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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIIL JULY 20, 1901.

of York, and built the mansion at Escrick. Eel ward Thompson was also Lord Mayor and member in the Parliaments of 1688, 1695, and 1700. ISAAC TAYLOR.

1 Pedigrees of the County Families of York- shire,' compiled by John Foster, 1874, vol. iii., contains :

" Right Hon. Edward Thompson, of Marston ; baptized 26 Feb 1696/7; M.P. for the city of York from 1722 to 1742 ; died 25 July, 1742 ; buried at Oswaldkirk. First wife, Arabella, daughter and coheiress of Edmund Dunch, Esq., of Little Wit- tenham ; married 1724, buried there 18 October, 1734. She was divorced, and supposed to have been murdered by Lord Ligonier. Issue, Arabella Thompson, only child ; buried at Wittenham, 28 February, 1735."

Also see ' Familise Minorum Gentium dili- gentia Josephi Hunter' (Harleian Society's publications, 1895), vol. ii. p. 535 ; and for list of Thompsons members of Parliament for York, see the index at the end of 'Parlia- mentary Representation of Yorkshire,' com- piled by Godfrey Richard Park, gent., 1886.

H. J. B.

The following were M.P.s for York :

Sir Henrv Thompson, 1673-78, 1678-9, 1679-81, and 1681. Lord Mayor, 1663 and 1672. Died 1683.

Edward Thompson, 1689, 1690(till unseated), 1695-98, and 1700. Brother to Sir Henry. Lord Mayor in 1683.

Henry Thompson, 1690-95, son of Sir Henry. Lord Mayor in 1699. Died 6 July 1700.

Edward Thompson, 1722-7, 1727-34, 1734- 1741, and 1741 till death in 1742. Son of Ed- ward, who was eldest son of Sir Henry. Was appointed Commissioner of the Revenue in Ireland in May, 1725, and a Lord of the Admiralty in April, 1741. W. D. PINK.

NAPOLEON AND A COAT OF MAIL (9 th S vn. 467).-Your correspondent will find the story in N & Q ' (yd S. xii. 108, 275), in an article entitled ' Bullet-proof Armour '

-i R L u EVEKARD HOME COLEMAN.

71| Brecknock Road.

"SAWNEY" <9 S. vii. 447).-The Rev. T Lewis Davies,m his 'Supplementary English Glossary,' explains sawneying as "idling lounging, and gives quotations of that and of sawney from Southey. Perhaps "dawd- ling" would meet the sense. In my young days a sawney was not uncommonly used for

a "softy. 1

H. P. L.

Sawtuy was used in Derbyshire when I was a lad. A mwney man was one foolish, "a softy " also "easy-going." The "sawney ways" of

any one comprised suaveness, artfulness the ability to lead any one on the downward grade. Girls used the word of young men whose "sawney ways" they could not "abide." THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

The meaning of this word as used by Lord Beaconsfield in ' Tancred ' was discussed in 'N. & Q/ seven years ago. See 8 th S. v. 229, 356, 496 ; vi. 334. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

SIR RICHARD VERNEY (9 th S. vii. 468). He died 7 Aug., 1630, aged sixty-seven, and was buried at Compton. He was M.P. for War- wickshire, 1588-9 ; West Looe, 1601 ; War- wickshire again in 1604-11 and 1614. Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1590-1 and 1604-5. Knighted 11 May, 1603. W. D. PINK.

'Dictionary of National Biography,' vol. Iviii. pp. 266-7, has :

"Sir Richard Verney (1563-1630). There is a monument to him and his wife in Compton Murdac church. ' Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire,' ed. Thomas, pp. 565-72, gives the Verney pedigrees, and plates of the family tomb at Compton."

H. J. B.

GOLDSMITH'S PUBLISHERS (9 th S. viii. 15). Ralph Griffiths died 28 September, 1803. See European Magazine, January, 1804, for biographical notice and portrait. I give this reference on the authority (p. 161) of * Three Hundred and Fifty Years' Retrospection of an Old Bookseller,' by William West (Cork, 1835). Charles Knight in his 'Shadows of the Old Booksellers,' p. 187, refers to Miss Meteyard's 'Life of Wedgwood,' p. 186, for some details as to Ralph Griffiths.

WM. H. PEET.

REV. JAMES CHARTRES (9 th S. vii. 447). This gentleman graduated in Arts at King's College, Cambridge : B.A. 1778, M.A. 1781.

H.B.

"SuB" : ^'SUBSIST MONEY" (9 th S. vi. 246, 354, 435 ; vii. 356). Referring to my previous communications on this subject, I would state that I am now clearly of opinion that the workman's expression " a sub " is an abbre- viation of " a subsidy," which metaphorically money aid is called. " To sub " is therefore " to subsidize." W.I. E. V.

MORTIMER (9 th S. vii. 408). Robert Morti- mer, of Richard's Castle, is considered to be either the son of Ralph de Mortimer, of Wigmore, or the son of his eldest son Hugh. Margery, daughter and heir of Hugh de Say, married first Hugh, son of Walcheline de