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our gardens is called both T. aloides and T. uvaria. There are many English aliases : flame-flower, torch-lily, red-hot poker, and perhaps others. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

AMPHILIS, FEMALE NAME. What is the origin of this name ? I cannot trace it back earlier than the sixteenth century, though I have met with " Amflota " in records two or three centuries earlier.

W. F. C.

AMPHILLIS HYDE. When did this lady die ? The date is obliterated on her grave- stone in Salisbury Cathedral, and it is desired to have the inscription restored. She was the widow of Laurence Hyde of Heale, Wilts, and The Close, Salisbury, and daughter of Sir Richard Tichbourne of Winchester, Kt., and his first wife Helen White. She was living in 1651, for she sheltered Charles II. at Heale during his flight after Worcester ; but she must have died before 1660. Be tween 1649 and 1660 there are no entrie of burials in the register of Salisbury Cathe dral. Her daughter Helen, wife of Sir John Lowe, was buried in October, 1661 and the inscription on her gravestone states that she was a daughter of Lawrence anc Amphillis Hyde " juxta intumulatis."

J. J. H. Salisbury.

SIB ALEXANDER BRETT. Can any one give me information concerning the family of Sir Alexander Brett ? He was Surveyor of the Ordnance, and one of the colonels in Buckingham's ill-starred expedition to the island of Rh6, where Brett was killed in 1627. SENEX.

ABRAHAM WHITTAKER. The first Earl of Stradbroke married, en secondes noces, 1792, Charlotte Maria, daughter of Abraham Whittaker. Can any one tell me the name of Abraham's wife ? KATHLEEN WARD.

Castle Ward, Downpatrick.

FRENCH PEERAGE. I shall be glad if some one will inform me whether there is any publication which contains the pedigrees of the present representatives of the French nobility. If there is such a publication, I shall be glad to know where it can be pur- chased or consulted.

R. VAUGHAN GOWER.

Ferndale Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.

( A ,i n i! A ^r nu ire de la No blesse de France,' com- IHf*. b y M - Borel d'Hauterive, was mentioned at 9 b. i. 15. Older genealogical works are cited at pp. 171 and 478 of the same volume.]

DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. Which of the Dukes of Brunswick is commemorated in the Brunswick Hotel on the riverside at Blackwall, and the Brunswick Hotel in Jermyn Street, Piccadilly ?

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

BADGES ON BOOK-PLATES. I shall be glad to be referred to any lists of book-plates charged with the badges of their owners.

JOHN T. PAGE.

LADY CHAPELS. I shall be glad if any of your correspondents can give me informa- tion on the following points :

1. In the case of an ancient church did the fact of its dedication to St. Mary the Virgin make any difference in regard to the customary addition of a Lady Chapel with its separate altar, similarly dedicated ?

2. Would it be possible, in mediaeval times, for a Lady Chapel to be appropriated to any particular house ? INQUISITOR.

THELMA : ITS DERIVATION. Could one of your readers kindly oblige me with the derivation or the meaning of the name Thelma ? I particularly wish to know whether Thelma, which I believe to be Slavonic, has any connexion with the Arabic name Zuleima. RESEARCH.

GENERAL JOHN WHEELER CLEVELAND, H.E.I.C. His sister Jane married Edward Williams, who was drowned with Shelley. Another sister married a General Baird. Any clue to the descent of Cleveland, Williams, and Baird will oblige. Is it

?ossible there was any connexion between ohn Cleveland and the poet Cleveland, supposed son of Oliver Cromwell, alias Williams ? A. C. H.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Can any one tell me at what period of the eighteenth century the death punishment reached its maximum, and where I can see a list of the offences for which it was incurred ? A. O. V. P.

JOHN MAPLETOFT, 1631-1720. Can any reader inform me if there exists a portrait of John Mapletoft, Gresham Professor of Physic, subsequently Rector of Braybrooke, Northants, and of St. Lawrence, Jewry ?

J. A. NIXON.

18, West Mall, Clifton.

CLAUGH FAMILY. William Claugh was a freeholder at Basingstoke in 1705, and voted in the county election of that year. Joseph (?) Claugh is said to have married Bridger of Lyss, Hants, and emigrated