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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

GABRIEL HARVEY'S BOOKS. The Shake- spearian scholar Steevens writes that he had seen a copy of Speght's edition of Chaucer, which formerly belonged to Dr. Gabriel Harvey, and which contained in Harvey's handwriting a reference to Shakespeare's ' Venus and Adonis,' ' Lucrece,' and ' Hamlet.' The book seems also to have been seen by Malone. I should be much obliged if any one could tell me the present whereabouts of this book and of any other books which formerly belonged to Gabriel Harvey. I am acquainted with those in the British Museum, the Bodleian, and the museum at Saffron Walden. G. C. MOORE SMITH.

University College, Sheffield.

SIR C. HATTON'S TITLE. On the monument to Sir Christopher Hatton in old St. Paul's that worthy was styled "Regiae Majestatis D. Elizabeths ex nobilibus stipatoribus L. vicis." The "stipatores" were no doubt the pen- sioners; but what is the meaning of "L. vicis"] Could it be lieutenant 1 Hentzner calls the pensioners "satellites nobiles."

H. BRACKENBURY.

Camberley.

Louis XVII. Having been for many years firmly con vinced of the su r vival of Louis X VII., son of Louis XVI., after his feigned death in the prison of the Temple in Paris on 8 June, 1795, I have found, in reference to a short sentence in the memoirs of the said prince, "Abrege des Infortunes du Dauphin, publie a Londres, chez C. Armand, Imprimeur, Rathbone Place, Oxford Street," November, 1836, p 44, serious reasons to believe that Louis XVII. remained hidden somewhere in England, for a certain time at least, during the years 1795-1804.

Later on his real story was, on purpose, mixed up with the false statements of an impostor, Augustus Meves. Consult the papers at the British Museum concerning this man, who was most probably pushed forward by the political enemies of the real Louis XVII. to discredit his legitimate claims. Any documents, family records, or allusions of any kind on this special point for the date indicated will be most gratefully received by MADAME BARBEY-BOISSIER.

Pierriere, near Geneva.

[See 7 th S. xii. 305, 370, 461.]

MSS. OF THE LATE MR. SlACEY GRIMALDI.

I understand that the late Mr. Stacey Grimaldi possessed several manuscript lists of Westminster scholars. Can any corre- spondent of ' N". & Q.' tell me where they are now to be found ? G. F. R. B.

RUBEN s's 'PALACES OF GENOA.' In my possession is a thick folio guard book in old half-calf, size about 16 in. by 12-Hn., with the MS. label on back ''Drawings of the Palaces in Genoa by S r P. P. Rubens." It contains on the initial fly-leaf the following note iu an early eighteenth-century hand, probably c. 1729, when the then extant loose drawings are believed to have been bound in the volume and the MS. title (" Palazzi di Genoa, dal P. P. Rubens "), and label as above, added:

" This Book was Bought out of the Collection of S r Tho: Franklin but some of the Drawings were missing so that there was a necessity of cpmpleating it with Prints, the Drawings are the Original ones done by the order & under the Inspection of S r P: P: Rubens, from which the Book of the Palaces of Genoa is engraved."

There are 120 drawings in pen and wash (sepia tint), instead of 136 (otherwise, in error, "139"), 16 being supplied by the prints, apparently engraved by Nicolaes Ryckemans, and first published at Antwerp, 1622, in two large folio volumes, without text, under the title (in Italian) of " The Ancient and Modern Palaces of Genoa. Collected and Designed by P. P. Rubens." These drawings were, however, executed during Rubens's visit to Genoa, 1607-8. Although unquestionably the " originals," only seven of them are believed to be by the hand of the great master himself; but they mostly have MS. descriptions, <fcc., in Italian thereon, apparently in his auto- graph, and, in addition, some writing in lead pencil and red chalk by the engraver.

All writers upon Rubens including Horace Wai pole ('Anecdotes of Painting,' ed. Wornum, 1888, vol. i. p. 305), Kett ('Rubens,' 1882, pp. 65-6), Dr. Waagen ('Peter Paul Rubens, his Life and Genius, 'trans. Xoel, ed. Jameson, 1840, pp.- 13 seq.), Fairholt (' Homes and Haunts of Foreign Artists,' 1874, p. 15), Culvert ('Life of Rubens,' 1876, pp. 73-4), Stevenson ('Peter Paul Rubens,' 1898, pp. 25-6) refer to these drawings, and agree that they were executed by the master.

Sir Thos. Franklin (or Francklyn), Bt, a former owner, died 5 October, 1728. Can any reader state where a copy of the catalogue of his collection is to be seen, and where the sixteen missing drawings now are ? They are numbered (vol. i.) fig. 1, 67 (2), 68, 69, 71 ; (vol. ii.) fig. 6, 12, 21, 24, 45, 54, 57, 61, 63, 65.

W. I. R. V.