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reputed lineal descent from the poet's sister can now be either confirmed or con- tradicted. The name of the lad is given as " William Shakespeare Smith."

W. B. H.

DANIEL MACCAKTIE OB MACCAKTHY, SUB- SHERIFF OF COBK. I shall be greatly in- debted to any of your leaders who can inform me if the Sub-Sheriff had a son also named Daniel, born about 1772-3, and, if so, what became of him.

I should also be glad to know to which branch of the MacCarthy family the Sub- Sheriff belonged. F. GODFEBY. 2, Morton Crescent. Exmouth.

DTJKE OF WELLINGTON : A STBANGE EPITAPH. Kenelm Henry Digby in his ' Compitum,' vol. vi. p. 198, when discoursing on modern epitaphs, gives as a sample " a London temple, where a letter of the great duke is textually inscribed over a grave, The letter is not supplied, nor the name of the temple mentioned. The " great duke " is, I suppose, Wellington. Does this memorial still exist ? If so, where ?

EDWABD PEACOCK.

JONATHAN WILD BIBLIOGBAPHY. Has any attempt been made to compile a biblio- graphy of the works dealing with Jonathan Wild, the most notorious of our thief-takers not only in regard to his biography, but also to the multitude of tales of all kinds in which he figures, either in the title or between the covers ?

ALFBED F. BOBBINS.

T. TBUMAN, BOOKSELLER,* 1746. I have a pamphlet entitled 'The Tricks of the Town Laid Open,' printed for T. Truman in 1746. Can any one give me the name of the street in which Truman had his business ? I should be glad also to know the titles of any other books he published.

HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

" SCBANNELPIPEDEST." Did not Ruskin Apply this word to some one's Muse ? I shall feel obliged for the quotation.

H. P. L.

MYSTERIOUS NAVAL FOE. It is said that -during the war between England and her American colonies with their allies in 1775-83 an English seventy-four fought a drawn battle at night with an enemy of equal force, but that neither the name, fate, nor nation of the enemy was ever discovered. The damage to the English ship and the casualties among her crew

proved that she had not met a phantom like one of those that so greatly frightened the Muscovites at the Battle of the Dogger Bank ; so the tars of Rodney's time were convinced that there were ships afloat as mysterious as those of Vanderdecken and Del Green, and far more dangerous. Where is there an account of this strange action ?

M. N. G.

VAGBANTS AT THOBPE SALVIN. Can any reader give an explanation of the presence in the parish of Thorpe Salvin, near Worksop, of a great number of vagrants about 1709 and 1719 ? The average number of burials yearly for ten years before 1709 was three persons only, but for the following four years twenty-one burials of " poor vagrants " are recorded, besides twelve parishioners. There is then an interval of five years, with only one vagrant each year ; but from 1719 to 1724 thirteen vagrants were buried. Thus in fifteen years thirty-nine vagrants were buried, and only three names are given one " a vagrant of Bystoll " (? Bristol), and another from "the forest of Knasborough."

Thorpe Salvin is a parish at the junction of Yorkshire, Notts, and Derbyshire.

A. C.

" TITDOB " SPELT " TiDDEB." Can any of your readers tell me where, outside Bacon's works, I can find the name Tudor spelt " Tidder " ? A. J. WILLIAMS.

GENEALOGICAL COMPILATIONS MISSING. I give below particulars of two genealogical works which cannot now be traced. Some reader of ' N. & Q.' may perhaps be able to supply information which may locate them.

1. On p. 26 of the MS. 23, N. 22 preserved in the Royal Irish Academy, and entitled ' Abstract of Genealogies of Tribes of Ire- land. . . .until 1666, collected from the Book of Clan Firbis,' there is reference to the

Roll which Cromwell made of the men of Ireland in 1652, which is in Dublin." The MS., which is in Irish, refers to this Roll among other well-known genealogical works, so that it cannot be the census taken in 1659. It cannot now be traced in Dublin.

2. The " Discourse " of Richard Hadsor, presented by Capt. Fitzgerald in 1601 to Sir Robert Cecyll (sic), is said to contain the " genealogie of all the greate howses and gentleme of the mere Irish." Nothing appears to be known of this " Discourse " at Hatfield, Lambeth, the Public Records Offices of London or Dublin, or the British Museum.