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parish, which passed temporarily into my hands. One became vicar of Sedgeford (1838), and one vicar of the adjoining parish of Heacham. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.

Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk.

AMERICAN NAVAL STORY, 1814. I re- member reading, when a boy in the sixties, an American naval story for boys. The scene was laid at the time of the war between Great Britain and the United States in 1814. The name of the heroine was Ella, with whom two young American naval officers were in love ; and the villain of the piece was an English naval officer. Can any of your readers, either in Great Britain or the United States, give me the name of the story ? W. T L.

JACQUES BABIN, EX-NOBLE. I have this person's death warrant, signed by Fouquier- Tinville. It is dated either 12 or 17 Plu- viose, " Fan Second de la Republique Fran-

Where can I find an account of him and of his trial and execution ? JERMYN.

DETACHED PARTS OF COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS. Where can I find the reasons explained why certain portions of our English counties (and also Scotch and Irish) are detached from the general body of the county and placed in other counties ? For example, there are (or were) 'parts of Caernarvonshire and Flintshire surrounded by Denbighshire, aud a part of Staffordshire surrounded by Worcestershire. Reference is sought to other instances, and to cases where parts of townships are detached in like manner. Please reply direct.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

[Much on the question of detached portions of counties will be found at 6 S. i. 177, 306; ii. 98. 297, 477; iii. 293, 455; iv. 17, 196, 295. See also 'Ely Place, Holborn, technically a Part of Cambridge- shire/ 9 S. vi. 284, 311 ]

TYNG OR TING OF DUNSTABLE. William and Edward Tyng (or Ting), said to have been brothers, and natives of Dunstable, in Bedfordshire, were among the early settlers of Boston, Massachusetts. William was for several years Treasurer of the Pro- vince, and died in 1653, leaving daughters, but no son. Among his descendants was Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of ' The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,' and father of Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Edward Tyng was the founder of Dun- stable, Mass., and left a numerous posterity,

but the family name in this country is extinct, except as it is borne by the de- scendants of Dudley Atkins Tyng, who wa& descended from Edward Tyng's daughter Rebecca, wife of Governor Joseph Dudley,, and assumed the name of Tyng at the request of a wealthy kinswoman, who left him a large landed property in the American Dun- stable.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth cen- turies the Tyng family was of the highest respectability and influence in New England. If there are representatives of the name or connexion still left in the Mother Country,. I shall be pleased to correspond with them.

F. M. RAY.

191, Middle Street, Portland, Maine.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any of your readers inform me where I can find a short poem beginning

Is he gone to a land of no laughter ;

This man who made mirth tor us all ? I believe that the poem consists of three verses of some five or six lines each.

(Mrs.) FLORENCE G. MONTEFIORE.

Lose this day loitering, 'Tis the same to-morrow, And the next more dilatory. What you can do or think you can, Begin it Courage has genius, Energy, and promptness in it.

E. F. D.

SURNAMES IN -ENG. Can any one inform me whether there is any English surname besides my own having the termination -eng ? D. C. LENG.

Magdalen College, Oxford.

INDIAN MAGIC. I was the guest of my brother, who is a tea-planter at Titabmv Assam, in February, 1907, and I venture to take the following from a privately printed book by myself entitled ' Winter Days in India and Elsewhere,' because I should like to know something more about the land of magic :

" One day a conjuror performed in front of the verandah. As one of Robert's house ^servants after- wards said, 'it was true magic.' To learn such magic one goes to the country of Gora, where there are no men, only women : men who go there become sheep during the day, and at night they learn magic. They cannot get away, because if they start in the night they always find in the morning that they are where they were when they started. But if they go- to a very, very old woman she may help them to- escape, and then they become conjurors in India. However, our conjuror yesterday made no fairy-tale claims. He professed to come from Agra. He did the mango tree trick very cleverly indeed, and made a little duck of clay move about in a bowl of water to his command ; extracted large iron balls