i2s.vm.jA^s,i92i.j NOTES AND QUERIES. 37 5. T. Farmer Baily, Sunnyside, Ryde, I.W. (armorial shield in a beaded oval sur- mounted by a foreign coronet, in red). Perhaps the additional fact that Baily apparently also lived in the Isle of Wight may be of assistance to MR. CLEMENTS. Farmer Baily purchased the estate of Hall Place in the parish of Leigh, Kent in 1 82 1, and died in Oct. 1 828. His only son and heir (by Amelia Perkins his wife who married secondly, Sept. 2, 1832 Wm. Smith of .Sydenham) was Thos. Farmer Bailey of Hall Place. He was bom Sept. 24, 1823, and married on Feb. 21, 1863 Gertrude Sarah, daughter of James Addison, and grand- daughter of the Rev. James Addison, vicar of Thornton-cum-Allerthorpe, Yorks. He was a J.P., D.L., High Sheriff 1866 and Lord of the Manor of Leigh Hollanden. CHAS HALL CROUCH. BOTTLE-SLIDER, COASTER (12 S. vii. 471, 516). If ST. S WITHIN had gone to the " mammoth mother," he might have found
- ' coaster " fully explained, with quotations
for c. 1887 and 1888. We have a pair that date from the time of William IV. or earlier. They appear to be papier mache, varnished black, with grapes and vine leaves gilt thereon. J. T. F. NOLA (12 S. vii. 502). See Glossary to Durham Account Rolls under "Knoll," and p. 601, "ad campanam vocatam le knoll " (1397-8). The particular bell at Ripon described as " le knoll," also as "le blank knoll," required timber and car- penters' work, doubtless for the bell-frame, in 1379-80. See 'Memorials of Ripon' (Surtees Soc.) iii. 99. The term nola appears to have been applied also to a clapper, as at Winchester in 1572-80. J. T. F. Winterton, Lines. LADY CATHERINE PAULET : SIR HENRY BERKELEY (12 S. vii. 511). As MR. FOSTER does not tell us the approximate dates of the miniatures to which he refers, it is impossible to answer his queries. Lady Catherine Paulet, dau. of William, third Marquess of Winchester, married Sir Giles Wroughton, Kt. Lady Catherine Paulet, second dau. of Harry, fourth Duke of Bolton, married first William Ashe, and secondly, 1734, Adam Drummond of Meg- ginch, and died in 1775. Lady Catherine Margaret Paulet, second dau. of Harry sixth Duke of Bolton, married Sept. 17, 1787, William Henry, Earl of Darlington, afterwards Duke of Cleveland, and died June 17, 1807. See Burke 's 'Peerage.' Sir Henry Berkeley, of Brew ton, was knighted in 1585, and was Sheriff of Somer- set in 1587. He ' married Margaret, daughter of William Leggon, of Staffordshire, esq., by whom he had three sons, viz.. Sir Maurice, Sir Henry (from whom descended the Berkeleys of Yarlington, which branch is now extinct), and Sir Edward Berkeley." See Collin- son's ' Somerset,' I. xxxvii. ; iii. 280-1. This second Sir Henry married Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Nevill of Billingbear, Berk- shire. HARMATOPEGOS. PEACOCKS' FEATHERS (12 S. vi. 334 ; vii. 137, 277, 477). In Baron von Haxt- hausen's 'Transcaucasia,' trans. J. E. Taylor, London, 1854, pp. 260-61, the Yezidis are spoken of thus : " Of the Holy Spirit they know nothing ; they designate Christ as the Son of God, but do not recognise his divinity. They believe that Satan (Speitan) was the first-created, greatest, arid most exalted of the arch-angeli ; that the world was made by him at God's command, and that to him was en- trusted its government; but that, for esteeming him- self equal with God, he was banished trom the Divine presence. Nevertheless he will be again received into favour and his kingdom (this world) restored to him, they suffer no one to speak ill of Satan On a certain day they offer to Satan thirty sheep ; at Easter they sacrifice to Christ, but only a Dingle sheep Satan is called Melik Taous (King Peacock)." Has not this heretical association of Satan and peacock been the cause of some Eur6- peans' opinions that peacocks' feathers are unlucky ? KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan. THE ORIGINAL WAR OFFICE (12 S. .vii. 310, 354, 416, 435, 452). Up to the present I have only been able to trace back the quotation given me by Professor Andrews to 1721 ; but hope for further success. As his book ( ' Guide to the Materials for American History to 1783, in the Public Record Office of* Great Britain 1914 ') is not very accessible to some of your readers, I may perhaps quote (from vol. ii, 274) : " The office of the Secretary at War must have been at first in or near the chambers of the Duke of Albemarle at the Cockpit. Lock is mentioned as having an office at the Guards House in 1676, and probably Blathwayt used Little Wallingford House for the same purpose. Clarke dated his letters from the Horse Guards in 1697. We learn that for a time the War Office was located on the south side of Pall Mall, in the old Ordnance Office, built for the Duke of Cumberland when captain- general. For the greater part of the early eighteenth century, however, the Secretary at War, the deputy secretary and clerks the
