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apparently their original case. There are
52 of them, each 34 ins. long by 23 ins. broad.
Half of them are pink and the other half
blue. They are not numbered, but what
we may regard as the first of the pink cards
has the following

EXORDIUM TO CUMEAN LEAVES.
By Ann of Swansea.

RICHARD GLYNN, PUBLISHER: BRITISH Lending Library in Wind Street when INSTITUTION: AUTOGRAPH PORTFOLIO (11 S. Swansea was a fashionable watering place. i. 429).—On the site of the original Almack's, These were friends of Mrs. Hatton, who left afterwards Goosetree's Club, Alderman her album to "Miss Ellen Jenkins.... Boydell opened at No. 50, Pall Mall, his as I know she will value it for my sake.” Shakespeare Gallery. He intended to bequeath the gallery to the nation, but was forced, ruined as he was by his public spirit in projecting it, to dispose of it by public lottery on 28 January, 1805. In 1806 the lease of the house for sixty-three years was bought for 4,4007. by several noblemen and gentlemen, who established here, under the auspices of George III., the British Institution for the exhibition of the works of living artists in the spring, and Old Masters in the autumn. It was opened on 18 January, 1806. In 1868 the house was pulled down by the Gymnastic Club. There are some interesting reminiscences of the Shakespeare Gallery and the British Institution in The Evening News of 7 February, 1910 (Talks about Old London') by one who signs himself 'M. R.' See also Wheatley's Round about Piccadilly, 1870, P. 352-4, where, however, no mention is made of the Autograph Portfolio.'

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J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. Wroxton Grange, Folkestone.

ANDREW HEARSEY (11 S. i. 428). — In connexion with this family I seem to remember an inquiry as to a member of it marrying into that of Lord Audley. Perhaps the following cutting from Gray's book catalogue may afford a clue:

"Court Rolls. Extracts from Court Rolls of Manor of Isleworth in Middlesex, 1751-1767. Parties interested, Gumley, Lockman, Crane, Thicknesse, Greenhill. Folio, manuscript, on 4 ll. 76. 234.”

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Within these mystic leaves is found
The fate by which your life is bound;
Make while you may a thinking pause,
The leaf perus'd, the veil withdraws,
And at a glance will meet your gaze
The joy or grief of future days.
Forewarn'd, if now resolv'd you stand,-
Boldly stretch forth your vent'rous hand,
The Sibyl leaf undaunted try,
Prophetic of your destiny.

What may be regarded as the first of the

blue cards has

THE INTENTION OF CUMEAN LEAVES.
Let not the Sibyl Leaves disclose
Ought to disturb your mind's repose;
From sportive fancy they had birth,
Merely design'd to give you mirth.
But if from folly they restrain,
Awake and save one erring heart,
Then has the effort not been vain,
That try'd a moral to impart,

By pointing out that Vice brings certain woe,
While Virtue can alone content bestow.
Ann of Swansea.

There are no directions, but the cards were evidently intended for the amusement of a mixed party of young people. One blue card must have been dealt to each bachelor and one pink card to each spinster. On the card would be found a verse (presumably by Ann of Swansea) indicating the recipient's fate in matrimony. I append two samples.

Conceited! brainless! dost thou dare

To think that maiden, good and wise,
Wealthy, amiable, and fair,

Will condescend to be thy prize?
Marry thou shalt-and Fate's decree
A brawling slattern gives to thee.
Thou art a vain Coquette, thy eyes
Fly round in hopes to gain a prize,
A husband, handsome, tall and bold,
Well born, and rich. This leaf behold!
Thou hast with scorn rejected many,
And now must be content with any;
A slovenly ill-temper'd sot,
Depend upon't shall be thy lot!

Swansea.

DAVID SALMON.

Notes on Books, &c.

Fritzner in Iceland. He follows a wrong lead from Mr. Waters in deriving the words registrum, registrarius, from an impossible Latin regerta, regerendarius (p. 8). Lerite, so printed from a

The Parish Registers of England. By J. C. Cox, 1683 register, is evidently a misreading of Levite, LL.D. (Methuen & Co.)

