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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL JUNE i, 1901.

"my sister Henslowe," leaves to Anthony Fortescue a ring, and appoints " my brother llaffe Henslowe" supervisor. Her will was proved by "Katherine Henslowe, natural sister of defunct, and Ralph Henslowe, super- visor." From this it would appear that the conspirator was dead, and his widow married to a second husband, before November, 1571; also that Anthony Fortescue of Lordington, mentioned subsequent to that date, was the eldest son of the conspirator.

Ralph Henslowe was lord of the manor of Boarhunt, near Portchester, Hants, and was M.P. for Portsmouth in 1555. He died in 1577, and an unusually fine classic tomb erected to his memory is still to be seen in Boarhunt Church, on which, besides the arms of his own family and those of his first wife (Clare Pound), appear the arms of his second wife Katherine Pole (Per pale or and sable, a sal tire engrailed), under the initials " K. P." Katherine Henslowe was living in September, 1598, and is mentioned at that date in the will of her stepson Henry Henslowe, who also refers to " my sister Ellen Fortescue, and her husband Mr. John Fortescue " (parents of George Fortescue, the poet, born about 1578, and Elizabeth, th a wife of Sir John Beaumont, Bart.).

ALFRED T. EVERITT.

High Street, Portsmouth.

LIZARD FOLK-LORE (9 th S. vii. 224). See 'Vulgar Superstitions,' Asiatic Journal, Aug 1825, vol. xx. pp. 168-74; a very interesting list of forty-seven Indian superstitions, with which are compared some few English ones with the object of showing that the vulgar English are quite as credulous as their Eastern brethren. The list is quoted from and in answer to, ' Minor Superstitions of th( Hindoos and Mussulmans,' Asiatic Observer October, 1824, and articles 1, 2, 11, and 14 deal with lizards; No. 14 is a ' Bruce and th Spider ' storj 7 . THOMAS J. JEAKES.

SURNAMES (9 th S. vii. 28, 98, 235, 271). Ir connexion with the name Balaam, I shoul like to point out the existence througl several centuries of an armigerous family Balam in the fen district of Cambridge shire and Norfolk. Some of the family wer " sewers " of Wisbech, and one at leas (writing from memory) was High Sheriff of his county. They intermarried with many of their contemporary county families, and, like others, failed in the male line. A daughter and coheir of one of the last, Charles Balara, of Sawston, co. Cambs, became the wife of Sir Edward Evelyn, Bart., of the elder Long Ditton line, and

ras an ancestress of the late Mrs. Gladstone __nd family. In one of the pedigrees in the leralds' Visitations descent is traced from Walter Balim, " who came out of Garnesay." f this was so, a different derivation from Balham is suggested. I do not recall the orm Balaam earlier than the last century, is not too daring to presume that it pre- erves the pronunciation of Balam.

LIONEL CRESSWELL.

Wood Hall, Calverley, Yorks.

DR. J. A. H. MURRAY says that a high- ,chool girl would have told one of your correspondents "that Preen was not and x>uld not have become Prynne." I have not

high-school girl among my works of refer- ence, but perhaps one of them who may not je above such teaching will be kind enough to explain why, if dceg can become dy, Preen cannot become Prynne. ST. SWITHIN.

SISTERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN (2 nd S. v. 307). The above appears to be the only instance given in 'N. & Q.' under this head. Brothers bearing the same Chris- _ian name have been the subject of many articles in the present series. I am indebted to the Scottish Antiquary; or, Northern Notes and Queries, for April, for the following :

Most cases which have come under our notice of two of the same name in one family have been cases of sons, but in the Protocol Book of Sir Alexander Gaw, notary, Strathmiglo, under date 24 November, 1551, is a memorandum that ' Isabel Scot, elder daughter of George Scot, gave and ceded her right and title, which she had and has, in and to the heritage of Sir John Lam, or to his heirship goods, or to his tenement, toft, &c., to her beloved sister Isobella Scot, younger, failing to her by the decease of the said John L., presbyter."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

GREAT EXHIBITION (9 th S. vii. 288). The price of a gentleman's season ticket for the Exhibition of 1851 was 3/. 3s., for a lady's 2/. 2s. HENRIETTA COLE.

96, Philbeach Gardens, S.W.

TITLE OF ' H.E.D.' (9 S. vii. 347).' H.E.D.' is a good title for showing the pre-eminently historical character of the work, vet " Oxford " will keep in perpetual memory the University but for whose liberality "up to its power, yea and beyond its power," the consummate flower of lexicography could not have blossomed for generations.

DR. FITZEDWARD HALL, as he wrote me, had discovered "1,200 new words or new usages of words not in the first volume of ' H.E.D.,' which would appear in an appen- dix." What a lower deep in the lowest deep!