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Enlightenment of Pagett, M.P.,' from the Con- temporary Review, September, 1890, a worthy successor in prose to the spirited poem of 'Pagett, M.P.,' of 'Departmental Ditties,' p. 60, fourth edition, Calcutta, 1890 ; also ' Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out,' which adorned the Christmas number of the Illustrated London News, 1890. J. WOODFALL EBSWORTH.

The Priory, Ashford, Kent.

FAMILY LIKENESS (9 th S. viii. 62). That family likeness endures for centuries is indisputable. It was well known to visitors at Powderham Castle that the likeness of one of the Courtenay family to the portrait of Edward Courtenay (who preferred the Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, her sister, and died at Padua) was so strong that, but for its age, it, the portrait, might be of either man, and I can testify to the fact.

JULIA R. BOCKETT explains (1 st S. i. 102) how John Northcote won the manor of Kenner- leigh from his cousin german Thomas Dowrish, and H. H. Drake (editor of the represents Dowrish (Sir J. Maclean, 'Deanery of Trigg'), relates that, in travelling to Exeter, he fell in with a gentleman farmer (living near Kennerleigh and knowing the story) who noticed his likeness to Sir Stafford Northcote, afterwards Lord Iddesleigh, the owner of Kennerleigh.
 * Hundred of Blackheath '), who by descent

On handing a receipt for money, a shop- keeper in Tottenham Court Road said to Mr. Drake: "Excuse me, sir, but all the time you have been in the shop I was struck by your likeness to Lord Iddesleigh, and the more 1 looked at you the stronger the impression grew."

Soon after Lord Iddesleigh's death Mr. Drake, on returning some books at the British Museum Reading-Room, was thus accosted by Mr. Grote (attached to the MS. department) : "You gave me such a shock this morning that I have hardly got over it," and he explained : "On entering the room you stood motionless inside the door for a minute, and my blood curdled, for I thought 1 saw the ghost of Lord Iddesleigh."

To account for it, in the first place a Dowrish and a Northcote married sisters, coheiresses, descended from Helion the Norman, who held in Devon, and Upton Helion came to Dowrish in purparty (Risdon) The gamblers aforesaid were cousins, John Northcote being the son of Elizabeth (aunt of Thomas) Dowrish. Again, Lewis, the son of Thomas Dowrish, married Anne Davey, daughter of Katherine, the sister of John Northcote.

It would be in the interest of science if your readers would note such peculiarities. Mr. Drake himself detects a very slight resem- blance, but all do not see alike. He remarks, n his introduction to 'Blackheath,' that the countenance being the index of the mind, in transmitting the one we transmit the other.

GENEALOGIST.

King Louis I. of Bavaria was an extremely ugly old man at seventy-six, and, according

his portraits taken in early life, had never

n even passably well looking. His son and successor Maximilian had not the re- motest resemblance to him, but his grandson Louis II., while being a very handsome man at twenty-five, had the most wonderful like- ness to his ugly grandfather and no resem- blance whatever to his own father, and at the time of his death he was, like the Emperor Frederick, one of the finest-looking men in Germany.

Showing a miniature of his great-grand- mother to a cousin, I said to him, " Did you ever see any one like that?" "Why," he replied, " the face is absolutely that of Cecil " (his fourth son). K. J. J.

" GALLOGLASS" (9 th S. vii. 506). Is there any suggestion as to the origin of this word, and of the connotation of Scottici, in the following quotation from p. 137 of 'The Chronicles of the Picts and Scots,' published by H.M. Treasury in 1867 1 Tract 17, anno 1165 (MS. Coll. Bib. Imp., Paris, 4126), there given, describing the seven kingdoms of Alban, states, " Septuum regnum erat Arregaithil (Argyle). Arregathel dicitur quasi margo Scottorum generaliter Gattheli dicuntur a quodam eorum primevo duce Gsethelglas vocato." This same Dux Gsethelglas or Gaedhel Glass, which is elsewhere given as his name (and of which Galloglass is no untoward rendering, the dh being silent), is said by Skene, in his ' Celtic Scotland,' vol. i. p. 179, to have been the eponymus of the Gaelic race. J. L. ANDERSON.

Edinburgh.

CREST AND MOTTO (9 th S. viii. 104). The motto is that of Lord Somers. See ' Classical and Foreign Quotations.' The present baron, who is a minor, is connected with the Somer- sets in that Lady Henry Somerset, the temperance advocate, is the eldest daughter of the last Earl Somers (' Who 's Who ').

ARTHUR MAYALL.

'BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE' (9 th S. vii. 461 ; viii. 72). A very beautiful translation of this into Latin appeared in the Church of Ireland Gazette recently, published by Messrs.