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NOTES AND QUERIES. rn s. m. MAR. n, 1911.
The ' D.N.B.' (viii. 129), under John
Byrom, poet and stenographer, says :
" The Byroms of Manchester were a younger branch of the Byroms of Salford, themselves a younger branch of the Byroms of Byrom [of that Ilk, as would be said in Scotland]. The last representative of the parent stem was Samuel, commonly called ' Beau Byrom,' a spendthrift, who sold his estates (some of which were bought by John Byrom's father and uncle), got into the Fleet prison, and there published (in 1729) an ' Irrefragable argument,' &c. It was sold for the benefit of the author, and was, in reality, a covert appeal for charity. The ' beau ' got out of prison, and John Byrom helped him to obtain support."
A. R. BAYLEY.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iii. 48). -The last item wanted is the final verse in a little song entitled ' God's Garden,' written by D. F. Gurney. The first verse begins
The Lord God planted a garden In the first white days of the world. The music is by Frank Lambert, and the song was probably published about ten years ago by Chappell & Co., London.
A. H. ARKLE.
KEATS, HAMPSTEAD, AND SIR C. W. DILKE (11 S.iii. 145, 176). Sir Charles Dilke promised the Keats relics to the Chief Public Library at Hampstead : and there is no question of these going to any Branch Library or to the British Museum.
H. K. H. [MB. M. L. R. BBESLAB also thanked for reply.]
BENJAMIN GARLIKE (11 S. iii. 88). Ben- jamin Garlike was admitted to the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law, on Friday, 6 July, 1810, at Oxford.
F. M. R. HOLWORTHY.
- Memoirs of the late Benjamin Garlike,
Esq.,' will be found in The Gentleman's Magazine for June, 1815, pp. 564-5. The London Magazine might also be consulted at the British Museum Library.
LIONEJ, SCHANK.
MEW OR ME WES FAMILIES (US. iii. 105). Benjamin Hannam of Caundle Purse, who was brother of James Hannam, in his will, dated 17 August, proved P.C.C. (37 Darcy) 4 November, 1581, mentions William Mew as his brother's " servant," to whom he had entrusted an inventory of the residue of his goods. If this William Mew is to be iden- tified with the Middle Templar admitted in 1598 as fourth son of Peter Mew of Caundle Purse, deceased, he must have joined the
Inn at an unusually late age, and his father
was possibly the Peter Mewes who married
Jane, daughter of John Buckler. According
to Mr. Buckler's ' Bucleriana ' (p. 1, citing
the registers of St. Margaret, Westminster),
this John Buckler died in 1540.
FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.
There is a pedigree of the descendants (not the ancestors) of Ellis Mews, the father of the Cavalier bishop, in Wilson's * Parish of St. Laurence Pountney,' p. 249. This pedigree seems to some extent to lack veri- fication.
The register of St. Andrew's, Holborn (not published), contains the following marriages :
1589. June 17. Thomas Mew and Joan Castell.
1597. July 9. Thomas Mew and Anne Egleton.
The register of Long Sutton, Somerset (published in Mr. Phillimore's series), con- tains the following :
1601. June 11. William Meawe and Eleanor Gardiner, both of Upton.
1616. April 12. John Cox and Christian Mew.
1627. Oct. 29. John Wilmouth and Alice Mew.
ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS.
Library, Constitutional Club, W.C.
AMERICAN WORDS AND PHRASES (11 S. iii. 48, 172). Stifel. The reference, no doubt, is to the stifle (perhaps connected with " stiff "), which is " the joint of a horse or other animal next to the buttock, and corresponding to the knee in man." When a strain or other accident affects the stifle, it seriously disables a horse, and may permanently depreciate its value. See Halli- well, * Archaic Dictionary,' s.v. * Stime.'
Stocking feet. Whether it is peculiarly Scottish or not, this expression certainly occurs in Scotland. Among the peasantry stocking feet are sometimes used as a sub- stitute for over-shoes, and they may even be worn when there are no shoes at all.
THOMAS BAYNE.
Stocking feet. This saying is in common use all over England. I have known it in Yorkshire for nearly sixty years. Thackeray says it is Sc9ttish ; see 3 S. ix. 118, 267, 336, 378. Many instances are given in ' E.D.D.,' v. 776. W. C. B.
Stocking feet. This is quite usual in the border counties. You "go to bed in your stocking feet " if you leave your shoes downstairs at night, formerly a general
