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who had acquired wide cultivation and highly polished manners from some source ; bu could this possibly be in the circumstances which actually existed ? The lives anc letters of well-known people born in th< South scarcely imply it.

To take one instance. The correspond ence of the great soldier General Roben E. Lee fails to suggest that he had receivec much training beyond that which had to be acquired for professional purposes. His letters have few, or none, of the illuminating references to art, natural science, and bygone social conditions which are to be met with in the letters of Italians, Frenchmen, anc Englishmen of high education. Do any memoirs and letters testifying to superior refinement of manner and high cultivation of mind in any but exceptional circum- stances exist ? W. T.

MISTRESS RACHEL How. I should be glad if any one would give me information concerning the above lady. I have an old mezzotint, without date, representing her as a child, with a dove on her hand. Be- neath is " Kneller S. R. Imp. et Angl. Eques aur. pinx. Sold by T. Smith at the Lyon and Crown in Russel Street, Co vent Garden. Rachel is not mentioned among Prince Rupert's grandchildren ; but might she have died young ? F. UPFIELD GREEN.

8, Bramshill Road, Harlesden.

MORTIMER COLLINS. I have been informed on good authority that the late Mortimer Collins, poet and novelist, published in The Dublin University Magazine several things which have never been reprinted. Mr. Frank Kerslake in his 'Attic Salt' (1880) gives twenty or more quotations from them. I am anxious to have a list of such of Collins' s writings as may be found in that now extinct periodical. EDWARD PEACOCK.

WILLIAM BRUCE, PHYSICIAN, IN POLAND. Bruce was physician to the King of Poland in 1608, and figures frequently in letters written to our Foreign Office (P.R.O. : S.P., Poland, bundle 2). What is known of his origin and end ? J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

CAPT. BARTON OF H.M.S. LICHFIELD. In November, 1758, H.M.S. Lichfield was wrecked off the coast of Barbary, and the crew were kept in a state of slavery by the Moorish people until ransomed by the English Government. On their return Lieut. Sutherland published a deeply interesting log, setting forth the hardships sustained ;

and Capt. Barton was tried for losing his ship, and honourably acquitted. What were the birthplace and family of Capt. Barton ?

K. CHERRY. Exeter.

AUGVALDSNAES CHURCH, NORWAY. A

paragraph in one of the many scissors-and- paste periodicals describes a monolith in the churchyard of the above, called " The Virgin Mary's Needle," of about the same dimensions as the celebrated monolith at Rudstone in Yorkshire. Where can I consult the original source of the paragraph, or find a detailed account of the Norwegian obelisk ?

AYEAHR.

LANSDOWNE PASSAGE, BERKELEY STREET.

Can you refer me to a book which will

give particulars as to the origin and history

of Lansdowne Passage, Berkeley Street, W. ?

E. PRESTON HYTCH.

8, Etheldene Avenue, Mu8well Hill, N.

MILTON'S SONGS SET TO Music. Where can I obtain a list of Milton's songs set to music ? M. A.

RICHARD WEYON, TEMP. RICHARD III. Who was Richard Weyon of Chepe, temp. Richard III. ? His name appears on the earliest known London token, which has just been described and figured by me in Spink's Monthly Numismatic Circular for August. C. DAVIES SHERBORN.

BAYDON, CUMBERLAND. Can any reader of * N. & Q.' identify this place ? I cannot find it in a gazetteer.

At the visitation of Leicestershire in 1619 the pedigree of William Sharpe of Rolleston was deduced from a younger son of the Sharpe family of Baydon, Cumberland, and the coat of arms was confirmed to him. There is a village of the name in Wiltshire ; is it possible the Herald made a mistake ?

HENRY CURTIS SHARPE. Buckleigh Road, Streatham, S.W.

DEAN COLET'S NAME : ITS PRONUNCIA- TION. At St. Paul's School the founder's name is pronounced, I am told, as if spelt with a double I', but some time since I heard a well-known preacher pronounce it as if spelt with the o long. Which is correct ? FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

PICKTHALL. Picthall, Picthal, Picthaw, r*icthau, &c., are variants of this name, which >ccurs frequently on the border of Cumber- and and Westmorland.

Thomas Pickthall (Vicar of Brqxbourne, Herts, circa 1837) was son of a yeoman