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436 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIIL MAY as, mi. LANCASHIRE SETTLERS IN AMERICA (12 S. viii. 227, 375). Various members of the Vause family filled township offices at Blackrod up to the end of the eighteenth century. Vause House is still standing in the centre of the village, but the family appear to have died out locally. One of the last of the name, John Vause, M.D., was Mayor of Wigan in the year 1800. His name is perpetuated on certain ornamental Liverpool pottery jugs which were struck at the time to commemorate " the glorious 4th of October, 1800, when the Borough of Wigan was emancipated by sixteen Inde- pendent Burgesses," whose names are also inscribed thereon. Sir Robert Holt Leigh was one of the sixteen burgesses. Dr. Vause had a son who later became a Church of England minister in London. A. WINE NAMES (12 S. viii. 332, 398). Tinta and Vin de Vierge are doubtless intended for the Portuguese Vinho tinto (red wine) and Vinho virgem, common table wines of the country : cf. Virgin Marsala. Chateau Leoville and Leoville Barton can hardly be classed as inferior wines ! F. D. HARFORD. BLOUNT OF LINCOLNSHIRE (12 S. viii. 210, 278). MR. H. J. B. CLEMENTS is thanked for his reply. In the ' Diary of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson,' edited by P. O. Hutchinson, | a Blount-Marbury pedigree is given, quoted .j from a Visitation of Lines. This gives j Thomas Blount, the son Robert, and three ; daughters by his first wife, Anne, daughter of Sir J. Hawleyt. Information of this family of Halley, Hawley, or Hawleyt will be appreciated. C. B. A. EOXHOUNDS (12 S. viii. 391). An ex- haustive account of foxhounds throughout the country will be found in ' Dogs,' by Well-Known Authorities, edited by Harding Cox, 5 vols., London, 1908. The second volume deals with Hounds and Coursing Dogs, and chap, xiii., p. 108, particularly with the Craven country, but unfortunately gives no dates. Does anyone know whether vols. iii. to v. of this fine work have ever been pub- lished ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE. EARLY STAGE-COACHES (12 S. viii. 392). Mr. Chas. G. Harper's book, Stage- Coach and Mail in Days of Yore' (2 vols.), would probably give your correspondent the information he requires. F. CROOKS. TAVERN SIGNS " FLYING SCUD " (12 S. viii. 170, 236, 276, 313, 354, 375, 417). There were three race -horses named " Flying Scud " : (1) a bay colt, foaled in 1864, by Orlando, out of Gossamer, by Birdcatcher ; (2) a bay colt, foaled 1865, by Knight of Kars, out of Prelude, by Touchstone ; (3) a bay filly, foaled 1887, by Foxhall, out of North Wind, by North Lincoln. W. A. HUTCHISON. G. A. COOKE AND HIS COUNTY ITINERA- RIES (12 S. viii. 393). The little volumes described by your correspondent formed part of the author's ' Topography of Great Britain ; or, British Traveller's Pocket Directory ; being an accurate and compre- hensive topographical and statistical de- scription of all the Counties in England, Scotland and Wales, with the Adjacent Islands : illustrated with Maps of the Counties, which form a Complete British Atlas.' Vol. ii., which I possess, contains Somersetshire (180 pp.) and Dorsetshire (160 pp.), each with its own title page and index and separately paginated. While the volume title page is undated, that to the Somerset section (apparently the first edition) bears the date 1820. The work was " printed by assignment from the executors of the late C. Cooke," and a note at the foot of each map states that " The Cities and County Towns are denoted by red, and the respective Hundreds of the County by different Colours, which distinc- tions are peculiar to the Superior Edition." This superior edition I have never seen. FRED. R. GALE. Selby, Marsham Way, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. These popular little English county histories in brief were issued at a low price in printed paper covers and had a large sale. They are often met with in anti- quarian bookshops, and occasionally figure in booksellers' topographical lists. W. JAGGARD, Capt. COCO-NUT CUP (12 S. viii. 330, 395). John Sendale, Canon of York and of Ripon, left in his will (1467) " unum parvum ciphum vocatum le nutt," and a will in ' Testamenta Vetusta,' p. 365, mentions " a standyng gilt nutt " ' Ripon Chapter Acts,' Surtees Soc., vol. Ixiv, p. 234. I have a reference to Archceologia, xlvii. 58 n, and, for a very fine one at Eton College, c. 1510, to the Proceedings of Soc. Antiq., 2 ser. xvi. 248. J. T. F. Winter-ton, Lines.