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NOTES AND QUERIES. 9* s. vn. JA*. s, woi.
eadh (it). The original meaning was there-
fore " if so," but it is commonly used in the
sense of "well then." See Canon Bourke's
'Easy Lessons in Irish,' 1896, p. 52.
JAMES PLATT, Jun.
This interjection in colloquial Anglo-Irish represents the Irish maiseadh, if so be, then, therefore i.e., ma is se (O'Reilly, 'Irish Dictionary,' ed. O'Donovan, p. 346 ; P. Ken- nedy, 'Evenings in the Duffrey,' p. 402).
A. SMYTHE PALMER. ,
S. Woodford.
MOVABLE STOCKS (9 th S. vi. 405). This mobility is confirmed by the statement that " an incorrigible," named Samuel Tisdale, was "dragged around the town [of Shrewsbury] in the stocks, by a mob": this occurred in 1851, as nearly as can be ascertained.
A. HALL.
Many years ago (it was, I think, in 1861) I saw the performance of ' King Lear ' at Sadler's Wells Theatre, then under the management of Mr. Phelps, who enacted the part of Lear. I can remember the movable stocks being brought upon the stage, and the Earl of Kent being placed in them (Act II. sc. ii.). Probably movable stocks were kept in most castles in feudal times for punish- ment. Xo doubt in the edition of Shakspere by my late friend Halliwell-Phillipps there would be found a pictorial illustration and much curious information on the point. He once told me that his own special copy of his fifty-guinea Shakspere, which he had copi- ously annotated, was destroyed by fire at a repository where he had housed it.
JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.
JSewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.
There was a pair of movable stocks in the
church of Northorpe, near this town, some
fty years ago Whether they are preserved
m the present day I have no means of know-
Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.
CAMDEN ANCESTRY (9 th S. vi. 430). Agnes Strickland m her 'Queens' mentions that
who, n ry C \ r f wen ' f Wor kington, with lorn Queen Mary of Scots sojourned a
Pan O m0 ' Wa ? C ' Usln f Queen Catherine arr, Queen Mary's aunt by marriage. By
, other m0 \ matcn ! al { Ie c et (though his Agnes daughter of Sir
Henry Curwen was Queen Mary's cousin in
the fifth degree. Camden, being his nephew,
was therefore a kinsman of the two rival
queens. There was a Camden family at
Battersea in the last century. John Camden
of that place had two daughters, coheirs.
The elder, Elizabeth, married in 1788 James
Neild, High Sheriff of Bucks in 1804 (a well-
known philanthropist and prison reformer
of the day). In an article in the ' Book of
Days' upon his son, John Camden Neild, it
is stated that his mother was "a direct
descendant of the renowned antiquary of
the same name." Upon what authority that
statement was based I do not know, but
among the descendants of Harriet, younger
daughter of John Camden, of Battersea, who
married John Mangles, of the Manor House,
Hurley, Berks, I have found it generally
believed. The descent may possibly be from
Camden's father through his sou Sampson,
who was married, while the antiquary was
not. In the register of St. Augustine's Church,
London, is the record of a marriage between
Sampson Camden and Avis Carter, 4 Septem-
ber, 1575. In the printed ' Visitation of Lon-
don, 1633-5,' appears a short pedigree begin-
ning with .Richard Camden, of Mappowder,
co. Dorset, and ending with his son .Richard,
who married, first, Koda, daughter of Ion
King, of Eaton ; secondly, Sarah, daughter
of John Dayrell, of Calehill in Kent. I much
desire to clear up the question whether the
Camdens of Battersea were kin to " Camden
the nourice of antiquity." It is a subject of
great interest, and I would welcome any
light thrown upon it.
FEANCIS P. LEYBURN YAEKER. 3, Addenbrooke Place, Cambridge.
MR. CURWEN is correct in assuming that ' Camdeni Epistolse,' 1691, small 4to., contains a notice of Camden's father, Sampson Cam- den. I have this scarce book, and will be pleased to hear from MR. CURWEN.
A. IREDALE.
Torquay.
THE KECHABITES (9 th S. vi. 261). The real status of these Rechabites seems equivocal. We are told in 2 Samuel iv. 2 that they were of the sons of Benjamin, so Jews of pure blood. But in 1 Chronicles ii. we find them classed with the sons of Judah (v. 3), which follow on to David, with several named Caleb ; so Caleb son of Hur or Hor, ending with the Kenites that came of Hamath, the father of the house of Rechab ; then ch. iii reverts to David's own sons. All argument tails if the reference to the Kenites is called an interpolation. A. H.
