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guilty of murder. Which of the brothers was the slayer, and what happened to him ? Pepvs only names the slain brother.

S. H. A. H.

ARMS WANTED. I wish to identify the following arms, to be seen on a lead drop- spout head of a house in Evesham : Three bars dancette ermine. The crest is a talbot's head erased, charged with two bars dancette. The date is about 1730. A Peter Endman was the owner of the house about that time. If not his arms whose would they be ? I have seen Grazebrook's ' Heraldry of Wor- cestershire.' CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

ROYAL INDEPENDENT HANOVERIAN LODGE. Can any reader give me the history of the above lodge or tell me where it can be found ? Is it still in existence ? I have recently come into the poessession of the seal of the Lodge, round the bone handle of which is the following inscription : " The gift of B r Sam 1 Sand n Hall, Secretary." The said Samuel Sanderson Hall lived in the Circus, Tower Hill, London, and was my great grand- father, born 1784, died 1867. He was brother of Sir John Hall, K.C.H., and second son of the Rev. John Hall of Rotter- dam. The arms of the Lodge, according to the seal, were a horse courant, on the sinister side of the shield a sword and on the dexter side a mace. The crest a stag's head cabossed, and the motto " We obey," all within an oval band upon which is the following : " Royal Independent Hanoverian Lodge." There are no tinctures.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

48, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

WILLIAM GUILD. Is anything known o above " Minister of God's Word at King Edward in Scotland," author of 'Moses Unvailed,' 1684 ? There is no copy o ' D.N.B.' in this remote corner.

ALEX. RUSSELL. Stromness.

M. GOADBY, PUBLISHER. Is anything known of M. Goadby, publisher, who wa established in Paternoster Row in the yea 1779 ? I shall be obliged for the titles o any of his publications.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

COVENANTERS' MOTTO. Can any of your readers tell me who originated the mott on the Blue Banner of the Scottish Cove nanters ? I think the motto waa : " Christ' Crown and Covenant." Where can fu particulars be found ? D. P. B.

GULIX HOLLANDS. What textile fabric pas this, and why so named ? At the sale of le " Household Furniture, Pictures, fine Id China, &c., of a Gentleman leaving off tousekeeping," were included " some very ne Pieces of Gulix Hollands, India quiltings, ne Dutch Table-Linnen and Sheeting." Daily Advertiser, 23 June, 1742).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

HE FARMERS OF AYLESBURY AND STRAITS OF MALACCA.

(10 S. xi. 410, 453.)

MR. CLEMENT SHORTER' s question is not iimcult to answer.

When Gladstone in January, 1874, sought or a renewal of the country's confidence his Ministry, Disraeli looked around lim for some definite causes of complaint igainst his political opponents. He found one in the allegation that, "by an act of folly or of ignorance rarely equalled, Jie present Ministry relinquished a treaty which secured us the freedom of the Straits of Malacca for our trade with China and Japan " (address to Buckinghamshire lectors, Times, 26 Jan., 1874, p. 8).

Gladstone took up the challenge on this point in his speech at Blackheath on 28 Jan., md retorted with more than his usual directness of language (Times, 29 Jan., p. 5). A letter on the matter then followed from Lord Derby (ib., 30 Jan., p. 9). Gladstone again adverted to the subject in his speech at Woolwich on 31 Jan. (ib., 2 Feb., p. 5). and it was on this occasion that he referred to the poetic " squib " which, I believe, was written by himself. I quote the lines he uttered :

The farmers at Aylesbury gathered to dine And they ate their prime beef and they drank

their old wine. With the wine there was beer, with the beer tnere

was bacca. The liquors went round, and the banquet was

crowned With some thundering news from the Straits of

Malacca.

In his speech at New Cross two days later Gladstone again brought the matter forward, and this tune in reply to the letter of Lord Derby. It is a matter of history that Disraeli was victorious in the fray, and that the crime of the Straits of Malacca was at once dismissed from memory.

A good deal of gossip about Disraeli's electioneering experiences in Buckingham-