ii s. iv. Dm 3o, i9ii.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Stood at the bottom of Flask Walk, in which LAIRDS OF DRUMMINNOR.—I copied the
connexion it may be mentioned that the following list a few years ago from some
picturesque archway at the entrance to work, of which I have forgotten the title :—
the Walk from High Street has recently "Johh De Forbes; Fergus De Forbes; Dunean
been removed. When the " jury" had De Forbes, 1262; Alexander De Forbes, Rovernour

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finished their duties they had " license to of Urquhart Castle, killed 1304; Sir Alexander De
depart, keeping their day and hour on a Forbes, killed at Dnpplin, 1332; Sir John De
new summons. Copyholders on the Heath Forbes, 1373; Sir Alexander De Forbes, died
appear still legally to retain " the right of 1405, married Elizabeth Kennedy of Dunure; Sir
pasturage, the right to take a load of sand Alexander De Forbes (1st Lord Forbes)."
if for the copyholder's own use, and the Burke's ' Peerage ' gives Sir John Forbes,
right of wooding." I t is refreshing to know died 1406, as the father of the 1st Lord
that these ancient functions are still per- Forbes. Will some reader of.' N. & Q.' state
petuated. CECIL CLARKE. if the above list is correct, and the relation-
Junior Athenseum Club. ship of the lairds to the 1st Lord Forbes ?
I have read that Sir John Forbes, father of
the 1st Lord Forbes, was the 4th son of the
5th laird of Drumminnor. J. F. J.
Minneapolis.
CAVENDISH SQUARE : EQUESTRIAN STATUE.
WE must request correspondents desiriiiR in-
formation on family matters of only private interest —Some five years ago I first noticed that
to affix their names and addresses to their queries, the equestrian statue of the Duke of Cum-
in order that answers may be sent to them direct. berland had been removed from its' pedestal
in the centre of Cavendish Square. Since
' MILIEUX D'ART.'—A privately printed that time I have over and over again asked
book bearing this title was noticed in The for information about it, and have got no
Saturday Review, 19 May, 1906, from which result. The curious thing is that I have
I gather that it contains some interesting not found any one who remembered the
criticisms of George Meredith's works. I statue, even amongst those who have been
am anxious to obtain a description of the thirty and forty years in the immediate,
book for a list of Meredithiana I am compiling neighbourhood. I feel sure it was on the
and to ascertain the author's name. A letter pedestal twenty years ago. When and
addressed to the printer, Donald Fraser, why was it removed ?
37, Hanover Street, Liverpool, has elicited HERBERT SIEVEKING.
no reply. MAURICE BUXTON FORMAN. 'DIVES AND PAUPER' : OUR LADY'S FAST.
Cape Town. (See ante, p. 323.) — In 'Parish Churches
• SOMERSET CARPENTER ARMS.—Does any before the Reformation: a Contribution to
one know the origin of the Somerset Car- the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeo-
penter arms and crest T Vert, an escallop logical Society,' by M. E. C. Walcott,
shell arg. between two pallets or. Crest, B.D., F.S.A. (1879), I find the following
a snail ppr. with shell on top arg.(?), granted passage :—
in 1663. Henry Carpenter, Secretary Gene- " ' Superfluous fasts are those called the Lady
ral of Leeward Islands, 1701 et seq., used Fast, S. Trinyon's (Ninian's) Fast, the Black
these arms in 1685. To whom were they Fast (abstinence from lacticinia), S. Margaret's
Fast (Queen of Scotland), S. Brandon's Fast,
first granted ? J. H. C. S. Patrick's Fast, Four holy Fridays (Ember
Utah. weeks), S. Anthony's Fast, between S. Mary's
days (Dec. 8, Feb. 2), and Lady Fast (once a week),
, PHTT.T.TPPS FAMILY.—I am desirous of seven years the same day that her day failed on
tracing the ancestry of the old family of in March, or one year with bread and water.'
Phillipps. Clara Philipps was my mother's ['Barnes' Visit.,' 1577, p. 17. 'Tyndale,' i., 08.] "
mother, born on 8 March, 1826 (where ?) ; I reproduce it as printed. The quotations
she married at London on 4 Jan., 1849, the (for I presume there are two) are evidently
Freiherr Adalbert v. Nordeck zur Rabenau, garbled, and I have searched in vain for the
who lived at Friedelhausen, near Giessen works from which they are taken. I should
(Hessen), Germany. She died at Friedel- be greatly obliged to any one who would
hausen on 20 Feb., 1867. Can any infor- be so good as to inform me in which of
mation be given as to the family Phillipps, Tindale's works there is a reference to
or any surviving members of this family ? " Lady Fast," and what book is intended by
'• A. COUNT SCHWERIN-SCHWERINSBURG. ' Barnes' Visit., 1577.'
Schwerinsburg, Lowitz, Ponimern, Germany. H. G. RICHARDSON.