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ampton of the day in " treating " voters
in rivalry with Lord Spencer and Lord j
Halifax. I fancy that 120,0002. was spoken
of in this connexion as spent by one of the
peers. Is this the largest sum recorded as
spent on a Parliamentary election ? Un-
fortunately, I have mislaid the book on
'Compton Wynyates* by the Marquis of
Northampton, published at the end of 1904.
NEL MEZZO.
FIRST NONCONFORMIST MINISTER ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me whether the Rev. Silvester Home, a Congregational minister lately elected M.P. for Ipswich, is the first Non- conformist Minister to sit in Parliament ? FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
" HEM OF A NOISE." In an article in The Times of 12 January, entitled ' The Forthcoming Election : a Forecast,' the following story is told :
" There is, of course, a class of voter who takes his politics very lightly, a class represented by the Sussex cynic, who gave his views thus :
- ' ' Politics are about like this : I 've got a sow in
my yard with twelve little 'uns, and they little 'uns can't all feed at once, because there isn't room enough. So I shut six on 'em out of the yard while t' other six be sucking, and the six as be shut out they just do make a hem of a noise till they be let in, and then they be just as quiet as the rest.' "
In ' E.D.D.' (a.v. hem) it may be seen that these words of the Sussex cynic are to be found in Egerton's * Folks and Ways ? (1884), p. 3, and that the expression " a hem of a noise,' 2 " a hem of a hurry," &c., belongs to the dialect of Kent, Surrey, and Sussex. How may " hem '* be explained ?
A. L. MAYHEW.
Oxford.
CISTERNS IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. Towards the end of 1908 and in the early part of 1909 a number of leaden cisterns (ten, I think) were placed in Kensington Gardens, in front of the Orangery, and in the pool in the new Dutch garden below. I made some hasty notes of the marks upon some of them :
C [crown] R 1666
1730
1733
1744 T.L. (two).
1760, with heraldic devices (a griffin's head; a swan's head and neck, and wings displayed ; an em bo wed fish).
I.B. 1785.
The marks upon the three in the pool could be read easily through a glass. Will some- body give us a history and description of them all ? W, C. B.
ROKEBY HOUSE, WEST HAM : CLOWES
FAMILY. Some few years back there was
an old Jacobean house called Rokeby House
at West Ham in Essex. Can any of your
readers inform me if this house was built
by a member of the Rokeby family, or if the
Rokeby family was ever associated with it ?
In one of the principal rooms was a large oak overmantel on which were engraved the arms of Wm. Clowes, who died in 1639, and who was Sergeant- Surgeon to Charles I. This would suggest that Win. Clowes owned the house at that early date a few years after it was built. H. F. CLOWES.
Royal College of Physicians.
ROCHECHOUART. Can any correspondent versed in French pedigrees kindly state if the family of the above name descend from Emeric, or Guy, de Rupe Cavardi (wrongly spelt Canardi in the index to Collinson's ' Somerset ') or de Rochechiward whose intermarriages with two ladies of the house of Vivon took place between 1250 and 1300 ? Emeric' s parentage and his relationship to Guy are also desired. H.
DUCETOY : CASTLEDEN FAMILY. In the ' Life of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett ' I find the name of Dusautoy. Can any one tell me if the name Ducetoy (which I have seen some- where) is a corruption of Dusautoy ?
Can any one tell me if any of the Deedes family (of Kent) married into a family called Castleden ? Further, can any one supply me with a name which sounded like " Gift," and which I once heard mentioned in connexion with the Castledens ? GENEALOGIST.
PORTRAITS BY FLICK. Can any corre- spondent inform me of the present where- abouts of the following portraits signed by G. Flick or Fliccus ?
1. Full-length portrait, dated 1551, of Thomas, 1st Lord Darcy of Chiche. This picture is mentioned in Lord Lumley's inventory of 1590 ; also in Neale's ' Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen,' at which time (1819) it was at Irhham Hall, Lincolnshire. It is known to have been still at Irnham in 1848, but after the sale of that property in 1854, by Mr. Charles Clifford, all trace of the picture is lost.
2. A double portrait, half-length, small, of G. Fliccus, the painter, and his friend " Strangwise." In 1881 this picture be- longed to Mr. Robert des Ruffieres, of 68, Belsize Park Gardens, N.W. ; but since then it cannot be traced.
MARY F. S. HERVEY. 22, Morpeth Mansions, S-W.
