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than I can. When a new performer is going to appear, his (or her) name does not appear in the programme, but instead of a number being put up "extra turn" is put on the board. RALPH THOMAS.

" WAITRESS." The introduction of this word is noted by De Quincey in his 'Literary Reminiscences' (' Coleridge ') Speaking of a cottage inn at Buttermere, he says : The daughter of the house, a fine young woman of eighteen, acted as waiter." Then, in a note written about 1852 :

" Waiter. Since this was first written, social changes in London, by introducing females very extensively in to the office (once monopolized by men) of attending the visitors at the tables of eating- houses, have introduced a corresponding new word, viz., waitress, which word, twenty-five years back, would have been simply ludicrous, but now has become as indispensable to precision of language as the words traitress, heiress, inheritrix, c.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

SIR NICHOLAS BUTLER OF EDMONTON, KNIGHT. In Le Neve's 'Knights' (Harl. Soc.) his death is given as on 8 June, 1706. He was buried at Edmonton. See 'Parish Registers/ 13 June, 1700. I give extracts from his will in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. ii., Second Series, p. 100.

REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON.

15, Markham Square, Chelsea.

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.

CONSETT. In 1689 the Society of Baptists, under Hanserd Knollys, drew up a ' Confes- sion of Faith,' which was printed at the time. It was reprinted about 1799, and in an appendix was given a letter from the Baptist brethren in Ireland, dated from Waterford in 1653. Herein they state some recent experiences of God's providence, "particularly in his sore snatching and removing from us, not only useful members in Sion, but even our eyes, our hands, and our hearts ; the never-to- be-forgotten young Draper, dear Consett, precious Pocke, useful Saffery, and that in the midst of their days, and the beginning of wondrous works." I shall be glad to know anything about "dear Consett." W. C. B.

SOMERSET, THE PROTECTOR. Where should I be likely to find correspondence of the first Earl of Hertford, afterwards the Protector

Duke of Somerset, for the years 1544-8, which is not in either the Record Office or the British Museum ? Can any of your readers inform me how some of his official letter- books come to be amongst the MSS. sold by the late Duke of Hamilton to the British Museum about 1872? Would any of his papers be in the charter rooms of the Dukes of Northumberland and Somerset or of the present Lord Hertford 1 I cannot trace any blood relationship between the Protector Somerset and the Duke of Hamilton's family. Were these Hertford MSS. in Mr. Beckford's collection; and, if so, how did he acquire them ? H.

A CURIOUS BADGE. I should be glad if any reader of * N. & Q.' could throw light on a badge of which the following is a descrip- tion : A gold pendant, consisting of two parts connected by a hinge. At the top a death's head, with ruby eyes, and cross-bones, supported on a base slightly chased, the design resembling two thistles. The lower and larger part consists of three triangle- shaped sections, with centres of red, white, and blue enamel, respectively ; on the white is the head of an arrow and a pair of scales, on the blue a serpent and rod, and on the red a gold chasing somewhat resembling a butterfly. The whole three are pierced diagonally with two daggers and straight up through the centre with an arrow. On the centre of the front is a small gold book, raised, whose open leaves are crossed by a chain of three links. At the back is a raised eye with blue enamel centre and black pupil, surrounded by star- like rays. It is said to be the badge of an American secret society, but there is no authority for the statement.

JEANNIE S. POPHAM.

Llanrwst, N. Wales.

LOCKTONS, OF LEICESTERSHIRE. Can any of your readers give me any information about the Locktons of Leicestershire? The name appears on the registers of Long Claw- son Church towards the end of the sixteenth century. They have also had considerable connexion with Old Dalby, where a number are buried. Has this family any connexion with the Locktons, or Loctons, of Swinstead, Lincolnshire? At the beginning of the seventeenth century this family seems to disappear from Swinstead, but to re- appear at Swineshead. The Swinstead family are traced back to about 1400 at Sawston, near Cambridge, in the 1562 Visita- tion of Lincolnshire. In 1384 there was a John de Lokton, king's serjeant, who took his name from Lockton in Yorkshire, and who