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take pains to be accurate, but, like good
Homer, I am not always sufficiently on the
alert. Would that my attempt to minister
to MR. MASSINGHAM'S comfort had been less
reprehensible ! MB. UDAL'S is more to the
point. ST. SWITHIN.
" SANCTE JACO A COMPOSTEL" (11 S. xii. 279). From the ' Oxford Dictionary ' it seems that " splintris " may mean tallow candles, such as one sees offered to this day Tjy pilgrims at the shrine ot St. James in Galicia. The words, as copied by MR. HENRY COLLETT, seem to be due to an unpractised linguist, to whom the writing of Gallego was unfamiliar. Thus " leve " probably repre- sents " lleve," in the sense of may he take," -and " assen " may stand for " assin=assi " = " thus." " Vose" is probably the equivalent of Castilian " Usted " = " your worship," and is still used in Gallego and Portuguese, which in the fifteenth century were almost the same language, though divided, as they still are, into dialects. I write as having explored the greater part of both Galicia and Portugal. EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Union Society, Oxford.
SIR JOHN MAXWELL OF TERREGLES (US* xii. 240). The Robert Maxwell inquired about was son and heir of Sir Robert Max- well of Spottes. He succeeded his father before October, 1615, and was created a baronet in 1663. ' The Book of Caer- laverock ' gives a pedigree of his descendants. The mother of Sir John Maxwell (Lord Herries in right of his wife) was born Janet Douglas, elder daughter (by Elizabeth Gordon cf Lochinvar) of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig, who died of wounds received at Flodden (1513), and was ancestor of the Dukes and Marquesses of Queensberry.
D. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR.
Fort Augustus.
Sir Robert Maxwell of Spokes died before 31 Oct., 1615. His son and heir, Robert of Orchardtoun, was created a Baronet in 1663. For a pedigree of his descendants see ' Book of Carlaverock,' i. 590 (Sir J. Balfour Paul's ' Scots Peerage,' iv. 411). S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN, F.S.A.Scot.
Walsall.
According to ' The Scots Peerage,' edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, 1904-14, vol. vi. pp. 479-81, John Maxwell, whc, by his marriage with Agnes, suo jure Lady Heriies, became Lord Herries, was the second son of Robert, fifth Lord Maxwell, by his first wife Janet, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig. He died 1582/3.
Lord and Lady Herries had issue :
(1) William, fifth Lord ; (2) Sir Robert of
Spottes ; (3) Edward, Commendator of
Dundrennan ; (4) James, to whom Edward
granted the lands of Newlaw, &c. ; (5) John
ot Newlaw ; and seven daughters : Elizabeth,
Margaret, Agnes, Mary, Sara, Grissel,
Nicolas (ibid., vol. iv. pp. 409-13).
In G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,' iv. 220, the father of John Maxwell, Lord Herries, is said to have been the fourth Lord Maxwell. ROBERT PIERPOINT.
STEPHEN RONJAT (11 S. xii. 259). The question " Is anything known of Ronjat ? " was asked at 9 S. v. 475, apropos of the passage in ' Tristram Shandy ' (vol. i. p. 189, ed. 1782) where Uncle Toby peremp- torily insists upon his surgeon '- healing up the wound directly,- or sending for Monsieur Ronjat, the King's serjeant-surgeori, to do it for him." So little seemed to be remembered of Ronjat that in the next volume of ' N. & Q.* pp. 37, 137, the ingenious view was main- tained (see The British Medical Journal, 2 June, 1900, p. 1392) that the name was merely an anagram of tarpov, one corre- spondent seeming to understand this as meaning a physician's fee, on the dubious evidence, one may presume, of "larpa, /xr#oi 0e/oa7rei'as in Hesychius's ' Lexicon.' At p. 236, however, this suggestion was with- drawn, and a reference given to ' The Gold- headed Cane' (ed. 1827, pp. 24 sqq.) for an account of the illness and accident of Wil- liam III. and
"of the quarrel over the treatment between his Dutch physician Bidloo and his French surgeon Ronjat ; of the subsequent death of their Royal patient, and of the paper war which resulted in the publication of the following "
The titles of two works are then given : one by Bidloo in Low Dutch ; the other,
"Lettre de M. Ronjat, Premier Chirurgeon de feu Sa Majest^ Britannique Guillaume III., ecrite de Londres k un Medecin de ses Amis en Hollande, published by Henry Ribotteau, bookseller in the Strand, over-against Bedford's Buildings, London, 1703."
EDWARD BENSLY.
He was born at Beaurepaire in Dauphine, son of Andrew Ronjat by his wife Martha. He is attested as having received the Sacra- ment according to the usage of the Church of England in March, 1698/9, at the parish church of St. Martin, Westminster. In the Naturalization Act of 1699 his name occurs as Roujat. In the Commissions Book he is described as Surgeon to the King.
