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 9*s. vii. JAN. 19, loci.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1901.

CONTENTS.-No. 160.

NOTES Viscountcies without Barony, 41 Wordsworth- iana, 42-' N. & Q.' : Corrections in Indexes, 43-" Wise" Gloves at the Eucharist Formation of Surnames Giosv Wedding English Gravestones, Minorca" Right he e ''-New Sense of " Garland," 45-R. Pococke, 1704-65 Unpublished Verses by Jonson Gravestone at Waltham Abbey Miraculous Bolt Burns's 'Tarn Glen,' 4(5 Nottingham and Notts Lights and Buried Treasure Evil Eye, 47.

QUERIES : " Ance Mariole " Leghorn " Glen " and " Glene " Greatorex Grant Book for Children, 47 " In the John Trott way " Chavasse Family' ' Hooligan " Searchers of Leather J. S. Kipling- J. M. W. Turner- Broom of Poole Paschal Moons Beardshaw " Bijou" as Christian Name, 48 Steere " Lyngell" ' Colburu's New Monthly Magazine' A. Wharton Ulrickstadt Quaint Custom Vulgar Use of "Right" F. Woollery Edward, Prince of Wales, 1453-71, 49.

REPLIES : Ipplepen, 50 Simon Fraser Fanfulla Litur- gical Language of the Greek Church Count Pecchio " Butty," 51 " To palmer "Duke of Bolton's Regiment Pall-mall and Golf, 52 Daisy Names Ten Command- ments in Rime " Frabbed "' Paddle your own Canoe,' 53 Naunton Family Worcestershire Folk-loreWilliam Morris as Business Man Dutton Family, 54 Margaret of Bavaria " Trunk " or " Box " Waller " Gone to Jericho," 55 John Pearson, 56 Language to conceal Thought, 57 Origin of Current Phrases Coat of Arms Lyme Regis Author of Verses, 58.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Napier's 'Old English Glosses' Plomer's 'History of English Printing '" Chiswick Shakespeare " ' Dr. Johnson's Table - Talk ' ' Clergy Directory and Parish Guide ' ' Celtia' ' Folk-lore.'

Mr. Copley Christie Rev. W. R. Tate.

Notices to Correspondents.

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VISCOUNTCIES OF ENGLAND, GREAT BRITAIN, OR THE UNITED KINGDOM, UNACCOMPANIED BY ANY BARONY. THE recent creation (December, 1900) of two viscountcies (Goschen and Ridley), one without and the other with a barony attached thereto, seems to call for some remarks as to what has been the general practice in regard to the creation of viscountcies.

From the institution of this dignity in 1440 down to the accession of James I. (1603) sixteen English .viscountcies were created, all but the last two having been conferred either on a baron, or on the husband of a suo jure baroness, though in some cases (as in the existing viscountcy of Hereford) the barony held by the grantee has not followed the devolution of the viscountcy. These sixteen creations were Beaumont, 1440; Bourchier, 1445; Lisle (Talbot), 1451; Berkeley, 1481 ; Lovell, 1482 ; Lisle (Grey), 1483 ; Welles, 1487 ; Lisle (Brandon), 1513 ; Lisle (Plantagenet), 1523; Rochford (Boleyn), 1525; Fitzwalter (Radclyffe), 1535; Beau- champ (Seymour), 1536; Lisle (Dudley), 1542; Hereford (Devereux), 1550; Montagu (Browne), 1553; and Howard of Bindon (Howard), 1559. With respect to Montagu,

the grantee's grandmother, Lady Lucy Nevill (of whom, however, he was not the representative), was a coheir of the barony of that name ; while with respect to Howard of Bindon (which seems the most anomalous) the grantee held higher rank than that of a baron, being the younger son of a duke.

It was not till the reign of James I. that, save as above stated, any commoner was raised to a viscountcy of England. Even then the viscountcies thus conferred were always accompanied by a barony, save in three cases to female grantees viz., Maid- stone in 1627 ; Bayning, a life peerage, in 1674; and Corbet, also a life peerage, in 1679. The first persons under the degree of a baron whom James I. created viscounts of England were the notorious favourites Robert Carr, created in 1612 Viscount Rochester ; George Villiers, created in 1616 Viscount Villiers ; and John Villiers, created in 1619 Viscount Purbeck. This sort of creation continued more than 150 years viz., till the accession of George III. (1760), save only that the viscountcy of Leinster, conferred in 1747 on the Irish Earl of Kildare (who was not a baron of England or Great Britain), was imaccompanied by any barony.

During the forty years that elapsed from the accession of George III. to the end of the eighteenth century (1760-1800), among the numerous viscountcies of Great Britain con- ferred on commoners the following six were granted without any barony attached to them viz., the viscountcy of Courtenay, 1762; that of Pitt (with the earldom of Chatham), 1766, the grantee's wife being a suo jure baroness ; that of Howe, 1782, the grantee being Viscount Howe in Ireland ; that of Keppel, also in 1782, the grantee being son of an earl ; that of Hamilton, 1786, the grantee being Earl of Abercorn in Scot- land ; and that of Hood, 1796, the grantee's wife being a suo jure baroness and he himself being an Irish baron.

In 1805, however, the practice of conferring on a commoner a viscountcy of the United Kingdom, without any barony attached to it, may be said to have had its real beginning, when in that year the Right Hon. Henry Addington was thus created Viscount Sid- mouth. A summary of the twenty-nine vis- countcies (excluding Scotch and Irish) which at present (January, 1901) exist as the prin- cipal or only title shows that eleven of them were created without any barony annexed, inasmuch as the grantees themselves were already barons, though in two cases (Here- ford and St. Vincent) the barony thus held is not now vested in the existing viscount.