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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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INDEX to VOLUME CLI.

THE SUBJECT INDEX to Vol. 151 (JulyDec., 1926) is now ready for issue. Orders should be sent to "NOTES AND QUERIES," 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks, England, direct or through local newsagents and booksellers. The Index is also on sale at 22, Essex Street, Strand, W.C.2.

Price, 2s. 6d.; postage, 1d.

CONTENTS.-NO. 15.

MEMORABILIA:-253.

NOTES: Brambridge (or Bambridge), 255 Textual Notes on Shakespeare, 256-The Placenames Medmenham and Medmenny, 257-Identification of Heraldry-The Culloden Monument, 259.

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QUERIES:-Portraits wanted-W. Carew HazlittThomas Griffiths Wainewright-English Church practices, 260-Bacon, Williams, and de Families-Queen Elizabeth as a card playerMiss Mitford's 'Bachelor parson "-Card game.

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For Sale.-Notes and Queries.

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the Sack The Parthenon 261-Mead: Metheglin-Cavalry regiments in fiction-Coal strike in Shakespeare's time-Claudius James Rich-Growth of human hair-Captain Richard Bowen, 262-John Absolon, water-colour artistFulham Bridge Tavern, Brompton Road Christian name: Ben-oni-jamin-Euthanasia Author wanted, 263.

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No. 168-July 2, 1921 (Vol. ix).
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No. 228-Aug. 26, 1922 (Vol. xi).
Indices to Vol. vi (Jan.-June, 1920) and
Vol. ix (July-Dec., 1921).

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none of our readers who peruse The Times every morning has missed the account, sent by the correspondent of that paper at Allahabad, of the discovery near Miawana of an Indian boy who has been living in a wolf's den; it may, however, be worth while to record it here. This brother of Mowgli and of the 'Enfants des Bois would appear to be about ten years old; he cannot talk, nor yet walk like a human being, but runs on all fours, laps water and eats grass. This last circumstance seems curious in a child brought up by carnivores. At night he began barking, bit himself and other people, and his guardians tied him down. He has been placed at Allahabad in a special lock up, and food and medicine have been given him. limbs are well-formed; but he is very thin, and a terrible scar on one side of his face points to his having been badly mauled at some time by an animal. His immediate destiny is said to be Bareilly and a mental hospital. Alas, in the depths of his dark, little mind we fear he must be raging at the herdsmen who discovered him, and longing for the company of the wolves, his familiar friends.

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THE Lister centenary is being celebrated with the more completeness and satisfaction from the fact that there are many living who worked with the great surgeon and are of good competence to speak about him. Sir St. Clair Thomson's address to the Royal Society of Medicine on Apr. 4 (v. The Times of Apr. 5) was an instance in

point, as its title A House Surgeon's Memories' indicates; and another may be seen on the tributes to Lister's personality paid by members of the medical profession (many of whom had acted with him) at the meeting, the same afternoon, of the Listerian Society at King's College Hospital. From his Majesty downwards all are unanimous both in honouring Lister as a man and in praising his services to humanity as among the greatest that have ever been rendered; and one cannot now consider without astonishment the opposition he at first encountered. It looks as if the only benefits which mankind is able instantly to recognise as such are those which quicken transit and those which promote amusement.

THE first article in the April Connoisseu

is Mr. W. Roberts's lavishly illustrated account of the pictures in Mr. Henry E. Huntington's famous collection-particularly those by Reynolds and Gainsborough. This is followed by Major H. G. Parkyn's paper on the collection of British Army relics belonging to Alderman C. F. Gaunt. entertaining paper by a writer to whom our This again has next it an informing and own columns have recently been similarly indebted, Mr. Fred. Lee Carter, who treats of the lost art" of sand painting. Astonishingly good effects have been produced in this mode of painting," as the eight examples given here bear witness. Mr.

