Coat of arms. Three cross crosslets in pale impaling Wyndham. C. M. Yonge.
"Honorificabilitudinitatibus."—Can any of your readers tell me the name of a play and its author, published, as well as I can recollect, between 1620 and 1640, in which, near the beginning, occur the words, "And turn out Honorificabilitudinitatibus by the shoulders"? W. Murphy-Grimshaw.
[You are doubtless thinking of 'Love's Labour's Lost,' V. i., where Costard says, "Thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus."]
"Hide."—In an interleaved copy of the 1672 edition of Cowel's 'Interpreter' I find a MS. note:—
"In a very ancient survey of the Manor of Berling, probably of the twelfth century, in a book belonging to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, is the following entry: 'Jurati dicunt quod manerium de Berling defendit se versus regem pro ij hidis & dim. et hida continet sexties viginti acras. iiij virgatæ faciunt hidam & 30 acræ faciunt virgatam.'"
Does this survey still exist; and is the statement of the area of the hide really part of the jury's presentment? Q. V.
Augustine Skottowe.—In one of Messrs. Sotheran's catalogues of June last was included a 'Life of Shakespeare, with Enquiries into the Originality of his Dramatic Plots,' &c., 2 vols. 8vo., 1824, by Augustine Skottowe. This author is not named in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' and I should be very glad of any particulars about him. There was an Augustine Scottowe sheriff of Norwich in 1626, and the name is of frequent occurrence in Norfolk. There is, too, a parish of Scottow nine or ten miles from Norwich, near Aylsham. James Hooper.
Tom Mathews, the Clown.—Genealogical particulars concerning this worthiest pupil and successor of the Grimaldis will be esteemed a favour. Polyolbion.
[If you mean, as we suspect is the case, Tom Matthews, you will find a notice of his life in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.']
"Trunched."—Who has seen the word? Dr. Cutler, who bought lands west of the Ohio, and so opened the great west of the United States, "when he entered Franklin's house in 1787, felt as if he was going to be introduced to the presence of a European monarch." "But," he says, "how were my ideas changed when I saw a short, fat, trunched old man in a Quaker dress, bald pate and short white locks!" &c. ('Life,' i. 267). Trunched is used in this journal as if a well-known word, but I discover it in no dictionary. James D. Butler.
Continental 'Notes and Queries.'—Is there any publication in Holland like 'N. & Q.'? If so, I should be obliged for the name and address. Alfred Molony.
[Some years ago the present editor of 'N. & Q.' was asked to preside at a banquet of editors of continental Notes and Queries, to take place in Paris, an honouring invitation of which he was then unable to avail himself. He fancies that at that time there was a Dutch Notes and Queries. De Navorscher was published in Amsterdam, 1855-1882, and may still be in existence. See 6th S. vii. 105. We have no personal knowledge on the subject.]
The Alabama.—Can any one give me the reference in the Times explaining the whereabouts of Lord John Russell a few days before this vessel left the Mersey on 29 July, 1862, and also the cause of delay in the delivery of the despatches to Lord John Russell? E. Fell.
Clough.—Can any one give me the parentage of Miss Clough, who afterwards married the father of David Garrick (the famous actor)? Miss Protheroe.
Bookbinding and Damp.—What is the best way to preserve books from damp in a bookcase close to a street wall? Is it advisable to rub the leather slightly with a mixture of vaseline and boric acid? H. Gaidoz.
Samuel Maverick was born about the year 1602. Information is sought for historical purposes respecting his parentage and place of birth. He may have been grandson of Peter Maverick, an incumbent of Awliscombe, in Devonshire, whose son Nathaniel, born in 1582, afterwards became, it is said, city or town clerk of London. It is suggested also that Radford Maverick, vicar of Ilsington and Newton, in Devon, circa 1600, was probably an uncle of Samuel. At all events, it is believed (but not known) that Samuel Maverick was a native of Devon or East Cornwall. Early in the seventeenth century Samuel Maverick went to North America, and in 1627 settled on Boston Bay, in New England. In 1664 he was appointed by King
