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town by the road to Palavas on the Mediter ranean. I believe they played in the fields I was told the ball was struck through a hoop. The mallets were smaller and more strongly made than those used for croquet, the boxwood heads bent into the segment oJ a circle rather less than that in which the mallet would be swung, and with faces strongly hooped with iron. The ball, of box or live-oak, about the bigness of a billiard ball, had the appearance of having seen rough usage. The mall-maker's shop was on the same road, just within the town. One oi the players was an Englishman.

THOS. J. JEAKES.

"FOULRICE" : " LOCK ELM" : "CHINCHERER (9 th S. vii. 229). " Foulrush " is the form in which the first of these words appears in the 'English Dialect Dictionary. 3 I should like to have particulars of the instances of " chin- cherer." When do they begin to appear ?

Q. V.

IPPLEPEN, co. DEVON (9 th S. vi. 409: vii. 50, 113, 217, 297). If MR. MOUNT is entitled to an apology, it is freely given ; but I fear that I did not notice the communication he now refers to, having taken up the subject- perhaps as obscure as our old "Mosing of the Chine" at a later point, where DR. NEUBAUER appeared to be t5aken seriously.

-A.. -Tt.

COL. THOMAS COOPER (9 th S. vii. 168). The following references may be of service to your correspondent. It would be rash to assume that tney all relate to the same person.

Thomas Cooper appears as a justice of the peace for Surrey in the list for 1650.

In the Parliament of 1640 Thomas Cooper, alderman, represented the city of Oxford (Rush worth, 'Hist. Col.,' part ii. vol. ii. p. 1109).

Thomas Cooper was one of the Commis- sioners for Ireland in 1656, " For the Security of His Highness the Lord Protector His Person" (Scobell, 'Acts and Ordinances,' part ii. p. 374).

In the same year Thomas Cooper was one of the Commissioners of Assessment for Surrey (ibid., 415). EDWARD PEACOCK.

SOLDIER ANCESTORS (9 th S. v. 496; vi. 30, 132). Mr. David Gillespie, of Mountquhanie (Fife, N.B.), who died only two years ago, was, I have often been told, the grandson of a laird who had fought at Culloden.

IBAGUE.

FLOWER DIVINATION (9 th S. vii. 29). Is " Bemmequer, malmequer," the formula used m Spain when picking off daisy-petals to

read their augury ; and is it therefore used as a daisy name 1 What formulae are used in other European countries? I know only of those used in England, Germany, and France.

MEGAN.

"CAPT. ROCK" (9 th S. vii. 227). The 'Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chieftain,' was published by Longman & Co., London, 1824 (fifth edition). 'Captain Rock in London, or the Chieftain's Gazette, for the years 1825-6 was issued in two volumes by James Robins, London, and Joseph Robins, Dublin. Both of these works are on my shelves, and are open to the inspection of your correspondent.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

' Memoirs of Captain Rock ' and ' Captain Rock Detected,' 2 vols., 1824, were lot 33 in Messrs. Sotheby's sale of 20 February last.

ROYAL STANDARD (9 th S. vii. 268). The old writers on heraldry, &c., have assigned arms to all the kings of England, most of which are now considered fictitious, and those from King William I. to Henry II. doubtful. The first bearer of the recognized coat of three lions passant guardant was King Richard I., who used it on his return from the Crusades, his previous one being two lions combatant. Whether they were lions or leopards has often been a point debated upon, and the reason why the lion or leopard was assumed or that blazon adopted has never satis- factorily been settled. If C. C. T. wishes to look up the subject, the following work, ' Remarks on the Origin and Usage of Arms "containing] the Ensigns Armorial of Foreign Nations and the Antiquity and Honour of
 * he Royal Arms of England,' by Stephen

Martin-Leake, Garter, issued for private cir- culation circa 1848, gives (I think) the sub- tance of all that has been written upon it in a clear and definite style. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

The history of the supporters to the royal arms has been fully given in * N. & Q.,' I 8t S. i. 48 ; viii. 88 ; ix. 228, 477 ; xii. 408 ; 9 th S. . 36. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

CAMPBELLS OF ARDKINGLASS (9 th S. vii. 187, 293). Anderson, the author of ' The Scottish Nation,' is not absolutely reliable. In Foster's ' Members of Parliament ' it is clearlv xplained that Helen, the heiress of Ard- dnglass, was the daughter of Sir James Campbell of Ardkinglass, on whose death in 1752 the baronetcy became extinct. She married Sir James Livingstone, Bart., who