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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. AUG. 22, im

With regard to the Exeter memorial stones, I would make two observations. (1) The Quakers at Exeter may have acted irregularly. Some such irregular practices must have existed, to meet which the order of the General Yearly Meeting of 1850 was made. (2) The stones at Exeter might have been erected at a much later date than the year inscribed upon them. I know that to be the case with regard to several me- morial stones of the date of the seventeenth century now existing in the General Baptists' burial-ground at Dover.

J. BAVINGTON JONES.

In an out-of-the-way corner in Hull there is a little-known Quaker burial-ground. When I saw it, forty years ago, it contained, I think, three gravestones. One was in- scribed :

Here lyeth the body of Eliz* the wife of Ant Wells of Kingston vpou Hull merch* who departed this life the 28th day of the 6th month 1676.

The others were dated 1841-51.

W. C. B.

The following passage from chap, cvl- of George Sorrow's 'Wild Wales' (1862) corroborates facts already brought forward :

" Singularly enough, the people at the very first house at which I inquired about the Quakers' Yard [near Merthyr Tydvil] were entrusted with the care of it. On my expressing a wish to see it a young woman took down a key, and said that if I would follow her she would show it me. The Quakers' burying-place is situated on a little peninsula or tongue of land, having a brook on its eastern and northern sides, and on its western the Taf. It is a little oblong yard, with low walls, partly overhung with ivy. The entrance is a porch to the south. The Quakers are no friends to tombstones, and the only visible evidence that this was a place of burial was a single flagstone, with a half obliterated inscription which with some difficulty I deciphered, and was as follows :

To the Memory of Thomas Edmunds Who died April the ninth 1802 aged 60

Years

And of Mary Edmunds Who died January the fourth 1810 aged 70."

H. E. CRANE.

Berck Plage, France.

WOLSTON (10 S. vii. 129; x. 95). From my family memoranda I find that Christo- pher Woolston married Catherine, second daughter of Roger Prideaux by his (second) wife Catherine, daughter of William Ilbert of Bowringsleigh and his wife Bridget, third daughter of Sir William Courtenay of Powderham Castle, and sister of the first Viscount Courtenay. They had issue six sons and two daughters, namely, (1)

Christopher, (2) Augustus, (3) Arthur, (4 Thomas, (5) Richard, (6) Catherine, (7) Augusta, and (8) Alexander. Thomas and Richard were married, but I do not know the names of their wives. Although the spelling of the surname slightly differs from that employed by G. F. R. B. and MB. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT, I am disposed to think that Christopher, the husband of Catherine Prideaux, may have been a brother or near relation of John Wolston of Tornewton House, and I should be glad to be favoured with further particulars about the family. According to my notes, Chris- topher Woolston died in 1832, and his wife Catherine, who was born on 10 June, 1762, died in 1840, and was buried at Torbryan. Her father, Roger Prideaux, was a younger brother of my great-great-grandfather. He was born at Kingswear, 8 Oct., 1722, and died at Kingsbridge in January, 1798. His wife, Catherine Ilbert, was born 12 Feb., 1737/8, and her marriage licence was dated 31 March, 1759. W. F. PRIDEATJX.

COMTE D'ANTRAIGTJES (10 S. x. 67). This ambitious politician was born in 1755. His * Memoires sur les tats generaux ' (1788) was one of the first sparks of the Revolution. A year later, as a deputy, he changed his views, upholding hereditary privilege and the king's veto. After 1790 he was diplomatically engaged in St. Peters- burg, Vienna, and 'Dresden. He acquired great influence with Canning, and was murdered, with his wife, 22 July, 1812, by an Italian servant at Barnes. For further details see ' Un Agent secret ' (L. Pingaud, 1893). BERNARD LORD M. QUILLIN.

There is a column and a half regarding this nobleman in Robinet's ' Dictionnaire historique et biographique de la Revolution et de I'Empire.' J. R. FITZGERALD.

For the career of Emmanuel Louis Henri de Launay, Comte d'Antraigues, see

' Biographie moderne,' i. 52 ; and (under
 * Nouvelle Biographie generate,' ii. 866 ;

169. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.
 * Entraigues ' ) ' Biographie universelle,' xiii.

An account of his murder will be found in 'The Environs of London,' by James Thome, F.S.A., 1876, Part I. pp. 27-8.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[R. B., COL. PHIPPS, MB. R. PIERPOINT, and LADY RUSSELL also thanked for replies.]

PROVERB ON BEATING (10 S. ix. 170, 298 ; x . 15). in an epigram attributed to Zeve- cotius by Nicolas Mercier, * De Conscribendo