estors
prior to the Conquest. He was not represented as a blacksmith, but as
farming his own estate. I am not connected with Egham or the neighbourhood,
or I would make farther inquiry.

S. D.

_Palace of Lucifer_ (Vol. v., p. 275.).--If R. T. has not observed it, I
would refer him to the note in the Aldine edition of Milton, vol. iii. p.
263., where I find "Luciferi domus" is the palace of the sun (see
_Prolusiones_, p. 120.); and not, as T. WARTON conjectured, the abode of
Satan.

I. R. R.

_Monaldeschi_ (Vol. viii., p. 34.).--_Relation du Meurte de Monaldeschi,
poignarde par ordre de Christine, reine de Suede_, by Father de Bel, is to
be found in a collection of curious papers printed at Cologne, 1664, in
12mo. It is given at length in _Cristina's Revenge, and other Poems_, by J.
M. Moffatt, London, printed for the author, 1821.

E. D.

_Anna Lightfoot_ (Vol. vii., p. 595.).--T. H. H. is referred to an
elegantly printed pamphlet called _An Historical Fragment relative to her
late Majesty Queen Caroline_, printed for J. & N. L. Hunt, London, 1824,
which, from p. 44. to p. 50., contains a very circumstantial account of
this extraordinary occurrence.

E. D.

_Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--It would not appear that this word means "an
artificial watercourse," at least from its use at Tewkesbury, where there
is still the _Lower Lode_, at which a ferry over the Severn still exists;
and there was also the _Upper Lode_, until a bridge was erected over the
river at that place. Will this help to show its proper meaning?

I. R. R.

"_To try and get_" (Vol. ix., p. 76.).--UNEDA inquires the origin of this
erroneous mode of expression? Doubtless euphony, to avoid the alliteration
of so many T's: "_t_o _t_he _t_heatre _t_o _t_ry and get," &c. But
evidently the word _to_ is understood, though not supplied after the word
_and_. Thus, "to try and (to) get," &c.

CELCRENA.

_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix. p. 105.).--In reply to MR. ABBOTT'S Query, I
have a pedigree of Samuel Abbott, born in 1637 or 1638; second son of Wm.
Abbott of Sudbury, who was born 1603, and who was son to Charles Abbott of
Hawkden and Sudbury, an alderman, which Charles was son to Wm. Abbott of
Hawkden. This Samuel married Margaret, daughter to Thomas Spicer. Should
MR. ABBOTT wish it, I would forward him a copy of the pedigree. I can trace
no connexion between this family and that of Archbishop Abbott, whose
father, Maurice Abbott of Guildford, was son