tion post mortem was taken in 1471, lived at Lovington, Co. Somerset. Till the middle of the seventeenth century the Lovington family describe themselves in their wills (P.C.C.) as Dampier alias Damport. No Dampiers appear in Somerset before the end of the fifteenth century, but, in the Lay Subsidy Rolls of 1544, Dampiers are mentioned not only at Lovington, but in Weston Bampfield, Rimpton and Lymington, parishes lying to the south of Lovington. These Dampiers and the later ones mentioned above may have been offshoots from the Lovington family. Calbhach, Chief of Tirconnel, 1555-6, was succeeded in the Chieftainship by a younger brother, Sir Hugh O'Donnell, who d. in 1592. The son of Calbhach, Conn, d. 1583, unsuccessfully contested the chieftainship with his uncle. He had three sons: I. Sir Nial Garbh, who became Chief of Tirconnell, in 1602, on the death of his cousin Hugh Ruadh, who is said to have been poisoned at Simancas, 9 Oct., in that There is one, however, who does not fit into year. He was imprisoned in the Tower, 1608, this scheme. Richard Dampier, Vicar of Combe Saint Nicholas, whose will was proved in 1502, states that he was born at Scarby, near Caistor in Lincolnshire. I have been unable to search for early Dampiers in Lincolnshire, and shall be grateful for any information on the subject. Either Thus there seem two possibilities. all the modern Somerset Dampiers descend from the Damports or Dampiers of Lovington, and are in origin Cheshire Davenports, or another family, derived from Lincolnshire, France or Flanders, independently settled in Somerset and Dorset at an earlier date, and, when the Damports arrived, led to a local confusion of names. I should much like to clear up this uncertainty, but, hitherto, I have been unable to do so. The John Dampier, Vicar of Keinton Mandeville, whom I take to be the man mentioned by W. W., is entered in the Registers of Wadham College, Oxford, as the son of John Dampier of Marsh (? Yeovil Marsh). matriculated in 1673. W. C. D. DAMPIER-WHETHAM. Upwater Lodge, Cambridge. He ENGLISH OFFICERS IN AUSTRIAN army was John Henry Gordon (b 1815), 45, Doughty Street, W.C. J. M. BULLOCH. O'DONNELL. - Several of the officers of this name were of the princely house of Tirconnell. and died there, 1626. His son: Manus, a colonel, was killed at the battle of Benburb, 1646. His son: Rory of Lifford, Co. Donegal, transplanted to Mayo. His great-grandson: Major-General Manus O'Donnell, in the Austrian Army, died s.p.m. 1793, and was buried at Strade, Co. Mayo. II. Hugh Buidhe. III. Con Oge, killed at the siege of Donegal Castle, 1601. His great-great-grandson : Charles, of Oldcastle, had with an eldest son, Manus, of Wilford Lodge, b. 1720, whose second son Charles was a General in the Austrian Cavalry, and died s.p. of wounds, in 1805, a third son: Henry O'Donnell, Major-General in the Austrian Service. His son: Joseph, Count O'Donnell, was Minister of Finance to the Emperor Francis II. His son: Maurice, Count O'Donnell, Field-MarshalLieutenant, died in 1843. His son: Maximilian, Count O'Donnell, b. 1812, who saved the life of the Emperor, in 1853, was living in 1887. J. P. Horace St. Paul, the second person of that name at Ewart, Co. Northumberland, unfortunately killed a Mr. Dalton in a duel at a time when duelling was discouraged by law. As a result he had to leave both the army and England. He joined the Austrian Service, and took part in the Seven Years' War. He was a colonel of cavalry and member of the Imperial Staff. Francis I created him a Count of the Roman Empire. Count Horace St. Paul contracted a life-long friendship with Lord Stormont, the British Ambassador at Vienna. This friendship resulted in his becoming Secretary to the Embassy when Lord Stormont was transferred to Paris in 1772. Count Horace afterwards served as minis (7) Edmond Henry St. John Mildmay, b. 1816, mar. 1st, 8 March, 1851, Louisa Josephine, widow of Clarence Wigney; 2nd, 11 May, 1867, Augusta Jane, eldest daughter of Archdeacon Carew Anthony St. John Mildmay, and widow of W. C. Kortwright. He was in Radetzky's Hussars. He was the second son of Sir Henry St. John Carew St. John-Mildmay, 4th Baronet. of He raised and commanded, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Cheviot Legion, a volunteer cavalry corps, nine hundred strong, which at the false alarm of a French landing in 1804 he marched to the coast. Part of the accoutrements of this corps is preserved at Ewart Park. Count Horace St. Paul's literary remains have been collated by Mr. George Grey Butler of Ewart, son-in-law of the late Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., who