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attendant at the Club gatherings. It is practically certain that in the list of members given at 11 S. vii. 393, "T. W. Patten" should be J. W. Patten (afterwards Lord Winmarleigh).
Choirboys in Ruffs (11 S. viii. 450).—The choristers at York and Ripon have long worn linen frills. I take them to be a survival from the time when all boys who wore collars of any sort wore frills. J. T. F.
At Ripon Cathedral, where this custom also prevails, it is said to date from the time of Queen Elizabeth. S. D. Clippingdale.
The choirboys in York Minster wear crimped linen frills or tuckers, but I should be slow to call them ruffs. Some person of imagination published in 1907 a quarto sheet, on which is imprinted: "The York Litany arranged and put into Modern English for the use of visitors to the Cathedral of York, commonly called the Minster." At the end of this there is a note oh St. Olave, founder of Trondhjem Cathedral, who is yet honoured in York. Our writer says:—
"To this day the Norwegian Clergy in their ministrations wear round their necks the lace ruff…… It is an interesting supposition that the lace ruff [lace it is not] worn here at York by the choristers, and nowhere else in England as I am aware [sic], may be some slight remaining link of those many ones which in ancient times joined the daughter Trondhjem to her venerable mother at York. St. (Haves Church in the city is another remaining link. It was not until 1548 that the Bishops of Sodor and Man came from the province of the Archbishop of Trondhjem into that of York, which is another link between the two Churches which so greatly resemble one another."
Permit me to add a sample of the "Modern English" into which the Litany is professedly rendered:—
Seynt Peter of the Mynster.
May my feet all days heavenwards instir
Wyl in this world till Finis Terre.
[Diego also thanked for reply.]
SIR GEORGE WRIGHT OF RICHMOND, SURREY (11 S. viii. 348, 410, 452). The administration of the goods of Dame Dorothv Wright of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, widow of Sir Robert Wright of Richmond, was granted, 5 Nov., 1638 (P.C.C., A.B. fo. 227), to Dorothy Weld, her next-of-kin. If this
lady prove to be Dorothy (bapt. 1605), the
daughter of Sir George and Dame Dorothy
Wright, that Dame Dorothy Wright II.
was the daughter of Dame Dorothy Wright I.
by a former marriage may be considered
certain ; otherwise a new problem arises.
In this connexion the will of Mary Wright,,
proved 1654 (cited by MR. FLETCHER at the
second reference), may be of use, as the
testatrix was another daughter of Sir George
Wright. Has MR, DYER made a systematic
search of Farnham wills ?
PERCEVAL LUCAS.
BIRD ISLAND: BRAMBLE CAY (11 S. viii. 388, 453). Bird Island is the name of two Pacific islands certainly, and perhaps more : one, a small, barren, rocky outlier on the north-west of the Hawaiian cluster ; the other in the heart of the Low (or Paumotu, or Tuamotu) Archipelago.
Bramble Cay is an islet a hundred miles or so north-east of Cape York, in Queensland. FORREST MORGAN.
Hartford, Conn.
Bramble Cay lies off the coast of British New Guinea, and will be found in 'The Century Atlas,' map 115, Gl. Bird Island lies nearly on the Tropic of Capricorn, about long. 156. nearly due east of Rockhampton,. Queensland. It will be found in Bartholo- mew's ' Library Reference Atlas ' (London, 1890), map 80, Ik (in the Index misprinted Ki). ALBERT MATTHEWS.
Boston, U.S.
AUTHOR OF PAMPHLET WANTED (11 S. viii. 449). Halkett and Laing in their ' Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudony- mous Literature ' enter the pamphlet as " A good husband for five shillings ; or, Esquire BickerstafP s [Sir Richard Steele's] lottery for the London-ladies," &c.
The British Museum in their Catalogue enter it under Bickerstaff, without any reference to Steele.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.
Bolton.
[MR. FRANK CURRY and MR. R. A. POTTS also- thanked for replies.]
THE GREAT QUAKER (11 S. viii. 429). On reading Sir Walter Runciman's book I was pulled up short by the allusion quoted by LADY RUSSELL. The only solution that occurred to me was that the writer had confused Charles James Fox with George Fox. I have been wondering whether any reviewer would call attention to the point.
J. M.