As every Englishman belongs to some parish, and many persons have their names entered in the parish registers twice, if not thrice, a history of these books, such as Dr. Cox has here produced, should be of interest to a large number of people. Dr. Cox has, of course, had predecessors in the same field-J. S. Burn, R. E. Chester Waters, Mr. A. M. Burke, and others; but his book can claim to be more methodical and accurate than any of those which have gone before it. He tells us that there are hardly a score of registers in existence of a date before 1538, when Thomas Cromwell first ordained that they should be kept in every parish, and that the earliest he has been able to find is that of Tipton, which goes back to 1513.

Many quaint customs and matters of interest emerge from these dusty volumes, which light up the bare records of names and dates with a touch of human feeling and even humour; and the tragic element is not wanting. Chap. ix. gives a vivid idea of the plagues which ravaged the country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Deaths from influenza first make their appearance between 1743 and 1762, when it was very prevalent, but "happily not very mortal." We do not notice any reference to cases of person dying of " thought," meaning fretting or melancholia, though some entries of that kind occur in registers of some of the City churches, illustrating the Biblical use of the word. It is probably not generally known that burial in coffins was not fully adopted till so late as the eighteenth century; it is not contemplated in the Burial Service of the Book of Common Prayer, and Wheatly in 1710 speaks of the body being committed to the grave stript of all but its grave-clothes.

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Incidental allusions in the registers to events of historical importance, given in chap. x. afford "snapshot " views of how they impressed the contemporary clerk or clergyman, and sometimes give a local touch of actuality to great movements which makes them live before our eyes. Chap. xi. in a similar way collects references to uncommon phenomena or nature, such as notable storms or frosts; and chap. xii. is an "Olla Podrida odds and ends not easily brought under any of the previous heads. A curious survival of the old use of the "chrisom " at baptism is noted in some country churches, where the godmother is accustomed to place a new white handkerchief over the infant's face immediately after the baptism (p. 60); while in other parishes the woman at her churching used to make an offering of a cambric handkerchief to the officiating clergyman. An amusing account is given of how the difficulty of marrying deaf-and-dumb persons was surmounted in old times. One armless woman had the marriage ring placed on the fourth toe of the left foot.

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Dr. Cox is mistaken in thinking that "Sir" or "Syr" prefixed to a priest's name in early registers necessarily implies that he was one who had not graduated at a University (p. 250). Sir," standing for Dan, Don, or Dominus, ("Ds" at Cambridge) is the title of a graduate; Sir Smith or Sir Brown is still so used at Dublin, and Síra

as the context suggests (p. 122); and 1617, given as the date of Cowley's burial in Westminster Abbey (p. 116), is an obvious error for 1667. We should add that the book is one of the well-produced series of "Antiquary's Books," and has more than a dozen facsimiles and illustrations.

The Rector's Book, Clayworth, Notts. Transcribed and edited by Harry Gill and Everard L. Guilford. (Nottingham, H. B. Saxton.) CLAYWORTH is a parish in Nottinghamshire in the Hundred of Bassetlaw, but it appears in Domesday as in the Wapentake of Oswardebee under the name of Clauorde. The compiler of the Rector's Book gives in 1688 the number of the inhabitants as about four hundred, and we are informed that such is about the number now.

William Sampson, the author of the book before us, compiled it much in the form of a diary, but it is far more discursive than such works of former days are generally found to be. It begins in July, 1872, and ends with the accession of Queen Anne. It is in a high degree fragmentary, but will be found of great interest by the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Clayworth lies near the river Idle, which creeps along on the north, and empties itself into the Trent. When the Rector's Book was written, the whole of the parish must have been open country except small plots near the houses, but it is now, and we believe has long been, divided into enclosures. It may be well to note in passing that the Roman road which once connected Doncaster with Lincoln runs through the little town.

