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a west door without a porch. There was a south door, but the south aisle was never rebuilt after the fall of the upper part of the tower on 13 Oct., 1661. ARTHUR HUSSEY. Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

DOGE OF VENICE. I have read somewhere in fiction or history of a Doge of Venice whose likeness was blotted out, in con- sequence of some offence against the State. Can any reader favour me with references ? W. CLARK THOMLINSON.

Whickham, co. Durham.

MAGNA CHARTA. I have a copy of Magna Charta, London, 1618, 24mo, inlaid to 4to, which contains the book-plate of Richard Clark, Chamberlain of London. The numerous annotations in this are so the tradition runs in Blackstone's hand. Can any one inform me where a copy of the sale catalogue of Richard Clark's library may be consulted 1

D. M.

Philadelphia.

ESTREGE. In the Devonshire Domesday Survey Almar Estrege, a thane, held three ferlings in the manor of Hela, T.R.E. What does Estrege denote 1

GREGORY GRUSELIER.

RICHARD PINCERNA. Who was Richarc Pincerna, to whom was granted the manor of Conestone, in Cornwall, about 1147, by Robert, son of Robert, Earl of Gloucester' Can any one give me an alternative name for him ? J. HAMBLEY ROWE, M.B.

WHITTY TREE. Between Bromfield (the station for Ludlow races) and Onibury (on the Great Western joint railway) is a small hamlet called Whitty Tree. What is the meaning of the name ? H. GEORGE.

KING JOHN'S CHARTERS. Will some one kindly state what places are signified by the following names ] 1199, " datum apud Valle Rodol." 1199, "datum apud Castrum de Vir." 1202, "datum apud Bonam Villam super Tokam."

The appendix to Wright's 'Courthand' (1815) gives an alphabetical list of ancient places occurring in deeds, but does not men- tion either of the above, unless " de Vir " is de Vies (Devizes), written de Vir by error of the scribe, who was quoting from the original, a recited charter. W. I.

to the English Ambassador in Holland, was his own composition, or whether he quoted from Andrew Mar veil, who is also credited with the lines ? See Morning Post, 25 May, fourth leading article, which says :

" The other resolutions remind us of the couplet generally and wrongfully ascribed to Canning, which was first written by that excellent Puritan Andrew Marvell They want more money."

A. GWYTHER. Windham Club.

[The full correspondence between Canning and Sir Charles Bagot was printed at 4 th S. i. 438. Part of it was reprinted, after thirty-four years, by SIB HARRY POLAND at 9 th S. x. 270, but no sugges- tion was made that Canning was indebted to Marvell. ]

PEMBERTON FAMILY, LATE OF PETER- BOROUGH. Information is desired which might lead to the discovery of the will, or of the grant of administration to the estate, of Robert Pemberton, who was steward to the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough, and was buried in Peterborough Cathedral in November, 1695. A tablet to his memory is on the south wall of the chancel. He married Cecilia Trevelyan, whose will (proved in 1713) is in Somerset House. There is good ground for believing that his second son, Robert, born in 1659, emigrated to Nevis, in the West Indies, towards the end of the seventeenth century, and I should be glad to learn any fact tending to support or to disprove this theory. R. C. B. P.

13, Cresswell Gardens, South Kensington, S.W.

LATE INTELLECTUAL HARVEST. Will any readers help me with information of men, especially living, who were either not prize- winners at school or were thought to be rather dull, yet have become famous in their special line of endeavour in later life ?

RUDOLPH DE CORDOVA.

" IN MATTERS OF COMMERCE." Can any of your readers tell me whether the quotation beginning " In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch," sent by Canning in a dispatch

HUQUIER, ENGRAVERS. I am in search of information about the French engravers Huquier, father and son. Both of them lived in England. The father, Gabriel Huquier, went to England about 1755 or 1756, and came back to France about 1762. The son, James Gabriel Huquier, arrived in England about 1768, but he settled there, and after laving lived first in London and afterwards n Cambridge (1783), he died in Shrewsbury, 7 June, 1805. He drew pastel and crayon portraits of a certain value, and was elected a member of the Royal Academy. His works were several times shown at the Academy as well as at the Society of British Artists. All that I know about him is what I could read in Bryan and the 'Dictionary of National