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and coheir of Thomas Engayne (d. s.p. 1367\ of Blatherwick, co. Northampton. The second was Joan, daughter of Sir Giles de Albany (D'Aubeney), and great-granddaughter of David de Strath bogie, Earl of Atholl. Issue by first wife- Catherine (d. 17 June, 1436), wife of, first, Sir William Cheney, of co. Cam- bridge ; second, Sir Thomas Aylesbury. By the second John (d. s.p. 1466), and Eleanor (d. 1432), wife of John Teringhain, of Tering- ham. Authorities vary on certain points, and some of the information is from MSS. The arms are, Barry of six argent and azure ; on a bend gules three mullets pierced argent. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

"CRYING ' NOTCHELL '" (9 th S. vi. 488). To announce, as if by crier, one's irresponsibility for notches or debts contracted. The allusion is obviously to the notches cut in a tally- stick, according to the ancient form of recording debts, a custom so ancient indeed that tally -sticks have been found in the Aquitanian caves of Perigord in Southern France. See ' Reliquiae Aquitanicse,' by Lartet and Christy, 1865, pp. 183-201. The connexion of " nptchell " with " nichell," or " pigeon- hole," is strikingly apparent in the following :

"There is an Officer in the Exchequer called Clericus Nihilorum [ who maketh a Roll c

by the Sheriff upon their estreats of the Green Wax, when such sums are set on persons either not found, or not found solvible." Fuller, ' Worthies,' chap, xxv., quoted 'N. & Q.,' 7 th S. viii. 416.

"There is an illustration of a modern flat Tally- stick belonging to a Turf-cutter, or Broom -maker, or perhaps a Shepherd, lately picked up on the heath at Wishmoor, near Bagshot, on the confines of Berks, by C. Cooper King, Esq., R.M.Art."- ' Reliquiae,' ibid.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL

The custom and the word have been con- sidered in ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. x. 108 ; 7 th S. viii. 268, 416 ; 8 th S. ii. 526 ; iii. 98. W. C. B.

JOB CHARNOCK (9 th S. vi. 389, 437). In reply to MR. W. CROOKE, Charnock arrived in India in 1656, but was not admitted into the Company's service till 1658 (see Mrs Penny's book on ' Fort St. George,' chap. xii. p. 120). This information is derived from list of the Company's servants "in the Bay,' i.e., at the factory on the Hoogly, in 1679 which is now in the record room at For St. George. There is nothing here to show how he vvas employed during the two years before he was taken into the service, nor i there any mention that he lived in For St. George. The probability is that he was trading on his own account, like some other of the early merchants in the Company';

NOTES AND QUERIES.

iere till ne was ojoninr nhat)lain.

FRANK PENNY LiJL.M., oenioi v>u*^ic*

Fort St. George.

QUOTATIONS (9* S. vi. 489).-The greater part of the second quotation has .already appeared in the second volume of this series, p 221, in an extract from Robert Burton, who gives no reference. He applies the words to James I, who had recently died Burton, it may be mentioned had a habit ot borrowing, without acknowledgment from ris contemporaries, especially from Joseph Hall and Camden. This is a case in point. The latter, after quoting from "Giraldus Jambrensis, a man well borne, and better ettered, of that house from whence the Giraldines of Ireland are descended, and secretary to King lohn," writes as follows m his chapter on ' Epigrammes ' :

He that made the verse following (some ascribe it to that Giraldus) could adore both the sunne rising and the sunne setting, when he could so oleanly honour King Henry the second then departed, and King Richard succeeding.

Mira cano, Sol occubuit, nox nulla sequuta."* It would appear from this passage that the authorship of the line was doubtful in Cam- den's days. I hope, however, that the refer- ence to Giraldus will induce some learned reader to examine that writer's works and favour us with the result. JOHN T. CURRY.

"Ubi lapsus? quid feci," is the motto of the Earl of Devon, probably adopted by the Powderham branch after the loss of the earldom of Devonshire. It is quoted by Gibbon in the ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' " De male qusesitis vix gaudet

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[?], or the Clerk of the Nichills, of all such sums as are nichell'd

tertius hseres ' Hist.,' p. 260. Swallowfield.

is quoted by Walsingham, CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

4. " Ubi lapsus ? quid feci," is the motto of Courtenay, Earl of Devon. I do not know the origin, which is probably historical. In the fifth quotation, evidently, " pseres " should be hceres. The author is Juvenal.

JULIAN MARSHALL. 2. Mira cano : sol occubuit ; nox nulla secuta est.

See 8 th S. x. 186.

5. De male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius hasres [not

pares].

See 1 st S. ii. 167 ; ix. 600 ; x. 113, 216 ; 4 th S. iv. 266 ; Ramage, ' Beautiful Thoughts from Latin Authors,' second edition, 1869,


 * Camden's Remaines,' 1614, p. 331.