Though the Rector's Book is mainly devoted to local events, it is not so entirely. London news is not always disregarded, nor is Lincolnshire quite forgotten. Note is made of an Upton woman who produced five living children at a birth; all died very soon, but four survived long enough to receive baptism. The state of the weather is frequently mentioned; indeed, from his own point of view this is one of the most important matters in which Mr. Sampson took interest.

The rector evidently belonged to the class of English clergy which has not left survivors. In his day he was, we have no doubt, designated a High Churchman, but the phrase then meant something very different from what it does now. The divine right of kings was probably an article of unhesitating belief with him, yet, if so it was, this opinion did not hinder him from accepting with evident pleasure the invasion by William III. and the banishment of James II.

An aged man who in 1679 dwelt at Retford, but had many years before lived at Clayworth, told the rector that when he was young a kind of tithe used to be exacted by the rector from the servants of the parish, which we have never heard of elsewhere. It appears that when the wages became due and were paid, a farthing out of every shilling was handed over to the clergyman. In Mr. Sampson's time a like demand was made by him, but the money was not gathered in without difficulty. It is evident that at this period

the masters for the most part objected strongly to the payment. It would seem that 1683 was the last year in which the rector tried to enforce it.

Two instances of earthquake are recorded as having occurred in the North and West Ridings of Yorkshire. The first, in 1884, was at Runswick, where, it is said, damage to the amount of 1,2007. had been done. Kettlewell and Starbottom were shaken in 1687 to such an extent that the damage was estimated at 3,000Z.

On 14 December, 1680, "a long-barbed comet " was first seen at Clayworth. This, the editors say, was the great comet observed by Sir Isaac Newton-not Halley's comet, which appeared two years later.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-JUNE.

MR. L. C. BRAUN'S Catalogue 64 contains art and illustrated books, French and German literature, works on Genealogy and Heraldry, Political Economy, and Music. The last-named includes Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time,' 2 vols., 35s. Topography comprises, under London, a large paper copy of select views, 2 vols., folio, finely bound in full contemporary blue russia, London, 1804, 41. Among Nottingham items is a special copy of Blackner's History,' 3 vols., 4to, 1815, 308. There are some ex-libris, and also a number of engraved portraits at moderate prices. A portion of the catalogue is devoted to miscellaneous books.

Mr. Richard Cameron's Edinburgh Catalogue Burns 231 contains works relating to America. items include the large-paper edition of his complete works, edited by W. Scott Douglas, 6 vols., There is also a royal 8vo, cloth, 1877, 21, 158. large-paper copy of Blackwood and his Sons,' by Mrs. Oliphant, and the supplementary volume by Mrs. Gerald Porter, 3 vols., 4to, 1897-8, 188. 6d., one of a limited number privately printed. Under Coronations are three hand-coloured panoramic views of the coronation of George IV., also an official list of the procession of Queen Victoria. Among many items relating to Scotland are Chalmers's Caledonia, 7 vols., 4to, boards, 31. 58., a special issue on thick paper, one of 86 copies; 'Edinburgh in the Olden Time,' 63 views, 1888, 168. 6d. (published at 51. 58.); and a fine set of the folio Acts of the Scottish Parliament, 1224 to 1707, 13 vols., folio, half red leather, 51. 108. Under Leech is a large collection of his illustrations from Punch, 5 vols., oblong 4to, 268.

Mr. Bertram Dobell's Catalogue 185 opens with a collection of Latin books from the Heber and Britwell Court Libraries, a large number being by members of the Society of Jesus. Many have the stamp of Richard Heber, who was half brother of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta. Richard was one of the founders of the Athenæum Club, and the D.N.B.' records that "he travelled widely to collect books, spending on them about 100,000l." There is a curious volume in Dutch and Latin, 'Poemata Chronometra Anagrammata Epigrammata et alia his affinia,' small 8vo, old calf, 1760, containing various hymns not met with elsewhere. It is anonymous, and the letters at the end give no clue; perhaps this reference may produce the name of the author from some reader of N. & Q.' There are several books

from the library of Lionel Brough, and a variety on cricket. The rest of the catalogue contains a good miscellaneous selection.

