10 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. JULY i, IMS. Spectre Bridegroom ' and other books ? We have a ring with the following inscription : "In memory of Ann Radcliffe, ob. 1 June, 1767, cet. 29." (Mrs.) T. B. HOUNSFIELD. 27, Randolph Gardens, Dover. BLACK AND YELLOW THE DEVIL'S COLOURS. —Is there any authority for the assertion that "black and yellow" are traditionally "the Devil's colours"? and, if so, what is the origin of the tradition ? JACINTH. JOSIAS CATZIUS.—In 1647 appeared a quarto tract of six pages:— . Doomes-Uay: | or, | The great day of the Lords Judgement, | proved by scripture; and two other prophecies, | the one pointing at the yeare 1640. the other at this | present yeare 1647. to be even now neer at hand. | with | The gathering together nqueL...0 ._ for VV. Ley. 1647. Who was Josias Catzius? Where can I find an account of the gathering of the Jews under his leadership ? ISRAEL SOLOMONS. 118, Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale. [The tract inquired after seems to be related to one by Samuel Brett published in 1655, of which a long account by L. L. K. appeared 9th 8. xii. 121.] AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED :— 1. That life is long which answers life's great end. 2. Sorrow tracketh wrong As echo song. On! On! On! 3. Who lights the faggot ? Not the full faith, but the lurking doubt. MEDICULUS. LETTER OF EMANUEL OF PORTUGAL TO POPE JULIAN II.—Of the letter of King Eraanuel of Portugal to Pope Julian II., dated 25 September, 1507, describing doings of the Portuguese in the East, there are two printed versions—one entirely in black letter, and well printed, the other in roman type, and full of errors and omissions. Which is the earlier? By whom were they printed (in Rome 1) and when ? DONALD FERGUSON. BONINGE OF LEDSUM.—Will any of your readers refer me to a local history or record of Ledsum or Ledsham, near Pontefract, extending back to the seventeenth century ? Information is wanted as to Helen Boninge, who in 1G62 married Robert Barnsley, an attorney or barrister, and probably steward for the Foljambe family, who owned estates in the neighbourhood, probably copyhold. T. W. H. SCOTCH BURIAL CUSTOM.—The Daily Mail of 15 April reports the burial of an old man at Longforgan, near Dundee, when his widow suddenly appeared on the scene and claimed tier position at the head of the coffin. After inquiries, " she was given the chief cord, and assisted to lower the coffin into the grave." Is this custom peculiar to the place ? or is it general in the north of Scotland or elsewhere 1 EVERARD HOME C'OLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. DE SOUSA.—Speaking in her memoirs of Don Antonio de Sousa de Macedo in 1662, Lady Fanshawe says that " King Charles I. had made his son an English baron." This is questioned by the editor of the memoirs published in 1830, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, who refers to the ' Memorias "enealogicas da Casu de Sousa.' Is any- thing known regarding the alleged creation ? H. C. FANSHAWE. 107, Jermyn Street, KNIGHTS TEMPLARS. (10th S. iii. 467.) IF the MARQUIS D'ALBON succeeds, through his interesting inquiry in 'N. & Q.,' in col- lecting even a fair proportion of the floating information relative to the possessions of the Knights Templars in Great Britain, and makes it available for the public, he will have rendered a conspicuous service to Eng- lish historical research. This aspect of the subject has not been covered, at any rate with any completeness, in any of the works on the history of the Knights Templars, and it can only be even fairly adequately over- taken by the co-operation of many persons throughout the various districts. In the north of Scotland the Knights Templars held a very considerable amount of property. In the neighbourhood of Aberdeen they held the lands of Ochtertyre, in Buchan, which their successors, the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, granted by charter, in 1345, to William of Meldrum, doubtless a near descendant of the William de Melgdrum who was Sheriff of Aberdeen under Edward L, and in that capacity paid the salary of John de Gildeforde, who held the Castle of Aber- deen for Edward ; and he was progenitor of William Meldrum, of Fy vie, a generous bene- factor of the Church in Aberdeen in the later years of the fifteenth century. This charter is said to be still among the papers at Fy vie Castle. Then Patrick Innes, one of the Clerks of Exchequer, got a charter of alienation granted to him and his spouse, by which there were sold to them and their heirs
