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NOTES AND QUERIES.
uminer I do not know, as they do not come
- n the summer. They are more numerous
HOW than I have ever seen them.
I should add that these gulls go eastwards >;very evening, presumably to the Thames narshes. The kitty wake, according to Yar- -ell, frequents rocky coasts.
H. T. BLOMFIELD.
PAGET AND COBBE. Can any of your readers give me information as to the date and place of marriage of Thomas Paget (son of the Rev. John Paget, rector of Pointington), of Corpus College, Oxford, with Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Jane Cobbe, or Cobb, of Basildon, Berks also of Oxford and of Tavistock, gent. 1 The above Thomas, afterwards M.A., Fellow of Corpus College, Oxford, held various livings in Cornwall, Dorset, and Somerset, and at his decease was rector of Pointington and of Mells, Somerset. He was baptized at Pointington, 1706, and probably matriculated as an undergraduate about 1724-5. His son Thomas, the first issue of the marriage, was baptized January, 1726, at Basildon, Berks. R. H. PAGET.
Cranmore.
THE SURNAME BELTCHAR. Can any reader give me the derivation of this surname, which, since the seventeenth century, has been corrupted in many families to Belsher, Belcher, Belchier, &c. ? Has it a trade origin? I have heard it stated both in Canada ^ and England that Henry Ward Beecher's family were formerly known as Belcher, but that he, or his father, adopted Beecher. Is this a fact ? H. BELTCHAR.
Bibury, Gloucestershire.
EARLY ITALIAN. Perhaps some of your readers can kindly tell me, (1) Is there a reasonably cheap edition of the 'Divina Commedia ' and (or) others of Dante's works from the earliest MSJ (2) Is there any book of Italian extracts corresponding to Morris and Skeat's 'Specimens of Early English ' ? (3) What is the approximate date of the version of St. Francis's ' Song of the Sun' at pp. 234-5 of Sabatier's 'Speculum Perfectionis ' (Paris, 1898) ?
ROBT. J. WHITWELL.
70, Banbury Road, Oxford.
LAWRENCE FAMILY. The father of John (Lord Lawrence), Henry, and George Law- rence was Col. Alexander Lawrence. The 'Baronetage' says that the father of Col. Alexander Lawrence was William Lawrence of Coleraine, but I have failed to discover the tombstone at Coleraine of any William Law- rence of the last century. According to
" Veritas " in the Belfast News Letter dated
11 January, 1864, the father of Col. Alexander
Lawrence was Alexander Lawrence, who had
settled at Magherafelt. I have reason to
doubt the absolute accuracy of this state
ment, but think it possible that John Law-
rence, who died at Magherafelt about 1776,
was Col. Alexander Lawrence's father. I
should be glad to receive any information
regarding the parentage and ancestry of
Col. Alexander Lawrence.
A. J. LAWRENCE.
FLORIO'S * MONTAIGNE.' May I be allowed to call attention to two apparent misprints in Florio's ' Montaigne,' edited by Dr. Henry Morley (Routledge, 1885), vol. ii. ?
P. 337. " The world lookes ever for right" Should not this be "forthright," i.e., straight forward ? Hazlitt has " opposite," the French being vis-a-vis.
P. 349. "Yea, madnesse encited them to it," said of gladiators boldly confronting death. Surely this is a misprint for " maidens." The French reads : " Les filles mesmes les incitoient," which Hazlitt correctly renders : " The very girls themselves set them on." C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.
Bath.
KEMPS OF HENDON. It appears from the Middlesex Session Rolls (7 Feb., 7 James I.) that Edward Kemp was living at Hendon in 1610. Edward Kemp, of Clutterhouse, Hen- don, whose will was dated 1648, and proved 1649, had a sister (widow) Rose Marsh. I desire to know the parentage of the latter. Evans in his 'History of Hendon' connects with this family Francis Kemp of London ; but this gentleman was descended not from the Hendon family, but from the Kemps of
issing, Norfolk. FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP.
14, Beechfield Road, Catford.
LEARMONT : LERMONTOV. It is a common- place to students of Russian literature that Mikhail Lermontov, pupil and successor of Alexander Pushkin, was descended from the Scotch family of Learmont. Having occasion lately to refer to the poems of the Wizard of the North for the purposes of a lecture, I was reminded that the shadowy bard, Thomas the Rhymer of Ercildpune, was a Learmont. It would be interesting, if practicable, to trace
- he kinship between "true Thomas," the
lero of Elfland, and the sombre creator of The Demon' and the cynical Petchorin. There was something uncanny and elfish about Lermontov, who delighted to note -esemblances between himself and Byron, vith his unsociability and caustic remarks,
