and buried him after he was eighty years of age.' Scawens' Dissertation on the Cornish Tongue, written temp. Car. II.

ANON.

As very many, if not all, the instances mentioned in "N. & Q." of those who have reached a very advanced age, were people of humble origin, may we not now refer to those of noble birth? To commence the list, I would name Sir Ralph de Vernon, "who is said to have lived to the age of one hundred and fifty, and thence generally was called the Old Liver." My authority is, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, edit. 1848, p. 1009. W. W.

The fifth Lord Byron (Vol. ix., p. 18.).-I believe it to be an acknowledged fact, that an old man's memory is generally good of events of years past and gone: and as an octogenarian I am not afraid to state that, from the discussions on the subject, I feel myself perfectly correct as to the main point of my observations (Vol. viii., p. 2.), viz. the error committed in the limitation of the ultimate reversion of the estate; but as to the secondary point to which MR. WARDEN alludes, I may perhaps be in error in placing it on the settlement of the son, inasmuch as the effect would

be the same if it occurred in the settlement of the father; and MR. WARDEN's observations leave an inference that the mistake may have there occurred; as, in such case, if the error had been discovered, and by any altercation the son had refused to correct the mistake, which he could and ought to have consented to, after the failure of his own issue, this alone, between two hasty tempers, would have been a sufficient cause of quarrel, without reference to the question of marrying an own cousin, which is often very justly objectionable. WM. S. HESLEDEN.

Wapple, or Whapple-way (Vol. ix., p. 125.). This name is common in the south, and means a bridle-way, or road in which carriages cannot pass. In Sussex these ways are usually short cuts through fields and woods, from one road or place to another. (See Halliwell's Dictionary, and Cooper's Sussex Glossary.) The derivation is not given by either writer. D.

In Manning's Surrey, I find not any mention of this term; but apprehend it to be a corruption of the Norman-French, vert plain, "a green road or

alley:" which, as our Saxon ancestors pronounced the v as a w, easily slides into war plain or warple. (See Du Cange, Supp., in voce "Plain.")

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The Ducking-stool (Vol. viii., p. 315.). — As late as the year 1824, a woman was convicted of being a common scold in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County, and sentenced to be placed in a certain instrument of correction called a cucking or ducking-stool," and plunged three times into the water; but the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, upon the removal of the case by writ of error, decided that this punishment was obsolete, and contrary to the spirit of the age.

Our fathers held the ducking-stool in higher respect, as appears from the following presentments of the grand juries of Philadelphia, the originals of which have been lately discovered. Fishbourne, their foreman), In January, 1717, they say (through William

"Whereas it has been frequently and often presented by several former grand juries for this city, the ne cessity of a ducking-stool and house of correction for the just punishment of scolding, drunken women, as this place, who are become a public nuisance and diswell as divers other profligate and unruly persons in turbance to this town in general; therefore we, the present grand jury, do earnestly again present the same their immediate care, that those publick conveniences may to this court of quarter sessions for the city, desiring not be any longer delayed, but with all possible speed provided for the detection and quieting such disorderly persons."

which is signed by the same foreman, presents Another, the date of which is not given, but "Alsoe that a ducking-stoole be made for publick use, being very much wanting for scolding women," &c. And in 1720, another grand jury, of which Benjamin Duffield was foreman, say:

"The Grand Inquest, we taking in consideration the great disorders of the turbulent and ill-behaviour of many people in this city, we present the great necessity of a ducking-stool for such people according to

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UNEDA.

Double Christian Names (Vol. ix., p. 45.). — It is surely not correct to say that the earliest instance of two Christian names is in the case of a person born in 1635. Surely Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I., is an earlier instance. Sir Thomas Strand Fairfax was certainly born before that date. Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was probably an earlier instance; and Sir Robert Bruce Colton, the antiquary, certainly so. Writing at a distance from my books, I can only appeal to memory; but see Southey's Common-place Book, vol. i. p. 510. Venables, in his Travels in Russia,

tells us that "a Russian has never more than one Christian name, which must be always that of a saint." To these a patronymic is often added of the father's name, with the addition vich, as in the case of the present Czar, Nicholas Paulovich, the son of Paul. W. DENTON.

