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69, Oakfield Road, Stroud Green, N.4.

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exactly eight words, that the place was NON-JURING CLERGY: BAPTISMAL REGISformerly a seat of the Stapletons" (En-TERS.-What became of virons of London,' ii., p. 421)? From registers, if any, kept by the non-juring the baptismal what part of the country did this family clergy? In particular, are those of the come, and when did the interest of its mem- chapel in Theobald's Road extant ? bers in this district cease? S. J. MADGE. congregation worshipping there was at one time under the pastoral care of Gordon, the last of the canonically ordained non-juring JOHN PLANTA'S SPINNING-WHEEL.-John bishops. That dignitary is said by Dr. King Planta of Fulneck, near Leeds, at the end (Political and Literary Anecdotes') to of the eighteenth century, made spinning- have been sent for by Prince Charles Edward wheels in which a heart-cam is introduced to baptize the first child he had by Miss to distribute the thread over the bobbin Walkenshaw. The register in question might automatically instead of having to change or might not confirm this statement. it by hand from one "heck" of the flyer to another. A specimen of his wheel is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South

Kensington.

He did not patent this invention, but it would raise a point of some interest if it were known that he used the heart-cam for this purpose before 1775, when Arkwright embodied it in his "water-frame." The specimen alluded to suggests that it is much later in date than this; in fact the wheel is obviously intended for a drawing. room at a period when hand spinning had become merely an affectation of the wellto-do. Can anyone give dates ?

H. W. DICKINSON.

To

Bishop Gordon's credit be it said that he
was most strict in his observance of all
canonical and rubrical directions, so he
would be sure to keep a register of his
baptisms.
H. F. WILSON.

66, Louis Street, Hull.

THE HOUSE OF HUSBANDRY.-There has been recently presented to the Shakespeare Birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, a deed of 1619, referring to the division of the Great Farm of Broadway, owned by Mistress Ann Daston. In it occurs the phrase "the House of Husbandry.' I have not met with these words in any previous deed. Is this a common phrase, and may it be taken to refer to a farmhouse? E. A. B. B.

SIR CHARLES COX, M.P. for Southwark. What is known of his parentage and history? BERNASCONI.In the early years of the Shaw's Knights of England' states he was nineteenth century a great deal of work was knighted Sept. 21, 1709; Musgrave's done in English cathedrals by an Italian of Obituary' gives the date of his death as this name, who was particularly skilful in June 13, 1729, and states he was a brewer, the restoration of sculpture. He used a Will dated May 16, 1729, proved June 25, cement, the composition of which he kept 1729 (162 Abbott), gives no information as a secret, and his work is to be found in, to his family. I conjecture that he came among other places, Westminster Abbey, from Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxon, from (Dean Stanley was rather scathing about it), the following record of apprenticeship Southwell Minster and, I believe, Ripon known Genealogists and Beverley. What is Bernasconi and his work?

indexed in the Society of
Collection: "Cox Brooks, son of Chamberlain
B. of Shipton, Oxon, farmer, Mar. 11, 1715,
to Sir Charles Cox, citizen and brewer;
In. Rev. 1/3-14.
Chamberlain of Shipton were related.
The families of Cox and

E. ST. JOHN BROOKS.
'OTHELLO.'-We are told that in the
first Folio there are 160 lines not found in
he Quarto. I have no copy of the plays
hat indicates these additions. Staunton

about Y. Y.

WILLIAM MILBURN.-Can any reader give me information as to the identity of William Milburn, author of Oriental Commerce,' containing a geographical description of with their produce; the principal places in the East Indies, in two volumes; London, 1813? JOSEPH M. BEATTY, JR. Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. SIR T. PHILLIPS.-Was he a herald ot in Othello.' Can any reader indicate did he only collect MSS. for his library? me the most important additions in Are his MSS. of value? Where are they to be found? Are they bound in volumes? CLARIORES E TENEBRIS.

parks the new lines in Richard III.' but

Othello'?
Willersey, Glos,

the

GEORGE HOOKHAM,

or

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OF THE MOSQUITO COAST.

GREGOR GENERAL CYRUS TRAPAUD: PORTRAIT BY Can any reader give me information, or refer SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.-Can anyone tell me me to any book giving information, re-in whose possession this picture is now? It specting extensive frauds by one "Gregor was painted in 1760 and is mentioned in A in connexion with territories exploited on History of the Works of Sir Jospha Reythe Mosquito Coast? He called himself nolds, P.R.A.,' by Algernon Graves, F.R.S., Cazique of Poyais," and issued land and William Vine Cromi, vol. iii., p. 985. grants, bank-notes, &c. I have one of the latter, engraved by an Edinburgh firm and dated " St. Joseph-182-," drawn on the "Bank of Poyais" by authority of "His Highness Gregor, Cazique of Poyais."

The frauds therefore seem to have occurred between 1820 and 1830. I once saw them referred to in a Press article by the late Geo. A. Sala. I believe England once had a colony on the Mosquito Coast, and a paper thereon, styled A Forgotten Puritan Colony,' appeared in Blackwood

in 1898.

The portrait of his wife, Mrs. Catherine Trapaud, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, is also mentioned at p. 986 of the same book, and is at the Dublin National Picture Gallery. There is also an engraving of same at the British Museum by Fisher.

General Cyrus Trapaud was an ensign at the Battle of Dettingen, 1743, where the horse of George II. ran away with him; fortunately Trapaud seized him by the bridle and thereby saved the King's life. He died May 3, 1801, aged 87, and is buried at Chelsea A. C. WILLIS. Hospital. I. A. M. SALISBURY GILLMAN.

