I am
not able to furnish an instance of a daughter doing so, I can refer him to
a few of sons using that form of surname some years earlier, but the
practice seems very limited. Thus in _Liber de Antiquis Legibus_, published
by the Camden Society, we have, among the early sheriffs of London in 1193,
Willielmus filius Ysabelis, or, as in the appendix 222, Ysabel; in 1200,
Willielmus filius Alicie; in 1213, Martinus filius Alicie; and in 1233 and
1246, Simon filius Marie,--the same person that, as Simon Fitz-Mary, is
known as the founder of the Hospital of St. Mary Bethlehem Without,
Bishopsgate.

W. S. W.

Middle Temple.

_The Young Pretender_ (Vol. ix., p. 177.).--Will CEYREP, or any other
correspondent, furnish me with particulars of the Young Pretender's
marriage with a daughter of the House of Stolberg; her name, place of
burial, &c.? She was descended maternally from the noble House of Bruce,
through the marriage of Thomas, second Earl of Aylesbury and third Earl of
Elgin, with Charlotte (his second wife) Countess of Sannu, or Sannau, of
the House of Argenteau. They had a daughter, Charlotte Maria, I suppose an
only child, who was married in the year 1722 to the Prince of Horn. These
had issue Mary and Elizabeth, whom also I suppose {231} to have been only
children. One of them married the Prince of Stolberg, and the other the
Prince of Salm. One of the descendants of this family was an annuitant on
the estate of the Marquis of Aylesbury, as recently as twelve or fourteen
years ago. Information on any part of this descent would confer an
obligation on

PATONCE.

_A Legend of the Hive_ (Vol. ix., p. 167.).--With every feeling of
gratitude to EIRIONNACH, I cannot receive praise for false metre and
erroneous grammar. In the fifth line of the first stanza of the quoted
verse, the first of the above legend, "are" is redundant: and in the first
line of the next stanza, "bore" should be "bare." I remember that in more
cases than one the printer of my published rhymes has perpetrated this
latter mistake.

Suffer me to reply to a question of the same courteous critic EIRIONNACH,
in Vol. ix., p. 162., about a "Christ-cross-row." This name for the
alphabet obtained in the good old Cornish dame-schools when I was a boy. In
a book that I have seen, there is a vignette of a monk teaching a little
boy to read, and beneath

"_A Christ-Cross Rhyme._

I.

"Christ his cross shall be my speed!
Teach me