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proceedings it is clear that the same John his wife and 10 children and 28 other Minge was a citizen and cordwainer of persons-servants, retainers and colonists. London, 1626 to 1640, after which date I His eldest son was Baker Brooke. have no further notes regarding him.

It seems more than probable that this John Minge, shoemaker in 1622 in St. Katherine's, is identical with the John Mings married in 1623 at Salthouse, Norfolk, as of St. Katherine's in the City of London." If this is so, then Sir Christopher Mings was of Kentish and not Norfolk

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As to the spelling of the name, it may be observed that in the body of the registered copy of Sir Christopher's will (167 Mico) it is spelled "Minge." In Shaw's Knights of England,' vol. ii., p. 241, it appears as follows: "27 June, 1665, Christopher Minnes (Mynns, Mings)"; and in the will, proved 1723 in Commissary Court of London, of Thomas Minge, writing master, of St. Paul's, Shadwell (probably a relative) is a bequest to my son Christopher of the

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funeral ring of Sr Christopher Minge.'

Judith Mynge, whose will, proved in 1616, has been already referred to, was a daughter of William Hamon of Acrise, Kent, and she mentions in the will her brother Sir Thomas Hamon and several of her sisters, who are recorded in the Visitation of Kent for 1619. GEORGE S. FRY.

15, Walsingham Road, Hove.

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4. Hon. Thomas Cornwaleys had Cross Manor, on St. Inigoes Creek, in 1639. Cornwaleys, or Cornwallis, family were represented in Nova Scotia, and hailed from North Wales.

5. Col. William Digges possessed Warburton Manor, in Prince George's County, in 1690. He was a son of Governor Digges of Virginia, whose father was Sir Dudley Digges, Master of the Rolls to King Charles Ì. He married Jane Sewall, daughter of Lady Baltimore by her former marriage with the Hon. Henry Sewall of London. Some of the Digges settled in Ontario.

6. The Snowden family, owners of Resurrection Manor, between Tower and Cuckold Creeks, in 1655, belonged to Wales. They left many descendants. A leading member of this family, Randolph Snowden, was a loyalist grantee of St. John, New Brunswick.

Manor, in Cecil County, was conceded by 7. Augustine Herman, to whom Bohemia Lord Baltimore, as a reward to him for making the first map of Maryland, came of a respectable family in Bohemia. In

1651 he married Jane Varlett. The families of Thomson, Foreman, Chambers and Spencer claim descent from the Lords of Bohemia Manor and were among the loyalists who left Maryland when the ancient régime was overthrown.

8. The Tildens, or Tyldens, had Great Oak Manor, in Kent County. Their ancestors were Lords of Great Tyldens, near Marden, Kent. Marmaduke Tylden was cousin of Sir Richard Tylden of Milsted. The family had possessed lands in the parishes of Brenchley, Otterden, Kenning

BRITISH SETTLERS IN AMERICA. MR. M. RAY SANBORN, at 12 S. viii. 375 (s.v. Lancashire Settlers in America '), states that there is a strong desire on the part of most New England families to locate the district which was the early home of their ancestors in England, &c. I therefore have pleasure in submitting the following in-ton and Tilmanstone in the reign of King formation.

1. Dr. Thomas Gerrard, who was granted Bashford Manor, on the Wicomico, in 1650, belonged to the family of Gerard of Lancashire. Samuel Gerrard, first President of the Bank of Montreal, was probably of this family. 2. George Talbot, Lord of Susquehanna Manor in Cecil County in 1680, was cousin of Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell. Some of the Talbots settled in Nova Scotia in 1783.

3. Gov. Robert Brooke, of Brooke Place Manor, in 1654 was President of Lord Baltimore's Council. I do not appear to have a note of the county to which he belonged, but he went from England with

Edward III., and Sir William Tylden paid for lands in Kent when the Black Prince was knighted.

9. Giles Brent had Fort Kent Manor, on Kent Island. The Brents were related to the Calverts, Lords of Baltimore. They consisted of two brothers, Giles and Foulk, and two sisters, Margaret and Mary. They also went out from Kent in 1638. Of their descendants Robert Brent married Anna M. Parnham, of the family of the Hon. John Pole, of the Privy Council; James Fenwick Brent married Laura, daughter of Gen. Walter H. Overton, of Louisiana; and Gen. Joseph L. Brent married Frances R. Kenner, daughter of Duncan Kenner, of Louisiana.

