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 9-s. VL OCT. is, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 289 this vowel is always long, sounded like the e in the French word "helas." My copy is the fourth edition, published in London, the author living close by at the time. D. F. C. LONDON BRIDGE.—At 9th S. i. 188 ME. C. E CLABK claims to have "indubitable evi dence" that the present London Bridge wat renamed Trafalgar Bridge; and at 9™ S. i 312 a contributor, Q. V., asks for the "dates and uature" of such evidence. So far as J can trace no further notice has been taken ol the matter. May I bring it forward again as I for one should like information upon so interesting a subject, and doubt not thai there are other readers of 'N. & Q.' who wil! be pleased to know something upon the point at issue ? W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. 14, Artillery Buildings, Victoria Street, S.W. BISHOP OF NORWICH'S INN, FETTER LANE. —With reference to the interesting article on ' Vanishing London' in ' N. & Q.' (ante, p. 221), could you tell me whether any remains of the Bishop of Norwich's Inn, which was formerly in Fetter Lane, have been discovered 1 I have always understood that Norwich Court was a part of the demesne of the Bishops of Norwich, and that originally the episcopal residence was near by. Some time since I came across a sketch of ' Norwich House over against Newgate,' from which 1 gather that a part, at least, of the see house was standing about fifty years since in Fetter Lane. A wall with the arms of the see (Az., three mitres labelled or), I am told, was to be seen as lately as 1870, soon after which it was pulled down. Is the exact site known ; and at what time did the Bishops of Norwich cease to have a London residence ? One wonders, too, whether the site is still diocesan property. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. MARGARET OF BOURBON.—I shall be much indebted to any reader who can supply the date of birth of Margaret of Bourbon, daugh- ter of Duke Charles I. She married Philip, Duke of Savoy, in April, 1472, and died in April, 1483. MEGAN. BISHOP OF KILSANOR. —The following pas- sage occurs in ' The Records of Nottingham,' under the year 1626-7 : "Paid Maister Mar- tyn for Chardgs in the bishopp of Kilsanor's suit with the towne xljs." Can this see or its occupant be identified ? ASTARTE. HEREDITARY APPARITION.—Will you inform me through your columns whether there was any manifestation of the hereditary apparition of the "Airlie drummer "at Cor- tachy Castle on the occasion of the death in South Africa of the late Earl of Airlie 1 I am informed that the ghostly sounds were heard in 1882, on the death of a member of the family in the Egyptian campaign, but have seen no mention regarding the present event. W. ABBATT. New York. " WHIM-BEAM."—The whim-beam (or, as I have heard it pronounced, win-beam) of the woodwork supporting a roof is dovetailed into the main spars, about halfway between the ridge-board and the baulk-tie, which rests on the wall-plates, thus holding _the spars firmly in position. What is the deriva- tion of whim in this sense ? A friend of mine, who, however, is no philologist, asks me whether whim-beam may not signify the beam which keeps the frame of a roof in the right position — prevents it indulging in whims and getting out of place. This attrac- tive derivation is probably too pleasing to_be true. Is there in reality any connexion between the building term ana " whim," a freak, a capricious fancy, which Prof. Skeat shows to oe derived from the Icelandic ln'in:-:i, to wander with the eyes, as a silly person ; Norwegian kvima, to whisk about, trifle? A. E. PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE 'CRITIC.' —Horace Walpole seems to attribute the authorship of both to the Hon. Richard Fitz- patrick, brother-in-law of his correspondent the Countess of Ossory. Who was the author? H. T. B. STEWARTS OF ANNAT AND BALLACHALLAN. —I shall be obliged to any one who can supply me with a continuation or details of the following pedigree. John Stewart, second >f Annat, had Alexander, his son and heir ; Duncan of Ballachallan, whose son George was father of David of Ballachallan: George, a surgeon in Maryland : James, William, ana several daughters. What I should like in larticular is a note of the successors of Alexander and Duncan and their families, >ut any details will be welcome. I know all amily in 1739; it is a subsequent account >f them that is desired. WALTER M. GRAHAM EASTON. RAMSEY ABBEY, HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—Mr. Walter de Gray Birch, F.S.A., read before 'he British Archaeological Association on 8 January, 1899, a most interesting com- nunication entitled ' Historical Notes on the WSS. belonging to Ramsey Abbey.' He herein epitomized several documents pre- .
 * hat Duncan Stewart, M.A., said of this