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Cotentin with thorns. Not long ago apple-
trees were still to be seen in certain grave-
yards of High Brittany which lay round
churches ; it was the same in Normandy,
.and the authors of the vaux-de-vire make
allusion to the antiquity of the custom.
P. W. G. M.
floras.
WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
BETHLEM ROYAL HOSPITAL. I am com- pleting my ' History of Bedlam,' and should be glad of information from any readers of ' N. & Q.' I have been unable to trace the whereabouts of a picture by Hogarth, who painted the exterior of Bethlehem Hospital in Moorfields ; and I cannot find in the Museum Print-Room caricatures by Gillray of Fox and Burke in Bedlam (1784 and 1789).
E. G. O'DoNOGHUE, Chaplain.
" GENTLEMAN " : " ARMIGER " : " PRIVI- LEGIATUS." - In Foster's 'Alumni Oxoni- enses ' the fathers of some of the alumni are described as gent., of others as arm. What distinction of meaning is here intended between gentleman and armiger ?
And what does privileciiatus mean in such entries as the following ? " Adee, Ed- mund, toiisor ; privilegiatus 18 July, 1740."
BLADUD. .
JFor armiger see the references cited in the torial note at 10 S. vii. 109.]
HONORARY DEGREES AT CAMBRIDGE. I am informed that until some not very distant date there was a practice at Cambridge of conferring honorary degrees on all applicants who could prove a connexion or relation- ship, direct or collateral, with the Royal Family. I should be glad to learn if this was so in fact ; and, if so, how long the custom lasted, the nature of the degree, whether there was any special name by which such degrees were known, and whether any list of the recipients is accessible.
ALAN STEWART.
TENNYSON'S 'FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL.' Where was Tennyson's poem,
- Flower in the crannied wall,' &c., pub-
lished ? It is quoted in Sir Norman Lock- yer's ' Tennyson as a Student,' &c., with
an apparent reference to ' Amphion,' but
it is not there. It is not mentioned in
Brightwell's Concordance. It is quoted in
'N.E.D.' s.v. " Crannied," but without the
reference -a very unusual thing with the
' N.E.D.' H. N. ELLACOMBE.
Bitton Vicarage, Bristol.
[The " Eversley Edition " of Tennyson (1908), ' Poems,' vol. ii. p. 376, has a note saying :
" [First published in 1869. ED.] The flower was plucked out of a wall at ' Waggoners Wells ' near Haslemere."
On the other hand, according to Mr. T. J. Wise's ' Bibliography of Tennyson,' privately printed, 1908, vol. i. p. 214, the little poem first appeared in ' The Holy Grail, and other Poems ' (1870). It now appears just before the ' Experi- ments ' in metre. The reference in Sir N. Lockyer's book, " p. 240," clearly refers to the one- volume edition of Tennyson, and on that page the poem will be found.]
ALIEN PRIORIES : THEIR CHARTTJLARIES. Many alien priories and similar institutions possessed estates in England. Presumably the chartularies of some, it not of all, of these institutions have survived and their present location is known. Which of these chartul- aries have been printed, and where in England may these publications be seen ? In regard to the English estates, they must contain much material for the local historian otherwise unattainable.
J. HAMBLEY ROWE. M.B.
GOODBETER : ITS LOCALITY. In a re- cently published Danish MS., the diary of a young man of science, Holger Jacobseus, during his European travels and studies, 1671-92, he alludes to his visits to London and Oxford. From the latter he made a trip to Bristol, a two days' journey, through Farringdon and " Mecksfyld " (Marshfield ?), where he mentions stopping for the night at
Goodbeter," some village, evidently, in Berkshire or Wiltshire. What place-name is hidden under this form ? W. R. PRIOR.
SMALLPOX AND THE STARS. A seventeenth- century poet wrote a poem to one suffering Tom smallpox, comparing the pock-marks stars and constellations. What is the reference ? A. S. P.
SHERSONS OF ELLEL CRAIG AND LAN- ASTER. Can any correspondent of 'N. & Q.' refer me to books (such as county histories or other antiquarian works) in which there is mention of this family ? They were at one ime hereditary constables of the Castle of Lancaster, I believe. They intermarried with the Nowells of Read. I want informa- ion before the eighteenth century. I know
