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494 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* a vi. DEC. 22, woo. were stationed in Scotland, eight in the Channel Isles, one in the islands of Scilly, one at Peudennis, three at Berwick, two at Hull, two at Chester, two at Dover, one at Sheerness, one at Tilbury Fort, one—of which Adam Wood was lieutenant—at Land Guard Fort, Felixstowe. W. S. "GALLIMAUFRY" (9thS.vi. 408).—lamobliged by the query calling my attention to the point raised. My authority for the statement with regard to the prefix is Littre (Supplement), who says, s.v. ' Galimafre"e,' quoting from M. Darmesteter, "(la forme primordiale e'tant calimafre'e) une composes d'une preposition pejorative col, car, cali, cart, et un radical maft ou mafr." Further, Littnj says, "J'ai moi-mgrne, au Dictionnaire, indique Co, comme proposition pejorative." Brachet does not give the word, and the ' H.E.D.' says that the French form is of unknown origin. There must be many students among the readers of 1N. <fe Q.' who would be glad to know what is the latest French dictionary that is authori- tative on questions of etymology. AETHUE MAYALL. FICTION OR HISTORY? (9"> S. vi. 329.)—I may add to the editorial note that the story may be found in Ritson's 'Metrical Romances,7 vol. iii. part iv.. under the title ' The Knight of Curtesy ana the Fair Lady of Faguejl.' The Knight of Curtesy is a strange perversion of the Knight of Cpuci Castle, near St. Quen- tin, which was still standing and in good repair in 1635. The story, adds Ritson, is generally believed to be founded on fact. H. P. L. WINSTANLEY (3rd S. vi. 111).—In 1864 S. Y. R. (an able correspondent, long since deceased) asked for particulars of a Mr. Winstanley, rector of Gritworth (i.e., Gretworth), North- amptonshire, 1752. Perhaps somebody could say whether he may be identical with " the Reverend Mr. Winstanley, Rector of Llan- wenarth in Monmouthshire," who preached a " Sermon at the parish-church of St. George. Hanover-Square, Sunday, October 28, 1753, London, 8vo., 1753, fourteen leaves. The text is 1 Cor. ix. 22, and the sermon was in defence of the naturalization of the Jews It is ironically dedicated to Sir Thomas Clarges, who seems to have asked publicly in the church at the time that it might be printed, adding afterwards that the preacher was " a Jew and no Christian." The author met with much " ill treatment" and " several little insults," and was the subject of " a sneering paragraph in the London Evening Post, 1 November. The dedication, dated from "Orchard Street, Westminster, Nov., 1753," is signed T. W. At the end is advertised as " now in the press " ' The Christian Calling,' in one vol. 8vo., by the same author. Of a later writer, the Rev. Calvin Win- stanley, some particulars will be found in 'Living Authors,' 1816, p. 393, and in the preface of Wordsworth's ' Ecclesiastical Bio- graphy,' second ed., 1818, pp. xxvi. xxvii. THE MARBLE AECH (9th S. vi. 428, 453).— An account of the claim for compensation made by the Baron de Bode will be found in the concluding chapter of 'The Baroness de Bode, 1775-1803,' by W. S. Childe-Pember- ton, just published by Messrs. Longman. W. H. PEET. H. S. ASHBEE (9th S. vi. 121, 176,358).—The information asked for by ME. CANN HUGHES I purposely omitted. However, as it is par- ticularly desired, I now supply it. Ashbee was buried nowhere. He was cremated, at his own desire, at Woking. Carefully, how- ever, as he seems to have considered every- thing, here he made an omission, for he did not provide that the ashes should not be kept ; probably he did not know that it was necessary. MR. HUGHES is quite right as to the articles he mentions. 1 have them all marked in my copy of ' N. & Q.' with Ashbee's full name. The note on the ' Essay on Woman' is a little bit of literary deception ; the fact of his leaving out the name of the author of the ' Index Librorum ' seems to show me it was written by him. as it undoubtedly was. Any one else would nave given it, namely, Pisanus Fraxi—some play upon his own name? The British Museum has accepted his books. There was a note as to the rarity of some of the books in the Academy (dated properly the) 13 Oct., p. 299, quoting the Chronicle (1). His water-colour drawings are i un I-.T at the South Kensington Museum temporarily, and as yet have not been disfigured with vulgar black lettering, so popular at all our galleries. As a sample of how this should be done, I can refer to the pictures in the Mediseval Room, British Museum. Any one who desires to see how a picture can be vulgarized with black lettering on the frame can look at Millais's 'Inca of Peru' on the staircase at the South Kensington Museum. I am sorry that what MR. MAECHAM (p. 358) looks upon as public spirit was the result of lamentable family disagreements. I refrained from making any allusion to these, but the comments in the press seem to