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of the saint's life in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum' threw no light on the difficulty. In the Sancti Alexii Viri Dei Vita' given from Simeon Metaphrastes in the abridgment of Aloysius Lipomanus's 'Vitæ Sanctorum,' 1573, pt. ii. p. 339, the words used are Sponsa vero lugubri veste induta currens,' is Queen's Rook's square; and square 64, &c. I have not examined the original Greek at which he ends, is Queen's 5th. Now for of the Metaphrast, but am now strongly certain inferences. In the first place, the inclined to believe that adriatica is a cor- tour may be reversed-may start from 64 ruption of Atrabatica. See Du Cange's as well as from 1. Next, a Knight standing account of Atrabatic Vestes ; and at 64 commands, in the tour before me, " Atrebates' and 'Atrabaticus' in the squares 63, 53, 15, 13, 27, 29, 43, and 31. Thesaurus Lingua Latina,' vol. ii. col. 1094. It follows, therefore, that, besides 64, It appears from the Thesaurus that, squares 54, 16, 14, 28, 20, 44, and 32 are although of course the adjective Atrabasquares from which other tours can be made.. ticus," when applied to clothing, means that For instance, the tour beginning, say, at it was manufactured by the Atrebates, the square 16, proceeds from 16 forwards to 64, Gallic tribe whose chief town was the modern and then, as 15 is a Knight's move from 64, Arras, yet Johannes Lydus and Suidas, from 15 backwards to I. Let us call this misled by the resemblance to atrum, sup- tour B, and record it on a plan or diagram posed the name to refer to the colour. of a blank chessboard, marking 16 as 1, 17 as Prof. Postgate has pointed out to me that 2, 64 as 49, 15 as 50, 14 as 51, 13 as 52, and certain MSS. have Adrebas instead of Atrebas so on. Again, a Knight at square 1 of the in Cæsar, B.G.,' iv. 35, 1. This helps to A tour commands, besides 2, square 54. show that the corruption of " Atrabatica or follows that a fresh tour may be made "Atrebatica' to Adriatica' is easy and backwards from 53 to 1, and then, as the natural. EDWARD BENSLY. Knight commands 54, forwards from 54 to 64. We infer, then, from our first tour A, that squares 1, 64, 54, 16, 14, 28, 30, 44, 32, and 53-ten in all-are possible startingpoints. Tour B should be treated in the same manner for the discovery of other squares from which the Knight may start. Record the results on a blank diagram of 64 squares, and make as many more tours, each of them strictly derived or deduced from its predecessor, as may be necessary to cover the whole board with possible startingpoints. I have found six tours necessary, some of them, as it happened, yielding very scanty new results.

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CHESS: THE KNIGHT'S TOUR.-The wellknown problem, or puzzle, of the Knight's tour consists in the discovery of a series of moves by which the Knight, starting from a given square, may visit successively, but only once, every square of the chessboard. The problem has been solved in many different ways, but I doubt whether it has hitherto been shown that the tour may start from any square-that all the squares of the board will serve the Knight's purpose equally well.

Let the reader take, or make for himself, any solution of the puzzle. In the tour that lies mapped out before me, which I will call A, square 1, from which the Knight starts,

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But this is not all. As the board has four sides, and can be turned in fcur different directions, every square is one of a set of

four whose relative positions on the four sides of the board are corresponding and identical. Obviously, if the tour may begin from one corner square, it may begin from all of them; and so with all the other ascertained starting-points, since each has three others corresponding to it. When not only the possible starting-points, as shown by each tour, are marked on the blank chessboard, but also their corresponding squares as well, not many tours will have to be made before every square is covered and the demonstration is complete. B. R.

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THWERTNIC " OR THIERTNIE," OLD CHESHIRE CUSTOM.-There are a number of allusions in the early records of Cheshire to a mysterious affair called Thwertnic." Thus, in Ranulph Blundeville's charter of liberties to his barons and knights, about 1216, we read that if his sheriff or any officer shall implead any of their men in the Earl's court, per thiertnic se defendere poterit propter Sherife-tooth quod reddunt nisi secta eum sequatur (Ormerod, i. 53). The pleas of the barons of Dunham Massy and of Halton are to the same effect, omitting the reference to the sheriff-tooth (ibid., 526 and 705).