Mr. Alexander W. Macphail's Edinburgh Catalogue 103 opens with a portrait of Edward VII. wearing the insignia of office as Masonic Grand Master, a signed artist's proof, 258., in dark oak frame. Other portraits include a curious one of Scott, a bas-relief in iron, with model of the old gate of the Edinburgh Tolbooth at the top, 108. 6d.; Chantrey's bust of Scott, one of the original impressions, with carved bracket, 308., and a miniature after Raeburn by Mackay, in frame, 458. There are many articles under Bric-a-brac, including miniatures and busts of Byron, Brougham, George Eliot, and others. Among autographs is a letter of Scott's, 16 June, 1828, 31. The books include works on Edinburgh, family history, genealogy, heraldry, &c. Among many dealing with Ireland is a new copy of the Orrery Papers, 2 vols., cloth extra, 12s. 6d. Under India is Thurston's 'Castes and Tribes,' 7 vols., Madras, 1909, 238. There are a number of works on Witchcraft, Mesmerism, &c. A reminiscence of railways is a Station Map of the Railways in Great Britain circa 1850, 48. 6d. There are a number of Scottish County Maps, 1777.

Messrs. Simmons & Waters's Leamington Spa
Catalogue 246 is devoted to Topographical and
Antiquarian Works relating to the British Isles.
The items are well arranged under counties.
Apart from books, there are a large number of
engravings and maps at moderate prices. The
London views include most of the well-known
places. Among books we note Besant's' London,'
5 vols., original cloth, 21. 128. 6d.; also his
London in the Eighteenth Century,' an extra-
illustrated copy, extended to 2 vols., with an auto-
Other extra-illustrated books
graph letter, 51. 58.
Amusements of London,'
include Boulton's

2 vols., 4to, half-calf, uncut, 31.; Croker's
'Fulham,' calf extra, by Morrell, 1860, 1. 158.,
and Smith's Book for a Rainy Day,' half-
There is an interesting MS.
morocco, 41. 48.
relating to the town of Beccles, The Book of
Court Rolls, 1635-1711,' folio, calf antique, 61. 6s.,
also a collection of vellum deeds relating to Wales.
A sound library set of Britton's 'Antiquities,'
5 vols., 4to, contemporary calf, 1807-35, is 21. 58.,
and S. C. Hall's Baronial Halls,' with very few of
the foxed plates found in many copies, 3 vols,
4to, morocco, 1846-7, 21.

Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices:

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.

EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers"-at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.

J. D. M. (Philadelphia).-Forwarded. CORRIGENDA.-Ante, p. 498, col. 2, 11. 6, 7 of the poetry, for "yon" read you.

INDEX.

ELEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. I.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARIES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS, and TAVERN SIGNS.]

A. (A. S.) on Roger Altham, 337

A. (B. M.) on Lily-White Boys,' 366

A. (D. C.) on D. Camerino Arcangelus, 268
A. (G. P.) on Green Park Avenue, 398
A. (M.) on Spare family, 211

Yeovil golden torque, 385

A. (R.) on first elections under Ballot Act, 268
Aall (Jakob) of Shadwell and Norway, 488
Abbatt (W.) on Alabama-Kearsarge fight, 327
Abbey of Kilkhampton,' key to, 76, 212
Abbot (George), M.P., his will, 322
Abbot (John), Westminster scholar, 1721, 268
Abbots, Mitred, 120

Abbott (G. F.) on Abbott family, 109

Abbott (Miss), portrait by Downman, 88 Abbott (Miss), her portrait by John Downman, 88 Abbott family, 109

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Abrahams (Aleck) on Alonzo the Brave,' 419
Barker (Henry), Prebendary, 305
'Collier's Water': Charles Pearson, 349

