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^Collection. In Malcolm's ' London ' it is shown under the title ' In Hanover Square.'

The house deserves an historian, if it has not already had one. There must be a wealth of anecdote and interesting data associated with it ; the first occupier alone is sufficient to give it comparative immortality. How easy it would be to picture that prince of bibliophiles returning from ransacking the brokers' barrows in Moorfields with Lodge's ' Nettle for Nice Noses' (1591) or some such "trifle" in the pocket of his shabby surtout ! It might even be possible to ascertain what were the principal features of his library when it went from here to 13, St. James's Square, in 1795. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

LELAND ON TROWBRIDGE. Leland in his ' Itinerary,' ii. 57, writing in 1540 about Trowbridge, says : " One Alexandre is now a great clothier in the town." I suggest that the surname Langford is here omitted. Two Alexander Langfords, father and son, purchased in 1544 two water-mills in Trow- bridge, no doubt for cloth-making purposes. Edward Langford, son of Alexander, was so rich that he was able to marry his daughter and heiress to Henry Hyde of Purton, a man of good birth. Their son was the great Lord Clarendon ; and Clarendon's daughter married James, Duke of York, afterwards James II., and was the mother of two queens regnant. FRANCIS HARRISON.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" PRUSSIAN." I shall be grateful to any readers of ' N. & Q.' who will send us early quotations or references for " Prussian," as a national or political name, substantive or adjective. We know "Prussian blue" ,s the name of the pigment from the year 1724 ; but we have no examples of " the Prussians," " the Prussian army," or the like, thus early, though " Prussian " as an adjective must of course have been already known when the pigment, discovered in Berlin, was called in France and England " the new Prussian blue." As it was only in 1701 that the Elector of Brandenburg took the title of " King of Prussia," and that Prussia became a factor in European politics, few examples of " Prussian " are likely to be found before that date, except

such as refer to the Slavonic people of East Prussia, to which the name originally be- longed, and for which the earlier English name was " Pruce " or " Spruce."

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

LORD HO\VE'S VICTORY, 1 JUNE, 1794. Can any of your readers assist me in tracing a painting by Madox Brown of " the Glorious 1st of June," 1794 ? It repre- sents the quarter-deck of the Queen Char- lotte ten figures in foreground, two in background. On left of the picture, as spectator faces it, is a naval officer, the head uncovered, with speaking-trumpet in right hand, receiving orders from Lord Howe, who has a drawn sword in his right hand. The centre group is composed of Lieut. Neville of the Queen's Regiment, mortally wounded, supported by two officers of his regiment and a naval officer. Painted by Madox Brown, and engraved by D. Orme, 1795. It is fully described in The Britannic Magazine of 1796. There are many prints of the painting, but the whereabouts of the original is not to be traced.

W. MACKIE,

Lieut. -Col. late Queen's Regiment. 13, Foster Road, Gosport, Hants.

RICHARD DIGHTON, CARICATURIST. The ' D.N.B.' mentions only Robert Dighton, a caricaturist, who died in 1814. Was Richard his son ? I possess a full-length caricature portrait, coloured by hand, of General Bolton, with the inscription ' A View from the Horse Guards,' and on it, " drawn, etched by Richard Dighton, 1817, July 16th." The caricatured general, Sir Robert Bolton, was Lieutenant- Colonel of the 13th Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp to George III., Equerry to George IV., a G.C.H., and knighted 20 Feb., 1817. He died at his country seat, Swerford Park, Oxfordshire, 15 March, 1836.

Richard Dighton caricatured many other prominent men of his time. It is singular he has escaped notice in the ' D.N.B.'

CHARLES S. KING, Bt. St. Leonards-on-Sea.

' CHOVEVI-ZION.' - 1 should be obliged if some one could kindly inform me if an Anglo-Israel paper, Chovevi-Zion, is still published, or when it was discontinued.

WILLIAM SCOT. Somerset Sash, Cape Colony.

BERGERODE. In John Speed's map of Lancashire, dated 1610, the name of Berge- rode is applied to the strip of land along