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We also read of "a certain liberty called Thwertnyk," pertaining to the stewardship of Chester held by Roger de Montalt (ibid., 57). An explanation by Sir Peter Leycester (ibid., 54) that the word is equivalent to thirdnicht," "trium noctium hospes," three nights' charges for the sheriff's diet, seems inadequate. What was this "thiertnic " with which a man could defend himself when charged by the sheriff? The explanation is deducible from Maitland and Pollock's "Hist. of English Law,' &c., ii. 608, &c. The word is properly thwert-ut-nay," which means a downright "No," i.e., a defence to the claim by a flat denial. The intricacies of thirteenth-century pleading are involved, but the meaning of it all seems to be this: The plaintiff's claim must be met by a 66 thwert-ut-nay : other defences may follow, but this one is indispensable, and want of it is fatal. Having made the denial, the person sued could then demand an examination of the plaintiff's 66 secta," or suit of witnesses. If none were ready, the claim failed, or should do so, on a protest by the defendant that he need not answer the simple assertion of the plaintiff, unsupported by the offer of evidence.

Now the passage in the barons' charter quoted above seems to mean simply that where the sheriff was not prepared then and

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yet because this custom is contrary to the common law, is the origin of trouble, and destructive to peace, &c., ordained, with the consent and at the request of the commonalty of Cheshire, that the defence of thwertnie' should not be allowed in future" Nov. 14, 1389). (Inspeximus, Charter Roll, R. STEWART-BROWN. HEAVITREE, co. DEVON, 1553-1653.—A MS. has come into my hands which is of interest to Devonshire genealogists. On the fly-leaf is written :—

"Heavitree. A Booke for Weddings, Christin

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ings and Buryalls written in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fiftie and three, for the p'ish of Heavitree, being truly copied out of a booke of p'chment, belonging to the said p'ish, beginning the first day of February 1555 and compared by (blank). The MS. contains only baptisms, from 1555 to 1653. It is written on paper in a clear hand. There is also one wedding (by an illiterate hand) dated 1681. The original register is, I believe, lost.

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J. HARVEY BLOOM. "HANDWRITING AS A SURNAME.-Compilers of books on surnames may like to know that Thomas Handwriting was the Wales on the John Barry in 1821. name of a convict transported to New South figures in a list of the convicts there as taken at Dec. 31, 1837 (P.R.O., H.O. 10: 33).

J. M. BULLOCH.

He

"PRO PELLE CUTEM."- The real meaning of this old motto of the Hudson's Bay Company has always been more or less a matter of dispute. It seems to mean "skin for skin," i.e., human skin for animal skin, for the old hunters risked their own skins to get the skin of the buffalo. I find now that Canon Matheson of Winnipeg, who knew many of the old hunters, puts an

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GEORGE WASHINGTON'S WEALTH.-I have seen it suggested that George Washington, at the time of the Declaration of Independence, was the richest man in America. What authorities should one consult to confirm this statement, or otherwise? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

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LATIN EPITAPH : SI QUIS FORTE ROGAT.' -On a marble slab affixed to the north wall of the chancel of St. Mary's parish church, Holy Island, Northumberland, is inscribed:

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Here lyeth the bodie of Ann Jones, sometyme wife to Henry Jones, Esquire, which Ann died the 19 of Februarie, 1625.

In obitum delectissimæ matris Ann Jones.

RICHARD STOCKTON OF KIDDINGTON, 16001657.-I shall be glad of any information about the above. He was the founder of the Stockton family of New Jersey, and is supposed to have been the son of John Stockton of Kiddington or Cuddington (in the parish of Malpas, hundred of Broxton, Cheshire), eldest son of Owen of the same place. The reason for supposing this to be the case is that in the family Bible, under the date of 1760, the statement is made that the said Richard Stockton emigrated from England previous to 1660, resided for a few years in Long Island, near New York, "belonged to an ancient and highly respectable family, and possessed an opulent fortune." The same gentleman used the arms of the Kiddington branch of the Cheshire Stocktons, which were engraved on a watch and family plato. He died 1707, Per me Petrum Jones. leaving among other children a son Richard The majority of persons reading the and a son John, showing that the family above inscription would infer that Peter names were perpetuated. The parish regis-Jones composed this Latin epitaph, but it is ter of Malpas and the wills in Chester and not so, for similar lines occur on a graveat Somerset House have been carefully stone in memory of one Tamworth who searched; but few records were made died in 1569. Vide Maitland's 'London,' during 1640-60, owing to the civil wars.

