12 S. X. JAN. 21, 1922.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 55 will doubtless some clay incite, probably has already incited, some idiot to transpose " gnash " and " wail." H. K. ST. J. S. ERGHUM OF EBGHUM, YORKSHIRE. (12 S. x. 9).- MR. BRUCE ANGIER will find a reference to some earlier members of this family in Poulson's ' History of Holdemess,' vol. i., p. 175 (1840). The spelling there given is Ergham, Argun or Arram, a hamlet and manor near Hornsea, E. Yorks. In my boyhood Arram Hall belonged to Thomas Bainton, Esq., who apparently is the same as the Thomas Bainton mentioned as a subscriber to the book named. Repre- sentatives of this latter family were resident in Bewholme, a neighbouring village, about 20 years ago. A. G. GIBSON. ST. PETER THE PROUD, LONDON (12 S. ix. 509). JSTo such church appears to have existed in 1600 or at any other time. No Thomas Taylor appears to have been vicar or rector of any church dedicated to St. Peter in the City of London in that year. The rector of St. Peter-le-Poer from Dec. 4, 1583, to his death in August, 1615, was Richard Judson. The entry in the parish register of Much Hormead would seem to mean that Thomas Taylor, the vicar of Much Hormead, married the two Brand sisters to their respective husbands in the church of St. Peter-le-Poer, and not to imply that he was vicar of St. Peter the Proud. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. FULLOLOVE SURNAME (12 S. vi. 68, 115, 196). T. Warton, in his ' History of English Poetry,' alludes (1870 ed., pp. 100-02) to the French poem ' Roman d'Alexandre,' written about the year 1200, and remarks : It is voluminous ; and in the Bodleian library at Oxford is a vast folio MS. of it on vellum, which is of great antiquity, richly decorated, and in high preservation (MSS. Bodl., B. 264 fol.). ... At the end we read this hexameter, which points out the name of the scribe : Nomen scriptoria est THOMAS PJ.ENUS AMORIS. Then follows the date of the year in which the transcript was completed, viz., 1338. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. VELLEBOIS, PAINTER (12 S. ix. 529). Some years ago, when acting as private secretary to Mr. R. Caton Woodville, the battle artist and illustrator, I frequently heard him called "Villebois" by his in- timates, and he was referred to by this name in. papers such as The Pink 'Un, The Pelican, &c. This may possibly throw a little light on I " T.'s "" query but he does not state the I subject of the picture. (MRS.) MURIEL HAMILTON SCOTT. BLESSED OLIVER PLUNKET (12 S. ix. 529). Luttrell, in his ' Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs,' gives an account under July 1, 1681, of the I execution of Mr. Plunket and Mr. Fitzharris, who were to be executed about nine in the morning. Oliver Plunket lay at Newgate. " They were both put in a sledge and drawn to Tyburn, where Plunket got into the cart and began a long harangue, excusing himself, &c. After a little time the executioner did his office, and theire quarters I were delivered to theire friends, according | to an order the sheriffs had for that purpose." ! Wood's ' Athenae Oxoniensis ' says that i Plunket was hang'd, drawn, and quarter' d, | and his quarters only (not his head) were | buried in the yard of St. Giles's Church | in the fields near to London. You will
- notice that neither of these accounts states
! whether the disembowelling was done
- before death had actually taken place.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE. DISRAELI QUERIES (12 S. x. 8). 1. Allibone's ' Dictionary of English Litera- ture ' states that ' Ixion in Heaven ' was published in 1847. I am unable to trace the date when ' The Infernal Marriage ' was published in book form. The British Museum does not give either work separately. 2. Benjamin Disraeli published editions of the following works by his father in 1881 j according to the British Museum Catalogue, although no date is given on the title pages j of the books themselves : ' Calamities and j Quarrels of Authors,' * Amenities of Litera- ture,' ' Literary Character of Men of Genius.' ARCHIBALD SPARKE. FREEDOM OF A CITY (12 S. ix. 489). The Honorary Freedom of Boroughs Act, 1885, would, I think, be the origin which would allow a Borough Council from time to time to admit persons of distinction to be Honorary Freeman. The honour confers no benefit on the recipient. The Act (48, 49 Viet. ch. 29) states that " the admission of persons to be Fieeman shall not confer the right of voting for any Borough in Parliamentary or other elections, or of sharing in the benefit of any heridita- ments, common lands, or public stock of such borough, or the Council thereof, or
