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 9th s. vi. DEC. 29, 1900 NOTES AND QUERIES. 513 of France. In my researches I have had the ready assistance of several of the present generation of the Arnolds. In the paternal line, Dr. Arnold of Rugby may be regarded as the patriarch of the family. He was the son of William Arnold, of Slatwoods, Isle of Wight (H.M.'s Collector of Customs), by his wife Martha, daughter of John Delafield. From the family records, William's immediate progenitors had been settled in the Isle of Wight for two gene- rations, and traditionally are said to have oeen of Suffolk origin. It may be noted that a family of Arnolds is recorded as of Cromer in the Heralds' Visitations of Norfolk, 1563, 1589, 1613, and 1664, although the connexion between them and the Arnolds of Rugby (if any) has yet to be estab- lished. The mother of Matthew and grandmother of Mrs. Humphry Ward and the Arnold-Forsters was Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Penrose, vicar of Fledborough, who was a kinsman of the Duchess of Kingston of the famous bigamy case, and owed his incumbency to her patronage. Through Mary Penrose Matthew Arnold derived from the Fords of Devonshire, the stock from which the Elizabethan dramatist John Ford also sprang. There is no need to go away from England in pursuit of the Arnold pedigree. Arnold is a well and old established English surname widespread in the East, Midlands, and South-West. Accord- ing to Guppy, its greatest relative frequency is in Warwickshire, Rutland, Monmouth, Essex, and Hampshire. In ultimate origin it may be Old German, but this can be left to philologists to discuss. For centuries it has been an English yeoman name, and, although remembering that in genealogy the unexpected has a knack of hap- pening, I am willing to accept correction if your correspondent furnishes proof. Until that proof is furnished, and without standing behind any man in admiration for the Jewish race, I shall continue to discern in the lineaments of Matthew Arnold's countenance the physical peculiarities of his ancestry belonging to our patrician English race—compound of Norman, Saxon, Dane, and Celt—and to attribute the peculiar character and quality of his mind to the fusion of the blood he inherited from his mother with that of the sturdy English yeoman stock whose surname he with others of his immediate kin has rendered illus- trious. I am, Sir, truly yours, LIONEL CRESSWELL. Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks, Nov. 21. LIONEL CRESSWELL. [Other contributors send the same letters.]

WHITGIFT'S HOSPITAL, CBOYDON (9th S. vi. 341, 383, 402, 423, 479).—At the last reference ME. ARNOTT has in a generous way pointed to what he conceives to be an error with respect to the authorship of 'The Admonition to Parliament.' I freely admit I did not make any special investigation as to the correctness of my authorities, nor did I take any steps to verify the title-pages of those books which told that Thomas Cartwright was their author. ME. AENOTT apparently assumes that Strype was one of my authorities. I did not say so, nor did I name any. I, however, quite see that MR. ARNOTT'S assumption was natural under the circumstances, for, as a fact, Strype's name is associated with a very great deal, written and spoken, with regard to Archbishop Whitgifts life and works. I cannot pretend to say why. I was aware that Strype asserts Cartwright was the author of ' The Admonition,' although I did not mention the fact, having before me at the time the writings of one -who was an author when Strype was a child of about six years old, viz., Samuel Clark, pastor of Bennet Fink, London (second ed., 1654), who refers to the controversy between Whitgift and Cartwright, " as appears by the books extant between them." I also consulted ' The History of the Church' (London, 1674),' The Life of the Earl of Leicester' (London, 1724), where reference is made to Cartwright being suspended from preaching by Whitgift, and several biographical dictionaries. With all this and more before me, I may be pardoned if I imagine that stronger evidence will re- quire to be produced than Brook ere we Discredit the authorities only hero named. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS. "Go GAITERS" (9th S. vi. 448).-'The Eng- lish Dialect Dictionary,' s.v. ' Go,' ii. 4, gives the phrase as "go agatewards," and the mean- ing "to accompany a friend on a journey or part of the way home." Under 'Gate' there is the phrase to go gatesing=to go part of the way with any one." And under ' Gate- wards ' there is the expression " to go gate- wards=to accompany part of the way home." "Gatewards"="in the direction of, towards.' There are various spellings, including "a- gaiters," under 'Gatewards'; and among the quotations is the form " gaiters." AETHUE MAYALL The proper phrase is " to go agatewards," explained by Brockett (s.v. 'Gate') as "to accompany a short way." Gate is the well- known Northern word for " road " or " way," but is most familiar to Southerners in the expression "gang your gait." F. ADAMS. I suggest that this is " to go gaitis," or gates (part) of the way. Cf. al-gaitis, mfsnt/-<jaitis, thus-gate. H. P L. BROKEN ON THE WHEEL (9th S. vi. 251, 373, 455)—A. far more terrible account of this punishment than either of those to which W. S., ME. HUTCHINSON, and MR. MARSHAM- TOWNSHEND refer is to be found, and of a later date than April, 1775, in the 'Reminis-