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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL APRIL is, 1901.

was afterwards knighted, and died in 1381. In 1359, according to the Chester Plea Rolls, he had Letters of Protection, being about to go beyond sea in the retinue of the Prince of Wales (the Black Prince), whom he had pro- bably previously accompanied in the same manner. The French and Gascon rolls at the Public Record Office, which I have had searched with regard to the Buttons pre- viously to Poictiers, do not appear to throw any light upon them ; but the military accounts of that time which are also there record a Robert de Button amongst the men- at-arms in Lord Audley's retinue, at the wages of I2d. per day. I am told that in these accounts esquires are included under the description of men-at-arms, and that the pay of an esquire was 12<i. per day.

As this Robert de Button was apparently of the Staffordshire Buttons, who were knights of that shire in the fourteenth cen- tury, his identity with them might dispose of the difficulty as suggested by the REV. G. SNEYD in his interesting reply, that the Cheshire Buttons do not appear to have owed service to Lord Audley. This they certainly did not, as they held in chief of the king by the usual knight's service.

With regard to the derivation of the fret in the Button arms, it appears that in the roll of those who were present at the siege of Caerlaverock, in 1300, Hugh le Bespencer is there recorded as bearing similar arms to the Buttons, but differenced with a bend. As the Bespencer family progenitor is said to have been a Button, such early recorded use of the arms half a century before Poictiers is not in favour of the tradition.

MR. SNEYD, I observe, describes the Button fret as argent. It has always been borne by the family as or" Red, fretty yellow," as it is described by the Caerlaverock chronicler. In ancient delineations, too, it is invariably shown as " fretty," with each of its lines con- tinued throughout the field, like lattice- work, and not in its present form of a (single) fret '

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BELL-RINGING AT WAKES (9 th S. vii. 188). This in the north of England was a very common practice, and many examples might be quoted. The following is from the church- wardens accounts of Rochdale: "Aug 1649 Ringinge on the Rushbering Bay. Is." The wakes in many parts of Lancashire were known as " rushbearings."

HENRY FISHWICK.

I should think the practice of ringing the bells at a wake is as old as the festival itself It still survives in many places ; also there

are many curious people nowadays who cannot be prevailed upon to absent them- selves from wakes, being called thereunto by thefumus et strepitus of the taverns. Whilst writing on the subject of old wakes customs I may mention one I never heard of before last summer. An old lady was my informant. She said when she was a child all the houses in Filey threw the doors wide open during the wake, and anybody might enter who chose. Cakes and tea were supplied to all comers. Such indiscriminate hospitality could only be practised at small places. Was it general in Yorkshire villages 1

B. B. MOSELEY. Burslem.

"ANYONE," "EVERYONE" (9 th S. vii. 205). These ill- joined words have been introduced by the ignorance of modern printers, and I pronounce decidedly for a " repeal of the union." 1. Because the pronunciation prompted by their form is " an-yone," " ever-yone," to which must be added " so-me-o-ne " for the still more unsightly "someone." 2. Because in such combinations the particle "one" is not on all fours with "body." The phrase "any one," for instance, is elliptical for "any one of us, you, or them," according to the context, which is not the case with "any- body." 3. Because " uniformity " to use the typographical term cannot be observed in all the combinations with "one." Your corre- spondent ignores not only "some," as already indicated, but the particle " no." We write " nobody," but the pen revolts against " no- one." Not infrequently, however, "every one" occurs in juxtaposition with "no one" : for example, " Though known to every one, no one believes it." With what consistency could "everyone" figure here by the side of "no one"? An objection to the form " noone " based on vocal collision is equally valid against "anyone," ''everyone," and " someone." F. ADAMS.

Your correspondent is doubtless right, but he is of course aware that " anybody " and "everybody" were each written as two words originally. " Our rude forefathers deemed them two." C. C. B.

Roos FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 169). John Manners, ninth Earl and first Buke of Rutland, was styled Lord Roos, or Ros, in 1679. The barony of Ros came into this family by the marriage of Sir Robert Man- ners, Knt., of Etal, co. Northumberland, to Eleanor, eldest sister and co-heir of Edmund, Lord Ros of Hamlake, Trusbut, and Belvoir. The barony passed out of the family by the