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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. JAN. 12, 1901

Scotch, as the name would imply. William Grierson, of Deanstown, co. Dublin, is named in the D'Arcy pedigree. Certain particulars which help are to be found in the article in the 'D.N.B.' on Constantia Grierson. Wil- liam Grierson, of Deanstown (above referred to), had three daughters. The eldest, Martha = James D'Arcy, of Hyde Park ; another, Dorothea = William Moore, Esq. (marriage licence, 1768, ' Dublin Grants Index ') : and the other (name not ascertained) = a Grierson. It is believed that the Griersons went from England to Ireland first as king's printers. There are many Griersons mentioned in 'Dublin Diocesan Wills,' in Vicars's 'Irish Marriages,' and in the * Dublin Grants Index.' One or two entries are also to be found in the selections from the registers given in Hughes's 'Church of St. Werburgh, Dublin,' and the ' Church of St. John the Evangelist, Dublin.' SIGNIA.

" ROKER." At a manicurist's in Bond Street I hear the word " roker " used for a cherry- wood stick employed in cleaning the nail. "l have looked in the 'Century Dictionary,' and can find no trace of any "rok" root with any such meaning. The manicurists tell me that the word is always used in their trade and is "roker" and not " raker." Can any of your readers help me ? C. EOSSELL.

L ^iw*e = rake in a not very cleanly sense was occa- sionally used fifty years ago in the 'West Riding.]

TEDDYE FAMILY. Roger Glanville, buried at Ashburton in 1800, married at Ashburton, 12 April, 1765, Mary, daughter of .... Teddve Is anything known of her family ?

C. L. G.

FLOGGING AT THE CART TAIL.-! remem- ber my father, when I was a boy, seventy years ago, pointing out a man to me whom lie had seen flogged at the cart tail UD the principal street of this town. I presume this would be done by order of the magistrates as a punishment for some offence Can any tor what offences this punishment J, and when it became obsolete ?

Halifax. J ' W ' W -

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from the publications of the N.Y., Md., Va., S.C., and Nova Scotia Historical Societies and State documents. Can you help me to materials bearing on his early life and on the closing years, 1725-28?

C. W. SOMMERVILLE.

" CODRINGTON/' Dr. Guthrie in 1844 wrote thus to his wife : " Finding that I would be uncomfortably confined, I took up my posi- tion on a chair in front, having my hat on my head, my Codrington close buttoned up to my throat." Was a Codrington a jacket or coat ? What is the word derived from 1

M.A.OxoN.

[An origin is suggested from Admiral Sir Edward Codrington or his son Admiral Sir Henry John Codrington, similar to that of Spencer.]

" CHURMAGDES." What is the meaning of this word ? It occurs in the presentments at the Courts Leet of Southampton. "Three churmagdes were presented, two of them because they had no present employment ; both were required to put themselves imme- diately to service, or to leave the town."

HELLIER R. H. GOSSELIN.

Bengeo Hall, Hertford.

" PEAKY-BLINDER." Has the use of this word in the Midlands as a synonym for Hooligan been recorded in ' N. & Q.' 1

B. D. MOSELEY.

SURNAMES. Perhaps you or some of your readers can inform me when surnames were first introduced into England I mean, when say Peter de Courtenay may have dropped the de. I imagine it was between the middle of the thirteenth and the middle of the four- teenth centuries. GEORGE H. COURTENAY.

SIR JAMES DOUGLAS. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' inform me if the good Sir James Douglas, the friend of King Robert Bruce, was a natural son ? TOURAINE.

ARUNDEL : WALDEN. Was the name of the town of Arundel in Sussex derived from Arendal in Scandinavia? Also the name of Walden in Essex from Valdalen in Norway, from which place St. Olaf is said to have fled 1 T w a

SCOTTISH NAMES IN FROISSART. Has any serious attempt ever been made to identify the misrendered Scottish names which appear in Lord Berners's version of Froissart? In the account of the battle of Otterburn alone there are at least a dozen which might be variously interpreted. At the British Museum are two copies of Froissart in manuscript, differing considerably both from each other and from