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dealing with old prints and engravings and their producers? I specially want to know about eighteenth and early nineteenth cen- tury landscape work in England and Wales. E. H. EDWARDS.

EOBERTSON FAMILY. Can any of your readers tell me the parentage of, or particu- lars about, George Robertson, a writer in Edinburgh, who married (second wife) Eliza- beth Ogilvie, and died 1737 1 His son Alex- ander, of Parson's Green, a Clerk of Session, matriculated in 1778 as a cadet of the Strowan family. W. H. K.

THE CAVE, HORNSEY. Can any corre- spondent enlighten me as to what this place was? P. M.

HOWE FAMILY. Who was the grandfather of Owen Howe, the regicide? I have con-

sulted the 'D.N.B.'

F. M. H. K.

"Tucs," WYKEHAMICAL NOTION. Before I knew that it was also Prof. Skeat's opinion, I had concluded, when beginning the study of Irish Gaelic, that the familiar English verb to tivig must be akin to Keltic tuigsinn, meaning to understand. It also occurred to me that the Wykehamical word "tugs," which is used to mean "I knew that already," or "stale news, ;! might, like brock for badger, and other words existing in English dialects, be of Keltic origin. I have not access at present to the books which have been pub- lished on Wykehamical "notions." But this branch of philology seems to have some interest for some readers of C N. & Q.,' and so I raise the question. E. S. DODGSON.

AMERICAN LOYALISTS. On the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, when the inde- pendence of the North American colonies was established, a Commission was appointed by the British Government to inquire into claims of American Loyalists for losses in- curred by them during the war in consequence of their loyalty. Is there any record of the proceedings of that Commission, the names of the claimants, &c. 1 Any information on this subject would greatly oblige.

H. M. H.

ADMIRAL SIR T. HOPSON, 1643-1717. Can any reader give me information regarding Sir Thomas Hopson's marriage, his wife's parentage, &c. ? Her name was Elizabeth, born 1660-1, married circa 1682, died and was buried with her husband at Weybridge, Surrey, in 1740, aged seventy-nine. Her arms, as they appear impaled with those of her husband on his monument, are Quarterly

arg. and gules, in the first quarter an escallop shell. Her sister married a man named Brambell. It has been said that Lady Hopson was a daughter of Col. Skelton, but there is no proof of it. G. BRIGSTOCKE.

PUNS AT THE HAYMARKET. Can any reader put me right as to the authorship, title, and date of production of the theatrical absurdity in which the following lines were spoken at the "Old Haymarket : "? They always struck me as a highly amusing example of sustained punning at a time when burlesque held the boards at many a London playhouse.

Though we've of late a wig been forced to wear, Our crown at length has got a little heir, That is to say, an heiress such a pearl I In fact, our little hair 's a little curl. There is a suggestion of H. J. Byron's style in the words ; but I cannot in my mind connect them with any of his pieces.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

SAMUEL HAYNES. Lieut. - General John William Egerton, seventh Earl of Bridge- water, born 1753, died 1823, married in 1783 Charlotte Catherine Anne, only daughter and heiress of Samuel Haynes, Esq. Samuel Haynes died at Sunninghill, 18 June, 1811, and his widow at Little Gaddesden in 1813. Whose son was Samuel Haynes 1

C. H. MAYO. Long Burton, Sherborne.

OUR OLDEST PUBLIC SCHOOL.

(10 th S. i. 166, 215, 257.) As lam the "common vouchee" for the claims of both Canterbury and York to the title at the head of this article, and also for the antiquity of Warwick and Kingston- on-Thames, I should like to make "a personal explanation " in answer to your corre- spondents R. F.-J. S., MR. BAYLEY, and G. T., and help to set at rest the vexed question of relative priority among our schools. In an article in the Fortnightly Review), November, 1892, I did, unfortunately, give the history of St. Peter's, York, under the title of 'Our Oldest School,' being then under the impres- sion that, Canterbury being a monastic cathedral, the present King's School could not claim any real pre-Reformation existence. But further inquiry showed that the real Canterbury Grammar School was not in the monastery, was independent of the monks and under the direct control of the Arch