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NOTES AND QUERIES. p* s. vi. JOT.Y a, im the family of Gorges, as the following extract from Collinson's ' Somerset,' vol. iii. p. 171, will show (swbter Easton in Gordano): " Geoffry de Marisco, a descendant of Peter de M., in the time of Hen. III., gave these lands in mar- riage with his granddaughter to Emeriok de Gardino, or Gordein, an ancient family, who principally residing in this neighbourhood, the places where they possessed estates, or in which they had any material intercourse, became dis- tinguished by their names, whence arose the corrupt appellations of Easton in Gordano, &c. Notice is taken of this particular, in regard there are some who have erroneously conceived that this whole territory we are now speaking of was anciently called Gardium ; and others, equally mis- taken, have given it as their opinion that the several places to which the distinction in question is affixed, having during the minority of some one of the Berkeleys been in ward or gardien to the King, were thence cojpominated to preserve the memory of such a circumstance occurring in the manorial property of that illustrious family." Collinson's authority was the 'Testa de Nevill,' and on referring thereto I find that Emericus de Gardino held a fourth part of the manor of Weston, and also that Thomas de Gardino with another held a knight's fee in Side and Gardino, which two manors were in the county of Gloucester. ^ Thus the connexion of " in Gordano " with Somerset may now, I think, be satisfactorily accounted for, but the derivation of the place-name Gardino still remains to be fought put, as I hope it will be, in the pages of N. & Q.' WILLIAM LOCKE RADFORD. Ilminster. Has LORD ALDBNHAM fully weighed the evidence given by Collinson ? We read of a Ralph de Gardino of Cleveden about 1190, but the Gorges did not appear till 1269, when Sir Roger married the heiress of Wraxall, which line survived only for two generations, when an heiress earned the land to the Russells; and the mortuary inscriptions at Wraxall are therefore Russell alias Gorges. Meanwhile there was a Wm. de Gordein at Somerton in 1288, and a Thomas appears in the 'Testa de Nevill'; so a main line of Gor- dano is thus authenticated at (1) Easton in Gordano, where Emeric de Gardino married the heiress, deriving from Fitz-Hamon and Marischau vel Morisco; (2) Weston in Gor- dano, which came from Perceval al. Lovel to Ashley and Emeric, as above; singularly, the Gorges of Warwickshire were of kin to Lovel, but Gordano was a fixture in Somer- setshire beforehand; (3) the same Emeric also held Clapton in Gordano. Did any true Gorges nourish permanently anywhere ? A. HALL. Highbury, N. ADRIAN SCROPE, THE REGICIDE (9th S. v. 495). —I cannot understand INQUIRER'S statement respecting the brevity of Foster's ' Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire,' which work gives the Scrope pedigree without a break from Hugh le Scrope, 1149, ancestor of Richard, the first Baron Scrope, to John Scrope of Spennithorne, co. York, and Hambleton. co. Bucks, brother to Sir Henry, the seventh baron, 1514, and great-grand- father of Adrian, the regicide, down to John of Wormsley, co. Oxon, 1752. To give a skeleton pedigree would take up too much of the space of ' N. <fe Q.,' but I will send to INQUIRER any information from the above. JOHN RADCLIFFE. Furlane, Greenfield, Oldham. LAFONTAINE'S ' OIES DE FRERE PHILLIPPE ' (9th S. v. 512).—There is another variant in the story of ' Peredur the Son of Evrawe' in the ' Mabinogion' of Lady Charlotte Guest. The mother of Peredur, fearing that her son might become a knight, and be slain as his father and elder brothers had been, brings him up in seclusion, and in complete ignor- ance of everything pertaining to chivalry and martial affairs. And when he sees by chance three knights riding by and asks what they are, she tells him they are angels. " Then," says Peredur, "by my faith I will go and become an angel with them." In a note Lady Charlotte refers to St. John of Damascus, and to a Latin collection of materials for com- posing sermons (circa 1450), in which similar incidents occur. C. C. B. IRON MINES IN WEST WARWICKSHIRE (9th S. v. 515).—In the life of St. Egwin, founder and first abbot of Evesham Abbey and third Bishop of Worcester (died 717), it is recorded that he visited the iron-workers in the royal domain at Alcester (Alne - cester, Latin Alauna), in order to convert them. They refused to hear him, and made such a din with their hammers and anvils that he could not be heard. Thereupon he placed a curse upon them, so that no smith was able to pros- per at Alcester thereafter. See 'Chronicon Abbatise de Evesham' (Rolls Series, 1863, pp. 24-6) for the interesting details. W. C. B. MUOGLETONIAN WRITINGS (9th S. V. 415, 485).—I have in my possession a curious manuscript, which I may say I acquired, not for the theological merits of its contents, but because it bears on its front page the inscrip- tion " Ex lib1 J. Addison," in Mr. Secretary's well-known handwriting. It is of duodecimo size, and comprises sixty-six pages. It is pos- sibly a duplicate of the MS. mentioned by MR.