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ing of members of the party. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me information in regard to this matter ? C.

' THE MONSTROUS REGIMEN OF WOMEN.' Who wrote the above ? Is there any reprint of it ? WM. WELCH.

WILLIAM CLAYTON, BARON SUNDON OP ARDAGH, married Charlotte Dyve, Mistress of the Robes to Queen Caroline, and was created a peer in 1735. There is an account of Lady Sundon in the ' D.N.B.,' and in Mrs. Thomson's ' Memoirs of Viscountess [stc] Sundon,' 1848.

Lord Sundon's parents are given by G. E. C. and Burke as William Clayton and Ann Haske (of Newmarket), and Burke gives his grandparents as Ralph Clayton and Mary Frances. Mrs. Thomson states, I believe, that he was descended from the Claytons of Fulwood in Lancashire. I have just gone somewhat minutely into the pedi- gree of the Claytons of Crooke, Fulwood, and Adlington (virtually the same family), and whilst I find the printed pedigrees by Betham and Burke are wrong in several instances, I cannot place Lord Sundon. His grandfather may have been the Ralph Clayton mentioned in Dugdale's Visitation of 1664 as a son of William Clayton of Old Crooke, but I suspect the pedigree is in- complete.

I shall be glad of information. R. S. B.

SEVENTH EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : HIS DESCENDANTS. Is anything known for certain as to the descendants of Lady Eliza- beth Percy, eldest daughter and coh. of the 7th Earl of Northumberland, and wife of Richard Woodroffe of Wolley, co. York. The question of the coheirs of the Percys was discussed at 6 S. v. 343, 431 ; vii. 28 ; and at the last reference the pedigree from Banks's ' Baronia Anglica Concentrata ' (i. 369) tracing the descent of Percy Wood- roffe Paver (b. 1829) from Maximilian Wood- roffe, called son and heir of the Lady Eliza- beth, was printed. Is this pedigree capable of proof ?

In Burke' s ' Peerage ' since 1893 the Lady Elizabeth's " descendant and sole heiress " (who, however, is unnamed) is stated to have married in 1719 Aaron Scales of Ranskill, co. Notts, and to be now repre- sented by Edward Peacock of Bottes- ford Manor, co, Lincoln, F.S.A. Hunter (' Deanery of Doncaster,' ii. 387), quoting from the Harl. MS. 6070, f. 123 [144], says that she had a son Joseph or Joshua Wood- roffe, who m. Magdalene, dau. and h. of

Roger Billings of Marthagare, near Denbigh,, and had issue Charles, Joseph, Francis,. Foljambe, and Mary. In ' Memorials of the Woodroffes,' by Miss S. M. Woodroffe, 1878, she is given three children : Maxi- milian, Joseph, and Mary. Nothing is said of any issue of Maximilian, but Joseph's issue is traced for three generations ; and if the pedigree here given is correct, the grandson of the Lady Elizabeth, and the senior coheir of the great house of Percy, was a Wakefield tradesman. Banks says that Maximilian was with his cousin George Percy in Virginia. I have written to America to try to verify this statement,, but meanwhile any information as to the descendants of the Lady Elizabeth Wood- roffe would greatly oblige.

(Marquis de) RUVIGNY. 15, Hanover Chambers, Buckingham Street,

TALAVERA. What is the origin of this name ? It appears that the town was first called Elbora, but in Roman time* Talabriga. Appian (' De Rebus Hispaniensi- bus,' c. 73) has TaAa/tyiya, which would seem to be an adaptation of a more ancient name. Taldr in modern Spanish means to fell or cut down trees, but the place-name can hardly be connected with that. Next July a century will have elapsed since Welling- ton's famous battle there. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

" INCUT." What is the exact method pre- scribed in the ' Judicial Committee Rules, 1908,' No. Ixviii., as to the binding of records, &c. ?

"The Appellant shall obtain ten copies of

the Record and Cases to be bound for the use of the Judicial Committee The several docu- ments, indicated by incuts, shall be arranged i the following order: (1) Appellants Case; Respondent's Case; (3) Record; (4) Supple- mental Record (if any) "

The word is not in ' N.E.D.,' nor in tha second impression (1905) of Mr. Howard Collins's 'Author and Printer,' which con- tains many useful bibliographical phrases.

Q. V.

J. BEW, BOOKSELLER. A page torn from the end of an old book has at the top : "The following Books may be had c Bew, No. 28, Paternoster Row." follows a portion of the list : ' The Travel* of True Godliness,' 'The Whole Duty of Prayer,' ' Crumbs of Comfort and Godly Prayers,' with others of a similar nature. When did J. Bew sell books in the Row ? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

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