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who practised it, all Germans by birth, and each one putting forward a claim to having invented the sand picture, though something of the kind has for centuries been known in Japan. In England it would tion for the dining table of George III, seem to have begun as a temporary decorawhich, by the use of an adhesive, was later made a permanent work of art. Early numbers of N. & Q.' contain information about Haas, one of the four artists, who seems to have long been connected with Bristol. Another was a Bavarian named Zobel who received his first instruction in art from a monk at Otterbauern, and coming by and by to London got into touch with Schweickhardt (table-decker at Windsor) a third sand painter. There are sand paintings in sundry private collections, and the illustrations to Mr. Carter's article are all taken from that of Mr. W. Burrough Hill of Southampton, who possesses over sixty specimens; but it would appear that the

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Some of our readers may like to take note that this number of the Connoisseur also contains an article on pargetting with particular reference to the elaborately pargetted Colne Ford House in Essex.

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March 10 we came across a reply, dealing with a new theory that the Ithaca of the Odyssey was not an island, in the course of which three or four lines of Greek appear printed without accents. A well-known classical scholar, who many years ago sometimes contributed to our columns, the Rev. John Hoskyns-Abrahall had, we believe, altogether rejected the use of accents as a late invention; and here and there have been others of that mind. Is there now any general movement on the continent-or, particularly, in France towards discarding Greek accents? A mark to denote the rough breathing, at any rate, would surely be

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ΑΝ N article in The Times of Apr. 6 pleasantly commemmorates a minor centenary which fell this week-that of the introduction of friction-matches," The first recorded sale of these was at Stockton-onTees, when the inventor, John Walker, chemist and druggist of that town, sold a box, on Apr. 7, 1827, to a local solicitor. These " friction-lights as he called them, were difficult to ignite: the head of the match armed with a little percussion powder -which Walker used to make up for the new method of discharging a gun by the percussion-cap-had to be gripped firmly with thumb and forefinger between folded sandpaper, for the force required to ignite the head by drawing it across a sanded surface would have broken the match. "Friction-lights were broad and flat, and three inches long; and were sold for 1s. 2d. a box containing 100. A few of them have been preserved at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Stockton and in the Bryant & at Bow. Their sale

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match. This in turn, after about five years' use, was superseded by the invention of a French student of chemistry at Dole in the Jura, Charles Sauria by name, who added phosphorus to the composition of the matchhead. His idea was carried (it would appear simply by way of conversation) to Germany, where it was soon seized upon, and about 1832 put upon the market by Austrian and German manufacturers under the name of "Congreve," from Sir William Congreve the inventor of the war-rocket.

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SATURDAY, April 8, 1727.

LONDON, April 8.

It appears by the Report made of the poor Children and others, maintained in the feveral Hofpitals of this City, that difcharged out of Chrift's Hofpital in the there have been put out Apprentices, and remaining in the fame 1014: year laft past, 86 Children, and now That there Bartholomew's Hofpital 3619 Perfons, and have been cured and difcharged from St. now remaining there under Cure 541; Cured and difcharged from St. Thomas's Hofpital in Southwark 4751; and now remaining under Cure 667: That there have Vagrants, and brought up there Apprentices received into the Hofpital of Bridewell 317 in divers Arts and Trades, 91: That there have been admitted into Bethlehem Distracted Perfons cured of their Lunacy, under Cure, 148. and difcharged 65; and now remaining there

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We hear that Mr. Joyner has lately delivered to the Right Honourable Sir Weaving & Wool-combing Trades, raifing to Robert Walpole, a Scheme for regulating the Thousand Pounds his Majesty a Supply of feveral Hundred per Annum, as an Equivalent for taking off the Duty on Raw Silk, and without laying any Duty on any other Commodity.

Sunday laft being Eafter Sunday, his Majefty received the Holy Communion in his Chappel at St. James's: and the fame being a Collar Day, there was a fplendid and magnificent Appearance at Court.

