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MICHAEL ANGELO HOOKER. This artist, who was one of the founders of our English water-colour school, made a series of pedes- trian excursions over England, and executed paintings of the places he visited. Where can details of these excursions be met with ? Did he publish any diary or other account of his travels ? Where can a list of his pic- tures be seen ?

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

Lancaster.

[In the sixth volume of Mr. Algernon Graves's ' Royal Academy of Arts ' the list of Hooker's works tills three columns.]

THAMES : " THE FLATS " AND KING'S CHANNEL. Fryer, ' New Account of E. India and Persia,' p. 2 (1698), says :

" When they were together, their Commands were to go over the Flats ; which, notwithstand- ing the Hazard to ships of their Burthen, was thought securer now thay to venture about the King s Channel, where they might be exposed to the Attempts of the Hollanders. '

What parts of the Thames estuary were, or are, known as the Flats and King's Channel ?

EMERITUS.

ISAAC GLASSE was elected on the founda- tion of Westminster School in 1753. I should be glad to obtain any information concerning his parentage and career.

G. F. R. B.

JAMES MEARS was elected from West- minster to Trin. Coll., Cambridge, in 1743. Particulars of his career and the date of his death are desired. G. F. R. B.

WILTSHIRE IN BERKSHIRE. Old maps of Berkshire, up to about 1850, show a portion including Twyford, Ruscombe, Whistley Green, Hurst, and Wokingham as " Part of Wilts." Research has failed to discover the reason of this isolated portion of a shire so far distant from Berkshire ; but books of reference state that a portion of Wokingham, included, in Wilts, was, by Acts 2 and 3 William IV. c. 64, and 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 61 (1844), annexed to Berkshire.

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' throw light upon the reason for these districts ever having been " in Wiltshire " ?

JOHN SAYCE-PARR.

[For a long discussion on portions of shires in other shires see 6 S. i. 177, 306 ; ii. 98, 297, 477 ; iii. 293, 455 ; iv. 17, 196, 295.]

HANNAH COWLEY'S BURIAL-PLACE. The llth of March was the centenary of the death of Mrs. Cowley, whose play ' The Runaway ' was produced by Garrick at Drury Lane in 1776. 'The Belle's Stra-

tagem,' in which Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen Terry appeared, is the only one of her pieces still acted, I think, though she wrote twelve plays in all. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me where she was buried ?

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. [' D.N.B.' says she died at Tiverton.]

SIR RICHARD AND LADY FANSHAWE. I am very anxious to trace a portrait of Sir Richard, and two miniatures of Sir Richard and Lady Fanshawe together, with much of their correspondence. These formerly were in the possession of the family. Any one who can help me to trace these or any other matters connected with the family will greatly oblige by communicating with me direct. E. J. FANSHAWE.

Carlton Club, Pall Mall.

THE OLD WIVES OF ST. IVES. Mr. J. O. Halliwell in ' The Nursery Rhymes of Eng- land,' 2nd ed., 1843, p. 117, No. CLXXXVIL, gives the riddle of

As I was going to St. Ives

I met a man with seven wives.

I shall be glad to know the earliest time this riddle appeared in print. Is anything known of its origin or history ?

HERBERT E. NORRIS. Cirencester.

" SQUAD "=MuD. In the north of Lin- colnshire, and especially on the long range of hills known as the Wolds, this word is used to mean mud, particularly that kind which is formed on highways and paths. Here are two examples :

" This here road is real cover' d wi' squad ; one can't get ower it wi'out makin' one's sens eight doon mucky."

" Mother, I want a knife to scrape squad off my leggins."

Can any one say if there is a parallel term in any of the Scandinavian tongues ? Those parts of the shire where this word is most commonly used had a large number of Norse and Danish settlements.

M. Y. A. H.

LAWS OF THE CONQUEROR AND THE CONFESSOR. I should be grateful if any of your readers could furnish me with references to the latest and most authoritative state- ments as to the dates of the laws of the Conqueror and the Confessor. I believe I am right in thinking that these laws were compiled later than the time of the monarchs
 * o whom they are attributed.

HAROLD J. E. PEAKE.

Westbrook House, Newbury, Berks.