ii s. vi. NOV. iG, i9i2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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"NEVERMASS" (11 S. vi. 170, 217). It
means " New Year's Mass." The ' N.E.D.,'
s.v. ' New Year,* ' has the following quo-
tation from the year 1588: "Newermes
quhilk is the circumcision of Christ under
Augustus."
THE ENGLISH PARTICIPLE PRESENT AND GERUND (11 S. vi. 65, 174). Some very pertinent and illuminating observations on this question, with examples of the forma- tion of the modern participle present from an oblique or locative case of the verbal substantive in the Anglo-Saxon, English, French, Bengali, and Bask languages, are to be found in the late Prof. Max Mueller's < Lectures on the Science of Language,' ii. 23-33. N. W. HILL.
San Francisco.
EARTH-EATING (11 S. vi. 290, 351). About the year 1858 I was riding in the Sonthal jungles north of Calcutta, when I met a native carrying a ball of, apparently, black earth as big as his head. He told me with a grin he was taking it home to eat, as it was made up with black ants. It was about half clay and half ants. It tasted very pleasant, owing to the formic acid ; and I learnt afterwards that such a use of clay was well known to the local officials of Sonthalistan.
W. J. HERSCHEL, late B.C.S.
For this custom in India, see E. Thurston,
- Ethnographic Notes in Southern India,'
Madras, 1906, pp. 552 ff. For the Cama- roons. Journal Anthropological Institute, x. 467, and compare Pliny, ' N. H.,' xvii. 29, 2. W. CROOKE.
The latest items I have noted are these :
- Le geophagisme au Laos siamois ' (in La
France medicate, 1911, xxv., opposite p. 247) ; ' La geophagie en Afrique occidentale ' (a work by Hubert, reviewed in UAnihro~ pologie., 1912, xxiii. 487). ROCKINGHAM.
Boston, Mass.
FlTZWILLIAM AND GRTMALDI ARMS (11 S.
vi. 144, 215, 256, 353). It may be that Y. T. is prudent in considering lozenges in fess as a probable early form of fusily, but I did not venture so far. The arms ascribed to Robert de Chesnay, Bishop of Lincoln 1147-68, on the authority of a window, are "" Gu., 4 lozenges in fess. . . .," and, according to Cole's MSS. at the British Museum, " Cheeky or and az.,a fess gu., fretty arg." {see Bedford's ' Blazon of Episcopacy,' ed. 1897, p. 70). My list will require several additions if lozenges in fess are to be
included. The Cheyney pedigree in the
printed Bucks Visitation, 1634 (Harl. Soc.,
vol. Iviii. p. 152, additional pedigrees), goes
back to about 1270, and there is no reference
to the Bishop or to Guernsey. This Bucks
family bore the cheeky coat described above.
I fear that there is not much chance of the
desired connexion being found. LEO C.
' : REGITTM PRJECEPTUM SCALIGERI " ( 1 1 S. vi. 329). This is, presumably, Scaliger's rule that a noun is never compounded with a verb. See Prof. W. M. Lindsay, 'The Latin Language,' pp. 361, 363, 365.
EDWARD BEXSI.Y.
I. HUCKS, B.A. (11 S. vi. 310). ' A Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors,' London, 1816, ascribes the book mentioned in the above query, and also "Poems, 12mo, 1798," to J. Hucks, A.M. and late Fellow of Catherine Hall. Cam- bridge. W. B. H.
I. Hucks, B.A., who became afterwards Fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, had as his companion in his ' Pedestrian Tour through North Wales ' Samuel Taylor Cole- ridge. It was on this tour that Coleridge wrote the poems ' Lines at " The King's Arms,' ' Ross,' and ' On Bala Hill.' Coleridge mentions him in his letters to R. Southey and to H. Martin of Jesus College, but Hucks's claim to notoriety is mainly due to his having been Coleridge's companion. See ' Letters of S. T. Coleridge ' (1895) ; ' S. T. Coleridge, a Narrative,' bv J. Dykes Camp- bell (1894); 'Biographia Literaria' (1847).
R. A. POTTS. [M. A. M. M. also thanked for reply.]
HURSLEY PARK AND COMPTON MOXCEUX (11 S. vi. 329). There were many Rum- bolds in the vicinity of Andover, Hants, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the line who settled at Compton came from Appleshaw, where George Rumbold made his will in 1683, leaving three sons Thomas (made will 1694), George, and Edmund, who was married at Eldon Chapel, near King Somborne, in the same countv, on 29 Oct., 1688, to Sarah, daughter of Barnabas Barlow (a relative of Bishop Barlow) of King Somborne.
Edmund Rumbold, who made his will in 1707, had the following children by her : Edmund, b. 1691, of Hart Hall, Oxford (d. 1718) ; George ; and Mary, m. 10 Nov.. 1715 (d. 1775), to John Gate- house of King Somborne (b. 1683, d. 1761). It was the above Edmund Rumbold who
