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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. VH. APRIL 20, ioi.

William John Sharpe, who in 1841 took^ the name of Brabazon, having inherited "the estates of that family ; and (2) Sarah, Baro- neSvS Teynham, who died without issue 28 June, 1854. G. E. C.

Anthonj r Brabazon, Esq., of Brabazon Park, co. Mayo, was created a baronet of Ireland 10 November, 1797. He married in 1776 Anne, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Capel Molyneux, Bart., and had a son Sir William John Brabazon, second baronet, M.P. for the county of Mayo, who died un- married in 1840, when the title became extinct. Sir Anthony Brabazon's sister Catharine married Luke Higgins, Esq., of Castlebar, co. Mayo, and had a son Hugh Higgins, who, in 1852, assumed by royal licence the surname and arms of Brabazon. This gentleman, formerly a captain in the 15th Hussars, married in 1827 Ellen Am- brosia, youngest daughter of Sir William Henry Palmer, Bart., of Palmerstown, co. Mayo, and Kenure Park, co. Dublin. Mr. Hugh Brabazon died in 1864. He had two sons, viz., Capt. Luke Brabazon, R.A., who was foully murdered by the Chinese in 1860 ; and the present Col. John Palmer Brabazon, C.B., late 10th Hussars, aide-de-camp to the King. Refer to Burke's ' Extinct Baronetage ' (1838), p. 601, and to Burke's 'Landed Gentry ' (1858), p. 124. D. K. T.

"INSURRECTION " (9 th S. vii. 66, ill).

"The noble Lord [John Russell] was quite correct ; he used the term [insurrection] without reflection, which, although signifying illegality in this country, in Hungary signified what was legal and right, for when they made a levy en manse, in defence of their liberties, the Hungarian term used was insurrectio ; and when a Hungarian Diet, in 1/41, said, Vita'tn-etsanr/uinempro reyt nostro, that was inmrrectio in the Hungarian sense of the word ; that indeed was an insurrection in a good sense." Mr. Bernal Osborne's speech in the House of Commons, 21 July, 1849, Hansard's ' Parliamentary Debates,' vol. cvii. p. 791.

L. L. K.

"CLUBBING THE BATTALION " (9 th S. vii. no, 171). The word dub has been much in use in the army. In the ' Directions how to Order a Battalion for a Battel ' which are given in the ' Military Discipline ' of 1689 we read that " the musketiers club their muskets and fall on. Among the prescribed words of com- mand was "Club your firelocks." Bland in his 'Treatise of Military Discipline,' 1740, writes of the men marching with " clubb'd arms." About the year 1760 it was customary tor sergeants to club their halberds as a mark of respect when addressing the sergeant- major: "A serjeant with a halbert should

club it." Soldiers used to club their wigs as early as in the year 1680, "with a peruke tied up in a knot "; and soon afterwards they used to club their natural hair. Cuthbertson, writing in 1768, says :

"The hair of the Non-commission-officers, Drum- mers, and private Men look tightest, when turned up behind, on a comb, and loosely platted, with a black ribband or tape in a bow knot, at the tye."

The military use of the word club with reference to wigs and natural hair is pro- bably the origin of the phrase " to club men on parade" to get them into a knot, the result of ignorance or forgetfulness or de- fiance of the rules of drill.

An interesting instance of clubbing a bri- gade is mentioned by Col. Tomkinson, of the 16th Light Dragoons, in his 'Diary of a Cavalry Officer, 1809-15':

"Being in a column of half squadrons, we were ordered to form line, descend into the plain, and pursue the enemy. We did not feel inclined to lose any time, and the ground being more favourable for a formation to the left instead of to the right (as it ought in regularity to have been), we inclined to our left, forming on the left of the left half-squadron of the 12th, which clubbed the brigade."

W. S.

RUTTER FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 148). Your correspondent will find a reference to Samuel Kutter, Bishop of Sodor and Man, other than that given by him, on turning

to 5 th S. i. 108.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"LYNGELL" (9 th S. vii. 49). Lingel is given in Levin's ' Dictionary of English and Latin,' 1570 (Camden Society), thus : a lingel, lingula. The index to the English words gives " fangel, a shoe-tie," and quotes Bichard Huloet's 'Latin and English Dictionary,' 1552 : "Lin- gel or thonge, lingula." Trappur, trappes will probably be the same as trappe, trappatura, and trappurey, the caparison of a horse.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

HUITSON FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 129, 218). There are Hutesons, Hewitsons, Hewitts, and Hewsons in plenty living within a few miles of this place, but I do not know any living representatives of the form Huitson.

C. C. B.

Ep worth.

LIVING! IN THREE CENTURIES (9 th S. vii. 86). This happens to be the most popular form of centenarianism at present, and accordingly (as the Editor surmises) we find not a few in the newspapers. Probably about 1 per cent, of the cases reported may be genuine. Very small indeed is the number