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"PHILAZER" (8th S. iii. 28, 97, 154).—If your correspondent requires any further reference he may consult Cowel's Interpreter of Law Terms,' 1701, sub "Filacer." The following quotations are from the Rev. T. L. O. Davies's most useful 'Supplementary English Glossary ':

"The cursitors are by counties; these are the Lord Chancellor's. The philizers and exigenters are by counties also, and are of the Common Pleas."-North, 'Life of Lord Guildford,' i. 186.

Thomas Winford......had formerly been philazer of Surrey, &c., and had surrendered that office into my hands."—Ibid., ii. 47.

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY.

"SQUIN " (8th S. iii. 166).-A lady, a native of Portslade-by-Sea, Sussex, to whom I have communicated the substance of your correspondent's note, asking her if the local name for the scallop is "squin" or "quin," is ignorant of such a name applied to the "escallop," i. e., the creature" with one flat shell and the other oval [=convex, according to her outside view], a pretty crinkled shell." She says, however, there is a much smaller shell-fish,

"like the escallop, but the shells are both oval. We call them quenee, and I have never heard them called otherwise. I wish I could get a few to send to you, but I have not seen any yet this year. They are generally caught with the escallops. My brother is very fond of them, eating them just as he does oysters." This seems to be what is figured in the 'Penny Cyclopædia' as Pecten gibbosus. The cyclopædist

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payment of a small fee, and certified copies are furnished at a further charge, as specified in the schedule of fees appearing at the latter reference. There is no collection in the India Office of wills executed at St. Helena, but in many cases transcripts of such documents are recorded on the official "consultations" in the custody of the Registrar and Superintendent of Records. DANIEL HIPWELL.

17, Hilldrop Crescent, N.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8th S. iii. 189).

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Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti.
This is the translation of lines 741-2 of Pope's Essay on
Criticism,' which was taken as a motto for Hénault's
Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de France,' in 1744,
and acknowledged as such in the preface to the third
edition of that work, in 1749. This appears, in reference
to it, as a new quotation in the eleventh issue, in 1879, of
Büchmann's 'Geflügelte Worte,' with a special mark as
such. I am not aware of any work with an earlier year
in which the history of the line is to be seen. It is
common now. Pope's couplet is:-

Content, if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view,
The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

There is a note in N. & Q.,' 1 8. xii. 204: “This is the motto to Laharpe's Cours de Littérature.""

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Miscellaneous.

ED. MARSHALL,

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Notes on the Middleton Family of Denbighshire. By W. Duncombe Pink. (Printed for Private Circulation.) In this interesting monograph on the Middleton family, of New River celebrity, Mr. Pink has brought together a mass of material in a handy form for the genealogist. culty attends the compilation of anything like a satisIt is a remarkable circumstance that considerable diffifactory account of several of the at one time best-known branches of this widely spread family, and one of Mr. Pink's objects in reprinting the present pamphlet from the pages of the Chester Courant is the eliciting of new facts.

Not the least curious point about the Denbighshire stock which has made the name of Myddelton, or Middleton, so historical is that the name itself is not the heritage of the family by male descent, but was assumed by it on marriage with the heiress of the original line of Middleton on the Welsh borders, itself descended from Middleton of Middleton, in Shropshire, if this filiation can be substantiated. Mr. Pink, however, speaks but hesitatingly of the original line and its connexions, not venturing beyond the allegation that the first undoubted ancestor, Sir Alexander de Middleton, living 1282, is "thought, but upon very doubtful authority, to have been related to Sir Richard de Middleton, Chancellor to Henry III., and to William de Middleton, consecrated Bishop of Norwich in 1272."

Mr. Pink, from the Genealogist, iv., 1880, p. 171, a After these dubieties we may seem bold in offering possible member of the original male line in the person of a Roger de Midleton, who occurs as witness on a couple of undated charters of lands in the parish of Rochdale, but whose floruit may fairly be assigned, lands and parties, to circa 26 Edw. I. This would make by means of a dated charter associated with the same Roger de Midleton of Rochdale a contemporary of Sir

Alexander, and the district in which he is found is at any rate a neighbour land to the Welsh border. It is, perhaps, a somewhat curious coincidence that we should find a John, son of Richard Midleton, of Manchester, baptized at Rochdale in 1598.