left no male heir. The Jennison Walworth in C. H.'s list must, I think, belong to the Jennison's of Walworth, Co. Durham. Francis Jennison, a descendant of John Jennison of Low Walworth, sold his property and went to the continent. In 1776 he was appointed Chamberlain to the Elector Palatine and 1791 he was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. The descendants of John Jennison are connected by marriage with many of the noble houses of Austria and ، (8) Stephen Digby, a descendant of William, 5th Lord Digby. He was killed in Hungary, 24 Feb., 1849. (9) Sir John Nugent, 3rd Bart., b. April, 1800; Major in Austrian service. A Count of the Holy Roman Empire. D. 16 Feb., 1859. (10) Robert Swinburne, b. 1763, a General in the Austrian service. Also his son, Edward Robert Francis Felix Swinburne, b. 29 Dec., 1825. They were both created Barons of the Austrian Empire. (11) Clarence Trelawny, b. 20 Dec., 1826. A descendant of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 2nd Bart. He married Mary, dau. of W. S. Campbell, U.S. Consul at Dresden, and died 28 Nov., 1902. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. Bavaria. (See Fordyce, History of Dur- ADJECTIVES FROM PLACE - NAMES ham' and Bradley's 'Romance of Northumberland '). H. ASKEW. In reply to C. H., I have pleasure in stating that the following gentlemen were Officers in the Austrian service: (1) Robert O'Hara Burke, b. 1821. He He was second son died 1861. of James Hardiman Burke, by his wife, Anne, dau. of Robert O'Hara, of Raheen, Co. Galway. (2) Lucius Cary, Lieut., m. 1839, Amelia, dau. of Count Starhemberg. (3) John Edward Leslie, d. 19 Aug., 1844, son of Ernest Leslie, also an officer in the Aus trian Army. (4) MacNevin O'Kelly may have been a descendant of Dillon John O'Kelly, an officer in the Austrian service, who was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Francis, before 1755. (cliv. 154, 191). -I have to thank your correspondents for their replies to my questions. I am doubtful of the association of Soguesiensis and Gateensis with Sundgau and Gâtinais, on account of the context in which I encountered them; for this, in either case, seems to demand a town rather than a district. The context of the former is: "in nobili ecclesia collegiata Soguesiensi" [Colvenerius, Liturgia Mariana (Bourassé, Summa Aurea, Paris 1862-66, Tome 3, Part 3, Section 1) Col. 636 §1, 1.] If the u be a misprint for n, perhaps Soignies (Flemish Sognes) is intended. But the church there was monastic. The other context is: "In Hymnos Ecclesiasticos Ferme omnes, the author, Timothy. son (5) Richard Nevill, 4th of Charles Nevill of Nevill-Holt, by his wife Lady Georgiana Bingham, dau. of the Earl of Lucan. (6) John Joseph Webbe-Weston, Esq., of Sutton Place, Captain of the 3rd Light Dragoons of the Emperor of Austria, and Knight of the Order of Malta, mar, 17 May, 1847, Lady Horatia Elizabeth Waldegrave, dau. of 6th Earl of Waldegrave. He died 24 Sept., 1849. a book printed In reference especially to PROF. BENSLY'S reply: the passage containing the word Patavia was quoted from Valentinelli's Bibliotheca Manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum, iv. (Venice, 1871), and occurs in a reference to the source of the MS. L. XIV, LXIX of the library of St. Mark's (p. 199 seq.). The compiler perhaps intended a loca tive use of the ablative case. R. V. Travels.' ، The AN OLD ENGLISH PUZZLE LATCH Magic and Myth' (M. Oldfield Howey), Lon(cliv. 187).-I have two of these latches don, 1923. Though not a folk-song, on gates at my house here. As the house is Place Where the Old Horse Died' is fine. an old one, they may well be of the period The horse is prominent in 'Gulliver's suggested by DR. MERCER, early eighteenth century. I have only seen one other of the sort, viz., that at Whitby Abbey. But to the best of my recollection, the latch there is not on the church door, but on an outside gate leading to the Abbey. BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD. Bennetts, Harpenden. ، THE HORSE IN FOLK-SONGS AND THEAHORSE FOLK SONGS AND songs in English Folk-Songs for Schools, compiled by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould and Cecil Sharp, and published by Curwen and Co. One is entitled 'Creeping Jane,' and the other 'Poor Old Horse.' In 'The Ingoldsby Legends,' an old story of an event said to have happened about nine hundred years ago, at Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, and relating to a horse, is burlesqued in a poem entitled 'Grey Dolphin.' Cassell's 'British Ballads, vol. ii. contains a poem of unknown