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 a* s. VIIL NOV. 23, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Cuthbertson, in his ' System of a Battalion,'

1768, says that

" whilst a soldier is in confinement he should wear

his foraging cap, that his hat may not be spoiled

his coat should be turned with the lining outwards, not only to keep it clean, but by way of disgrace, and marking him particularly to the centinel posted at the prison door."

That prisoners should have their coats turned seems to have been a very old custom in English military discipline. Hepworth Dixpn, writing of some of the disturbances which took place near London in 1553, states that " men of the Queen's guard returned to London in wretched plight ; their bows broken, their scabbards empty, their coats turned inside out." What is the earliest known instance, in England, of military prisoners having their coats turned ?

W. S.

ARMADA QUOTATION. Where in Bacon does the following occur?

"The Duke looked still for the coming back of the Armada, even when they were wandering and making their perambulation of the Northern Seas. Bacon." In Johnson, s.v. 'Perambulation.'

0. B. M.

KYNASTON : RHYTTERCH. I am anxious to learn something of the parentage of Francis Kynaston, of Saul, co. Down (who died 1624). He married Catherine Trevor, of Brynkinalt, a daughter of Edward Trevor and Margaret Rhytterch, his wife. Where can I find par- ticulars (including arms) concerning the Rhytterch family 1 KATHLEEN WARD.

Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

SATHALIA. In Hakluy t's 'Voyages, 'chap. iv. of Sir John Mand evil's voyage, is the follow- ing :

"Ab hoc loco navigando in Cyprum aspicitur absprptio Ciyitatis Sathalise, qusesicut plim Sodom a dicitur periisse, propter unicum crimen contra naturam a quodam Juvene petulante commissum."

" Ab hoc loco " refers to the island of Rhodes. Where was Sathalia 1 Does the swallowing up of the city which "can be seen " refer to some volcano 1 ? Is anything known of the legend ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

St. Austin's, Warrington.

" THERE is A DAY IN SPRING." Who is the author of the lines,

There is a day in spring When under all the earth the secret germs Begin to glow and stir before they bud ?

W. T. L.

JONES AND ELLINGTON. (See 5 th S. iv. 387.) Since my query in 1875 I have learnt that Evan Jones, of Oakham, was a son of another Evan Jones, who was of Forddfawr,Llanddew,

Breconshire, by his wife Jane, daughter of Joshua Howard, of Llanvillo, Breconshire ; but the parish registers of Llanddew for part of the eighteenth century are lost or missing. Evan Jones, Jun., of Oakham, married, 25 August, 1772, Ann, daughter of John Ellington by his first wife Rebeccah. This family of Jones intermarried with the families of Pridmore, Gayfere, Vincent, Dove, Hicks, Holbrow, Doria, York, Bicknell, Walsh, Camp- bell, Ross, Barton, and Burrows. I shall be very grateful for additional information as to this family of Jones, once of Breconshire. Maybe some private collection will supply the information which the missing parish registers would probably have afforded.

REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON. 15, Mark ham Square, Chelsea.

"SouL ABOVE BUTTONS." What are the meaning and origin of the phrase " To have a soul above buttons'"? (See, e.g., the first chapter of ' Peter Simple,' by Capt. Marryat.) Is it exclusively ironical 1

DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

[ST. SWITHIN. whose signature is still happily frequent in 'N. & Q.,' asked for the origin of this saying so long ago as 1867. An Editorial note (3^ S. xi. 356) indicated the source in the following quotation from Daggerwood's speech in scene i. of ' Sylvester Daggerwood,' by George Colman the Younger : " My father was an eminent button- maker at Birmingham, and meant to marry me to Miss Molly Metre, daughter to the rich director of the coal works at Wolverhampton ; but I had a soul above buttons, and abhorred the idea of a mercenary marriage." See also quotations in 'H.E.LVJ

kind enough to inform me by whom 'The Castle of Kilgobben ' was written 1
 * CASTLE OF KILGOBBEN.' Will some one be

DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

ISABEL ADAMS. Mention is made (ante, p. 274) by your correspondent W. I. R. V. of his collecting materials for a history of St. Andrew Undershaf t. May I ask if the book has been published ? I am anxious to know if any record is made of the interment in the churchyard in 1838 of Isabel Adams.

JOHN G. ADAMS.

Hollis, New York, UiS.

" GENTLE SHEPHERD, TELL ME WHERE." Can you throw light on the details of a story, frequently quoted, related by Macaulay in his (second) essay on Pitt, the Earl of Chatham? Grenville is reported to have asked the gentlemen opposite to him " in the House" where he could impose the burden of the necessary taxation, and to have re-