10. The Van Courtlandts were descended from the Dukes of Courland in Russia. Stephen Van Courtlandt was Mayor of New York in 1677.

11. Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jersey in 1638, was a descendant of William Morris, gentleman, of Tintern, Monmouthshire, and bore, 1st and 4th, gules, a lion rampant, regardant or; 2nd and 3rd, argent, three torteux in fesse. Crest, a castle in flames. His son Lewis, born 1638, was a Judge in Admiralty, as was his son Richard. 12. Col. Caleb Heathcote, son of Gilbert of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, and brother of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Lord Mayor of London, had property-Scarsdale Manor. He married a daughter of Col. Smith of Long Island, and his daughter married James de Lancey.

13. Thomas Pell had Pelham Manor, 9,166 acres, in 1666. He was grandson of John Pell (m. Margaret Overand), who was son of the Rev. John Pell, rector of Southwick, Sussex, in 1590.

14. Robert Livingston possessed Livingston Manor in 1686. He was a descendant of the Rev. Alexander Livingston of Stirling, Scotland.

15. Frederic Philippse, who possessed Philipsburg Manor, 1,500 square miles, was born in 1626 at Bolsward, in Friesland. His arms were, Azure a demi-lion rampant, issuing from a ducal coronet argent, crowned or. Crest, the same. His son Frederic married Joanna, daughter of Gov. Anthony Rockholer of New York, whose children were (1) Col. Frederic, leaving 10 children; (2) Philip; (3) Susan, married Col. Beverley Robinson; (4) Mary, married Col. Morris.

I trust that the foregoing brief notes may enable descendants of early settlers in America to establish connexion with families in this country. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.

JOTTINGS FROM A NOTEBOOK. THE following items are from among a collection of notes, which contains many others equally quaint, made by Mr. Edward Walford, for a Book of Eccentric Characters which, I fancy, was never put together for publication. Possibly it was the last literary work begun, being cut short by the writer's illness. The papers were given to Miss Caulfield, the authoress, and by her given to me. For the purposes of this book Mr. Walford collected some curious

1. EDWARD CAVE AS CLERK OF THE FRANKS.Edward Cave, nat. Feb. 29, 1692, at Rugby, aphis time married a young widow and lived at prenticed to a printer and before he had served Bow. By her interest he had his appointment to G.P.O. Qu. abt. 1713, Sir Thos. Frankland and Jo. Evelyn, P.M.G.; in 1715, Lord Cornwallis and and sold the intelligence for 218. a week. Jas. Craggs, P.M.G. He got country newspapers wards as clerk of the franks he furnished debates to country papers. In 1728 he was in custody of the Serjeant at Arms for supplying the minutes of the House of Commons to The Gloucester Journal; again, in 1729, Raikes of Gloucester was censured but Cave escaped.

After

of Marlborough was stopped by Cave as a breach A frank of Walter Plummer given to the Duchess of privilege. He was accused of opening letters to detect frauds in franks so sent and was dismissed. In 1731 Cave established The Gentleman's Magazine. In 1738 he was threatened for printing debates in the House of Commons and then called it Empire of Liliput. In 1738 Lord Monson's name was counterfeited to a frank, and P. S. Monson committed to Newgate.

In 1747 Cave was in custody of Black Rod for printing the trial of Lord Lovat and was censured reports regularly with initials, but from 1782 for printing the debates. In 1752 he gave brief debates have been printed without disguise. E. Cave died in 1754 at 63.

In 1762 the Bishop of Ely's name counterfeited to a frank.

In 1788 the whole superscription required by the member.

Lord Dacre's name having been used for 42 covers.

The Franking Act commenced in 1765. A limitation of number by Act, 1784. In 1795 Sir Benj. Hammet was reprimanded by the House of Commons, April 10, for deputing his son to frank for him.

