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Hungerfords lived ? Hutchins's ' Dorset,' vol. iii. p. 742, says Sir Robert Henley married Mary Hungerford. MBS. SUCKLING

f'ves Catherine. In a Hungerford pedigree compiled from various sources, Mary married Samuel Hele, and Catherine married Sir Edward Stradling ; but of course they may have had more than one husband apiece.

As regards MB. OLIVEB'S remarks on Robert Henley, one of the Six Clerks in Chancery, on p. 470, he was in that office from 1618 to 1632, when I suppose he died. He could be the eldest son of Henry, brother of Andrew Henley of Taunton. I shall be very glad to have more definite informa- tion respecting this Robert. He is not mentioned in Henry's will, dated 1638, which would tend to prove the above identity.

E. A. FBY. 124, Chancery Lane.

RUSHLIGHTS (10 S. x. 27, 76). Rushlights were used in the remoter parts of Sussex down to the year 1845 or thereabouts, and I have been told by a person who saw them in use that they gave a very good light. The holders were of many shapes and patterns, the chief divisions being those in which the nippers held the rush simply by the weight of the knob or candle-holder, and those actuated by a spring. Some were contrived to hold several rushes at once, mahogany or oak stands with branches, and a pair of nippers to each branch. The and dipping the dried rush (or sedge) in is very difficult to get. As a collector of Sussex ironwork, I have several varieties of holders ; but I have not yet been able to secure a cresset. E. E. STBEET.
 * ' cresset " or iron vessel for boiling the fat

Chichester.

W. HEATH, ARTIST (10 S. ix. 385, 473; x. 13). I quite agree with MB. RALPH THOMAS that the English etchers of early Victorian days were, in the main, sadly wanting. I do not, however, fancy that a noted artist would, carelessly, permit his sketches to be murdered by a mechanical botch ; while with regard to the small fry, who had little option, the money value of the drawings, both to designer and publisher, would be far too small to allow of two persons being employed on a print. Instances, truly, have not been wanting where collabora- tion was expedient. In 1847 William Dickes etched some of John Gilbert's sketches ; and in 1850 my father, Benjamin Clayton, helped Sala to etch the ' Great Exhibition wot is to Be ' and ' No Popery,' while G. A. S.

assisted him with the ' Idleness of All Nations ' ; but such arrangements should be uncommon, save between father and son, or brothers. t

MB. THOMAS will find much information anent wood-drawing in W. A. Chatto and J. Jackson's ' Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical,' and W. J. Linton's illustrated ' History of Wood Engraving ' ; probably, however, he has already seen the books.

I am afraid I cannot recall any interesting matters concerning the Heath family, except that Horace is said to have lost an eye in a scrummage with Australian larrikins. He was a very poor artist.

HEBBEBT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

OLD TUNES (10 S. x. 48). Mpnimusk is a property in Aberdeenshire, situated on the river Don, and is the seat of Sir Arthur Grant, Bart. Many old Scotch tunes, especially dances, are derived from place-names. T. F. D.

In old literature " upsy Frees " was a well-known phrase for being drunk, the same as " upsee-Dutch," " Frees " or " Frise " being used for Dutch. Op-zee is supposed to be Dutch for " over sea " = our " half seas over." See Nares's ' Glossary,' s.v. ' Upsee Dutch.'

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE. Waltham Abbey.

" Upsy Frees " is of frequent occurrence, and is explained at length in Dean Nares's ' Glossary ' ; also in Brewer's ' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ' and in Halliwell's 'Dictionary.' H. P. L.

[MR. HOLDEN MAcMiCHAEL also thanked for reply.]

HOBNSEY : HlGHGATE AND ABABELLA

STUABT (10 S. x. 46). My sister, Mrs. Edward Lummis, when at school at Channing House, The Bank, Highgate, heard of a tradition in connexion with Lady Arabella and that house. Channing House, I believe, consists of two houses, one old, one new. The tradition was connected with the older one. I am not certain, but I believe one was built on the site of Arundel House or was rebuilt from it. MB. COLYEB MABBIOTT tells us he feels quite sure that the house in which Lady Arabella stayed her six days at Highgate was the house of Sir William Bond, and that he can make a shrewd con- jecture as to the approximate site of this house. Could MB. MABBIOTT tell us what