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St. George, an armed knight on horseback, holding in his right hand an upright sword, and with his left thrusting his lance into the open jaws of a dragon ; over his head, RITER s. GEORGE ; secondly, a lady in seven- teenth-century costume, standing near an open gateway and a palm-like tree, and holding a dog by a cord ; by her side, DBS KONIGES TOCHTER. These devices occur twelve times, and face the upper and under surfaces of the cloth alternately ; the whole surrounded by a flower border. Similar designs have been mentioned in 1 st S. ii. 199 ; iii. 13, 229 ; iv. 446 ; 3 rd S. iv. 473, 528 ; 8 th S. vi. 227, 286, 496.

W. C. B.

BANQUET OF SPRING ONIONS. A curious custom is annually observed at Bourne, Lincolnshire. They have what is called a "White Bread Meadow," and this was let on 19 April for the year. The rent goes to provide the householders in Westgate Ward with loaves of white bread, in accordance with the request of the founder of the charity. After the distribution there was an audit of the accounts, and the company were regaled with bread, cheese, and spring onions. This custom has not been recorded in * N. & Q.' EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

SOMERVILLE'S 'CHACE.' I am told that about the middle of the eighteenth century some misguided person was so disgusted with the blank verse of this poem while satisfied enough with the matter of it that he trans- lated it into heroic couplets ! I should much like to have particulars of this tour de force. My informant saw the book on a bookstall, but thought at the time he did not want it. ROBT. J. WHITWELL.

Oxford.

ENGLISH REPRESENTATIVE AT THE FUNERAL OF ALEXANDER I. You will greatly oblige me by saying which duke was sent to Russia to represent King George IV. on the occasion of the funeral of the Emperor Alexander I. in 1826. J. M. S.

SIR HENRY GOODYERE. In the 'Worthies of Warwickshire ' the author, the Rev. F. L. Colvile, says that he could not ascertain the date of the death of Sir Henry Goodyere, of

Polesworth, but that it occurred " certainly before 1627." He was appointed a trustee of Rugby School in 1602, and again in 1614. Can any reader send me the exact date of his death ? A. T. MICHELL.

Rugby.

REV. JAMES CHARTRES. Any biographical details concerning the above will be welcome. He died at Warboys, Hunts, 1 September, 1823. He was Fellow of King's College, Cam- bridge; head master of Atherstone Free Grammar School for thirty years ; vicar of Godmanchester ; and held the vicarage of West Haddon from 1784 to 1823.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

JOHN GARRATT, LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' favour me with the date of death of John Garratt, Lord Mayor of London 1824-5 ? He was alderman of Bridge (Without) Ward 1821-31, and his name appears in the Commission of Lieu- tenancy for London in the * Royal Kalendar ' up to 1861 inclusive, which suggests that he must have died either in that year or late in I860, but I can find no notice or record of his death. B.

VALIA AS A FEMALE NAME. Kindly give me the origin and meaning of the woman's name Valia (or Vahlia, I am not sure of the spelling). I believe it is either a Russian or Polish name. MAJOR.

" THEN " = THAN. At what date did the comparative conjunction " then " finally be- come "than"? On p. 268 of "The Original of all Plots in Christendom, &c., by W. Say- well, D.D., Master of Jesus Colledge in Cam- bridge (London, 1680)," one finds : "But they had other notions of a General Council, about

the beginning of the Reformation then

they have had since." In all other places in this volume " than " is used, and in this it may be a misprint. I have read a copy o this book in which the following misprints have been marked in an apparently seven- teenth-century handwriting: p. 52, "same" read sound; p. 66, "Pius" read Sixtus, "state" read date; p. 119, "your" read uppon; p. 123, "having" read have ; p. 136, " Religion" read rely on; p. 187, "Alivani" read Almain; p. 190, "Augustine" read Augustane ; p. 225, "Satisfaction " read Sancti- fication; p. 406, "Socinians" read Simonians; p. 411, " Fifth " read First.

E. S. DODGSON.

"SAWNEY." In the opening chapter of 'Tapered' Curzon Street is descrioed aa