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paper on ' The Pension List ' in his recent
 * Pocketful of Sixpences ' :

" The Pension-List is a Valhalla of abolished sinecures. 'The Officer of the Pipe' draws 331. 2s. 2d. a year ; but the books are silent about the nature and duties of the office which once he held."

Why " once " ? and if he hold the office no longer, why does he still draw the pension or salary ? Are there no ways of getting at the history of this curious office ?

J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

" ST. FRANCIS'S MOON." A writer on Western India at the end of the seventeenth century speaks of " St. Francis's Moon in August," which marks the close of the rainy season. Does this refer to St. Francis Xavier, whose feast is now held on 3 Decem- ber ? EMEBITTJS.

RANGER OF GREENWICH PARK. Is there a Ranger of Greenwich Park ? I shall be glad of any available information as to the holders of this or the equivalent office during the latter part of the eighteenth century and the earlier part of the nine- teenth. A. H. D.

RATTLESNAKE COLONEL : CATGUT RUF- FLES. I have a very interesting MS. journal, by a Mrs. Browne, of a visit to North America from 1754 to 1757. On 12 June, 1755, she writes : " At 8 at night we halted at a Rattlesnake Colonel's named Crisop ; had for supper some lamb, and to drink some very bad wine." What is the meaning of " Rattlesnake Colonel " ?

The same lady on her voyage out makes for herself some " catgut ruffles." Were these fashionable wear ?

\ W. T. MALLESON. Great Tew, Oxon.

JOHN TETHERINGTON. I should be much obliged for information respecting John Tetherington, who entered at Lincoln's Inn 1777. He appears to have been a not too reputable man about town from 1780 to 1810. He is mentioned as a well-known and eccentric person in the ' Recollections of John Adolphus,' pp. 86-90, and John Taylor's 'Records of my Life' (1832), vol. i. pp. 180, 181. He was caricatured by Robert Dighton in ' The Mirror of Fashion,' as a " Deep-un." Perhaps some one who is acquainted with the social literature of the period may be able to give me other references.

(Rev.) T. C. DALE. 115, London Road, Croydon.

JAMES PRESTON OF BARTON-ON-HUMBER. In the pedigree of Marshall of Theddle- thorpe (see ' Lincolnshire Pedigrees,' Har- leian Society's publication) I find that Sophia (b. 1793, d. 1850), fourth daughter of William Marshall of Great Grimsby, collector of Customs at Grimsby and D.L. for the county, married James Preston of Barton-on-Humber. I shall feel deeply indebted to any person who can supply me with further information, for genea- logical purposes, relating to James Preston, his ancestors or descendants, or any par- ticular circumstance connected with his family. WM. EASTERBROOK PRESTON. 43, Leyland's Lane, Heaton, Bradford.

MATTHEW STEVENSON AND WILLIAM PRES- TON, P.M. OF THE LODGE OF ANTIQUITY No. I. I want to know who these men were and where they lived. The portrait of Stevenson was engraved by Richard (or Robert) Gay wood, who was born 1630, and died 1711. Stevenson has long hair, and holds his gloves in his right hand. This portrait bears the name Mathew Stevenson, and the verse :

The printers proffit, not my pride, Hath this Idea sinify'd, For he pusht out the merrie pay, And Mr. Gaywood made it gay.

It was published by W. Richardson, Castle Street, Leicester Fields.

The portrait of William Preston, engraved Ridley after S. Drummond, A.R.A., probably appeared in The European Maga- zine, 1811.

Another William Preston was chaplain to the Duke of Rutland during his Viceroy- alty. Of what family did he come ?

SAX-DANE.

66, Victoria Mansions, South Lambeth Road.

BARBARY PIRATES OFF DEVONSHIRE.

an any one tell me what is the date of the

ast recorded appearance of a Barbary

rover in Barnstaple Bay or off the coast

of North Devon ? Did any of these craft

infest that neighbourhood as late as the

first quarter of the eighteenth century ?

FRANK W. HACQUOIL. Penarth.

ALEXANDER PENNECUIK AND THE LOUVRE. In which of Pennecuik's * Poems ' is a reference to the Duke of Gordon and the Louvre ?

Non orbis gentem, nee urbem gens habet nulla Urbsque domum dominum nee domus ulla parein.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

J. M. BULLOCH.