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

title, nor even is " Gentleman " a title. Dod the infallible ranks "Esquires" as No. 136 in his scale of precedence, thus : " Esquires by office, including all officers of the naval or military forces, who are styled esquires in their commissions."

It is understood that Her Majesty signs the first commission so granted, and it con- stitutes an official distinction, but the public are content to class officers as " Gentlemen." The Queen has recently created Sir J. B. Paul an Esquire by appointment ; but, as his knighthood grants an exact title, it has to be shown that the "squireship" constitutes an elevation.

Novels of the last century describe a "Squire Jones," he being the local landowner. I have known villagers dub such gentry as "Lords," it being the survival of the manorial lordship, formerly of baronial rank.

FITZ-GLANVIL.

YEOMANRY RECORDS (9 th S. vi. 269, 397 ; vii. 12). I have compiled a MS. list of regimental histories, as curiously no such index to this kind of literature exists. In it I find 'Wor- cestershire Yeomanry Cavalry,' published 1843, and 'Nottingham Yeomanry.'

(Mrs.) J. HAUTENVILLE COPE.

Sulhamstead, Berkshire.

^ GRAVE OF GEORGE HERIOT (9 th S. vi. 170, 272, 373). It seems unwise to take the extract from the Edinburgh Courant too seriously. George Heriot ' was, of course, buried in the old church ; there is nothing definite to show what happened to his remains in 1721 when that church was pulled down. The minutes of the Board of Com- missioners for building the present church record two destinations for the coffins and bodies which were unearthed in the process ot digging the new foundations. The maioritv were removed to vaults prepared for them T ,1 ] e Tabern acle " until the new vaults should be ready, and the remainder were interred in a " trench between the old wall on the north side of the churchyard and the new fou ndation S A proposal to use the

new churchyard (that in which the work- house was subsequently erected) was rejected by the Commissioners. Ib seems unlikely therefore, that Honot's coffin can have been extract quoted does not say that the coffin had been discovered. I fancy the writer simply assumed that it was in the graveyard which had been m use since 1608. The fact that nothing more seems to have been heard of the matter points to the same conclusion. It is most regrettable that the
 * and it is worth noticing that the

lists (made in 1721) of all the coffins which were moved have not survived.

It may be of interest to state that there were probably three persons bearing the name " George Heriot" living in this parish of St. Martin's at the same time : first, he whose grave is in question ; second, one who was married to a certain Frances Jelon in 1612/13 (she appears as a widow in 1624); third, a George Heriot, Esq., whose wife Alice was buried in the church in September, 1621. It would be interesting to know whether there was any connexion between these three gentlemen, but in the face of those forty children of one father this seems a vain hope. J. V. KITTO.

St. Martin's Vicarage, Charing Cross, W.C.

SIR ROBERT MORAY (9 th S. vi. 507). There is no known engraved portrait of this worthy, I think I may safely say. There may, of course, be a painted likeness of him some- where, which has never been engraved, though it is not very probable.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

REV. THOMAS CAMPBELL, LL.D. (9 th S. vi. 507). The portrait of this divine mentioned by MR. ERNEST RADFORD is unknown to Bromley and to Evans. I do not know it, and I should think it must be the likeness of some other person. I can find no record of the portrait of any clergyman, of that period, engraved by James Parker.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

"JOHN COMPANY" (8 th S. i. 475 ; ii. 37, 116). In Andreas Spurrmann's 'Travels to the Cape of Good Hope, the South-Polar Lands, and round the World,' translated freely from the Swedish (Berlin, 1784), at p. 347, the following passage occurs :

"Further, I knew that, as simple Hottentots and Indians could form no idea of the Dutch Company and its government and constitution, the Dutch in India had given out that this was one mighty ruling prince who was called Jan, or John, with the sur- name Company, which also procured for them more reverence than if they could have actually made the people understand that they were, in fact, ruled by a company of merchants."

J. F. R-N.

_ EASTER MAGIANT (9 th S. vi. 508). " Easter giant, Easter ledges, Easter magiants, or Piaster mangiants = Po^/r/onwm bistorta" (see William Miller, 'Dictionary of English Names of Plants,' 1894, p. 40). Polygonum bistorta would prove a very nasty ingredient in a pudding. 1 believe" that the word "Easter- man giant," Easter rnangeant, applies to some aromatic herb allied to tansy or camomile. See Britten and Holland, 'Dictionary of