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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. JULY 4,
Dissertation, pp. cxlv - clii. The form of
service which was used on these occasions is
given in the same volume, pp. 308-17.
EDWARD PEACOCK.
DE BATHE FAMILY (9 th S. vi. 269 ; viii. 20). May I again appeal for any information that might connect the De Bathe family with the estate called Bath, in North Tawton, Devon 1 In Assize Roll 175 (28 Hen. III.), m. 23 d, I find a Walter de Bath surety for Roger Perer in a case about land in Black- toriton ; and my curiosity has been stimulated by the discovery of a statement in an early eighteenth - century (incomplete) copy of Risdon's ' Survey of Devon ' (Add. MS. 33,420) that Bindon, in Axemouth, was granted to Roger Weekes (son of Richard Wykes, of Xorthwyke and Cocktree) "by Nicholas Banth alias Bath." In the printed work the name is "Bach," as also in Stowe MS. 817, which, however, in certain other entries that I have compared, differs from the printed version where the Add. MS. tallies with it. The letters t and c being often indistinguish- able in MSS. of the period, a mistake might easily have been made.
In Palmer's ' Index,' vol. ii. p. 20, referring to Close Roll 15 Hen. VII., No. 8, there is the record of a grant to Will Stampford, Richd. Pilford, and others, of land, &c., in Bath, Newlond, Wyke Doune, Hetz Park, &c., Devon. Newland is near to Bath, in North Tawton. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.
SHEFFIELD FAMILY (9 th S. xi. 328). Dr. George W. Marshall, Rouge Croix, in the 'Genealogist's Guide' for 1893, gives under the name Sheffield the following books :
Harleian Society, iii. 19.
Peck's 'Account of Isle of Axholme,' 82.
A Character of John Sheffield, late Duke of Buckinghamshire, with Pedigree of Sheffield Family,
Gentleman's Magazine, Ixxx. i. 203 ; ii. 34, 586, 630.
Visitation of Middlesex (Salisbury, 1820, fol.), i.
Burke's 'Commoners,' i. 651.
' Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica,' i. 171 ; iv. 259.
Ord's 'History of Cleveland/ 309.
Read's ' History of Isle of Axholme,' edited by T. C. Fletcher,' 160.
Betham's ' Baronage,' iii. 249.
Banks's ' Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' iii. 541.
The Genealogist, vi. 281.
A. R. BAYLEY.
THE AUTHOR AND AVENGER OF EVIL (9 th S. ix. 22, 229 ; x. 35 ; xi. 35, 455). It may per- haps deserve to be recorded that the Old and Middle High German folk- word Scrato, Schrat, or diminutive Schretel (faunus, wood-dsemon) has not yet become quite obsolete in German. According to Grimm's great hjstprical Ger-
man dictionary, Schrattel and Schretzel still
linger in various South German dialects
(especially in Bavarian and Swiss), being
applied to a hobgoblin or similar superstitious
creature. But the editors confess they are
at a loss how to explain its origin (" vollig
dunkler Herkunft "). I think we may now
take it for granted that it is identical with
English " Old Scratch," and closely akin to
Cech Skritek, as well as to Russian Chort
(the author of evil), as clearly shown by MR.
MARCHANT and M. Leger. H. KREBS.
With regard to the last reference, one gets nearer to " Old Scratch " in the O.K. German Scrazza, incubi (Stein meyer and Sievers's
- Glossensammlung,' 589, vol. i.) : this gives
modern German Sckratz = hobgoblin, which is not obsolete, though marked provinc. in Fliigel's ' Dictionary.' H. P. L.
BOADICEA'S DAUGHTERS (9 th S. xi. 449). The names of these ill-starred women appear to be unchronicled ; but there is a legend thao the elder became Mrs. Marius by marry- ing her step-brother. J. DORMER.
DEPUTY -MAYOR (9 th S. xi. 489). When I served as Mayor of Lostwithiel, 1899-1, and as Deputy-Mayor, 1901-2, this point never arose. Had it done so, I should have con- sidered that, though only acting in the absence of the mayor, the deputy would be correctly addressed at any time by the title conferred upon him under the hand of the mayor, and recorded in the minutes of council. This is what occurs, I fancy, in the case of a deputy - lieutenant or a deputy- sheriff. R. BARCLAY-ALLARDICE.
Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
THE GROTTO AT MARGATE (2 nd S. vi. 527 ; 8 th S. iii. 7, 96; vi. 347, 437, 471). Until recently this very remarkable object appears to have been ignored by guide-books. At 8 th S. vi. 471 (1894) MR. ARTHUR MONTEFIORE furnished a full description, but it would be interesting to learn more of its probable origin than has yet appeared. The late Mr. Mackenzie Walcott, in a passage twice quoted in your columns, attributed the work to an artisan since emigrated to America ; but every other theory 1 have been able to find goes back to much earlier times. Beyond one or two magazine articles, little seems to have been written about it, though it must have engaged the attention of many whose opinions would be of weight. W. B. H.
THE LIVING DEAD (9 th S. xi. 427, 497). The symptoms described by MR. MARCHANT point tp intoxication by Canwhis iw3,ico<