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With John Stockton of Kiddington, who died 1700, the male line in England appears to have become extinct; but it is possible that he had a son or a nephew living in the States. Richard Stockton, 66 the founder of the New Jersey family, also had an "Uncle Thomas," a physician, living in "Cole Harbor, London, 1661." The London Stocktons used the ancient arms of Stockton, not those used by the Kiddington or U.S. branch. There is a will of Thomas Stockton of London, 1622, but there is no reference to Stockton relations living in Cheshire.

HELEN HAMILTON STOCKTON.

Morven, Princeton, New Jersey.

Si quis forte rogat cujus tenet_ossa sepulcrum,
Ipse tacens docui marmora dura loqui,
Si quæris proavos; generoso sanguine ducta est,
Si vitam; insignis regula justitiæ,
Si quæris mores; mulier nec amantior æqui,
Hæc pro te tristis subscripsit carmina natus;
Nec pietatis erat, nec probitatis erat,
Quæ sunt officii signa suprema sui.

ii. 1076. Is any other copy known?

J. W. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham. EDNA LYALL.-The full inscription on this lady's grave at Bosbury, near Ledbury, is desired. J. ARDAGH.

TURNER OF SHRIGLEY PARK, CO. CHESTER. -William Turner of Shrigley Park, co. Chester, M.P. for Blackburn, had a daughter who was married to Thomas Legh, LL.D., of Lyme Park, co. Chester, on Jan. 14, 1829. I seek genealogical details of the ancestry of William Turner, and particularly the names of his brothers and their descendants. I believe one brother was named Robert

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Emanuel Turner (born 1825), assistant whose only crime was trying to defend comptroller, cashier, and committee clerk himself from the manual assaults of his to the Manchester Corporation from 1842 brutal messmates ; and of Parry's punishto 1857, was, I understand, a nephew of ment as a deed of infamous injustice and Was cruelty." William, the member of Parliament. I find no allusion to the affair he a son of Robert ? in works where it might be expected to be mentioned. W. B. H.

Please reply direct.

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

18 Culverden Down, Tunbridge Wells.

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RICHARD BURTON 1681. Richard Burton's "Historical Remarques and Observations of the Ancient and Present State

of London and Westminster....London.

THE SWIN.-Kipling mentions this channel in one of his poems,

From the Ducies to the Swin.

It is, I believe, to the north of the mouth of the Thames. What is the meaning of the name? Saxo-Grammaticus mentions a Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell next similarly named stretch of water as Zwina to Kemps Coffee house in Exchange Alley, (p. 333), Zuins (p. 347), Suin (p. 359), identiover against the Royal Exchange in Corn-fied as the Zwein, the middle channel of the hill. 1681." neat half-calf, 18mo, has a Oder as it reaches the sea. And where is number of very quaint cuts. I should be glad of any information about the author. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

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Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. ["Richard Burton was one of the pseudonyms of Nathaniel Crouch who published the book. He had a very busy pen, the Dict. Nat. Biog.' devoting nearly four columns to him, s.v. Burton, Robert or Richard,' and recording 45 works compiled or edited by him. They were mostly issued at a shilling each, and had a great popularity.]

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DEVEY FAMILY.-I shall be glad of genealogical information regarding the Deveys who held Kingslow, co. Salop, near Wolverhampton, from 1640 to 1881, and the Deveys who resided in the manor of Trysull, co. Stafford, during the eighteenth century. The former, and probably the latter, family was descended from the Deveys of Patting. ham, co. Stafford, temp. Edward II.; and as late as 1730 a John Devey, gent., who graduated at Oxford in 1725, had an estate there. Thomas and William Devey of Trysull graduated in 1734 and 1764 respectively.

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J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B. [Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles ' describes the Swin Channel thus: "in mouth of river Thames, between the Maplin and Barrow Sands; is the main channel from the Nore to the north."]

BOASE BROTHERS. -I should be glad if some reader of N. & Q.' could furnish me with portraits of one or all of those disRev. Charles tinguished brothers, the William, George Clement, and Frederic Boase. Or some one may be able to indicate a periodical in which their portraits have appeared. J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B.

[MR. RALPH THOMAS, who knew the brothers well (see ante, p. 88), informs us that he does not remember to have seen any portrait of them.]

