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query may result in a discovery. Abraham
Weber, a Swiss sculptor, aged twenty-four,
settled in England, anglicized his name, and
married an Englishwoman named Quandt.
This looks like Quant. Their son was John,
the famous landscape painter. The Webbers
lived in London in 1771 ; he died single 1792.
M.A.OxoN.
LIME-TREE (9 th S. viii. 42). Bacon's essay ' Of Gardens ' (ed. Arber, 1871, p. 556) tells us : " In July, come Gilly-Flowers of all Varieties ; Muske Roses ; the Lime-Tree in blossome [&c.]." Had the compositor played PROF. SKEAT false 1 O. 0. H.
BARONETS OF NOVA SCOTIA (9 th S. x. 28). In vol. ii. of G. E. C.'s ' Complete Baronet- age,' now in progress, will be found full particulars of these baronetcies between 1625 and 1646, the after creations to follow in due course. At pp. 275-7 the various lists are fully described, and their differences ex- plained. One of these, stated by G. E. C. to be " by far the most valuable," is printed in Joseph Foster's ' Baronetage ' for 1883.
W. D. PINK.
G. C. will find a full account of the institu- tion of the above order, with lists of members, some created between the years required, in Sir T. C. Banks's ' Baronia Anglica Concen- trata,' vol. ii., published 1844.
C. T. SAUNDERS.
PAPAL PROVISIONS (9 th S. x. 6). YGREC will be glad to know that ' A History of the English Church ' is not " discontinued." The fourth volume (Henry VIII. Mary), by Dr. James Gairdner, was published last month. Perhaps the following, from the Statute of Provisory (25 Edward III.), may furnish the information asked for :
"Auxibien a la suite le Roi come de partie, et qen le mesne temps le Roi eit les profitz de tielx benefices, issint ocupez partielx provisours, forspris Abbeies, Priories, et autres mesons qont college ou Covent ; et en tieles mesons eient les Covent et colleges les profitz, sauvant totefoitz," &c.
C. S. WARD.
MAY CATS (9 th S. x. 9). So long ago as January, 1851, a contributor to the 'Folk- lore' column of ' N. <k Q.' stated that in Wilts, and also in Devon, it is believed that cats born in the month of May will catch neither mice nor rats ; will bring in snakes and slow-worms, and are held in general con- tempt. Another correspondent said that in Hampshire May kittens were always killed. In Pembrokeshire they are called " May- cletts," and the same custom of killing pre- vails. In Huntingdonshire it is a common
saying that a "May kitten makes a dirty
cat." The County Palatine folk-lore says,
" It is unlucky to keep May kittens ; they
should be drowned."
EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.
As a child I used to be told May kittens must be drowned, because, if kept, they "sucked the breath," i.e., got on children's beds, sat on their chests, and breathed the child's breath till it died. My informant was an old nurse, a native of Lanchester, near Durham, who died at an advanced age in 1866. She also told a tale of a farm servant who had drunk of a spring or tank whilst hay-making, and swallowed an egg of toad or newt, which hatched in her inside, and became a monstrous animal, causing death.
iBAGUi.
HOUR OF SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE (9 th S. ix. 67, 155, 317). Although no special time is mentioned, the following reference may be of interest. It occurs in Sir John Vanbrugh's comedy ' The. Relapse ; or, Virtue in Danger*' (1761) :-
"Lord Foppington. Why faith, Madam Sunday is a vile Day, I must confess ; I intend to move for leave to bring in a Bill, That Players may work upon it, as well as the Hackney Coaches. Tho' this I must say for the Government, it leaves us the Churches to entertain us But then again, they begin so abominably early, a Man must rise by Candle-light to get dress'd Toy the Psalm.
" Berinthia. Pray which Church does your Lord- ship most oblige with your Presence ?
"Lord Foppington. Oh, St. James's, Madam," &c. Vide Act II. sc. i.
JOHN T. PAGE.
West Haddon, Northamptonshire.
DUTCH REFUGEES IN LONDON IN 1566 (9 th S. ix. 289, 414). The late Mr. Cornelius Hallen printed this list in the Genealogical Magazine, quoted from Lansdowne MSS., vol. x. No. 62. Many were located about Fleming Street near the Tower, and a Sir Francis Fleming was master of St. Katherine's Hospital from 1549 to 1557.' As early as 1393 regulations as to " street walkers " define Flemish women as chief offenders. ABSENS.
"YE GODS AND LITTLE FISHES !" (9 th S. ix.
369.) When referring to the ' Life of Charles Lever,' by W. J. Fitzpatrick, LL.D. (Chap- man & Hall, 1879), for another matter, I came across the statement that the author of ' Charles O'Malley ' and his man Micky Free were very fond of amateur theatricals in Dublin. A loft was fitted up as a theatre, and Lever did everything. He was scene painter, prompter, played the fiddle, sang all the songs, and acted all the chief parts.
