jocularly understood to indicate that the deserted inmate is in want
of a companion, and is really to receive the visits of his friends.
Can it be in any way analogous to the custom of hoisting broom at the
mast-head of a vessel which is to be disposed of?

S.S.S.


_George Lord Goring_, well known in history as Colonel Goring and
General Goring, until the elevation of his father to the earldom
of Norwich, in Nov. 1644, is said by Lodge to have left England
in November, 1645, and after passing some time in France, to have
gone into the Netherlands, where he obtained a commission as
Lieutenant-General in the Spanish army. Lodge adds, upon the authority
of Dugdale, that he closed his singular life in that country, in the
character of a Dominican friar, and his father surviving him, he never
became Earl of Norwich. A recent publication, speaking of Lord Goring,
says he carried his genius, his courage, and his villainy to market on
the Continent, served under Spain, and finally assumed the garb of a
Dominican friar, and died in a convent cell.

Can any of your readers inform me _when_ and _where_ he died, and
whether any particulars are known respecting him after his retirement
abroad, and when his marriage took place with his wife Lady Lettice
Boyle, daughter of the Earl of Cork, who died in 1643? The confusion
that is made between the father and son is very great.

G.