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a boy teasing his mother for an apple. He says, "All apples are not put into puddings and pies, are they, mamma? I should so like an apple." I think he threatens to go and catch some illness if he does not get the apple, and it ends with " Pretty dear ! he has got the apple ! " POMANDER.

' THE SPIRIT OF THE WYE.' I can remember to have read many years ago, when a boy, in a book entitled ' The Romance of History,' by Henry Neale, a story called ' The Spirit of the Wye.' It narrated how a shadowy form was occasionally seen sailing in a boat on the river Wye, near Hereford. Is this tradition lost or forgotten ? for I have mentioned it to several people resident at Hereford, and they have never heard of the legend.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

CLEBURNE : BOWES : WARD. Who were the descendants of Elizabeth Bowes, daughter of Sir George Bowes, of Streathlam, co. York, and goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth 1 Her daughter Elizabeth Hutton married Edward or Edmund Cleburne, of Killerby, co. York (the eldest son of Thomas Cleburne, of Cleburne Hall, co. Westmoreland), whose eldest son William, of St. John's Manor, co. Wexford, married Bridgetta, sister or niece of Michael Ward, Bishop of Ossory, ob. 1643. Any information or printed pedigrees of these families will oblige and be of assistance. WALTER J. BURKE.

HAMBLEY ARMS. The arms of Hambley of Cornwall are Sa, on a pale or three torteaux ; the crest, a dolphin haurient azure <9 th S. v. 92). Harl. MSS. 5871, 2129, 1538, 1091, give for the Harnbly or Hamley arms Arg., three talbots passant az. Harl. MS. 3288 says Hamley has for coat of arms (quartered by Trevylyan) Arg., a chevron between three talbots passant sa. Harl. MS. 1080 describes this family's coat of arms as Arg., three talbots sa. What reasons might there be for these differences in the arms? Will some one learned in heraldic lore explain the remark- able connexion between these coats of arms and that of Sir Wm. Hollys (presumably of Devon), which is Sa., on a bend, between a talbot courant in chief and a dolphin naiant embowed in base arg., three torteaux ?

CORNUBIAN.

BIDDULPH FAMILY OF BIDDULPH. Has the early pedigree of this old Staffordshire family ever been worked out in a scientific manner 1 There are, of course, various pedigrees in Burke's 'Commoners' and 'Visitations of Staffordshire,' published by
 * Landed Gentry,' in Sleigh's ' Leek,' in the

the Wm. Salt Arch. Soc., and elsewhere, but none of these are complete or convincing, and various discrepancies occur. I am especially desirous of discovering the con- nexion with the main line (which I naturally assume) of Thomas Bedulf, of Horton, co. Staffs, who by his will dated 9 June, 1535, and proved at Lichfield 1 December, 1535, nominates as one of his overseers " Richard Bedulf of Bedulf gent.," the then head of the family. Horton and Biddulph are adjoining parishes. ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundell sands.

QUEEN CUNEGUNDA. Wippo, 'De Vita Chunradi Salici' (p. 442 of the Frankfort edition, 1654), tells us that the body of Queen Cunegunda (who died in 1038) "in prae- positura Lutburg sepultum est." I should be glad to know where this burial-place wavS. WILFRID C. ROBINSON, F.R.Hist.8.

FITZGERALD QUOTATION. In which of Edward FitzGerald's works shall I find the following lines ?

For like a child, sent with a fluttering light To feel his way along a gusty night, Man walks the world. Again, and yet again, The lamp shall be by fits of passion slain ; But shall not He who sent him from the door Relight the lamp once more, and yet once more ?

They were quoted by Mr. Asquith in an article in last December's Contemporary Review. C. L. S.

DAVID POLE, SECOND BISHOP OF PETER- BOROUGH, DIED 1568. This Churchman is said to have been a relation of Reginald Pole, the cardinal. Is it known whether any relationship did really exist between these two ? RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

"Hop THE TWIG." I have it in my mind that this expression has at some period been in vogue to indicate decease in persons or animals. Can any reader put me in the way of tracing the origin of the term, and say if it is still used in metropolitan or county areas ? 1 have searched many likely shelves in vain. CECIL CLARKE.

SEAS ALTER. What is the origin of the name of this parish, west of Whitstable in Kent, and on the Swayle, which separates the Isle of Sheppey from the mainland in Kent ? At the Domesday Survey it is men- tioned as "a small burgh called Seseltre." A popular idea is that the place received its name from the open salt-pans, for the produc- tion of salt by evaporation of the sea-water. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankertou-on-iSea, Kent.