Torquay.

Pedigree to the Time of Alfred (Vol. viii., p.586.). Some ten or twelve years since I was staying at the King's Head Inn, Egham, Surrey (now defunct), when a fresh-looking, respectable man was pointed out to me as Mr. Wapshot, who had held an estate in the neighbourhood from his ancestors prior to the Conquest. He was not represented as a blacksmith, but as farming his own estate. I am not connected with Egham or the neighbourhood, or I would make farther inquiry.

S. D.

Palace of Lucifer (Vol. v., p. 275.). If R. T. has not observed it, I would refer him to the note in the Aldine edition of Milton, vol. iii. p. 263., where I find "Luciferi domus" is the palace of the sun (see Prolusiones, p. 120.); and not, as T. WARTON conjectured, the abode of Satan.

I. R. R.

Monaldeschi (Vol. viii., p. 34.). — Relation du Meurtre de Monaldeschi, poignardé par ordre de Christine, reine de Suède, by Father de Bel, is to be found in a collection of curious papers printed at Cologne, 1664, in 12mo. It is given at length in Christina's Revenge, and other Poems, by J. M. Moffatt, London, printed for the author, 1821.

E. D.

Abbott Families (Vol. ix., p. 105.).—In reply to MR. ABBOTT's Query, I have a pedigree of Samuel Abbott, born in 1637 or 1638; second son of Wm. Abbott of Sudbury, who was born 1603, and who was son to Charles Abbott of Hawkden and Sudbury, an alderman, which Charles was son to Wm. Abbott of Hawkden. This Samuel married Margaret, daughter to Thomas Spicer. Should MR. ABBOTT wish it, I would forward him a copy of the pedigree. I can trace no connexion between this family and that of Archbishop Abbott, whose father, Maurice Abbott of Guildford, was son of Abbott of Farnham, co. Surrey.

I wish especially to know what became of Thomas Abbott, only son of Robert, Bishop of Sarum; which Thomas dedicated his father's treatise against Bellarmine in 1619 to his uncle the Archbishop, calling himself in the preface, "imbellis homuncio." His sister was wife to Sir Nathaniel Brent, whose younger son Nathaniel left all his property to his cousin Maurice Abbott, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Gent., in 1688; which Maurice was possibly son to Thomas.

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“Mairdil" (Vol. viii., p. 411.).—Is there any affinity between the word mairdil, which is used in Forfarshire, to be overcome with fatigue by any oppressive or intricate piece of work, and the word mardel or mardle, which signifies to gossip in Norfolk, as stated by MR. J. L. SISSON? What will H. C. K. say to this subject? Jamieson confines mairdil to an adjective, signifying unwieldy; but I have often heard work-people in Forfarshire declare they were "perfectly mairdiled" with a piece of heavy work, using the word as a passive verb. Trachled has nearly the same meaning, but it is chiefly confined to describe fatigue arising from walking a long distance. HENRY STEPHENS.

Your va

Bell at Rouen (Vol. viii., p. 448.). luable correspondent W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A., has probably taken his account of the great bell in the cathedral at Rouen from a note made before the French Revolution of 1792-3, because the George d'Ambois, which was once considered the largest bell in Europe (it was thirteen feet high, and eleven feet in diameter), excepting that at Moscow, shared the destructive fate of many others at that eventful period, and was melted down for cannon. In 1814 the bulb of its clapper was outside the door of a blacksmith's shop, as you go out of the city towards Dieppe. It was pointed out to me by a friend with whom I was then travelling a gentleman of the neighbourhood, who was at Rouen at the time it was brought there and there, if I mistake not, but I cannot find my note, I saw it again within the last ten years. H. T. ELLACOMBE.

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