Critical Review of Publick Buildings in
London,' 189, 374

Duke's Place, Aldgate, 397, 478
Green Park Avenue, 345

Houses of Parliament in 1733, 497

Le Sour's statue of Charles I., 194

London prints and drawings, 4, 62
Nicholl (John), F.S.A., 388

'Parish Guttlers,' 144

Records their early depositories, 405

St. Austin's Gate, 408

St. Margaret's, Westminster, east window, 97

Shakespeare illustrators, 327

Shakespeare statuette, 17

Truchsessian Gallery, New Road, 369

Watering-Place Guide, 1803, 395

Westminster Abbey: western towers, 15

Wood Street Compter: Sponging Houses, 414 Accipitrinum Prandium, its meaning, 132 Acclamation = unopposed Parliamentary return, 167

Adams (President), his X. Y. Z. Mission, 1797, 366 Adams (W.) on medal: "Brother Adams," 289 Adams (W. R.) on tattooed heads, 205

Adams families, 289

Addison's maternal ancestry, 351

Adoxography, meaning of the word, 117

'Edes Walpolianæ,' its contents, 34, 214
Agnes: To play Agnes, 290, 495

Agnew (D. C. A.) on the Huguenots, 448, 515
Ague-ring, c. 1547, 288, 378

Alabama-Kearsarge fight, 1864, photograph of, 327
Alfred and the cakes, the tale, 129, 211, 250, 315
Alipore on Four Winds, a fairy story, 149
Alldred (T. E.) on Shakespeare and Mountjoy, 376
Allegorical picture and Mount Cashell family, 248
Altham (Canon Roger), his marriage, 268, 337

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Alumni Cantabrigienses,' MS. of, 247, 310, 372 Alvary, Alvery, and Alveredus, Christian names, 156, 186

Ambergris and spermaceti, their source and date of discovery, 386

Amelia (Princess), daughter of George II., 10
American in Paris,' two books, 12

American Indians, monuments to, 37, 235, 491
American booksellers, early, 423

Amersham Rectors, 1234-1537, 387

Anderson (J. L.) on Bibliotheca Drummeniana, 412 'Cramond Brig,' 436

Anderson (P. J.) on G. Chalmers's 'Scoticanæ Ecclesiæ Infantia,' 267

Chalmers (G.), Sylva,' 226, 435

Chalmers (W.), Disputationes Theologica,* 267

Colman (G.), his 'Man of the People,' 1782, 467 Liddel (Duncan) and Jo. Potinius, 447 Andrews (E. W.) on Holbein's 'Duchess of Milan,' 105

Anglo-Spanish author in Borrow's Bible in Spain," 349

Annand (A. Y.) on Johnson and his circle, 227
Annual publications, list of, 327

Anonymous Works:

Cornwall its Mines, Miners, and Scenery, 329, 373

Cramond Brig, a play, 389, 435

Generation of Judges, 69

Eugenia and Adelaide, 224

History of Bullanabee, 48, 356

Jonathan Sharp, 466

Manners and Customs of the French, 468

Prometheus the Firegiver, 1877, 247, 314

Recluse of the Pyrenees, 224

Short Whist, 90, 150, 277

Songs of the Chace, 1811, 329, 412
Testimony of the Spade, 49
Vortigern and Rowena, 73

Walk through Switzerland, 224

Anscombe (A.) on Ljūs," 209, 375

66

When our Lord shall lie in our Lady's lap," 94

"Wiogora Ceaster : Worcester, 123

Ansgar, Master of the Horse to Edward the Confessor, 369

Antonine Itinerary, Spinis in, 61

Apperson (G. L.), on fountain pen, 395

Index to Foxe: lists of martyrs, 395
Rosamonda's Lake, 229

Rotherhithe, 56

"This world's a city full of crooked streets," 94 "When our Lord shall lie in our Lady's lap," 94

Apssen counter, meaning of the phrase, 116

Christ,' 333

Arabian horses in pre-Mohammedan days, 421, 515 | B. (G. F. R.) on W. Billyng, 'Five Wounds of
Arabis, flower-name, its derivation, 406
Arcangelus (D. Camerino), painter, 268, 313
Archer (H. G.) on Sir C. W. Strickland, 64
Archibald (R. C.) on the Baltimore Pattersons, 313