authorship, embodying another old folk-legend, and entitled 'The White Horse of Wharfedale,' and in the same collection (vol. ii) another ballad 'Sir Guido, was written by James Bolivar Manson, and to be found, according to a note, "in his novel, The Fatal Charivari '." relates to an evil legend about a horse. It Longfellow wrote two poems- The Bell of Atri' and 'Pegasus in Pound'-concerning horse legends. The former occurs in Tales of a Wayside Inn,' the latter in 'By the Fire side.' J. ARDAGH. Among the Slavs the horse plays a prominent part in folklore. In the Czechoslovak legend of the prophetess-queen Libuse, it is her horse who guides the envoys to her future consort, the ploughman Premysl. The warsteed Sharats is as famous among the Jugoslavs as his master Marko Kralevitch. Sir Walter Scott mentions the demon horse which caused embarrassment to Richard Cœur-de-Lion and his troops in battle, through Saracen enchantment. Streatham. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. secretary UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF WARREN HASTINGS (cliv. passim).-I am reading with great interest these letters appearing this year, week by week, in your valuable publication. My great-grandfather, Mr. Peter Bowers, was "a life-long" friend of Warren Hastings, and his whilst Governor-General of India. He was with him all through the trial in Westminster Hall, and afterwards refused a good post offered him by the Government that impeached his friend. We have Warren Hastings's despatch box in the family, but my great-grandmother (née Arbuthnot, and daughter of the Secretary for Ireland) burned all the letters it contained! great-grandfather died in 1804, but as the letters in N. & Q.' are of a later date his name is not mentioned, as it possibly might have been among other friends. I wonder if it is familiar to the Baber family. Perhaps you might see fit to publish this for me in your next issue. MARIAN ARBUTHNOT BOWERS. My my THE STORY OF SAVILE ROW (cliv. 147, 192).-I am very interested in MR. E. E. NEWTON'S note on my article. Squibb's business must have continued long after the end of the eighteenth century, for in researches I found that from 1820-30 George Squibb had Auction Rooms at 20, Savile Row, and in Boyle Street-these last must have adjoined Robertson's the printseller. I have seen it stated that before Squibb had his auction room in Saville street," Lord Barrymore had a private theatre, "Variétés Amusantes," in this house. Mr. Gordon Craig associates the two in a letter I have just received from him about my article, and I have written to ask him for his authority. I courses or stages of transmigration through Nos. 9 have also had a kind letter from a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, Club, who suggests I should chronicle the demolition of Nos. and 10, Savile Row, which has just occurrednews that I heard with regret. W. COURTHOPE FORMAN. A BUDDHIST PRAYER (cliv. 188). The following is the explanation of the mantra "Om mani padme hum," given by Mr. William Simpson in 'The Buddhist Praying Wheel,' London, 1896, p. 28: The first word in this sentence is the Aum or Om, which is so sacred among the Hindus that some will only repeat it without sound, and others only think of it. In the present case it may be understood in the sense of 'Adoration' 'jewel' or 'Reverence.' Mani means a or Gem. Padme is 'in the Lotus'; and hum is usually rendered by Amen.' The whole sentence would thus be 'Adoration to the Jewel in the Lotus, Amen.' The words are meant to be an expression of the highest devotion reverence. or In an additional note the author states: W. W. Rockhill in 'The Land of the Lamas' pp. 326-334, gives a long account of the origin of the magic formula Om Mani Padme Hum. It appears to be only a wild and extravagant Thibetan legend, and it is doubtful if it contains anything reliable on the subject. C. W. FIREBRACE. 69, Onslow Gardens, London, S.W. I have often heard the prayer, "Om mani a jewel and a lotus, respectively, so that we which all must pass, diminishing his stay in them, or in time abolishing it altogether. WILLIAM C. PENN. DOUBLE PISCINAS (cliii. 243, 303, 341, 357, 394; cliv. 16, 88). -In Croydon Parish Church, in a recess in the north aisle wall, a remnant of the wall of the old church destroyed by fire, there is the base slab of a double piscina, much damaged and evidently also a fragment of the old church. It lies loose and is not in its original position. WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 96, High Road, N.2. JOHN STILWELL: "DRAWER" (cliii. 