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JENNY LIND : "I LOVE THE MEKRY SUNSHINE." I can remember a year when Jenny Lind visited Derby, and astonished one and all who heard her by her wonderful " bird-like " notes. I always understood that the song in which her voice was best heard was called " I love the merry sunshine," the second line reading " Which makes the heart so gay." At any rate, everyone began to sing it to the best of their ability, and in one case with bad results, for my schoolmaster at that time he had a good falsetto voice injured himself in school hours whilst trying to get the highest note in " I love the merry sunshine," which we had to try morning, noon, and afternoon, until the master took to his bed for throat treatment. Afterwards he could not sing at all.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

DICKENS : LITERARY COINCIDENCE.

" Mr. Wopsle's great aunt conquered a confirmed

habit of living into which she had fallen. "-

Dickens, ' Great Expectations,' chap, xvi.

"The long habit of living indisposeth us for

dying." Sir Thos. Browne, ' Hydriotaphia ,'

chap. v.

JOHN WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

CLARIONETT AS A SURNAME. We are acquainted with the names of Bugler, Trumpeter, and Hornblower in our modern directories, and recently I found the name of Marmaduke Clarionett, of an escheator for the city of York, 1-2 Elizabeth (' Tenth Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records,' Appendix, ii. p. 46). Let us hope he did not play upon the tykes too severely.

A. RHODES.

" Pow-wow." Sir James Murray, in his ' Dictionary,' gives the earliest use of this word in the sense of " conference " as 1663. In ' Ralph Josselin's Diary,' however, on p. 115, we find the following :

"April 9, 1659. Heard and true y' Turners daughter was distract in this quaking business ; sad are y e fits at Coxall like the pow-wowing among the Indies."

CLIFTON ROBBINS.

" PENNYWORTH." In ' H.E.D.' are given various illustrations of " pennyworth " as signifying a bargain " something obtained at a cheap rate, or fully worth what is given for it " ; but in the Cecil MSS. (vol. i. p. 373) is an instance of another kind. Writing to Queen Elizabeth on 15 November, 1568, from Berwick-on-Tweed, and concerning its new fortifications, Lord Hunsdon " thinks the Queen has small pennyworths for so much money." ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

STUKELEY FAMILY. I should be glad to know whether the following book contains strange truth, or only clever fiction. If the latter, it is one of the best specimens of fiction in the garb of truth that I have met with. The title is : ' Old Memories of the Stukeleys,' Dublin, 1866, pp. 368, 8vo. It professes to be the memorials of some of the Stukeley family, of Stukeley Royal, in Cum- berland, with whom were connected the Bertie, Oliphant, Montolieu, Ermansdorff, Sackville, Radclyff, and other families. They possessed estates at Oakhurst, in Cumber- land, and St. Etienne, in Auvergne, and had been closely connected with the two Stuart Pretenders. It is a somewhat strange mixture of romance and religion, including secret rooms, concealed treasure, and strange adventure. Though written as fact, it has no explanatory preface or introduction.

F. H.

JOHN KELSALL, MAYOR OF CHESTER. I shall be much obliged if any of your readers can give me any information con- cerning John Kelsall, who was Mayor of Chester in 1767; whether he had any children, and, if so, what their names were. Also whether he was a descendant of Roger Kelsall, who was " Keeper of the Artillarie in the Castle " (of Chester) in 1462 and follow- ing years. H. J. KELSALL, Major R.A.

CAPT. THOMAS BOYS. In Lyon's ' History of Dover Castle ' it is stated that 28 Hen. VIII., Thomas Boys was appointed captain of Deal Castle for life. The Rev. C. R. Elvin, in his ' Records of Walmer,' p. 360, gives a copy of the memorial to Capt. Thomas Boys in Deal Church,

" which Thomas was in his youthe a Gentellman at armes at Calles and attended upon the person of

King Henry the VIII. at the siege of Bullen and

after by the gift of Kinge Edward VI. in the Vth yere of his Bagn, 1551, made Captayne of Deal Castell."

He died 1562. I recently found in the Maidstone Library a MS. copy of Dering MSS. vol. xvii., where under date 4 Ed. VI. (1550), Thomas Boys is entered as captain of " Sand- gate Castle," George Fogge being his deputy. According to the above, we have Thomas Boys, captain of Deal Castle for life, 28 Hen. VIII. (1538); Thomas Boys, captain