Meeus Vandermalen is the correct form of the name. E. Wyndham Hulme.
Sevenoaks.
Ensigns in the Royal Navy (11 S. xii. 463).—The first introduction of ensigns in the Navy appears to have taken place in 1189, when, according to Wm. Laird Cowes in the first volume of his work 'The Royal Navy,' Richard I. first used the flag of St. George as the regular national ensign. Then, again, in the second volume of his work he states that
"soon after the Union of England and Scotland in 1603, all British vessels for a time flew the Union Flag of the Crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, but on May 5th, 1634, it was ordered by proclamation that men-of-war only were to fly it in future, and that merchantmen, according to their nationality, were to wear the St. George's or the St. Andrew's Flag merely. This rule endured until Feb., 1649, when Parliament directed men-of-war to wear as an ensign the St. George's Cross on a white field."
In addition to Clowes's great work this subject is fully dealt with in the various encyclopædias. E. E. Barker.
John Rylands Library, Manchester.
PORTRAITS WANTED (US. xii. 462, 509).
For portraits of Frederick Barnard (Dickens
illustrator) see Illustrated London News
(1892), c. 592; ibid. (1896), cix. 423, and
The Magazine of Art (1896), xx. 56. For
portraits of Finley Peter Dunne (creator of
" Mr. Dooley ") see The Academy (1899), Ivi.
231; The Book-buyer (1899), xviii. 13;
Tl\& Bookman (1899), ix. 216 ; The Century
Magazine (1901), xii. 63 ; The Critic (1899),
xxxiv. 205; ibid. (1902), xl. 336; and
Harper's Weekly (1903), xlvii. 331.
E. E. BARKER.
"YES, SIR "'(11 S. xii. 458). I have twice heard " Yes, sir," used by children when addressing a lady, but only twice Probably in each instance it was an erro arising from nervousness.
In what parts of England does th reverential curtesy hold its own as i greeting ? About 1875, when it was stil used in a Midland district which was visitec by a Scotch friend of mine, she expressec surprise, for she was quite unfamiliar wit it. About the same time the wife of
anded magnate, also in the Midlands
lought her husband's tenants ill-mannered
they merely took off their hats to her, nstead of giving what she considered tie more appropriate salutation of raising tie hand to the forehead, as if to pull or mooth down the forelock. Her opinion aused both irritation and merriment mong young people. Some of the older nes, however, liked the ancient, traditional estures, which in their youth had been n indication of polite training, distin- uishing mannerly people from the vulgar nd ignorant who had nothing to do with mportant families.
This reminds me that about the middle f the nineteenth century the great lady f a parish took means to prevent the laughters of the village doctor using >arasols, which she considered quite un- itted for their position.
SOUTHUMBRIAN.
ARCHBISHOP BANCBOFT (US. xii. 483). Dr. G. W. Marshall, sometime Rouge Croix, efers to Harleian Society, vol. v. (Oxford- hire), p. 279. A. R. BAYLEY.
' LOATH TO DEPABT ' (11 S. xii. 460). See ' N. & Q.' 3 S. ix. 433, 501, where a corre- spondent is referred to Chappell's ' Popular Music of the Olden Time,' i. 173, ii. 772, or both words and music.
R. J. FYNMOBE.
COLTON (US. xii. 459). Witting Cotton ,vas admitted to Westminster School about 1710. He tried unsuccessfully to get on the bundation in 1711, but in the following year got in head of his election. In 1716 he was elected head to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted scholar, 10 May, 1717 ; minor fellow, 2 Oct., 1722 ; and major fellow, 2 July, 1723. In the ' Parentelse ' or lists of Minor Candidates for 1711 and 1712 he is described as the son of Richard Colton of London. G. F. R. B.
J. G. LE MAISTBE, NOVELIST, 1800 (11 S. xii. 480). John Gustavus Le Maistre was admitted to Westminster School Jan. 13, 1778, and matriculated at Oxford from Ch. Ch. July 5, 1786. He subsequently migrated to Queen's, and graduated B.A. in 1790. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn June 23, 1786, and was called to the bar June 29, 1791. In his admission to Lincoln's Inn he is described as " the only son of Hon. Stephen Caesar Lemaistre of Calcutta deed." In the ' Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors' (1816) his name appears as the
