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 9* s. vi. DEC. i, 1900.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 429 undoubtedly built with the Douai money, and that he remembers, when it was removed in 1851 from Buckingham Palace to its present position, it was publicly stated that this was the case. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. Beaufort House, Clifton Wood, Bristol. A GORDON IMPRISONED IN THE BASTILLE FOR THIRTY YEARS.—Arthur Young, in his ' Travels in France,' tells an extraordinary story about Lord Albemarle's getting a man named Gordon released (about 1753) from the Bastille, where he had been imprisoned for thirty years. The latest edition of Young does not elucidate the identity of Gordon. What is known about him 1 J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall, S.W. CRUDEN'S ' CONCORDANCE.' — Can you or any of your readers explain why Cruden, in his ' Concordance' to the Bible, in many cages omits any mention of a word, apparently because it in the Authorized Version appears in italics? I will mention one among many : Exodus zxxviii. 8, Cruden omits the im- portant word women. GEOROE H. COURTENAY. [Without omission of some words a Bible con- cordance would bo too large and unwieldy for use. Cruden omitted, bis editors remark, what he con- sidered the least striking, but no two persons will agree wholly on such a point. In the passage indi- cated above we should, for instance, turn to "looking-glass" a» the obvious key-word, which is given even in the abbreviations which curtail Cruden.] HEREWARD THE WAKK.—Can any one tell me the correct pronunciation of this name ? Ought it to be pronounced as a word of three syllables, as Hfirgward ; or in two syllables, as if it were spelt Herward ? Authority requested with reply. PATRICK MAXWELL. Bath. SIR LAWRENCE PABEINHAM.—Mention of him is made in Chauncy. He lived in the fourteenth century. I shall be glad if any one can give me particulars of this knight or baronet. M.A.OxoN. PASSY OR PASSEY.—I should be glad of par- ticulars of the arms, crest, and motto of this French family, or of any adopted in England, or reference to works on the subject. EICHARD HEMMING. Ardwick. IRISH MS. — Can you tell me if any English translation of the' Leabhar Branach ' ('The Book of O'Byrnes'), the MS. of which is in Trinity College, Dublin, is in existence? If so, where can it bo procured ? I shall be grateful to any reader who can tell me where I may procure any information relative to the continental career of the Irish Brigade of Black Hugh O'Neill, which left Ireland after the capitulation of Limerick, 1C45 ; also where I can got accurate details of Ed. Bruce's campaign in Ireland, other than Irish annalists and Irish archiBological publications. HENRY EOAN KENNY. 39, Aytoun Road, S.W. INDEPENDENT COMPANY OF INVALIDS.—In a recent holiday tour I saw the follow- ing mural inscription nt Old Felixstowe Church, and should be glad of information as to the above heading :— "In this Chancel lie interred the remains of Adam Wood, Esq.. of the Independent Company of Invalids, of Land Guard Fort, who died June 10th, 1773, and of Frances his Relict, who died January 3. 182-J, aged 85. This tablet is erected as a mark of filial affection by Sir George Adam Wood, K.C.B. Major-Gencral Sir G. A. Vood died 22nd April, 1831, aged 62. Buried at Paddington." JAS. CURTIS. Junior Athenaeum Club. INSCRIPTION ON PORTRAIT.—Can you or any of your readers help me to identify the following, which is on an oil portrait, viz.: "Alexander Ultimus do Tellinis Casaghte- gomes Primus, setatis annorum LXIIII. anno salutis 1623 " ? G. MORGAN. LALLY TOLLENDAL. — Could any corre- spondent kindly state when the first edition of the 'Me'moires pour la Rehabilitation de mon Pere' of Lally Tollendal appeared ? C. C. D. [The ' M(5moire Apolog<5tique de Lally - Tol- landal" (tic) was issued in 8vo., Paris, 1789.] " LIG-DEWES."—What are these ? Gaiters 1 The word occurs in the Visitations of the Archdeacons of Canterbury in the Cathedral Library, the volume for 1616-18, leaf 148 :— " Monkton. 1617. We present Francis Tresse for laying of his plow harness in our church, and like- wise tor laying of his fould bands, and his hat, and a dirty paire of lig-dewes in the chest where the church ornaments do usually lie." On 15 July, 1617, Tresso confessed "That once he laid his plough harness, on a wet day, in the belfry ; and denied the other charges." ARTHUR HUSSEY. Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent. SCANTY WEDDING DRESS.—I find the follow- ing record of a marriage at Liverpool in the New Monthly Magazine for April, 1822 : " Mr. E. Lawrence to Miss H. Ashton; the bride was married in her chemise only." Is this merely evidence of Miss Ashtpn's simple and modest taste in dress, or does it refer to some