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daughter, Alicia, who married Sir John de Sanford, Knt., and had issue Roger de San- ford, who left a daughter and coheiress, Joan, married to Henry Dayrell, of Hanworth, co. Middlesex ; Alan and Nicholas* (Morarit, ii. 56) ; and Gilbert, who succeeded to Tyburn. Alice de Sanford was therefore the niece of Fulk Basset, Bishop of London, and he seems by right of relationship to have had the best right to her guardianship. I also think it probable that the two archbishops of Dublin were illegitimate sons of Gilbert de Sanford, and that after his death the Bishop of London extended his protection to them. The family of Sanford was settled at Aston Sanford, co. Bucks (Lipscomb, i. 42), and I should be grateful if any correspondent could furnish any details which may contribute to a further knowledge of the family. Sir John de San- ford is stated in the collections of Richard St. George, fol. 141, quoted by Morant, ii. 56, to have founded the priory of Blackmore in Essex, though other authorities are of opinion that this foundation was due to two other members of the family, Adam and Jordan de Sanford. The church of Tyburn was appro- priated to this priory during the episcopate of William de Sancta Maria (1198-1221).

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

BARRAS (9 th S. viii. 202, 228). It is a pleasure to refer CANON TAYLOR to a most probable source of this name. Applied to the pali- sades girding the ground in front of mediaeval towns and fortresses, or enclosing the lists in which tilting was practised, the word "barras" or "barrace" in many different places came to be so associated with locality as to become a significant component part of local nomen- clature. A number of references to the use and prevalence of the thing and its bearing on place-names will be found by reference to my ' Trial by Combat,' index, voce " barras " ; also to Ren wick's ' Glasgow Protocols,' No. 1,112. A part of the outskirt of the burgh of Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, is still called the Barras. In 1486 there is charter reference to a marsh, or " strother," beside it, "una marresia vulgariter nuncupata a strudire juxta le Berresdikis " ('Registrurn Magni Sigilli. 1424-1513,' No. 1,650) ; and in 1545 a holding of ground is described as the "tenementum terre apud Barres" ('Reg. Mag. Sig., 1513-1546,' No. 3,148). There are, besides, other places in Scotland of the same

1234, and died 23 January, 1252. Another daughter, Cecilia, was governess of Eleanor, sister of King Henry HI., and died 23 July, 1251. She married Sir William de Gorham, who died circa 1230.
 * Nicholas de Sanford held Aston Sanford in

name ; for instance, Barras, an ancient man- sion in Kincardineshire. While distinctly enough proved in Scotland to be an influence in the naming of places, the palisade of chivalric times very likely was a like force in some degree in England too Thus, as we have Barrasyett, Barrasgate and the like in Scotland, we have Barrasford in Northumber- land, which may well take its name from the outworks of Haughton Castle. At any rate, with a mediaeval word of such widespread service one need be at no difficulty in rationally surmising how such a surname as Barras might arise. Though not a common personal name, it is well known as such in Scotland ; and although the history of the term, as a technicality of the fortifications of the Middle Ages, need not constrain any such conclusion as absolutely necessary, yet perhaps on the whole the indications suggest a Northern source. GEO. NEILSON.

DE NUNE (9 fcb S. viii. 203). De Nune (whose Christian name I have not yet been able to discover) must for a short period at least have been in Scotland, and there, perhaps from his foreign antecedents, was au mieux with the Jacobite party. He painted my ancestor Thomas Ruddiman, the grammarian (the portrait is engraved by Bartolozzi, and is the frontispiece of his ' Life ' by George Chalmers, 1794), and also his wife, nee Anna Smith two fine portraits, which still exist. Another portrait he painted was that of the Rev. William Harper. This was engraved by Sir Robert Strange, and the engraving is now a rare one. A. FRANCIS STEUART.

29, Great King Street, Edinburgh.

A CURIOUS BADGE (9 th S. viii. 122). The description given identifies this badge with that worn by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which is an Americanized version of the English Order of Odd Fellows.

N. W. J. HAYDON.

Boston, Mass.

SIR IGNATIUS WHITE, BART. (9 th S. viii. 224). In answer to MR. MAUNSELL, Dal ton's 'Army List' gives the names of most officers serving temp. Charles II. and James II. A copy can be seen at the British Museum.

S. G. D.

AMERICAN WORDS : " LINKUMFIDDLE " (9 th S. viii. 183). In John Ashton's * Old Times ' (1885), facing p. 60, will be found (amongst other reproductions of caricatures of eigh- teenth-century bucks) a picture entitled "Jimmy Liricum Feadle 1791." The letter- press seems to imply that this was one of the eighteenth-century slang phrases for a beau.