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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. NOV. 27, 1915.
was issued privately in 1910. It is one of
the most thorough pieces of work dealing
with local history ever compiled. Chapters
\i. and vii. will probably answer your corre-
spondent's query best. These deal with the
families of Beauchamp, .De la Pole, Boteler,
Lovel, Harcourt, Nevill, and Fettiplace.
The Tracys, the Lacys, and the Fettiplaces
Own all the Manors, the Parks, and the Chases,
is a local tag. Mr. Watney gives seventy-one
various spellings of Wychwood arranged in
chronological order. There is also a valuable
- Genealogical Chart showing the Affinity or
Kinship of some of the Tenants, Occupants, nd Owners of Cornbury and Wychwood.' There is a full chapter by George Claridge- Druce, the botanical authority for Oxford- shire, upon the botany of the district, and a chapter by John Belcher upon the architec- ture of Cornbury. There is also a list of royal visits, and much else of the greatest interest and value. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187, Piccadilly, W.
AUTHORS' NAMES WANTED : E. V. B., AUTHOR OF ' Ros ROSARUM ' (11 S. xii. 379). E. V. B. are the initials of the Hon. Mrs. Eleanor Vere Boyle (nee Gordon of Ellon), who married seventy years ago the Hon. and Rev. R. C. Boyle, Rector of Marston Bigott (Somerset) and Chaplain to Queen Victoria. I had the honour of inventing the title for Tier rose-book : ' Ros Rosarum, ex Horto Poetarum,' and, being diffident of my own Latinity, I submitted it to Sir Walter Sendall, -who was almost as fine a classic as his brother-in-law C. S. Calverley.
Thirty years ago the initials E. V. B. were as familiar in certain circles as had been C. S. C. or S. G. O. or L. E. L. Long before
- Ros Rosarum,' E. V. B. was one of the
iirst well-known writers of garden-books notably ' Days and Hours in a Garden,' describing her beautiful domain of Hunter- combe, near Eton. But it was as an artist that Mrs. Boyle first made famous the initials E. V. B., with which she signed her wonderful illustrations of children's books.
J. E. C. BODLEY. [Other correspondents thanked for replies.]
A BOOK THAT BELONGED TO ROBERT
BURTON (10 S. viii. 326 ; 11 S. i. 325 ; iv. 44 ; v. 125 ; viii. 346). PROF. MOORE SMITH has drawn my attention to another book that once formed part of Robert Burton's library. Item No. 302 in Cat. 53 of Mr. G. H. Last, of the Broadway, Bromley, Kent, is de- scribed as a copy of Sidney's " Arcadia,' 1613, with the autograph of Robert Burton on the title, and his initials at the end of the
book. Sidney is quoted more than once in
' The Anatomy of Melancholy.' One quota-
tion which was not identified in Shilleto'?
edition is :
Take me to thee, and thee to me, A. of M.,' III. ii. 5, 5, p. 588 in the 1651-2 edition. See * Astrophel and Stella,' 1. 5 in stanzas i. to \ ii. ' Astrophel and Stella,' I gather from bibliographies, forms part of the contents of the 1613 ' Arcadia.'
The copy of William Burton's ' Description of Leicestershire ' given by Robert Burton to Richard Gardiner of Christ Church, de- scribed in Ellis's Cat. 162 (Tudor and Stuart Period, Part I.), has already been noted in 1 N. & Q.' (see the last reference above), when it appeared in an earlier catalogue.
EDWARD BENSLY.
LEDINGTON (11 S. xii. 379). In the absence of a more definite reply perhaps the following scraps of information about Leding- ton and Liddington families may be acceptable :
9 Mav, 1751, Ja. Ledington died at Chislehurst, co. Kent, Gent. Mag., 236.
4 June, 1776, John Liddington married Susannah Gordon by licence.
20 Sept., 1789, John Parry married Susan Leddingtori.
27 July, 1795, Thos. Bullivant of St. George's, Hanover Square, married Susanna Liddington of St. Giles - in - the - Fields, by licence.
The above marriages were at St. George's, Hanover Square.
Has the inquirer, MR. E. DRAY, any connexion with the Le Dreigh or Ledenton family, about which inquiry was made in 1886 (7 S. ii. 27) t LEO C.
"ESSES" (11 S, xii. 380, 410). My first guess for this word would be " essences." If, however, " feather " be a term known to confectioners to denote " one of the degrees in boiling sugar, preceded by the blow and followed by the ball," as the * Cent. Diet.' states, " esses " may be a misprint for " sauces " in the sense given by the same authority, i.e., " fruit stewed with sugar, a compote of fruit, as ' apple sauce.' ' The other doubtful word " cotes " in the sentence quoted by querist, " This Paste is good for Custards, and all Cotes, Feathers, and Esses," I should render " cates/' i.e., delicacies.
N. W. HILL.
36, Leigh Road, Highbury, N.
This name probably refers to the shape of the articles. See ' N.E.D.' under Ess.
C. C. B.
