utland, is shown a doorway, through which the
heiress to this baronial mansion eloped with (I think) a Cavendish some
centuries ago. I have been informed that in a recent restoration of
Bakewell Church, which is near Haddon Hall, the vault which contained the
remains of this lady and her family was accidentally broken into, and that
the bodies of herself, her husband, and some children, were found
decapitated, with their heads under their arms; moreover, that in all the
coffins there were dice. My informant had read an authenticated account of
this curious circumstance, which was drawn up at the time of the discovery,
but he could not refer me to it, and it is very possible that either his
memory or mind may have failed as to the exact facts. At any rate they are
worth embalming, I think, in the pages of "N. & Q." if any correspondent
will kindly supply both "chapter and verse."

ALFRED GATTY.

_Monteith._--There is a peculiar style of silver bowl, of about the time of
Queen Anne, which is called a Monteith. Why is it so designated? and to
what particular use was it generally applied?

P.

_Vandyking._--In a letter from Secretary Windebanke to the Lord Deputy
Wentworth (_Strafford Papers_, vol. i. p. 161.), P. C. S. S. notices this
phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship the over-free censure of your
_Vandyking_." What is the meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not
find in any other writing of the period? Had the _costume_, so usual in the
portraits by Vandyke, become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of
Windebanke's letter?

P. C. S. S.

_Hiel the Bethelite._--What is the meaning of the 34th verse of the 16th
chapter of the 1st Book of Kings? In one of Huddlestone's notes to Toland's
_History of the Druids_, he quotes the acts of Hiel the Bethelite, therein
mentioned, as an instance of the Druidical Custom of burying a man alive
under the foundations of any building which was to be undertaken?

L. M. M. R.

_Earl of Glencairn._--Could you or any of your readers inform me of any
particulars concerning the Earl of Glencairn, who, with a sister, is said
to have fled from Scotland about 1700, or rather later, and to have
concealed himself in Devonshire, where his sister married, 1712, one John
Lethbridge, and had issue? Was this sister called Grace? Within late years
they were spoken of by the very old inhabitants of Okehampton, Devon, and
stories of the coroneted clothes, &c. were current.

LODBRO