Hendon.
FILES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS WANTED.-
Can any reader tell me where the files of The
Evening Post between 1727 and 1740 (not
London Evening Post) also of The Daily
Advertiser between 1746 and 1760 (not
London Daily Advertiser) may be seen for
research? They are not in the British
Museum or Guildhall Library, London.

mean?

W. A. WEBB. does this word serchar of antiquitis (whiche were devinite, Stow says, "I had bene a sorencys and poyetrye ."), about 1564 (Kingsford's Stow,' vol. i., p. xlix.). Mr. Kingsford (ibid., p. ix.), says it is "astrology." H. CN.

RICHARD ABBOTT, born at Burton, Westmorland, in 1818, author of War and other Poems (1876) and The Pen, the Press and the Sword' (1879), was a shepherd on the slopes of Ingleborough, and later managed the limestone quarries at Forcett, between Darlington and Richmond, where DANIEL RACE: CHIEF CASHIER OF THE he was residing when a notice of his poetry BANK OF ENGLAND.-Where can I find the appeared in William Andrews's North best account of this celebrity? Where is Country Poets.' When did he die ? his portrait by Hickey, which was engraved RUSSELL MARKLAND. by J. Watson in 1733 ? S. R. HEATHER FAMILY.-Can any reader put me on the track of the Heather pedigree? Marshall's Genealogical Guide' does not include the name. B. C.

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says:

KNAVES ACRE, LAMBETH. In a letter to Edward Moxon, belonging probably to the first week in April, 1832, Lamb "There is a portion of land in Lambeth parish called Knaves Acre." And in a A KENSINGTON TAPESTRY.-In the hall footnote on p. 237, vol. i., of Harper's of the Victoria and Albert Museum, KensingLife of Wordsworth,' giving a list of books ton, there are large tapestry maps hung, and pamphlets noticed in The Monthly described as of, or attributed to, the Tudor Review for October, 1793, occurs the title,

Knaves-Acre Association."

I shall be glad to know where this land was situated and the reason for the name. G. A. ANDERSON.

or early Stuart periods. One of these (which was presented in 1831 by Archbishop Harcourt to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society) shows the valley of the Thames, with the City of London and

various Surrey and Middlesex towns and VINE TAVERN, MILE END.-Particulars villages on its eastern border. In the are desired of its history. It was built of elevations of London, St. Paul's Cathedral timber with tiled roof and stood between is shown with dome, ball and cross. These the wide pavement and the wide road. It features of the cathedral were erected was probably built before the middle of the between 1685 and 1697. It would be eighteenth century, on the waste land at interesting to know the date of manufacture Mile End. There are two views of it (1887 and provenance of the tapestry in question. and 1903) in Norman's London Vanished J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. and. Vanishing,' the second view being taken shortly before its demolition.

JACOBO D' ZSENACO MENARDUS.-An epistle addressed to this person is bound up with a very old copy of the Vulgate, Who was he? IGNORAMUS.

BENJAMIN HAVENC. According to Hasted's Kent,' Benjamin Havenc purchased Foots Cray Place in 1772 and became High Sheriff of the county in 1777. Particulars of his parentage and career are wanted. When and whom did he marry? When and where did he die?

G. F. R. B.

SIR HANS FOWLER (1714-1771) is said to have been sometime an officer in the Prussian Army. I should be glad to learn further information about his career abroad. He succeeded his nephew as fifth Baronet, Nov. 25, 1760. G. F. R. B.

BURR-WALNUT.-I should be glad to know what exactly is meant by the term "bur(or 7-) walnut." I have looked in the N.E.D.' and cannot find it, either under bur or burr. Bur-oak is given.

J. ANDERSON SMITH.

J. ARDAGH.

1.There is on earth a yet diviner thing
Veiled though it be, than Parliament or King.”
2. "Yet to the remnants of thy splendour past
Shall pilgrims pensive but unwearied throng.”
G. L.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED :

GERMAN BOOKS WANTED.-Can any reader tell me of (1) a popular German book on psychoanalysis, 50,000 to 100,000 words, preferably (2) any good German pacifist plays? Name of dealing with the child-mind and not "indecent publisher would of course be welcome in each case. A. E.

Replies.

TERCENTENARY HANDLIST OF

NEWSPAPERS.

(12 S. viii. 38, 91, 118, 173, 252, 476.) THE astonishing number of references to periodicals in N. & Q.' induced me some time ago to prepare an index to titles where information of historical use is given, and on comparing this with the Tercentenary

List' some very considerable additions can be made. In the following list I have included only those periodicals which have been dated. (Among those omitted are the titles of 27 Regimental magazines given 8 S. x. 214, but without dates.) It has been carefully checked with the indexes in the T.L.' though the occasional erratic arrangement of these makes it difficult to be positive that a title has not been overlooked. The numerous additional titles of the years 1712 to 1731 are due to the lists printed in N. & Q.,' 3 S. ix., which were prepared by MR. WM. LEE mainly from the list in Nichols's Anecdotes,' iv. 33-97, though he added a number from his own knowledge. In many cases where I have omitted periodicals already in 'T.L.' there is useful information (earlier dates, &c.) given, but to have included this would have taken more space than might be allowed. The dates appear as they are found in

N. & Q.,' though of the accuracy of some 1720. The London Mercury. No. 15, dated I am a little doubtful.

March 12. 1746. National Journal or Country Gazette.

1780. British Gazette and Sunday Monitor. No. 1845. College and T.B. Life at Westminster. 1, March 26. 5 S. i. 121. July 19, 1845, to June 27, 1846. 7 S. iv. 111.