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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9*s.in. APRIL s,m
forty - eight - volume edition, 1860, and the
" Victoria Edition," 1897, both published by
Messrs. Black, and the usually very correctly
printed " Handy-Volume Edition " published
by Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Notwith-
standing this consensus of three separate
editions should it not be " entrances " ? What
is it in the " Border Edition " ?
JONATHAN BOUCHIER. Ropley, Alresford.
[Transe is given in the " Border Edition." What was called a "trance" in Scotland is known as a "tresaunce" or "traunce" in England. See Du- cange, under ' Trisantia/ It means a passage. See also ' Prompt. Parv.']
DUNDAS, CLOBERNON HALL. Under 'Dun- das Family,' 7 th S. xii. 506, appears a query on the above, to which I understand COL. DUNDAS (now A.A.G., Gibraltar) has had no satis- factory reply. In the Scots Mag. for 1763, under 'Preferments,' appears the following:
" March 17th, 1763. Lawrence Dundas, son of Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bart., of Upleatham and Kerse, to be member for Richmond."
And under date 10 April, 1766, is found :
"Thomas Dundas, son of Sir Lawrence Dundas, to be member for Richmond in room of Lawrence Dundas, Esq."
Information respecting the above Lawrence, member 1763-6, is required. All the peerages state that Sir Lawrence Dundas had an only son, who succeeded him. In the Gent. Mag. and Scots Mag., under ' Deaths,' appears :
"Sept. 10th, 1759. Mrs. Dundas, wife of
Dundas, Esq., and relict of William Hay ward, Esquire. By her death a fortune of upwards of 30.000/. devolves on her only daughter, Miss Hay- ward."
Can any one supply the Christian name left blank in the above entry? Keplies will be thankfully received by
(Col.) L. G. DUNDAS, C.B.
Gloucester Lodge, East Moulsey.
THE AZRA. From what source did Heine obtain the legend which he has retold in his well-known poem ' The Azra,' beautifully set to music by Rubinstein 1
CHARLES J. PEARCE.
" SOLUTA." Can any reader oblige me with the meaning of the word soluta applied to a woman, which I find in the following con- nexion in an Admon. Act Book (1691) at Somerset House : "[Administration granted] Catharine Sca'ttergood solutse sorori natural! et legitimse Willielmi Scattergood," &c.1
BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.
19, Grove Road, Harrogate.
" WHEN I WAS A GIRL ABOUT EIGHTEEN," &c. Can any reader kindly inform me as to the
author of the above song? The subject is
a girl describing the qualifications of her
various rejected suitors. It began I-
When I was a girl about eighteen years old I was
scornful as scornful could be.
It was very popular over forty years ago.
H. Twickenham.
" SECURUS JUDICAT ORBIS TERRARUM."- What is the source of this quotation, given in Bryce's ' Holy Roman Empire,' p. 333 1 C. A. J. SKEEL.
[Given as ' S. Aug. c. Epist. Parmen.,' iii. 24, in King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations.']
THEOPHILUS POLWHEILE. This person, " sometimes of Emmanuel Colledge in Cam- bridge, now Teacher of the Church at Tiverton in Devon," is } not mentioned by Lowndes. He wrote ' ATJ^VT^S, or a Treatise on Self-deniall.' This occurs in the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, with the date 1658. The copy in this library was, however, " printed for Thomas Johnson, and are to be sold at the Golden-Key in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1659." It is dedicated to the Corporation and citizens of Carlisle, and contains, besides the author's address "To the Readers," an address " To not only the Christian Reader, but to any Reader," &c., by Ralph Venning. There is no indication that this is a reprint or a second edition. Were there two issues, in 1658 and 1659 1
JAMES DALLAS.
Albert Memorial, Exeter.
MALTA. Wanted, a list of the British regi- ments which took part in the blockade and capture of the island of Malta at the end of the eighteenth century, or formed part of its garrison up to the year 1828. J. T. THORP.
Leicester.
' NOOKS AND CORNERS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.' A few years ago a book was pub- lished under the above title. Can any reader furnish me with particulars as to its author, publisher, &c., or its full title 1
R. CLARK.
Walthamstow.
THE ASKESIAN SOCIETY. On 29 January, 1898, the Chemist and Druggist published as an illustrated supplement a history of the firm of Howard & Sons, the well-known chemical manufacturers of Stratford, whose firm has been in existence just a hundred years. It was founded by Luke Howard and William Allen, who, with other scientific men, estab- lished the Askesian Society, of which Astley Cooper was a member. Amongst the sub- jects discussed was that of laughing gas, then
