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 9* s. viii. OCT. 26, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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St. Michael at Plea was formerly called St. Michael de Motstowe, that is, St. Michael at the place of- the mote or public meeting of the burgesses. King Harold, who held the earldom of East Anglia at the time of the Conquest, lived amongst the townspeople in a palace at the south end of Tornbland, another proof of the importance of the locality. H. R. N.

John Timbs, F.S.A.,in his work on 'Things not Generally Known,' says : " Tombland Fair at Norwich, held on this day [Maundy Thursday], took its origin from people assembling with maunds, or baskets of pro- visions, which the monks bought for dis- tribution on Easter Day." In the same author's * Garland for the Year ' he adds : " A particular kind of basket is still called a maund by the Yarmouth fishermen ; and a dole of salt fish once formed part of the Royal Maundy." EVERAKD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

FRANCIS, DUKE OF GUISE (9 th S. viii. 184). "Frangois de Lorraine, Due de Guise, married Anne D'Est, Comtesse de Gisors, daughter of Hercule D'Est, 4 December, 1549." ' Dictionnaire de Noblesse,' by De La Chenaye-Desbois, second edition, 1774.

H. S. V.-W.

Francis, Duke of Guise, was born 17 Janu- ary, 1519 ; married Anne Atestina, daughter of Hercules, Duke of Ferrara and Modena, and widow of James of Savoy, Duke of Nemours, 19 January, 1548 ; succeeded to the dukedom 12 April, 1550; died 24 February, 1563. From Hartland's 'Chronological Dic- tionary.' JOHN RADCLIFFE.

KNIGHTS MADE TEMP. CHARLES I. : SCOTTISH KNIGHTHOODS (9 fch S. viii. 301). MR. W. D. PINK writes, " Whence the term ' Chequer ' ? Is it an allusion to the fesse chequy in the arms of the Campbells of Loudour? 1 "

But there is no such fesse, or fesse at all, in these arms. They are Gyronny, gules and ermine, and these tinctures, as distinguished from the, or and sable of other Campbells, are the tinctures of Crawford of Loudoun, who bore Gules, a fesse ermine.

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

MR. W. D. PINK at this reference, writing on the power to confer knighthoods possessed by the Earl of Loudoun, temp. 1648, adds, "That some high official had, in the king's absence, the power to confer knighthood in Scotland prior to the union of 1707 is, 1 believe, tolerably certain. But who this official was seems to be unknown." I regret

that I cannot enlighten MR. PINK ; but I had just put down * N. & Q.,' when, taking up Scott's poems, and opening them at 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' canto iv. 26, the passage arrested my attention in which the Lad ye of Branksome, in praise of Sir William Deloraine, declares :

No knight in Cumberland so good

But William may count with him kin and blood.

Knighthood he took of Douglas' sword.

Scott in his note to this passage says : "The dignity of knighthood, according to the original institution, had this peculiarity, that it did not flow from the monarch, but could be con- ferred by one, who himself possessed it, upon any squire who, after due probation, was found to merit the honour of chivalry."

F. A. RUSSELL.

49, Holbeach Road, Catford.

WONHAM (9 th S. viii. 283). Permit me to suggest that on a second examination of the manuscript the name might be read Wenham, a village which is about five miles from Hadleigh in Suffolk.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

Wonham is the name of a house on the Mole near Betch worth, Surrey. G. J. P.

NEWBERY THE BOOKSELLER, JAMES'S POW- DERS, AND OLIVER GOLDSMITH (9 th S. viii. 11). The original MS. account-book (in 8vo) of F. Newbery, bookseller, of St. Paul's Church- yard, London, as agent for the sale of Dr. R. James's fever powders and pills, dating from February, 1768, to July, 1798, and con- taining the signatures of Newbery and Dr. James to the various settlements, was for- merly for some years in my possession, having been purchased for me in a London book- sale. It passed from my extensive collec- tions long since, possibly by exchange. Although evidently at one time bound, the book was then without covers. It had apparently come from a second-hand book- seller, and I can, from sale-catalogues, trace its appearance at considerable intervals in at least four auctions during the last thirty years or so, on each occasion realizing by no means a fancy price under 30s., if I remember rightly. This, however, says nothing either for or against its value in any sense. I inserted the cuttings from contemporary newspapers, and also the modern wood- cut on card of John Newbery receiving Goldsmith on the introduction of Dr. John- son, which was obtained during my holding from the then representative of the firm. The MS. does not possess the importance which your correspondent MR. E. HERON-