large experience. Indeed doe you gett together what forces you can against them. Send to friends in the South to help with more.
Lett H. Vane know what I write. I would not make itt publick least danger should acrue thereby. You know what use to make hereof. Lett mee heere from you.
I rest
Your servant
Sept. 2ᵈ, 1660. O. Cromwell.
Its difficult for me to send to you, lett me heare from [you] after.
Your New York correspondent puts the population at a rather high figure.
J. Lindsay Hilson.
Public Library, Kelso.
In 1897 the Geologists' Association adopted Edinburgh as the centre for their "Long Excursion." One of the localities visited was Cockburnspath under the guidance of the late Mr. J. G. Goodchild, F.G.S. I was a member of the party, and remember a discussion taking place on the pronunciation of the name, which Mr. Goodchild said was "Copeth." Other instances of "peth" in place-names were cited—Brancepeth, Morpeth, and Peth o' Condie. I have no recollection of any other pronunciations than Co'burnspath and Copeth being adduced. The following is taken from Mr. Goodchild's advance paper on the excursion:—
"On the arrival of the train at 'Cockburnspath' (or Copeth, as it is locally and more commonly called), the party will walk along the road in the direction of Berwick."—Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xv. p. 122.
Mr. R. S. Herries in the report of this excursion speaks of "Cockburnspath or Copeth" (vol. xv. p. 204). John T. Kemp.
Italian Genealogy (10 S. x. 449; xi. 14).—By far the handiest reference book is Crollalanza's 'Dizionario Storico-blasonico.' 'Il Blasone in Sicilia,' by Palizzolo Gravina, Barone di Ramione (Palermo, 1871-5), is elaborately illustrated. Incidentally I may note that the most complete account of the Gordone family, Barons of Camastra, appeared in the Aberdeen Free Press of 30 Dec., 1908, from the pen of Andrea Gordone, Barone di Camastra, S. Filippo Mela, Messina. I wonder if he has escaped the great disaster.
J. M. Bulloch.
118, Pall Mall.
Abbé de Lubersac (10 S. x. 410).—In Glaire's 'Dictionnaire des Sciences Ecclésiastiques,' Paris, 1868, I find the 'Journal historique et religieux de l'Emigration du Clergé de France en l'Angleterre' and 'L'Apologie de la Religion et de la Monarchie réunies' assigned to Jean Baptiste Joseph, the Bishop, though attributed by some to another Lubersac.
The Bishop had emigrated in 1789. He returned to France, and demitted in 1801 under the Concordat, with almost all the other French bishops. The second book would evidently be an apology for this. He became a Canon of St. Denis, and died in 1822. Glaire refers, besides the 'Biographie Universelle' (Feller), to Michaud's Supplement and to Quérard and Ersch in 'La France Littéraire.' J. W. M.
Ships renamed after the Restoration (10 S. xi. 10).—A list of these ships can be found at vol. i. p. 265 of 'A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library,' edited by Dr. J. R. Tanner for the Navy Records Society.
J. K. Laughton.
In Sir Wm. Clowes's 'Royal Navy.' vol. ii. p. 107, a list is given of additions to the Navy between 1649 and 1660. This gives a note of the ships whose names were changed at the Restoration, from among which the following are taken:—
| Original Name. |
No. of Guns. |
New Name. |
| Bradford | 28 | Success. |
| Bridgewater | 52 | Anne. |
| Dunbar | 64 | Henry. |
| Langport | 50 | Henrietta. |
| Naseby | 80 | Royal Charles. |
| Newbury | 52 | Revenge. |
| Preston | 40 | Antelope. |
| Richard | 70 | Royal James. |
| Speaker | 64 | Mary. |
| Taunton | 40 | Crown. |
| Worcester | 48 | Dunkirk. |
| T. F. D. |
Pepys's 'Diary,' under date 23 May, 1660, says: "After dinner the King and Duke altered the names of some of the ships, viz., Cheriton," &c. R. J. Fynmore.
Capt. Rutherfurd at Trafalgar (10 S. xi. 10).—Mr. Cooper will find a detailed account of the Swiftsure's part in the battle of Trafalgar in 'Logs of the Great Sea Fights,' edited by Sir T. Sturges Jackson for the Navy Records Society (ii. 282). There is probably a short memoir of Rutherford in The Gentleman's Magazine. Nicolas—who does not seem to have had any exact knowledge—says he died in 1817.
J. K. Laughton.
Mr. A. W. Cooper has fallen into an error as to the spelling of the captain's name. It is Rutherfurd, not "Rutherford." He
