Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 | Page 8

and another in the hands of a friend of mine,
are the only specimens I have heard of; but they are not quite as old or
as genuine as one could wish.
J.O. HALLIWELL.
_Origin of the name "Polly."_--Will you allow me to ask how persons
of my name came to be called _Polly_?
MARY.
_Tomlinson, of Southwingfield, Derbyshire._--The parochial register
of the parish of Southwingfield, in the county of Derby, contains,
among its earliest entries (A.D. 1586), the name Tomlinson, as then
resident therein. The family, to the present time, continues to reside
within the parish, as respectable yeomen, and has thence extended itself
to many of the neighbouring parishes, as well as to more distinct
localities. Blore's History of Southwingfield makes no mention of such
a family connected with the parish, as tenants or otherwise; nor does it
appear that there is at present any family of Tomlinson bearing arms

that can have been derived from any of the ancient lords of Wingfield.
The wills at Lichfield, to whose registry Southwingfield belongs, are in
a very dilapidated and unsatisfactory state, at the time immediately
preceding the commencement of the Southwingfield parochial register.
Probably some genealogist will be enabled to offer a suggestion as to
the means which are available for tracing the genealogy of this fanily
prior to the year 1586.
_The Phrase "To have a Button in the Room," and "Sally."_--I have
again been reading that most amusing book, The Lives of the Norths. At
p. 88 of vol. i. (edit. 1826) there is a passage which has always puzzled
me. Speaking of some law proceedings in which the Lady Dacres was
concerned, Roger North says:--
"And herein she served herself another way, for her adversary defamed
her for swearing and unswearing, and it was not amiss to have a button
in the room."
At p. 92. (_post_) there is another strange expression:-- {216}
"The horse, when he found himself clear of pursuers, stopped his
course by degrees, and went with his rider (fast asleep upon his back)
into a pond to drink, and there sat his lordship upon the 'sally.' (Qy.
_saddle_?)"
P.C.S.S.
_St. Philip and St. James._--"And near it was the house of the apostles
Philip and James the son of Alpheus."--_Early Travels in Palestine
(Mandeville)_, p. 175.; Bohn's Antiquarian Library. This is the only
place, except in the Church service, where I have seen the above-named
apostles coupled together, and have often wondered whether there was
any old legend or tradition to account for the Church joining them
together in one commemorative festival.
A.H.E.
_Sir William Hamilton._--On a tombstone in the burial-ground at St.
Hilda's, South Shields, in the county of Durham, is the following
inscription:--
"Here lieth interr'd ye body of Sir W. Hamilton Knt and Baronet sonne
to ye Earle of Abercorne and late servant to Queen Henrietta Maria ye
late Queene mother of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles that now is
over England &c. who departed to ye mercy of God June 24th anno
Domni 1681."

There is in the possession of an old lady living at Durham, in 1836, an
original note in the handwriting of King Charles the Second, of which
the following is a copy:--
"Whereas a debte of foure thousande one hundred and fifty pounds
sterlinge apeares to be remayning dew by the king my father to Sir W.
Hamilton brother to the Earle of Abercorne for the service done to the
Queene my mother, I do hereby promis to pay ye sayde debte of 4150£.
to ye sayde Sir William Hamilton his heires and assigns or to satisfie
him or them to the valew thereof when it shall please God to restore me
to the possession of my dominions.
"Given at Brussells 28 Mar. 1630.
"CHARLES REX."
Is any thing known of Sir William Hamilton, or of the services he
rendered to Queen Henrietta Maria?
A.H.E.
_The Koran by Sterne._--Can you or any of your readers inform me if
the work entitled _The Koran_, printed in some editions of Sterne's
writings, is a genuine composition of his, or not? If not, who was its
author, and what is its literary history? My reason for asking is, that I
have heard it asserted that it is not by Sterne.
E.L.N.
_Devices on Standards of the Anglo-Saxons._--Can any of your readers
inform me what devices were borne on the standards of the several
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the so-called Heptarchy? The white
horse is by many supposed to have been the standard of Wessex, and to
have been borne by Alfred; but was not this really the ensign of the
Jutish kingdom of Kent, the county of Kent to this day displaying the
white horse in its armorial bearings? The standard of Wessex is by
others said to have been the