Again, in the Lambeth Wills (Genealogist, vi., 1882) we find the will of a fourteenth century parish priest, Thomas Middleton, Rector of Multon, who might possibly have belonged to the line which took its name from Cecilia, heiress of Philip de Middleton, after her marriage with Ririd ap David ap Flaidd, chief of one of the fifteen noble tribes of North Wales. In Misc. Gen. et Her., Second Ser., ii. 250, we find it noted that Isabel, daughter of David Lloyd ap Jevan ap Ririd Middleton, married Owen ap Griffith, and was by him ancestress of the family of Mostyn-Owen, heirs of line of Owen of Woodhouse. This is possibly David, elder son of Robert, son of Ririd ap David and Cecilia de Middleton. In a list of the principal inhabitants of London, 1640, printed in the same volume of Misc. Gen. et Her., but not, so far as we can see, referred to by Mr. Pink, we find the following Middletons: p. 52, Broad Street Ward, William Middleton, a "Silkeman "; p. 69, Castle Baynard Ward, Edward Middleton; p. 109, Lime Street Ward, Richard Middleton, merchant. Of these we do not see any clue to the affiliation of Edward, of Castle Baynard Ward, on the stock whose history Mr. Pink is tracing. William, the "silkeman," of Broad Street Ward, cannot be identical with the goldsmith, but might possibly, though we doubt it, be the draper of the New River Corporation, or both he and Richard, the merchant of Lime Street Ward, might be the Richard and William, sons of Robert Middleton, merchant and skinner, whose son Richard is stated by Mr. Pink, in his "Miscellaneous Notes," p. 59, to have been "living in 1623, and then about twenty years of age." It is doubtful, however, seeing that the William of that family was the ninth son of Robert, Richard being the fifth, whether he could well have been so established in business by 1640 as to be reckoned among the "able men" for the City contributions of that year towards the king's needs. The history of the latest surviving baronetcy in the Middleton family, that conferred upon Sir Hugh, of New River fame, is quite a striking chapter among those vicissitudes of families to which the late Sir Bernard Burke devoted some of his most interesting writing.

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A Boke of Recorde, or Register of Kirkbiekendall. Edited by R. S. Ferguson, LL.M. F.S.A. (Kendal, Wilson; Carlisle, Thurnam).

WE have abridged the very long title-page which the Elizabethan compiler of this interesting old manuscript thought it well to frame. There are not many things in which we are more like the men of the earliest days of the printing-press and less like those of the latter part of the sixteenth and of the whole of the seventeenth century than in the way in which we make the titles of our books. The title of a volume issued when printing was in its infancy often consists of a single line only; later authors delighted in making their titles a kind of table of contents. It is well that, with some divergency in arrangement, we have fallen back on the earlier practice. The volume before us seems carefully edited, but we are sorry to find, from Mr. Ferguson's preface, that a part of the text is made from a modernized transcript. The reasons for this are given in the preface, but we cannot regard them as other than unsatisfactory.

It is impossible, without occupying far more space than we have at our command, to give an idea of the contents of this remarkable volume. It will be of great

interest to all who wish to realize what the municipal life of our forefathers was like. It shows, as but few other documents do, how very free, from one point of view, the Kendal townsmen were, and how much shackled from others. They were spared the outside thraldom from which the indwellers of many of the continental towns suffered, while, on the other hand, they were fast bound by their own native authorities. We could not live under such restrictions now; but boroughs such as Kendal were excellent schools for our growing liberty.

Though Kendal can never have been a very populous place, the number of trades of which the town authorities took cognizance was very considerable. Among them were shearmen, whilters, cardmakers, armourers, and several others which we should hardly have expected to find there.

Some of our friends have an idea that the wish to restrict the numbers of places where strong drinks are sold is one of the moral improvements of our own century. The idea had occurred to the authorities of Kendal at least so early as the month of January, 1603. It is not easy to make out how many inns and alehouses were considered needful for the population. The list of them given on p. 75 contains the names of thirty-six proprietors, four of them being women, but it is certain from the dates given in the margin that the whole of these were not keeping open house at the same time. The editor tells his readers, in a note, that All Hallows Eve was here called "nutcrack night," because it was on that day the custom to crack large quantities of nuts and in some way or other to tell fortunes by them. This piece of folk-lore was noticed long ago by Hone in the Every Day Book.'

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