"The stripes represent Nelson's three great battles."

On the second occasion it was question No. 4 set by Rev. Dr. C. A. Alington, Headmaster of Eton College, and he gives the names of the battles, viz., Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar.

My query is now, as it was all the time I was in the service when I heard the above answer given: If that is correct why does practically every foreign Navy dress its sailors in a collar with three rows of white tape? Are all nations celebrating Nelson's victories?

Replies.

MR. CONINGSBY'S SERMON AT
OXFORD, JAN. 30, 1727.
(cliii. 99.)

THE sermon and its consequences are men-
tioned, as they could not fail to be, by
Thomas Hearne. See the Oxford Historical
Society's invaluable edition of Hearne's 'Re-
marks and Collections,' vol. ix., pp. 263, 266.
At the first reference Hearne wrote "Jan. 30
(Mon.). This day preached at St. Marie's
before the University Mr. Coningsby of St.
Mary Hall, who hath the character of a
good Preacher and of being (as a Complyer)
an honest man. Under Feb. 3 (Fri.)
Hearne writes that complaint has been made
to the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Mather, 'by
some, particularly by one Mr. Aysscu*
of some Passages in Mr. Coningsby's 30th
of January Sermon." He gives the names
of some of the heads of Houses and Doctors
who were at the meeting before which Mr.
Coningsby was summoned,

but his notes being demanded, he pretended he had lost them, upon which he was ordered to preach no more before the University for two years. What the pasages of Offence were I hear no further, than that he should, in commending K. Charles I. say, that he was a Prince that was not an alien by Birth, &

At this reference I asked for enlightenment on the statement made by one of the most eminent classical scholars, now unhappily dead, in an edition of a Latin Classic, to the effect that " our leading tragedian in the classic style confuses a shuttle and a spindle." The statement referred undoubtedly to an author then living. Who was meant, and where is this error to be found?

S.

men of true worth & Learning. Also that he said all Rebellion was unlawfull. From such expressions K. George (as he is stiled) was look'd upon as reflected upon for preferring such as he does & the Revolution branded. Ĭ am told Mr. Coningsby's Sermon delivered, that 'twas a good honest Discourse, and that all were very attentive that heard it, without the least smile, as often happens when any stinging Passage comes from a sermon.

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F.

UTHOR WANTED.-Who wrote the following:

He drew a circle and shut me out,

The offending Mr. Coningsby is apparently the George Coningsby who graduated B.A. from St. Mary Hall in 1717, and was proctor in 1734 (Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses '). On Dec. 3, 1725, Hearne recorded the election, by 96 votes to 74, of Mr. Coningsby, M.A., of St. Mary Hall, to the living of Henlip in Worcestershire, the patron being a Roman Catholic, and the University consequently claiming the right of presentation. Foster does not say whether

MUSSON FAMILY (cliii. 99). The dis

tribution of family names is dealt with in The Homes of Family Names,' by H. B. Guppy, M.B., F.R.S.E. (London, Harrison and Sons).

The system adopted by the author was to go through Kelly's Post Office Directories for all the English counties, noting under each county the names of all farmers, being the most stationary class of the population, bearing a name that exceeded, in its relative frequency, a rate of about seven per ten thousand amongst the farmers of that county. Under Leicestershire and Rutlandshire, the author classes "Musson " among the peculiar names confined mostly to those counties.

In

Going more into detail, he says: Musson is an old Leicestershire name. the reign of Charles I. Hugh Musson was a freeholder in Great Ashby, and William Musson was a freeholder in Rotherby. The rector of Bottesford in the time of James I. bore this name. John Musson was a gentleman of Woodhouse in the reign of Charles II. There was a Burbach family of this name last century; the incumbent of Stretton Parva in 1774 was thus called. Mr. Musson held property in Smockington early this century. During the last century there was a gentle family of this name at Little Wigston, in the parish of Claybrook. Two centuries ago the name was represented in the adjacent county of Notts by freeholders of Bingham, Hickling, and other places in that county. (Harl. MS. 6846).

The author gives 17 as the proportional number of farmers named Musson per 10,000 farmers in the above two counties. This is not to say there were 10,000 farmers in these two counties, but that the proportion in which the surname Musson occurred among the farmers there, was at the rate of 17 in 10,000.

Guppy's book was published in 1890, so that references to centuries in the above extract must be taken as from that date.

WM. SELF-WEEKS.

In an agreement relating to Tithes, ratified by Archbishop John le Romeyn, Aug. 13, 1295, occurs the name of Nicholai Mussun as holding land in Leicestershire.

H. R. ST. CLARE CATER. Information will be found in the registers of the parish of Southwell, Notts.

F.

PUBLIC WAY THROUGH OR UNDER CHURCHES (clii. 352, 394, 413, 429, 447, 446; cliii. 30, 47, 86, 101).-In MR. S. O. ADDY's very interesting note at ante p. 47 occurs the following" As regards passages through chancels it must be remem

bered that in all cases the lord of the manor was the owner. Will MR. ADDY kindly tell us something more concerning this right of ownership? If the church existed before the road was made for instance? Or is it ownership of the soil under the chancel pavement, or ownership of the right of passage as over a river-bridge? And where would the rights of rectors and abbots come in in that connection? I suppose, in fact, that all such chancels were originally built over pre-existing roads?

