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 .._..__v,,___,-,___`. _.-.___ ,_ -..__€__._l.-_ 390 NOTES AND QUERIES, [9°*S.VI.Nov. 17,1ooo. -is derived from this occurrence (Gyllyng being held to equal, I suppose, Guillaume, and “ dune ’” being min, a hill). 1 shall be glad to know if there is any historic basis for the tradition. '1`he chroniclers and historians who describe the wreck do not, so far as 1 have been able to discover, make any reference to the recovery ot the princes body. W P A.. . Psmmc IN 'run Housn or Commons.-ln a review m the At/zemzwm of 3_November of Mr. Alfred Kinnears book ‘Cnr House of Commons: its Realities and Romance,” it is observed:- “ We question whether it be true that ‘ pairing is a modern invention,” and certainly ‘thirty years ago ’ it was tar more rigid a practice and tar more general than it is now." My own impression is that pairing can be traced back at least two centuries, but 1 should be glad of early instances of the practice. .|:’0LITICIAN. Whit REV. HENRY ROWE. (9"h S. vi. 149, 211.) I HAVE a few genealogical memoranda of the Rowe family, given me many years ago by a great-grandson of the Bev. H. Bows. Accord- ing to these notes, the Bowes were descended from Sir Thomas iiowe, a banneret knighted on the held of battle during D06 Crusades, who received a grant of arms of three paschal lambs. .From him descended the Bowes of Lamberton, co. Devon, of which family was John Bows, serjeant-at-law, who died April, 1692, and was buried in the Temple Church. .By his wife, daughter of Jasper Edwards, of Little Berkford, co. Beds, he was father ot Nicholas Rowe, the poet (ob. 1673), who was twice married, lirst to a daughter of Mr. Auditor Parsons, by whom he nad a son, at whose death, unmarried, the main line became extinct, and secondly to a Miss Devenish, of a Dorsetshire family, by whom he left a daughter, married to nenry 1*`ane, Bsq., brother of Lord Westmoreland. A younger son of the Lamberton family was John Bows, of Blumeworth Hall, co. Durham, uncle of the above Mr. Serjeant Rowe. He is said to have married a sister of the second Lord (Chancellor) Bathurst	hough no such marriage appears m Burke), and to have been the father of Nathaniel itowe, of Eastworth House, Surrey, who served under Lord Anson, and also of Thomas Rowe, who married Elizabeth Singer, the well- known writer, author of ‘ Letters from the Dead,” Gro. Nathaniel Rowe left an only son (whose Christian name is not given), who was father of the Bev. Henry Rowe, LLB. (not LL.D.), Rector of Ringshall, Suiiblk, author of ‘ Mon- tem” and other poems. His son, Capt. Henry Nathaniel Bowe, R.N., was also a writer, author of ‘Sacred Beauties,” ' '1`he Rainbow of the Mind,” ac. He had a daughter who married Mr. Eedes and came out to the Cape about the time of the British settlers in 1820. Une of her sons, the Bev. John Eedes, was until recently Colonial Chaplain of Simons- town, where he still resides. I am aware that some of these facts, especially as to the parentage of the husband of Elizabeth Smger, do not agree with those given in the ‘Dictionary of National Biography ” (q.v.), but 1 believe they are correct as to the de- scent of the Rev. Henry Rowe. 1 would sug- gest that Henry, son of Nathaniel Howe, armiger, who matriculated at Brasenose in 1768, aged eighteen, is the Rev. Henry Bowe inquired after. .lf the latter died in 1819, aged sixty-six, there would be a difference of only three years between the two dates of birth, and the age sixty-six might easily have been erroneously given. Though the degree LL.B. is not an Oxford degree, it is well known that the titles of the Cxford and Cam- bridge degrees were frequently confused. l‘hus the great Bishop Butler is described on his tomb as LL.D., whereas he was D.C.L. 1 throw this out as a hint which your corre- spondent may follow up. lt atiords me some pleasure to contribute once more to the pages of ‘N. at Q.” after an interval of nearly thirty years, at which time 1 occasionally wrote, sometimes over my own name and sometimes over the archaic spelling UUYTE, which (in consequence, no doubt, of my indistinct writing) was generally misspelt EL-Uvtrn or UNYTE. J. A. Hswrrr, Canon of Grahamstown. Port Elizabeth, S.A. Enwinn Invinc/s Rminnucns IN Lonnos (9“‘ S. vi. 126, 276).-1 can add a few other details about Edward .lrving’s personality. He was Scotch of the Scotch, and his servants were Highland lassies brought up to enjoy that freedom of motion which belongs to those who have never worn shoes or stock- ings. This habit they maintained even in the English metropolis. '1`he family devotions were long, and on one occasion my father remembered being on his knees during an impassioned prayer for a whole hour. He found it diliicult to give undivided attention to the words of the great orawr, for when his eyes occasionally opened, they fell upon the