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12 S. X.JAN. 28, 1922.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 71 Wensleydale district towards the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century. This was the work of one Abe Braithwaite, who seems to have been at some pains to copy thereinto quaint entries from contemporary and earlier folios kept by those who were like-minded to himself. Amongst the entries made by Braithwaite is one "from Mistress Pickersgill's Bible fly-leaf, dated 1680 " (spelling I have modernized), which has the preface, " The following charm is powerfull to make brave. It must be writ small on skinne and worn over ye heart " : Thus spake Hagwolf to Elfreda : "I have driven my knife in the ash." To Garni he said : "I come from the oak, my axe struck deep." Then spake Harold and Arthur : " We twain have been on the Very top of the White Mountain, so we could not go so much As a grain of sand higher. There hid we in the shadow of the Moon ; Left we there a yackron (acorn) yet green in its cup, Left we there a fir chatt upon the great stone which Thor threw, The fir branch tied we with thongs drawn from a bear we slew, The feather of an eagle which fell from its wing Yet it touched not the earth, for we twain did catch it," &c. The second "charm," which has interested me much, is headed " To save a chylde from the Devil and witchspell." The child was laid in Spence's cradle, the mother standing astride facing the head if a boy, the other way if a girl, with hands crossed and sed after Spence : Bilda ac studa Melchea ag schugg, Saga bis saagi Ephersi Epheisa Bin schtrugg Si Blatza, sin Bletzie Og strobus ac Agg Virgin mother ly numbus , Sweet Jesu by Tag When it was'lifted from the cradle by its mother, it was sprinkled with salt and water sprinkled on the face. Can any reader identify the first quotation as an old saga, and is the second merely gibberish, as were so many early charms ? J. FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH. Grove House, Xorton-on-Tees. SPELLING OF " CHAMPAGNE." I have old wine labels engraved " Champaign " and " Champaigne," and am desirous of finding out when these latter spellings gave way . t < the present form. C. J. P. " WATER MEASURE " FOR APPLES AND PEARS. I am informed that prior to the reign of Queen Anne, apples and pears were customarily sold by water measure. It seems that no definitions of the quantities of this measure were legally laid down. Where can I find information as to what kind of vessel the seller employed during a transaction, whence the name arose, and how dissatisfaction came to be felt with their use during the reign of William III. which led to the legal definition of the measure in one of the earliest years of Queen Anne ? W. S. B. H. FAMILY OF LEE. Joseph Lee died in 1751 and was buried with his wife, Frances, in Bread Street Church, E.C. He was a merchant and had property in Cairo, and they lived in Blackfriars. Robert Cooper Lee, son of above, was born in 1735 and died 1794. He was Crown Solicitor of Jamaica in 1764, and married Priscilla Kelly, natural and adopted daughter of Chief Justice Dennis Kelly of that island. He returned to England, practised as a barrister and lived in Bedford Square. Of his six children only one left issue, viz., Fa veil Bourke Lee, who married David Bevan, a banker of Lombard Street, in 1798. Mary Lee, daughter of Joseph Lee, married a Mr. Morley, and her daughter Mary married Isaac Parminter and had a large family. Robert Cooper Lee and his children were very intimate with Lee Antonie, M.P., of Colwarth Park, Beds, whom hi' their letters, they address as " cousin," but no connexion can at present be traced. They are also believed in some way to have been related to Mrs. Fitz- herbert, and they were often in attendance on George IV. when Prince of Wales. Possibly some reader can help me in tracing out this pedigree. Particulars are also wanted of Joseph Lee's ancestors. (MRS.) A. N. GAMBLE. Gorse Cottage, Hook Heath, Woking. ANDREW BARNARD : SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS BARNARD, K.C.H. These were librarians to King George III. The former was husband of the author of ' Auld Robin Gray,' Lady Anne Barnard, as to whom see the ' D.N.B.' The latter, a natural son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, died Jan. 27, 1830, aged 87. Where can I find any account of them ? JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.