12 S. IX. OCT. 1, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 273 City of York,' suggests that it may be to the genealogist." They were both knights, derived from an Anglo-Saxon word, sceale or j One was Governor of Dover Castle and M.P. scealn, meaning a scale, and that it may arise for .the borough ; the other was implicated from the common crane being kept in the j in Wyatt's rising in Kent, sentenced to be street. He does not refer to the meaning of executed, pardoned, and ultimately became the w r ord " skell," to tip up or overturn, | ancestor of the Earls of Winchilsea. which is a word still used in the North of ! Sir John Wode, Speaker of the House of England, but appears to think that it refers ! Commons 1482-84, was described as "the to the weighing of the goods. I have ^on- elder " to distinguish him from his brother John living at the same time (see Genealo- gist, vol. xxxvi., p. 57). Of the six brothers of the Due de Guise, suited both the N.E.D.' and the < E.D.D.' CLIO. LIEUT. -CoL. W. WILLIAMS, F.R.A. Known as author of ' Life and Times of Duke of Wellington.' Would feel grateful for knowledge where and when died. Any other King Henri II. created Franois, the eldest, Governor of Savoy, and the fifth, also named Francois, Grand Prior of France (see 'Cart. Antiq.,' 51, d 6, B.M.). books published beside it ? In 134Q Gilber { de H awkewood, in his will, ANEURIN ILLIAMS. , leaveg b ests to his sons John senior and Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. i John j un i or one of whom became the R. HENRY NEWELL ("ORPHEUS CJ famous General Sir John Hawkwood. KERB"). His place of birth and death! I have met with a case tried in the Court would oblige, as also age. I of Arches, Doctors' Commons, dated May 20, which ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. MEYER MENSON. Can anyone give me information about Meyer Menson, Ph.D., formerly Chief Rabbi, Chicago, U.S.A. ? 1874, which mentions Thomas Adams, "brother and sole executor of Thomas Adams, deceased." J. F. FULLER. Dublin. I have always understood that the object He was a deacon in 1861; priest 1862; of this custom was to secure that the curate at Newchurch Parish Church, 1864 vicar of Stoke Mandeville, Oxon, 1879. RONALD D. WHITTENBURY-KAYE. Christian name of the parent should sur- I vive in the family notwithstanding the
- death of the elder son or daughter who
- bore it.
That it had any connexion with the system of leases determinable on lives is improbable. The circumstance of there BROTHERS OF THE SAME Christian name might possibly operate CHRISTIAN NAME. prejudicially to the lessee, for the rever- (12 S. ix. 230.) ! sioner (where doubt existed as to the ^ . ,. "life") might contend that the demise THOUGH the following facts do not answer ended ' ftt t g e death of the brotheP who the question put by MR. ST JOHN BROOKS died firsfc _ a pos sibilitv which would not they may be of interest. I myself should h b overlooked. " ROBERT GOWER. like the point which he has raised eluci- dated : doubtless it has puzzled other j Many years ago there was a superstition ^ readers of ' N. & Q.' in Hungary that a child named after a William Nott, whose will is dated 1575, j dead brother or sister was sure to die in had two daughters named Elizabeth. One [ infancy. As a matter of fact I know of a married twice (see Manning and Bray, vol. case in which three sisters named Charlotte ii., p. 790), and the other married Robert died one after the other. L. L. K. Roper (see Herald and Genealogist, vol. viii., p. 206), who was of the same family! THE DANCE OF SALOME (12 S. ix. 150, as Mary Roper, second wife of Dr. Thomas 197, 235). Much material you will find Fuller, the Church historian. j in H. Daffner, ' Salome, Ihre Gestalte George Fane of Bradsel, High Sheriff of und Kunst : Dichtende-Bildende Kunst- Kent, had two sons to whom he gave the Musik ' ; mit 26 Taf. u. 200 Abb., 1912; name of Thomas, " after a fashion," says and in the ' Grand Dictionnaire Larousse.' The Ancestor, vol. xii., p. 6, " deplorable A. J. VAN HUFFEL, JR.