209, 248, 285, 320; cliv. 50, 157). Undoubtedly in addition to a drawer of liquid drinks this word has the meaning of a wiredrawer. In a print of a drawing of his own goldsmith's workshop by Etienne Delaulne in 1576, there is, on the left hand side, an apprentice drawing wire through a hand-machine. Such a workman was and is known as a wiredrawer. WALTER E. GAWTHORP. 96, High Road, N.2. NEWSPAPERS AND LITIGATION (cliv. SONGS ABOUT SOLDIERS (cliv. 9, 53, 190). The printer of The Times for a 88, 123, 160, 196). - The Two Grenadiers' libel on Royalties was fined £200, and sen- (Schumann); 'John Brown's Body' (marchtenced to be imprisoned for one year in ing song of the American War); 'Tramp, February, 1790. The Earl of Leicester was Tramp, Tramp, the boys are marching' (G. awarded £1,000 against the Morning Herald F. Root); 'When Johnnie comes marching on June 29, 1809. Perhaps Odger's 'Libel home again'; 'Marching thro' Georgia' and Slander,' or Fraser's 'Law of Libel and Slander' trace the history and development of the law, but I have not the books at hand. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. (Henry C. Work); 'For to Admire' (words by Rudyard Kipling, music by Gerald F. Cobb); 'Back to the Army again' (words by R. Kipling, music by Gerald Cobb); 'Tim the Dragoon' (C. Villiers Stanford); 'The Yang-Tsi-Kiang (Dunlop); 'The Little Drummer' (Pohling); 'The Young Recruit' (Kücken); Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse' a favourite song of the Belgian soldiers (R. Planquette). , PHENICIAN NAMES IN ENGLAND (cliv. 189). My second name Petherick is a local and family name in Cornwall, the name of my mother's family. The late Mr. Horace W. Petherick, the violin connoisseur and artist, a distant cousin, told me he With these may be mentioned several songs thought the name was related to the Biblical Pethor. Streatham. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. in 'The Daughter of the Regiment,' and several among Gilbert and Sullivan's operas. Perhaps, too, COLONEL LESLIE may like to note 'The Runaway Musketeer,' a comic SUMAC TREE (cliv. 190). In 'Trees and song, part of which goes: Shrubs hardy in the British Isles, by W. T. Bean, London, 1914, this name is given to six different species of of the genus Rhus. The best known is Rhus Typhina, Linnæus, the Stag's-horn Sumach, a deciduous small tree of gaunt flat-topped habit, occasionally 25 or more feet high. Female flowers crowded in a panicle 4 to 8 inches long; male flowers (which are borne on separate plants), greenish, and on a bigger panicle. Native of Eastern N. America and cultivated in England since the reign of James I. The female plant is one of the handsomest of sumachs, for added to its finely coloured fruit clusters, its leaves acquire in autumn rich shades of orange, red, and purple. The male plant, which colours its leaves too, is sometimes known as 'R. Viridiflora.' It is listed in the catalogues of most of the nurserymen who deal in flowering shrubs. C. W. FIREBRACE. The Sumach Tree is a native of the North Mediterranean region from Portugal to Asia Minor; it is a low spreading deciduous shrub with hairy leaves. The species are mostly poisonous, and some are especially noxious. There are several species cultivated in the British Isles as store, greenhouse, or hardy trees. Much information will be found in Bean's 'Trees and Shrubs in the British Isles London (Murray), 1914, which states that some varieties will be found in Fulham Palace Gardens, having been introduced there in 1688. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. Blow the Bugle, burst the Drum 'The Drum-Major,' in a musical comedy, on when I was a child, had something to do with drinks for the band's refreshment: It's expected of the band I. M. JOBSON. SARAH WRIGHT (cliv. 172).-In Professor Mortenson's book, Svenskar i England' it is stated, in an article by Mr. Knut Petersson, that the husband of this lady was an Englishman. Her daughter married Baron Carl Gustaf Sparre, Swedish Minister in London after Count Carl Gyllenborg. There may be some further information obtainable of this event and of the family in the library of the Swedish Legation in London. Stockholm. LOUIS ZETTERSTEN. EONARD FAMILY OF AMERICA LEONARD (cliii. 137, 1963; cliv. 178).-MR. G. A. TAYLOR cannot have read the contributions are of HISTORIAN to 13 S. i. 86, 107, wherein the fate of the Dunbar and Worcester prisoners dealt with, or he would not have repeated the statement that many of them were transported to New England. None of the Worcester prisoners were so sent, and of those taken at Dunbar the number ordered to be transported to New Eng |