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for Thos. Binstead, as having been engraved voyaging of those sturdy pioneers, Ohthere
by B.L. in the Chippendale style, of the date and Wnlfstan. Both names (I am myself a
1760. " Woolston " on the mother's side) have ap-

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W. W. P. OF HAWKSHAW. parently been not uncommon in every subse-
quent age in England.
y " = "LEAD PENCIL" (clxviii. EDWARD J. G. FOESE.
' 80);—When 1 was an assietant-curate
at Jarrow-on-Tyne (1899-1902), " vine " was "BOTANY BAY," ENFIELD: KEN-
the common and only term among the school- 13
NEDY (clxviii. 48, 87). — The name
children to describe a " lead pencil." I was " Botany Bay " occurs, to my personal know-
greatly intrigued by the word when I first ledge, in very many corners of England: but
came across it as a deacon. Years later, I I know only one place called " Kennedy," and
was equally puzzled by the French school- that is the vast expanse of village allotments
children's name for the thing: mine dc plomh. bordering on St. Jude's churchyard at Engle-
EDWARD J. G. FOHSE. field Green, in Surrey, where I was born and
spent my childhood. Years of patient en-
I have been able to find " vine " = lead quiry left little doubt that this was a local
pencil, in Wright's ' Dialect Dictionary ' corruption of " Canada," and was originally
only. He (1905) says the word is in use in adopted, I suppose, between 1850 and 1880,
Northumberland, Durham and Cumberland, as meaning " a place for free grants of
and gives one literary quotation, ' The land."
Borderland Muse,' by L. Proudlock (1896). EDWARD J. G. FORSE.
It does not appear to be in the ' Oxford
English Dictionary,' or the Supplement PWO OLD LONG-CASE CLOCKS (clxviii.
thereto. •*• 79, 106).—I have a long-cased grandfather
A. M. COLEMAN. clock by W. Holland, Chester. It is about 8ft.
high, has a. white-dial with two gold birds
WAGNER (3 S. i, 330, 379).—The Family one on each side of the keyhole, and a shell
' ' Bible of a branch of the Wagner family in each of the four corners. It has been in
is for sale, according to the 132nd Catalogue my family for over a century.
issued by R. Hall of Tunbridge Wells. T. CANN HUGHES, F.S.A.
Entries commence with ' Melehior Wagner'
of Coblenz. DANKYN FAMILY OF KEPPOK (clxviii.
A. H. W. FYNMORE.
• " 79).—MR. SETON-ANDERSON might get
some information as to this family from Miss
HORSEFLIES: CLEGS (clxvii. 421; Roberta Rankin, the Assistant Medical
11
clxviii. 70).—See Index, Sixth Series. Officer of Health for Lancaster, or her
Cleg, Lowland Scotch for horse-fly, (x. 149, brother Sir George Claus Rankin, who was
194). until recently Chief Justice of Calcutta but
A. H. W. FYNMOHE. is now somewhere in England. They were
children of the late Rev. Robert Rankin,
HERBERT FAMILY WILLS, 1400-1732 Minister of Lamington, Lanarkshire.
*•*• (clxviii. 62).—In Gray's ' Family His- T. CANN HUGHES, F.S.A.
tory Catalogue/ No. 19, issued from 1, " Oakrigg," Lancaster.
Churchfield Road, East Acton, London (no
date given) the item referred to appears, PULMER
D
CENOTAPH IN BROTTON
CHURCHYARD, CLEVELAND (clxvii.
price £21. 404, 465; clxviii. 87, 100).—The following,
L. A. ARMSTRONG. '
taken from Sir Cuthbert Sharp's ' History of
EWTER PORRINGER: DATE AND Hartlepool' (1816) may shed some light on
P MAKER, SOUGHT (clxviii. 80). — Is thi6 topic.
not this a bleeding bowl ? The rose was July 27, 1635. Mr. William Bulmer of Wilton
a Government mark, the same as the lion admitted a free burgess by " paraigntage and
on silver. paid 4/-."
E. E. COPE. This certainly points to the Bulmers being
occupied with shipping, and they are likely to
QTHER SURNAME (clxviii. 49, 85). — I have had interests in both Brotton and
" am surprised that no one has yet referred Westerdale.
to King Alfred's famous account of the Polar H. ASKEW.