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NOTES AND QUERIES. uo th s. n. JULY 23, 100*.
The Thirty -fourth Report of the Bedford-
shire Architectural and Archaeological Society
(1881) contains the following :
" The Fleetwood Cabinet. During the visit of the Institute several members, who were in- troduced by Mr. H. Tebbs, visited Grove House, Bromham Road, the residence of Miss Corcoran, who kindly allowed the party to inspect the costly ebony cabinet formerly belonging to Bridget, daughter of Oliver Cromwell, who married Lieut. - General Charles Fleetwood after the death of General Ireton, her first husband." The report continues with a minute descrip- tion of the cabinet, and mentions that it was described in one of the magazines in 1841. Can some Bedfordshire reader of this paragraph state who is the present owner, as Miss Corcoran, if living, has apparently removed 1 E. W. B.
REV. JOHN WILLIAMS. Can any of your readers give me any information as to the life of the Rev. John Williams, forty years master of Ystrad Meiric Grammar School, Cardiganshire ? He died in 1818.
ARTHUR W. THOMAS, M.D.
Carmelita, Crabton Close Road, Boscombe.
WILLIAM WARTON, 1764. Any clue to the above, who is in the lists of people painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, will oblige.
A. C. H.
HONE: A POBTRAIT. I have in my possession a very fine enamel miniature of an unknown lady by Nathaniel Hone, signed, 1749. I should be much obliged if any of your readers could help me to identify it, or tell me if there is an authenticated list of Nathaniel Hone's works. The portrait is in its original pinchbeck frame, and has been in my family very many years.
M. NYREN.
14, Clifton Crescent, Folkestone.
LISK. I seek information concerning a family named Lisk in Scotland. Nisbet's 4 Heraldry,' vol. i. p. 216, gives : "The name of Lisk, Argent, three mascles azure ; and on a chief gules as many mascles of the first. Font's Manuscript." Nisbet adds no remarks of his own to what he finds in Pont.
DAVID C. LUSK.
ELIAS TRAVERS'S DIARY. A writer in the British Quarterly Review, vol. Iv. (1872), says the unpublished diary of Elias Travers came into his possession through a friend into whose collection the MSS. of Law (author of
- Serious Call ') and those of Dr. Lee, son-in
law of Mrs. Jane Lead, passed. Travers (1675- 1681) was chaplain to Sir T. Barn[ar ?]diston,of Kelton Hall. The diary is said to be written
in " the minutest character and in very fair
Latin." The late Canon Overton, who pub-
lished a book on William Law, once wrote to
me that he had never heard of this diary or
found any trace of it. Can any one tell me
anything about this diary 1 Where can it be
seen? J. FOSTER, D.C.L.
Tathwell Vicarage, Louth, Lines.
THE WHITE COMPANY : " NAKER." In Sir A. Conan Doyle's novel of this name the men composing the company are described as English archers, whilst Dr. Brewer, in his
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' states that
they were "a band of French cut-throats." Were there two " White Companies," or has somebody blundered ?
In the novel the word naker is more than once used in the sense of a trumpet ; but does it not properly mean some kind of drum? V. O. B.
[ Annandale's ' Imperial Dictionary ' and the
- Encyclopaedic ' derive naker from L.L. nacara, a>
kettledrum, and so define it.]
AIRAULT. Can you give me any particulars of this family, part of which were of Rhode Island, N.Y., about the year 1770?
J. PILE.
COUTANCES, WINCHESTER, AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. On 20 January, 1500, a Bull of Pope Alexander VI. transferred the Channel Islands from the diocese of Coutances to that of Winchester (Rymer's 'Fcedera,' xii. 740). What occasion was there for this Bull ? Was it ever revoked? Edward VI. seems to have ordered that the Bishop of Coutances should be considered as diocesan of the Channel Islands in all things not contrary to the laws of the realm. (See ' S. P. Dom. Add. Eliz./ ix. 38.) Where is the text of this order to be found? At the beginning of Elizabeth's reign the priests of Guernsey were " sworn subjects of the Bishop of Coutances " (' S. P. Dom. Add. Eliz.,' ix. 53). From this it would appear that at some period or other, between 1500 and 1560, the Bull of Alexander VI. had been revoked. Did the Pope or the Queen order anything further in this matter in the reign of Queen Elizabeth ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
ST. NINIAN'S CHURCH. Bede wrote that St. Ninian's Church was called Candida Casa because it was built of stone, which was unusual among the Britons.
Seebohm, in 'The English Village Com- munity,' in a foot-note on p. 239, says : il To make a royal house more pretentious the bark is peeled off, and it is called ' the White House.'"
