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grandsire's work, are difficult to comprehend. The lawsuits which Sir Henry was either engaged in or threatened with (referred to in the draft preface) are matters upon which we are almost entirely uninformed, although the details of any trials, if such there were, must be recorded.

Other questions of interest arise, but this letter is already lengthy, and I think I have indicated the purport of my requirements. I shall be most grateful for any assistance, which will of course receive due acknow- ledgment. W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

ST. AGNES. HADDINGTON. I shall be glad to be allowed to repeat a query I asked at 9 th S. xi. 509. A place named St. Agnes is given in Black's 'General Atlas,' 1857, plate 10; Bartholomew's 'Atlas of Scotland,' Edinburgh, 1895, plate 21 ; and on the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, sheet 33. It is in Haddington, 2' 33" N., 55' 52" E. Can any one tell me whether it is a village containing a church of St. Agnes, from which it gets its name, or say where some account of the place may be found ? F. C. W.

PICTURE BY W. P. FRITH. Can any of your readers tell me where the original or a reproduction of the picture by W. P. Frith, R.A, representing Swift throwing down the letter before Vanessa, can be found 1

A. O'D. BARTHOLEYNS.

11, Spring Gardens, S.W.

"LOST IN A CONVENT'S SOLITARY GLOOM." I shall be pleased to know the source of the following quotation, which is given in Bos- well's ' Life of Johnson':

Lost in a convent's solitary gloom.

E. M. L.

REV. CHARLES ROBERTSON MANNING. This gentleman, who was rector of Diss, Norfolk, from 1857 till his death on 8 February, 1899, had a fine collection of Norfolk antiquities. Can any one say what became of them at his decease ? Especially, where is a fine bronze ewer, inscribed " venez laver," which is figured in the Norwich volume of the Royal Archaeological Institute at p. xxxv, and in Archaeological Journal, vol. xiii. p. 74 1 T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

WERDENS ABBEY. I wish to obtain some information as to the history of Warden Abbey, near Diisseldorf, especially during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Can any reader kindly inform me where I may find an account of the abbey ? GEORGE SMITH.

CARDIGAN AS A SURNAME. Can any one ts appearance as a surname, and whether [t is presumably derived from the town in South-West Wales, and is therefore a place- name. G. H. W.
 * ell me at about what period Cardigan made
 * here is a pedigree of the family published ?

REV. OBADIAH DENMAN. Can any one say what living (in the Midlands, and most ikely in the neighbourhood of Retford) was leld by the Rev. Obadiah Denman probably about the commencement of the eighteenth
 * entury 1 ARTHUR DENMAN, F.S.A.

WiLDERSPiN. Is there a portrait of Samuel Wilderspin, the promoter of infant schools 1

DAVID SALMON. Swansea.

INSCRIPTION ON STATUE OF JAMES II. The statue of King James II. has been most appropriately transferred to the park front of the Admiralty buildings ; but why, on the pedestal, is he said to be "Jacobus Rex Dei gratue"? Can such a form have been at any time in use 1 or simply, has the mason's mistake been allowed to continue ? R. S.

[A mere specimen of the usual British blundering in foreign languages, we should imagine.]

WILLIAM WILLIE. These are two of the Christian names of a youth lately deceased at Shipley. I have, of course, read in ' N. k Q.' of children in one family with the same Christian name, but my attention has never before been drawn to a person pos- sessing both a full name and a diminutive thereof. Can any reader give other instances, such as Charles Charlie, &c. 1

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

FOREST FAMILY. I should be glad of any information regarding the family, arms, &c., of Miles Forest, who was father of (1) Sir Anthony Forest, of Morborn, Hunts, knighted 1604 ; (2) Elizabeth, married first Sir Arthur Denny, of Tralee Castle, and secondly, in 1639, Sir Thomas Harris, of Corworthen, Devon ; (3) Isabella, married George Lynne, of South wick Hall, Northants.

(Rev.) H. L. L. DENNY.

9, Queen Street, Londonderry.

FROST AND ITS FORMS. Is anything known of the reason why the moisture in the atmo- sphere, when condensed on the window panes, assumes the appearance of fern fronds 1 I have never heard any explanation given of this fact, and have in vain searched through all the books of reference that I possess.

M. L. B.