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HE name Brambridge, that of a hamlet a mile south of Twyford, between Winchester and Southampton, has for the past three centuries been occasionally written Bambridge even so recently as in the Hampshire Pocket County Companion,' by Robert Dodwell (1895). The district-at present so rural-is likely to be opened out and a motor-omnibus service has been running for a twelvemonth or more between Eastleigh_railway station and Brambridge village. It therefore seemed of interest to establish whether the three consonants of the first syllable had continuous historic thority, or whether the variant might not be a resuscitation of some older and more correct form. The subjoined particulars have consequently been brought together with a view of determining this question." The form "Bambridge" seems first to occur in the pedigree of the family of Welles (or Wells) drawn up by Thomas Benoit, Clarenceux, forming part of the Hampshire Visitation Book of 1530 (Harl. MS. 1544, fo. 67 b.). This pedigree commences with "Thomas Wells of Bambridge,' and the same spelling is continued through the descent as there given. It had been thought that the subsequent quotations of this form may have been due to some indistinctness in this pedigree, but it is so clearly written that there can be no doubt on the point. The pedigree is printed in John Hutchins' History of Dorset,' 3rd edit., Vol. i. (1861), p. 668, and the same form is used there, as well as in the text of that work. The pedigree is again given, with the spelling of "Bambridge," in William Berry's County Genealogies of Hampshire' (1833), p 110. Later on, the pedigree, with the same spelling, based on on the Harleian MS., is printed in the Harleian Society's publications, Vol. lxiv. (1913), p. 74. This has led to a curious and misleading error in the Index Locorum, where under the heading Bambridge," we find see Bembridge.'

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The Tabular Flint Industry of Brambridge and Highfield, Hants.' The earliest appearance of the name appears to be in an Anglo-Saxon charter of King Ethelred, of about the year A.D. 984, where it is to be found given as Brombrygce," in conjunction with the adjacent villages of Oterburnan " (Otterbourne) and Twyfyrde (Twyford).* It also occurs twice in a list of the boundaries of the manor of Chilcomb, in Anglo-Saxon, appended to a Latin charter granted to the church_at Winchester, ostensibly in A.D. 909, by Edward the Elder, but written in a later hand. In the first line of the list the name appears as brombriga," and in the last line as brom bricge."+ This document, though written later than the date stated, must still be of ancient origin; a Latin translation is given in Dugdale's 'Monasticon (1846), i. 209. Kemble says that the boundaries given in an Anglo-Saxon charter are nearly always in that language, even though the grant to which they appertain should be written in Latin. The boundaries of that manor-which the Rev. T. C. Wilks, writing in B.B. Woodward's History of Hampshire' (Vol. ii., p. 3). said he was unable to determine-have been carefully worked out by Dr. G. R. Grundy in a paper entitled The Saxon Land Charters of Hampshire,' in the Archeological Journal, lxxviii (1921), p. 55. Later, we find, in the Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem (vol. i., 1806, p. 42), and entry temp. Henry III: Nich'us Hachardt: Brombrigg terr', etc."-in the county of Southampton.

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of Twyforde.* In a Compromissio of 24 Jan., 1408, entered in the Register of Cardinal Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester-fact[a] per Magistrum Johannem Campeden et plarlochianos de Twyford "mention is made of "Petrus de Brambrygge and "Paulus atte Wode de Bram(F.J.B.). brygge On 7 Feb., 1585-6, Thomas Cooper, Bishop of of Winchester, granted to William Barlow, parson of Easton, for the better recreation of the said William, free fishing and liberty, full power and authority, to fish by himself at all times in the pond at Alresford, commonly called Alresford Pond, with anglinge and laying of hooks to take fish in that pond; also in like manner free fishing, and like liberty and power and authority, unto the said William and his assigns, to fish at all times, in the river between the said pond and Brambridge, as the river runneth; and in all places of the river between the said pond and Brambridge, with angling and laying of hooks, at all times, between those places, for the taking of fish; for and during the term of twenty-one years next following, if the said William shall be so long in full life." Dated 7 February, 1585. Confirmed by the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, Cathedral, 16 March, 1585. (F. J. B.).

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R. C. BAIGENT.

TEXTUAL NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE
THE TEMPEST.
(See ante p. 184).
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