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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. VIIL AUG. 31,1907.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
" ENTENTE COBDLAXE." I find in Le
Charivari, vol. xv. (1846) No. 3, p. 4, col. 2 :
" Si Ton n'a pas de meilleurs moyens de
seduction a lui offrir, 1'entente cordiale
nous parait fort compromise." This is a
propos of the ambassador of Morocco in
Paris in 1846. Is any earlier use of the term
" entente cordiale " known ?
LTTDWIG ROSENTHAL. Hildegardstrasse, 16, Munich.
ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, c. 1500. I should be grateful for any information about the approximate dimensions of St. Paul's Churchyard as it existed about the year 1500. WILLIAM C. VAN ANTWERP.
80, Broadway, New York.
LANCASTER BRIDGE. Can any corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' say where the original drawing by Dayes is preserved, of which an engraving, by J. Walker of 16, Rosomans Street, London, was published on 1 Nov., 1797 ?
What is known of a drawing of Lancaster Bridge in 1780, a water-colour, by Thomas " Hearn " or " Hearne " ? A reference to any engraving of this picture will oblige. Where is the original ?
T. CANN HUGHES,
Town Clerk.
Lancaster.
LITHUANIAN FOLK - LORE : LEGLESS SPIRITS. At the end of Wiedemann's ' Handbuch der Litauischen Sprache ' there is an intensely weird and fascinating account of the supernatural inhabitants of the Kakschen marsh. These evil spirits are fond of attending human merrymakings, and dancing with the Lithuanian lasses. They can only be distinguished from human beings if you tread on then* feet, when their boots collapse, as they have no legs. I was struck by this detail because a few years ago, when investigating Chinese folk-lore, I found that Chinamen believe supernatural beings have no legs below the knee. Can any one help me to trace this superstition further, by mentioning any other country where it is found, or referring me to anything printed on the subject ? JAS. PLATT, Jun.
WILLIAM PRYNNE'S MSS. In Prynne's
will, printed by Bruce in his ' Documents
relating to William Prynne,' and in the note
on p. 97 of Bruce's book, it is stated that
Prynne's works were to be given to Oriel
College, Oxford, and his manuscripts to
Lincoln's Inn Library. The manuscripts
referred to were never handed over to
Lincoln's Inn Library, nor are they at the
Record Office or Oriel College, Oxford.
Does any one know what became of them ?
R. S. L.
MUNDY FAMILY. I should be glad of any references to members of the family of Mundy resident at High Wycombe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A member of this family is said to have been Mayor of High Wycombe in the reign of Edward IV. Does his will exist ? and if so,, where ? P- M.
NOVEL WANTED. I want to trace a novel published more than ten years ago, and probably under thirty. The plot is this. A doctor discovers a drug which enables people to remain at the age at which they happen to be, and never to die except by accident. Communities are formed : all the people over (I think) forty, or under some age, are killed off. No marriages or births are allowed. A man falls off a hay- stack and is killed. One more birth is then allowed. A girl is born, and she and an old man, who for some reason has been allowed to live, in time revolutionize the procedure. R> E. B.
LADIES RIDING SIDEWAYS. In a gazetteer of East Yorkshire (1823) I find, under Hessle:
"The manor of Hessle was formerly a possession of the Stutevilles, and Joan Stuteville carried the estates to Hugh de Wake. This lady was the first to introduce the custom of females riding sideways on horseback, and the device on her seal exhibits a lady in that posture, holding the bridle in her right hand."
Miss M. B. Synge, in her ' Social Life in England ' (p. 93), says that side-saddles were introduced by Anne of Bohemia (1366- 1394).
When did Joan Stuteville flourish ? and to which of the ladies mentioned does the claim really belong ? T. M. W.
[The question as to Anne of Bohemia was asked at 6 S. v. 328. but without result. 1
MEYERBEER'S ' LA JEUNESSE DE GOETHE/ In Grove's ' Diet, of Music,' art. ' Blaze de Bury,' it says that that gentleman wrote an opera with G. Meyerbeer entitled ' La
