv., and vi. On p. 124, first series, will be found notes from the will of Sir Henry Capel. CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. CUTLERS' POETRY, POSIES, AND MOTTOES (9th S. vi. 106).—There is a collection of 'Love Posies' from a MS. of the sixteenth century in Arbor's ' English Garner,' vol. i. C. C. B "FREE-BORD" (9th S. vi. 106).—I would refer your querist as above to the communi- cations in 'N. & Q.' under the heading of ' Park Bounds' (8th S. ix. 307,391), that at the latter reference being from my pen. W. I. R. V. REGIMENTAL NICKNAMES (9th S. v. 104,161, 263, 377, 438).—The following extract from 'The Invasion,' dated 20 Dec., 1803, one of Robert Anderson's 'Cumberland Ballads,' seems to indicate that a Howard was colonel at a later date than 1748, as suggested at p. 439 of vol. v. :— Then there 'B the Rangers all in green, Commanded by brave Howard— Of aw hia noble Kin, nit yen Was iver caw'd a coward ; They'll pop the Frenchmen off leyke steyfe, If e'er they meet, I '11 bail them : Wi' sec true Britons at their heads, True courage cannot fail them. W. B. H. JOSEPH INCHBALD (9th S. vi. 150).—A similar inquiry appeared in 'N. & Q.,' 2nd S. vii. 217, to which no reply has been given. For many particulars respecting the husband of Eliza- beth Inchbald, actress and author, who died in 1779, see ' Memoirs and Correspondence of Mrs. Inchbald,' edited by James Boaden (Bentley, 2 vols., 1833), also Temple Bar Magazine, vols. i., Iv., xcix. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. SERGEANT - AT - ARMS : YEOMAN OF THE GUARD (9th S. v. 355).—I think that Miss M. E. POOLE might very likely find the in- formation she requires in these books • 'Anglite Notitiae, the Present State of England,' by Edward Chamberlaine (fifteenth edition, 1684), a quaint work giving details concerning the king's household ; Thoms's 1 Book of the Court' (borrowing much from the above); ' An Enquiry into the Places and Quality of the Gentlemen of H.M. Most Hon. Privy Chamber,' by Nicholas Carlisle. Also application might be made to the Clerk of the Cheque, Lord Chamberlain's Dept. Office, Stable Yard, St. James's Palace. I have a note (not verbatim) from Bunco Curling's 'Account of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen - at - Arms' (formerly styled the " King's Pensioners " or " Spears ") that this corps, instituted by Hen. VIII., is. with the exception of the Yeomen of the Guard and Sergeants-at-Arms (Rich. I.), the oldest in England ; and a note from ' Anglire Notitise ' to the effect that while the band of fifty Gentlemen Pensioners waited in the Presence Chamber, below stairs, the Yeomen of the Guard of H.M. Body waited in the first room above the stairs, called the Guard Chamber. They were one hundred and fifty men, 6 ft. high, wearing scarlet coats down to the knee and scarlet breeches, both guarded with black velvet, and broad black velvet round caps, as in Hen. VIII.'s reign. For some disparaging remarks upon " The Habit of the Officers of the Guards," see ' The Memoirs of the Verney Family,' vol. iv. pp. 239-41. As there seems to have been a system of attending in alternate quarters of the year, part of the band at a time, would it have been impossible that one man could have been a member of two distinct corps ? ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES. DURHAM ACCOUNT ROLLS (9th S. iii. 221).— Pample (or pumple), popille or popple, tares or vetches, which are used in a green state as fodder for cattle. A field of six acres on one of our family estates, viz., Bury (or Berry) Court Farm in Cliffe, near Rochester, Kent, was long known as " Pompill Croft," which, in a bill in Chancery relating to the same property temp. James I., is written " Pumple Croft." Sayll twyne, sail twine, the twine or string with which the sails of ships were sewn. Turettes, tirrets, tirets, or tyrritts, swivels (of metal), a term also used in heraldry. In the trickings of arms in many early heraldic MSS. these are represented as a ring at the end of a chain, and this is so in our family crest. Bailey ('Diet. Brit.,' 1736) gives tyrets as a kind of ornament for horse harnesses Skelet, the (annual) cleansing of the arable land from weeds by harrowing, <tc. A term derived from the Latin squalere (or scalere), to be full of weeds, and foul for lack of husbandry. W. I. R. V. "CHINK" (9th S. v. 432, 498; vi. 154).—I did not intend to leave " it open to be sup-