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though I have met with it as a term of endear ment on this side the Channel.

J. B. McGovERN. C.-on-M., Manchester.

STEERE. I am anxious to learn something of the antecedents of this family. There wa a Bishop of Ardfert of this name about 25(

SBars ago, and his daughter married Davi< rosbie, of Ardfert Abbey, ancestor of th first Earl of Glandore (ext.)-

KATHLEEN WARD. Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

" LYNGELL." In 'Lybaeus Disconus' on< finds the above word, usually in connexion with a shield, e.g., I. 286, "of which lengel and trappes "; 1. 861, " was lyngell and trap pure"; 1. 1,274, "lyngell armes trappur was and wych." It appears that the shoemaker's thread (see 'N. & Q.,' 9 th S. v. 167) does not exhaust all the meanings of the "littl< tongue " ; but I have looked through glos saries in vain. H. P. L.

'COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.' By whom were the papers contributed to Colburn's New Monthly Magazine under the respective titles l The Manager's Note-Book and * Records of a Stage Veteran ' ? I have heard the names of John Poole and W. G. Ptaymond mentioned in connexion with both.

R. W.

ANTHONY WHARTON. In 1596 he was at Lincoln College, Oxford. Was he identical with Anthony Wharton, B.A., ordained 1607-8 by the Bishop of London and licensed to serve Breamore, Hants, 1626, died there 1661 (P.C.C. 102 May) ? A. C. H.

ULRICKSTADT. In the 'Annual Register' for 1773, at p. 106, occurs: 4t The Royal Academy of Sciences at Ulrickstadt elected Mr. Banks, his companion Dr. Solander (who is by birth a Swede), and Dr. Lewis, a famous English chemist, members of that learned body." May I ask where is Ulrickstadt? I have consulted various gazetteers and guide- books to Sweden of modern and of earlier date, but cannot find it. Can any of your readers help me] I find an Ulriksdal, a palace named after Ulrika, q ueen of Karl XI., which was later converted into the Royal Military Academy at Stockholm. As there are seven Royal Academies of Sweden at Stockholm, perhaps the 'Annual Register' made a confusion between the Royal Academy of Science and the Royal Military

Academy, and then put Ulrick-stadt for -dal. "Stadt" is German, of course, not Swedish. EDWARD E. MORRIS.

The University, Melbourne.

A QUAINT CUSTOM.

"The Dinner being served, Sir Oliver was the gayest Man in the Company. The Bridegroom and Bride sitting by the side of each other, the old Gentleman observed, 'Ods-heart, ods-heart ! what, dine with the Bride the first Day ! A fine Bride- groom, a fine Bridegroom ! It was the Fashion, when I was married, to stand behind the Bride's Chair with a Napkin, and serve her : Serve her To- day, she '11 serve you always after.' " John Sheb- beare, * Matrimony' (1754), vol. ii. p. 40 (1766).

At the risk of betraying ignorance by the question, I wish to ask when and where, if ever and anywhere, there existed such a custom as is here mentioned.

The novel quoted above, which, on its first publication, made a great stir, and for which its author was imprisoned, was originally entitled 'The Marriage Act.' The unsold copies of it, with its name changed to ' Matri- mony,' were issued in 1755, as the so-called second edition. F. H.

Marlesford.

VULGAR MISUSE OF "RIGHT."

" I have no right to maintain idle vagrants." Smollett, 'Humphry Clinker' (1771), ' Works ' (1806), vol. vi. p. 88.

" I don't see as how women have any right to be trampled on, whether at home or abroad." Eleanor Sleath, ' The Bristol Heiress' (1809), vol. i. p. 209.

How far back is "to have a right," in the sense of " ought," traceable ? F. H.

Marlesford.

FRANCES WOOLLERY. This lady was an actress of some eminence in the latter part >f the eighteenth century (see * Thespian Dic- ionary '). She is said to have been niece of William Woollery, an eminent West Indian >lanter, who died at Bristol, 1 April, 1789. She narried, from the stage in Dublin, Mr. J. H. Nottingham, an Irish barrister of good family, should be glad to know who her parents were, and anything of her career beyond T hat is stated in the ' Thespian Dictionary.'

SIGMA TAU.

EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, 1453-71. Is here any contemporary record of the per- onal appearance of "holy Henry's" unhappy on? One account calls him "a goodly Bminine and well- featured young gentle- man " ; but was he dark or fair ] The ad- mirable article on Edward in the 'D.N.B.' isdains details so trivial if any such details ave come down to us. It is now generally dmitted is it not ? that the young prince