QUEEN ANNE: THE SOVEREIGN'S VETO.I have often read in books on constitutional history that Queen Anne was the last sovereign to veto a Bill passed by Lords and Commons, but have never lighted on any Justin McCarthy in particulars of this. his volume on Queen Anne says nothing of it; Mr. Herbert Paul has but a passing reference. Can any reader enlighten me? W. KENT.

About

HERVEY OR HERVIT.—In the Index to the printed Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem in the reign of Henry III. occurs the name of William Hervit alias Hervey. The date of the inquisition is January, 1256. forty years ago, as I came out from a political meeting, I heard a man in an excited crowd sing out, Let Bill Harvet have one.' "One meant an egg not laid that morning, and "Bill Harvet meant a Mr. William Harvey who was at the meeting, and therefore deserved an egg not laid that morning.

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As we can see the form Hervit or Hervet six ALDELIMA, 1280: ITS LOCALITY.-On hundred years ago, and can hear it to-day, I Aug. 5, 1280, John, Prior of Wenlock (in presume that it has had a continuous Shropshire), granted to John, Archbishop of existence from the one date to the other. I Canterbury, the patronage of the church of presume also that it is a corrupted form of Aldelima, in the diocese of Coventry and Hervey. Can any philological reason be Lichfield, which the Convent of Wenlock given why Hervet should be a corrupted had of the gift of Hugh, lord of Aldelima. form of Hervey ? Or what is the unwritten The witnesses include Master Thomas de law that has governed the change? Hervey Yngelthorp, Dean of St. Paul's, London a fairly common personal name in Master William de la Cornere, Canon of England for about two hundred years after Lichfield; Sir Nicholas de Knovile; Master the Norman Conquest which brought it in, Alan de Lyndesey; Sir Goscelyn, Justice of but within three hundred years it seems to Chester, Sir Bogo de Knovile, Sir Odo de have died out as a personal name and Hodenet, Sir William Bagod, and Sir Roger Sprenchose (the last five were knights); John de Esthope, and John de Ayno, clerk.

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become a rather common surname.

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SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND QUEEN ELIZABETH AT SANDGATE.-In Paine's Guide to Hythe, Kent' (1862), p. 29, we read :

"In her progress through Kent, Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to Saltwood Castle, riding from Sandgate on a pillion behind no less a person than Sir Walter Raleigh. With him the virgin queen danced a saraband (whatever that was) on the castle-green, and no doubt was entertained right royally in the castle itself."

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This is one of many valuable charters, in the Free Public Library of Shrewsbury, which I am calendaring. What place represents Aldelima ? And in what county is it situate ? W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

CORNISH AND DEVONIAN PRIESTS EXECUTED IN 1548 AND 1549.-What was tho

On the next page occurs the following in naine of the West-Country priest who was support of the statement :

Among the old records relating to this period we find charged in the town accounts 28. for straw and clene rushes for the Queen's dining-room, and a further charge of 10d. for the shoeing of Sir Walter Raleigh's horses."

Can any one supply further information
about this visit ? The probable date would
be August, 1573, as it is stated in Sussex
Arch. Collections, v. 191, that on the
morning of Tuesday the 25th [August] she
[the Queen] left this house [Westenhanger],
dined at Sandgate, and was at Dover to
supper."
R. J. FYNMORE.

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drawn, hanged, and quartered at Smithfield on July 7, 1548 ?

What were the respective benefices of the following eight priests of Cornwall or Devonshire, who suffered for complicity in the rebellions of 1548-9, and when and where were they executed? Robert Bocham, John Thompson, Roger Barret, John Wolcocke, William Alsa, James Mourton, John Barrow, Richard Benet. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

LOWTHER. -I am

desirous of obtaining information concerning the following Lowthers, who were educated at Westminster School :

1. James Harrington, admitted in 1837, aged 10.

2. John, admitted in 1727, aged 13. 3. T. Lowther, who was at the School in 1808.

4. William, admitted in 1727, aged 11. 5. William, admitted in 1851, aged 10. G. F. R. B.

MACKWORTH.-I should be glad to obtain information about the following Mackworths who were educated at Westminster School :1. Francis, admitted in 1736, aged 10. 2. John, admitted in 1727, aged 10. 3. T. Mackworth, who was at the School in 1803.

4. William, admitted in 1737, aged 10. G. F. R. B.

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