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Spanish ; yet the English equivalent is n unknown in the topography of our sout coast, the sands on the north side of Portlai Bay at the Fleet's mouth, near Weymout being called Stnallmouth Sands. I a ignorant of the history of the designatio given to the piece of land at the mouth o the Blyth. Perhaps all the history consis in the fact that somebody who owned anc built on the land gratified a whim by namin it Boca Chica in allusion to the embouchur of the river. F. ADAMS.

Boca Chica ("narrow entrance"), well know by Admiral Vernon's attack on Cartagen (in the West Indies) in March, 1741. Th name is probably used cornmemoratively a the mouth of the Blyth like the man Portobellos in England or Scotland calle after another exploit of the same admiral.

R. B.

Upton.

Boca chica means in Castilian eithe "little mouth " or " mouth of little girl."

E. S. DODGSON.

Boca chica is Spanish, and means "littl mouth." In the case of a river having two mouths, or harbour with two entrances, one larger than the other, the smaller woulc be boca chica, the larger boca grande Perhaps there is a Boca Grande near the same locality. In any case, why named in Spanish ? G. S. PARRY.

PORTRAIT OP SIR JOHN THOROLD, BART., LORD MAYOR OF LONDON (9 th S. vii. 108). There is no known engraved portrait of this worthy. There may be a picture ; but, if so, no print from it has ever been published. The City would be the most likely covert to draw in quest of such a picture.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

' N. & Q.' IN FICTION (9 th S. vii. 85). If it be not referring back too far, one may quote from Mr. Austin Dobson's 'The Last Despatch ': (Apropos, I Ve the loveliest box For holding Notes and Queries /)

ARTHUR MAYALL.

" The colours are gradually fading from our con- tested elections indeed, the very last number of that excellent periodical, Notes and Queries, con- tained a grave discussion as to what are the colours which candidates of different parties should use. As if everybody did not know the Tory true blue, the Whig orange, the Radical red." 'The Ivory Orate, by Mortimer Collins, vol. i. chap. xi.

C. KING. Torquay.

4 'GALLUSES "--BRACES (9 th S. vi. 330, 393). A military officer who had spent many years

in India informed me that the word in Hindustani for braces for the suspension of trousers was galluses, same as in Lowland Scotch. A. G. REID.

Auchterarder.

ARUNDEL: WALDEN (9 th S. vii. 28). Arundel, from del, a valley, and Arun, the name of the river which runs through it. The derivation of Arun is obscure. Walden from wald, a woodland. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

WILLIAM BEADLE (9 th S. i. 288). As to my query at this reference about the identity of Wm. Beadle, whose daughter Alice married about 1605 Gabriel Throckmorton, of Ellington, Hunts, I have recently discovered that the name should be Bedell, and that Wm. Bedell was of Stachden (Little Staughton ?), co. Beds, and that he had a brother or son Edward Bedell, of Easton, co. Hunts. I have noted the additional correspondence about the Bedell family viz., 9 th S. ii. 268 ; iii. 149, 298 ; iv. 75, but it has not helped me to identify Wm. Bedell of Stachden. I should [ike to communicate with MR. J. J. HOWARD (or a member of his family), who wrote the query about Wm. Bedell in ' N. & Q.,' 5 th S. ii. 8.

C. WICKLIFFE THROCKMORTON. 349, Broadway, New York.

ROSE AND ZORZI FAMILIES (9 th S. vii. 68). Six articles have appeared in * N. & Q.' re- specting W. Stewart Rose, for which see

fc S. x. 9 ; 3 rd S. ii. 251 ; iv. 280, 345 ; 7 th S. x. 309, 436. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

GOSSAGE OF SPRATTON, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 9 th S. vii. 70). When I was at Guilsborough Grammar School in the late sixties, I well ^emember a boy named Gossage, who hailed
 * rom the village of Creaton, which lies about

mile from Spratton in this county. I hardly hirik the family can be extinct, for I under- tand it was represented at Creaton in quite 3cent years. Probably a letter addressed to le incumbent there would gain further in- ! ormation. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

BLANKETS (9 th S. vii. 68). Blanket's name ias ever been associated with Bristol, but le author of the "Turnover Page" in the Globe for 29 December, 1900, is incorrect in ssuming that authentic writers record that .ankets were first made by Thomas Blanket i Bristol in 1340. Records exist showing lat the brothers Blanket of whom John )pears to have been the oldest of the three were merchants of credit and renown in