Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 | Page 7

519., but not printed.
His genealogical collections are contained in a series of volumes
marked with the letters of the alphabet, and comprehended in the
Lansdowne Catalogue under No. 207. The Catalogue is very minute,
and the contents of the several volumes very miscellaneous; and some
of the genealogical notes are simply short memoranda, which, in order
to be made available, must be wrought out from other sources. They all
relate more or less to the county of Lincoln. One of these, called
"Trusbut," was presented to the British Museum by Sir Joseph Banks in
1817, and will be found in Add. MSS. 6118.
E. G. BALLARD.
Anagrams.--The publication of two anagrams in your Number for May
7, calls to my mind a few that were made some years ago by myself
and some friends, as an experiment upon the anagrammatic resources
of words and phrases. A subject was chosen, and each one of the party
made an anagram, good, bad, or indifferent, out of the component
letters. The following may serve as a specimen of the best of the budget
that we made.

1. French Revolution. Violence, run forth!
2. Swedish Nightingale. Sing high! sweet Linda. (q. d. di Chamouni.)
3. Spanish Marriages. Rash games in Paris; or, Ah! in a miser's grasp.
4. Paradise Lost. Reap sad toils.
5. Paradise Regained. Dead respire again.
C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.
Birmingham.
Family Caul--Child's Caul.--The will of Sir John Offley, Knight, of
Madeley Manor, Staffordshire (grandson of Sir Thomas Offley, Lord
Mayor of London temp. Eliz.), proved at Doctors' Commons 20th May,
1658, contains the following singular bequest:
"Item, I will and devise one Jewell done all in Gold enammelled,
wherein there is a Caul that covered my face and shoulders when I first
came into the world, the use thereof to my loving Daughter the Lady
{547} Elizabeth Jenny, so long as she shall live; and after her decease
the use likewise thereof to her Son, Offley Jenny, during his natural life;
and after his decease to my own right heirs male for ever; and so from
Heir to Heir, to be left so long as it shall please God of his Goodness to
continue any Heir Male of my name, desiring the same Jewell be not
concealed nor sold by any of them."
CESTRIENSIS.
Numerous Progeny.--The London Journal of Oct. 26, 1734, contains
the following paragraph:
"Letters from Holderness, in Yorkshire, mention the following
remarkable inscription on a tombstone newly erected in the churchyard
of Heydon, viz. 'Here lieth the body of William Strutton, of Padrington,
buried the 18th of May, 1734, aged 97, who had by his first wife 28
children, and by a second wife 17; own father to 45, grandfather to 86,

great-grandfather to 97, and great-great-grandfather to 23; in all 251.'"
T. B. H.
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Queries.
SMITH, YOUNG, AND SCRYMGEOUR MSS.
Thomas Smith, in his Vitæ Illustrium, gives extracts from a so-called
Ephemeris of Sir Peter Young, but which Sir Peter compiled during the
latter years of his life. Thomas Hearne says, in a note to the Appendix
to Leland's Collectanea, that he had had the use of some of Smith's
MSS. This Ephemeris of Sir Peter Young may be worth the publishing
if it can be found: can any of your readers say whether it is among
Smith's or Hearne's MSS., or if it be preserved elsewhere? Peter Young,
and his brother Alexander, were pupils of Theodore Beza, having been
educated chiefly at the expense of their maternal uncle Henry
Scrymgeour, to whose valuable library Peter succeeded. It was brought
to Scotland by Alexander about the year 1573 or 1574, and was landed
at Dundee. It was especially rich in Greek MSS.; and Dr. Irvine, in his
"Dissertation on the Literary History of Scotland," prefixed to his Lives
of the Scottish Poets, says of these MSS. and library, "and the man who
is so fortunate as to redeem them from obscurity, shall assuredly be
thought to have merited well from the republic of letters." It is much to
be feared, however, that as to the MSS. this good fortune awaits no
man; for Sir Peter Young seems to have given them to his fifth son,
Patrick Young, the eminent Greek scholar, who was librarian to Prince
Henry, and, after his death, to the king, and to Charles I. Patrick
Young's house was unfortunately burned, and in it perished many MSS.
belonging to himself and to others. If Scrymgeour's MSS. escaped the
fire, they are to be sought for in the remnant of Patrick Young's
collection, wherever that went, or in the King's Library, of which a
considerable part was preserved. Young's house was burned in 1636,
and he is supposed to have carried off a large number of MSS. from the
royal library,