English mathematical diaries, 147
Swale (J. H.), mathematician, 107
Aristotle, and the Golden Rule, 176; and political
science, 263

Arkle (A. H.) on Richard Blacow, 438

Election, most expensive, 191
Arlington on female Grooms

Chamber, 187

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Austin (W.) on Havering Manor, 1389, 228

Austin family, dying out, 86

Author, modest, c. 1776, 7

'Autograph Portfolio,' published by R. Glynn,
429, 518

Automobile and taximeter anticipated, 343
Aviation and Lichfield, 1784, 383

Aviator, early instance at Florence, 106

Axon (E.) on clergymen educated at Nonconformist
Academies, 449

Axon (W. E. A.) on Abbé Coyer to Pansophe, 416
Haller's Usong,' 24

Leo XIII.'s Latin verses, 418

Nonconformist minister elected to Parlia-

ment, 134

Republican son of Louis XV., 225

Thackeray's French lion, 221

Watering-Place Guide, 1803, 395

Blacow (Richard), 369
Bussey, 309

Canning (Richard), 369
Carkesse (Thomas), 468
Cary (Henry), 288
Chelsum (James), 369
Coxeter (Charles), 488

Cumberland (George), 249

Daschkaw (Princess) and her son, 288

Demainbray (S. C. Triboudet), 150
Desanges (Sir Francis), 150

Ellis (George), 268

Faillteau (Francis), 488

Fairborne (George), 468

Farley (Abraham), 468

Fermor, Earls of Pomfret, 358

Finch (Hon. John), 249
Folkes (Martin), 328

Fuller (Peck and Beckford), 488
Ginger (William), 491

Grinfield (General William), 189
Holmes (C. W. S. D.), 150
James (Dr.), 309

Johnson (Major John), 309

Kaye (Wilkinson Lister), 249
Keith (William), 50
Maittaire (Michael), 30
Maplet (John), M.D., 30
Mitford (William), 30
Owen (Thomas Ellis), 30
Plass (Edward), 50

Public School Registers, 294
Robinson (Sir John), Bt., 490
Savage (John), 69
Shippen (William), 50
Stanyan (Temple), 189
Symmons (John), 69
Venner (John), 288
Welbourne (William), 69

B. (H. I.) on "derry" and "down," 228
Edward Iorwerth: Iorwerth VII., 491
Flaubert's Tentation de St. Antoine,' 17
German poets, modern, 436

Huel, its meaning, 55

March Malen, meaning of the term, 79
Mock coat of arms, 146

Selby, Yorks: its Peculiar " Court, 37

B.

(0.) on authors of quotations wanted, 149

B.

(R.) on Archdeacon of Taunton as naval
authority, 68

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B. (E.) on authors of quotations wanted, 408

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Aviation and Lichfield, 383

Becket's personal habits, 292

Buckland Shag, 416

Devonshire marriage custom, 485

English Navy during the Civil War, 17

Ireton (General), his death, 86

Roundhead: its meanings, 415

Scheffelde in Com. Cantiæ, 208, 377

Veal money, 368

Wolverhampton, Deanery of, 169

B-r (R.) on deaneries unattached to cathedrals, 37

Insect names in Scotland, 79

"Plough Inn" at Longhope, 146
Roundhead: its meaning, 415

Yon its use by Scotsmen, 132

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It takes all sorts of people to make a B. (R. S.) on "A majoribus mihi," 309

world," 369

B. (G. F. R.) on John Abbot, 268

Altham (Roger), 268

Atterbury (Osborn), 328

Bennett (Richard Henry Alexander), 189

'Book of Oaths,' 82

Hawks in 1390, 67

Making one's parish, 254

Mallas Rigg, meaning of the phrase, 295
Patten (John Wilson), Lord Winmarleigh, 75

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