210 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MARCH 12, 1921. EDMUND GIBSON. As I am engaged in a ! GENERAL SIR HENRY F. CAMPBELL, special study of Edmund Gibson, successively bishop of Lincoln (1716-23) and London (1723-48), I should be greatly obliged if any of your readers could tell me of the where- abouts of certain letters and papers of the Bishop, which were discovered some fifteen years ago by Canon Sparrow Simpson of St. Paul's, and passed from the Dean and Chapter into the possession of General Dalton, Mr. C. J. Hill and Mr. E. Poore,the Bishop's descendants. I have been favoured with access to the materials of the two former, but cannot find any trace of the papers belonging to Mr. Poore. NORMAN SYKES. Queen's College, Oxford. "BURNT HIS BOATS." Can any one say who first used this phrase ? HARRY K. HUDSON. Stratford Lodge, St. Peter's Road, Twickenham. " ZICES " OR " SCREEDS." In the seven- teenth century the Corporation of Swansea sometimes provided medicines, fomentations, and other forms of assistance in sickness for the poor. In 1644 there were paid out of the town purse the following sums : pd. for Zices or Screeds to lysons wife pd. for a panne to bbylle them pd. Wm. Mathew for a tubb to hould ye s. d. 00 06 00 04 00 03 K.C.B., RANGER OF RICHMOND PARK. Information desired as to the place where he married, on Apr. 2, 1808, Emma, daughter of Thos. Williams and widow of Col. Thos. Knox, Foot Guards. Also the place and dates of the birth of his three children, George, Frances and Harriet Campbell especially of this last who married Col. Robert Moorsom of the Scots Guards. Information can be sent direct. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Beading. " A HOGARTH MINIATURE FRAME." At a recent auction of old family possessions a miniature was sold which was vouched for as being " in a genuine old Hogarth miniature frame." Can any reader favour me with the special characteristics of such a frame, and tell me also if Hogarth was known as a miniature painter. Y. T. These are all the items referring to the subject. I shall be glad to know what
- ' zices " or "screeds" were.
W. H. JONES. Royal Institution of S. Wales, Swansea. BLOUNT OF LINCOLNSHIRE. The brother of ir Walter Blount, created 1466 Baron Mount joy, was Sir Thomas Blount of Lincolnshire who married, as his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Gervase C ifton. I should much like to have the name cf his first wife, and to know if Sir Thomas left other children besides Richard Blount of Iver, Bucks, who purchased Mapledurham in 1490. Co B. A. IMPALED ON A THORN. What is the origin of the folk-belief that nightingales and yellow-hammers sing with their breasts impaled upon thorns ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. BOOK WANTED. Can any reader tell me where I could obtain a copy of a book en- titled either 'The Annals of the Four Masters,' or 'Irish Histories by the Four Masters ' ? E. A. K. DUNNE. Runnimede, Dolphin Road, Slcugh. A " PHIOLAD "OF BARLEY. In the Reports of the Commissioners for inquiring concerning Charities (1834) there is mentioned, as part of the endowment of a charity in the parish of Eglwys Rhos, in Carnarvonshire, a " phiolad of barley (i.e., one-third of a peck)." Can any reader give the derivation of phiolad ? The word is not in the ' N.E.I).' nor in the only Welsh dictionary to which I have access. C. A. COOK. Sullingstead, Hascombe, Godalming. PUREFOY. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me the Christian names of the daughters of George Purefoy of Wadley, Bucks, ("extinct baronet") by his wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby of Risley (also " ext. bart.") and say to whom they were married ? WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down. HENRIETTA GORDON, DAME D-ATOUR TO THE QUEEN OF FRANCE. Henrietta Gordon (born 1629), only surviving child of the Viscount of Melgum (burned at Frendraught, 1630), became dame d'atour in 1649, as recorded, in a rigmarole way by Father Gilbert Blakhal in his ' Brieffe Narration of three noble ladyes ' (Aberdeen, Spalding Club, 1844). died? Does any reader know when she She was alive in 1666 or 1667 about which date Blakhal wrote his queer book. J. M. BULLOCH. 37 Bedford Square, W.C.I.
