NOTES AND QUERIES.

SURNAMES AS CHRISTIAN NAMES (12

S.

ix. 370, 437, 474, oil).—According to the
Granville Pedigree (Roger Granville,' History
of the Granville Family,' 1895), Sir Thomas
Granville (d. 1513) married the datighter
of Sir Otes Gilbert, and Sir Thomas's daughter
Joan was married to Wymond Raleigh immediately after her father's death.
M. H. DODDS.

115

Menken's body was laid in a temporary
grave in Pere Lachaise when she died in
Paris in August, 1868, but it was removed, at
the instance, I believe, of one of the Rothschild family, to the Jewish portion of the
cemetery of Montparnasse on April 21,
1869, where it now rests.
Various misstatements about her burialplace were fully exposed by me in a letter
which appeared in The Referee of June 27,

THE ARMS OF LEEDS (12 S. ix. 507 ; x. 1909.

WIIXOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

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-12 S. X. FEB. 11. 1922.]

56, 72).—I am curious to know what kind
of helmet has been granted to Leeds. Does I _
„.
,
-c
' -D™
it figure as a noble? a baronet or knight, or ; J°=» WESLEY'S Fms T PUBLICATION
;
ST. SWITHIN. |(12S. x. 9).—According to t h e j Catalogue
as a mere esquire
Books, &c,
of Manuscripts, Relics
DANTE'S BEARD (12 S. ix. 271, 315, 378, belonging to the Wesleyan Methodist Conference,'
published
a
few
weeks
ago, the
436; x. 56).—I do not think the idea of there
being any connexion between the smoothness edition of John Wesley's work, ' The Chrisor the roughness of Dante's chin and his tian's Pattern,' published in 1735 (and
mourning for Beatrice ever occurred to me, which your correspondent possesses) p> isand I must have expressed myself very badly mentioned specifically as being the first
for MR. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG to find such a edition. Later editions were issued in
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
theory in my unimportant remarks.
1763 and 1815.
I may as well take this opportunity of
saying that, without believing Dante to be a
'BRITI; SH MELODIES' (12 S. x. 48).—In
man of fashion, I thought it possible that the late Mr. Bertram Dobell's ' Catalogue
some habit of the day in which he lived of Books printed for Private Circulation '
might have had an influence on his use or dis- (London, 1906), this book is offered for sale
use of the razor. I think the Greek sym- at 4s. 6d. In a footnote Mr. Dobell says that
bolism, to which Mr. Armstrong refers, would though ' British Meolodies ' bears no date it
hardly afiect the artists who tried to portray may be pretty confidently ascribed to 1816 or
the living human Dante.
ST. SWITHTN.
1817, as it is printed on paper water-marked
1815. The' pieces are well selected, only a
BARON GRANT (12 S. x, 31, 75).—SIR few of inferior merit being included. The
ALFRED ROBBINS is not accurate in what he largest contributors are Byron, Wordsworth,
says at the last reference. Carlo Pelle- Scott, and Moore. I have looked in vain for
grini's cartoon of Albert Grant appeared " the many original pieces " the title page
in Vanity Fair of Feb. 21, 1874, but so ' promises,
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
far as the distich is concerned it was neither |
given at the foot of the picture nor referred
WELSH MAP SOUGHT (12 S. x. 32).—In
to in the accompanying letterpress. All reply to the latter part of MR. L. C. PRICE'S
that was printed under the cartoon was query, there appeared an article in ArchcBOsimply the words " Leicester Square." It logia Cambrensis, vol. 1860, signed J. E.,
is regrettable that contributors to 'N. & Q.,' ' Ysbytty Ifan; or, the Hospitallers in
whose readers naturally look for reliable
which gives information on the
information, should not be at more pains Wales,'
old house of Gilar which is in the parish.
to verify the accuracy of what purport The
owner, the late Colonel Salusbury Mainto be categorical statements of fact, instead waring,
dilated in its antiquarian features
of trusting to their memories.
when Cambrian archaeologists visited the
WILLCUGHBY MAYCOCK.
place in 1911 (see Arch. Camb., 1912).
ADAH

ISAACS • MENKEN'S

' INFELICIA '

(12 S. x. 32, 79, 97).—I am sorry to see that
MR. ROBERT PIERPOINT at the second
reference perpetuates an inaccuracy by
quoting a statement by Mr. G. R. Sims in
The Referee of Dec. 24, 1905, to the effect
that Adah Menken " is buried in the Jewish
portion of-Pere Lachaise."

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

"To BURN ONE'S BOATS" (12 S. viii. 210 ;
ix. 177 ; x. 79).—Robert Guiscard, before the
battle of Durazzo, October, 1081, proposes
this measure: whether it was carried out
is not very clear (Gibbon, ' D. & F. R. B.,'
S.
cap. lvi.).