In Queen Anne's time the office was in Lombard Street. The Inland Department consisted of

William Frankland, comptroller, six clerks of the

road, a window-man, and sixteen sorters.

2. MISOGYNISTS. Colonel Thomas Talbot, son of the first Baroness Talbot de Malahide, who served with some distinction in the Guards, in early life had been crossed in love. This wounded his pride, and he took into his head a dislike of the whole female sex. After retiring from the Army, he obtained an extensive grant of land in Canada, near Lakes Erie and Ontario, where he employed his time in reclaiming the forest by felling timber, cutting roads, and drainage, at the same time offering every encouragement to workmen and their families to settle on his property, which was miles in extent, and thus gave a home to several thousand souls. He also founded a flourishing town which he called Port Talbot, which increased the value of his lands. But for all this, he never would allow a female to enter his park gates. He kept died, he forgot all his nieces, and left his lands only male servants about him; and when he to a faithful friend who had been his "orderly ' servant when in the Guards.

NELSON'S SIGNAL AND THE MAN WHO HOISTED IT. (See ante, pp. 301, 356.)

SINCE the account of John Roome appeared in N. & Q.' the following additional information has been found, which seems to establish the above spelling of his name to be the correct one,

But as MR. PONDER stated that it should be Roon (by which name he was apparently known only to his medical officer in Greenwich Hospital), it seems strange that Roome should have entered there, under another false name, after owning to having done so on first entering the Victory as John Rome, when he also gave Battersea as his birthplace. Greenwich Hospital. Register 25.

However, according to the Greenwich Hospital Register 69, the time of his admission to the hospital was July 3, 1847, aged 76; height 5ft. 4in. ; was wounded in the right side in the Victory; his wife's name was Susan [but then dead]; and he was born in Lambeth, Surrey, by which last statement he gave the Admiralty an opportunity of ascertaining his real name, had they had reason to doubt his word.

Although Dr. Newman Chevers did not mention that an earlier application had been made for the relief of his protégé prior to 1847, it will be seen by the first of the two subjoined certificates that such had been the case, but it was refused in 1843.

H.M. Ship Victory, June 22nd, 47.

My dear Sir, I rejoice to tell you I have succeeded for poor John Roome, send him to the Admiralty, and let him report himself to Lord John Hay and it is done. I remain, my dear Sir, yours in haste,

Newman Chevers, Esq., M.D., &c.

JOHN PASCO.

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Admiralty Office, 19 July 1843.

These are to certify, that John Roome, als Rome (Candidate for Pensioner to Greenwich Hospital) is borne on the Books of Her Majesty's Ships above mentioned, the Age, Bounty paid, Time, Qualities, Discharge, and Cause thereof, as there expressed; the above Ships being all those mentioned in his List. B. MOORE.

This Certificate given on Admiralty Letter, dated 18 inst, No. 30. 20 July 43.

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These are to certify that John Roome, alias Rome (Candidate for Pensioner to Greenwich Hospital) is borne on the Books of Her Majesty's Ships above mentioned, the Age, Qualities, Entry, Discharge, and Cause thereof, and Time, as there expressed; the above Ships being all mentioned in his List. B. MOORE.

This Certificate given on Admiralty Letter, dated 1 July 1847. [Endorsed] Remove R. No claim to back Pay. No Prize money. 25 June, W. J. M.

Send it afterwards to me.

J. H. H.

J. H. HAY.

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per Admiralty.

E. H. FAIRBROTHER.

ENGLISH ARMY SLANG AS USED IN | A fair number of words has already been

THE GREAT WAR.

(See 12 S. ix. 341, 378, 383, 415, 423, 455.) THE following list has been compiled from words kindly sent in to us by CAPT. E. COHEN, MR. D. A. DENNIS, JR., MR. L. H. F. DREW, MR. ROBERT HUTTON, MR. C. J. MAGRATH, MR. H. A. PIEHLER, MR. ANDREW SOUTTAR, MAJOR WERNHER, MR. J. W. WOLLEY, J. M. O., B. S., and Ll. W.

The next list-which will appear on Dec.

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ARMISTICK (ARMITIST). Armistice. BLUE (IN THE). Said when an attack has gone forward and has lost touch.