MR. ADDY'S interesting cognate examples from Icelandic literature remind me that in 1880 the native community of Rawul Pindi in the Punjab, out of respect to the late General Dunham Massy, C.B., formerly Redan Massy, so famous as and during the time of his command there, erected a great arch of honour to him over the public road leading through the native bazaar.

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

PETER THE WILD BOY (clii. 380, 398,

466; cliii. 20, 32, 86).-Apropos of recent notes about Peter the Wild Boy, I beg to state that there is an engraved portrait of him by William Kent at the British Museum; Alefounder exhibited a portrait of him at the Royal Academy in 1783, and it was engraved; W. Parry, A.R.A., exhibited a portrait of him at the Royal Academy in 1779, and Falconet and Valentine Green exhibited portraits of him at the Society of Artists in 1767, Green's contribution being an engraving after Falconet.

BASIL S. LONG.

TOROLD AND TURCHETIL (clii. 406).—

A South African correspondent has reminded me of this query and asked for information. Orderic, from whom our knowledge of the incident is derived, does not give the year in which it occurred, nor is it likely that he knew it. It is Orderic himself who is responsible for the confusion about the victim's name. When he first mentioned the affair, in one of his interpolations in the < Gesta' of William de Jumièges, he gave the name as Thorold:

Deinde Turoldus, teneri ducis pedagogus, perimitur a perfidus patriae desertoribus. (Ed. Marx, p. 156).

But by the time he wrote his own history, it seems that he had learnt that the tutor's name was Turketil (Turchetil, Turquetilthe name is spelled variously):

Turchetillus quoque ducis paedagogus aliique plures interierunt mutuis ictibus. (Ed. Le Prévost, i. 180).

It is perhaps open to question whether Turketil was really murdered, or whether he was slain in the chronic civil fighting of William's minority.

Christian names like Thorold and Turketil are of little use by themselves for purposes of identification, but in a later passage Orderic gives the tutor a local habitation by styling him Turchetillus de Novo-Mercato (ibid. ii. 369), i.e., de Neufmarché. From the dates involved, he must be identical with the Turchetil de Neufmarché who, as Orderic tells us elsewhere, had two sons, the one being Geoffrey, the other Hugh de Morimont. Geoffrey married Ada, daughter of Richard de Heugleville (of the

St. Valery family), by whom he had two

sons, Bernard (a name used by the St. Valerys) and Dreu. Bernard fought under three kings of England, invaded Wales and built the castle of Brecknock, whilst Dreu became a monk at St. Evroult (ibid. iii. 42, 43); so that Orderic's information may be regarded as trustworthy.

To complete the family pedigree, it may be added that Bernard de Neufmarché (or Newmarch, as the name is anglicised) left a daughter and heirs Sibyl, who married Miles de Gloucester (afterwards Earl of Hereford) in 1121 (Round, 'Ancient Charters,' No. 6).

G. H. WHITE.

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The latter William Shrubsole was the son of William Shrubsole (1729-1797), the author of Christian Memoirs.' He was born at Sheerness 21 Nov., 1759, became a shipwright in Sheerness Dockyard, and subsequently a clerk. In 1785 he went to London as a clerk in the Bank of England, where he ultimately became secretary to the committee of treasury. He was interested in religious and philanthropic societies, and was one of the first secretaries of the London Missionary Society. He was also the author of several well known hymns.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE

LAST CASE OF OPEN PENANCE IN ENGLAND (cliii. 82, 123).-Vaux, Church Folk-Lore,' pp. 173-8 gives nineteenth-century instances of white sheet penance up to about 1850, according to Cox, Parish Registers of England,' p. 220, so evidently the Birchley claim cannot be justified by many years. R. S. B.

PLACE-NAME FUIDGE (cliii. 98). This

occurs in two Devon parishes, Blackawton and Spreyton. The spelling Fuwyche is found in the case of Blackawton in 1269-70 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Devon Feet of Fines No. 715). While the meaning of the first syllable must remember the not uncommon elision of the be a matter of speculation, we may at least letter L, and, accordingly, we may be able to suppose that the whole word Fuidge stands for something not unlike that implied by the word Fulham.

M.

RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH HOUSES

The former was the youngest son of Thomas Shrubsole, farrier, of Canterbury, and was a chorister in the Cathedral there from 1770

Spennymoor.

H. ASKEW.

CACONS IN N. YORKSHIRE (clii. 297).-In 'Old Yorkshire' edited by William Smith, F.S.A.S. (New Series, 1889) is an article on "Yorkshire Beacons by J. Nicholson of Hull, from which the following is taken:

Beacons in Richmondshire. Richmond receiveth light from Ornsbury Toppin in Langbarghe, and giveth light to all the northwest