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NOTES AND QUERIES. 9* s. vn. JA*. s, woi.

eadh (it). The original meaning was there- fore " if so," but it is commonly used in the sense of "well then." See Canon Bourke's 'Easy Lessons in Irish,' 1896, p. 52.

JAMES PLATT, Jun.

This interjection in colloquial Anglo-Irish represents the Irish maiseadh, if so be, then, therefore i.e., ma is se (O'Reilly, 'Irish Dictionary,' ed. O'Donovan, p. 346 ; P. Ken- nedy, 'Evenings in the Duffrey,' p. 402).

A. SMYTHE PALMER. ,

S. Woodford.

MOVABLE STOCKS (9 th S. vi. 405). This mobility is confirmed by the statement that " an incorrigible," named Samuel Tisdale, was "dragged around the town [of Shrewsbury] in the stocks, by a mob": this occurred in 1851, as nearly as can be ascertained.

A. HALL.

Many years ago (it was, I think, in 1861) I saw the performance of ' King Lear ' at Sadler's Wells Theatre, then under the management of Mr. Phelps, who enacted the part of Lear. I can remember the movable stocks being brought upon the stage, and the Earl of Kent being placed in them (Act II. sc. ii.). Probably movable stocks were kept in most castles in feudal times for punish- ment. Xo doubt in the edition of Shakspere by my late friend Halliwell-Phillipps there would be found a pictorial illustration and much curious information on the point. He once told me that his own special copy of his fifty-guinea Shakspere, which he had copi- ously annotated, was destroyed by fire at a repository where he had housed it.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

JSewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

There was a pair of movable stocks in the

church of Northorpe, near this town, some

fty years ago Whether they are preserved

m the present day I have no means of know-

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

CAMDEN ANCESTRY (9 th S. vi. 430). Agnes Strickland m her 'Queens' mentions that

who, n ry C \ r f wen ' f Wor kington, with lorn Queen Mary of Scots sojourned a

Pan O m0 ' Wa ? C ' Usln f Queen Catherine arr, Queen Mary's aunt by marriage. By

, other m0 \ matcn ! al { Ie c et (though his Agnes daughter of Sir

Henry Curwen was Queen Mary's cousin in the fifth degree. Camden, being his nephew, was therefore a kinsman of the two rival queens. There was a Camden family at Battersea in the last century. John Camden of that place had two daughters, coheirs. The elder, Elizabeth, married in 1788 James Neild, High Sheriff of Bucks in 1804 (a well- known philanthropist and prison reformer of the day). In an article in the ' Book of Days' upon his son, John Camden Neild, it is stated that his mother was "a direct descendant of the renowned antiquary of the same name." Upon what authority that statement was based I do not know, but among the descendants of Harriet, younger daughter of John Camden, of Battersea, who married John Mangles, of the Manor House, Hurley, Berks, I have found it generally believed. The descent may possibly be from Camden's father through his sou Sampson, who was married, while the antiquary was not. In the register of St. Augustine's Church, London, is the record of a marriage between Sampson Camden and Avis Carter, 4 Septem- ber, 1575. In the printed ' Visitation of Lon- don, 1633-5,' appears a short pedigree begin- ning with .Richard Camden, of Mappowder, co. Dorset, and ending with his son .Richard, who married, first, Koda, daughter of Ion King, of Eaton ; secondly, Sarah, daughter of John Dayrell, of Calehill in Kent. I much desire to clear up the question whether the Camdens of Battersea were kin to " Camden the nourice of antiquity." It is a subject of great interest, and I would welcome any light thrown upon it.

FEANCIS P. LEYBURN YAEKER. 3, Addenbrooke Place, Cambridge.

MR. CURWEN is correct in assuming that ' Camdeni Epistolse,' 1691, small 4to., contains a notice of Camden's father, Sampson Cam- den. I have this scarce book, and will be pleased to hear from MR. CURWEN.

A. IREDALE.

Torquay.

THE KECHABITES (9 th S. vi. 261). The real status of these Rechabites seems equivocal. We are told in 2 Samuel iv. 2 that they were of the sons of Benjamin, so Jews of pure blood. But in 1 Chronicles ii. we find them classed with the sons of Judah (v. 3), which follow on to David, with several named Caleb ; so Caleb son of Hur or Hor, ending with the Kenites that came of Hamath, the father of the house of Rechab ; then ch. iii reverts to David's own sons. All argument tails if the reference to the Kenites is called an interpolation. A. H.