BOBBING DRILL. Practice-aiming at targets. (Musketry training.)

CAT-STABBER. Clasp-knife. (Trenches, because of splicing attachment.)

COLD-MEAT TICKET. A soldier's identity disc.
FIZZA. Parade. (Barrack-room.)
GERMAN SAUSAGE. German observation balloon.
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GOOSEBERRIES. A wire entanglement the shape of a gooseberry. (Trenches.) HOOKS. Spurs. Chiefly to recruits. You've forgotten your hooks, lad!" MAKKI. Machine gun. MOBILE (A). The Egyptian Expeditionary Force term for a march in the Sinai Desert. MOURNFUL MARIA. Syren at Dunkirk used to signal approach of long-range shell. NON-STOP. A shell that passed overhead. PIP, SQUEAK, AND WILFRED. 1914, General Service, and Victory medals. (France.) SKATES. Wire shoes issued to the infantry in Sinai and speedily condemned as worse than useless.

STOCKING-SOLES GUN. A gun firing a

velocity shell.

high

STUNT (p. 348, C). A raid or small attack.
TUBE TRAIN. A shell producing a noise similar

to that of a tube train.

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CHOKE A MAN OFF (TO). To keep him in his
place; give him the cold shoulder.
CHUCK UP (GIVE HIM A). Give him a salute.
CIRCLE ROUND. Search for.

COME ON TALLY PLONK (TALLER CANDLE)?

How

are you getting on? (Comment allez-vous ?) COLD (IT'S) ENOUGH TO MAKE A JEW DROP HIS BUNDLE. It's very cold. COTTON ON (TO). To understand. CUSHY ONE IN THE BAKE.

of a bad head-wound.

Sarcastic description

CUT THAT OUT. Stop acting the fool. (Canadians.)

DAG UP. Clean up. DAMPER (HAVE A).

(Barrack-room.) Have a drink.

DIG OUT. To tidy up generally. (Army billets in France.) DIRTY ONE (A). A bad wound; a misfortune. DOBRA AND NIET DOBRA. Russian for " good " and no good [I have known a Scottish sergeant drill a squad of Russian recruits and those words comprised his whole knowledge of the language.-A. S.] DONKEYS. Transport mules. DULL THUD (A). A bad wound.

I was

A misfortune. EGGS A-COOK. Hard-boiled Egyptian eggs. EVERY CREDIT. An expression always used by the men no one knows the meaning. FIX (ON THE WORD). Punctually. FOUR BY TWO. there on the word, Fix." Army biscuits. GAFF. A concert. (France.) GAFF (A FINE). A fine show.

I-I. How are you? (Password on line of march.)

JIGGER. Bicycle. (France.)

JILDY. Quick, smart. "Look jildy"-be quick. KAMERAD. Spoken as a sign of submission-in imitation of the German prisoners. LOUD ONE (A). KISSWOSH. Thingummybob. A bad wound, a misfortune. MARK TIME ON. Retain; hang on to. NITCHIVO. Russian equivalent to “ Napoo." Used by Tommy in every way. Nothing doing"; "I haven't got it.

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Nothing; no. Nix on that "-nothing doing. Nix beer." (Ger. : nicht or nichts; niz -Army of the Rhine).

OоJIBOO. The hardest worked word. Signified anything, its nearest equivalent being

gadget." Once I heard this dialogue :Lorry driver: Sorry, Flight, but in the fog a fellow passed me on the wrong side and carried away my oojiboo.

Flight Sergeant: That's the second sidelamp you've done in this week.-A. S.] PARKY. Cold. (Trenches.)

PEECHY. Presently, shortly. "I'll be there peechy."

PHIZOG. Photograph. (Trenches.)
PRUSSIAN GUARD. A flea.

PUNG (TO). Signaller's word, meaning to go to sleep while on duty at the telephone.

PUSH THE BOAT OUT. Pay for a drink. (Canteen. I QUITE IN ORDER. Not unusual, no surprise need be expressed.

RACE-CARD. Morning Sick Report. (Kitchener's
Army.)
RED EYE. Rum.

RESHA BREW.

SCOFF. Food.

Make tea.

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