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home from Madras, being then a colone (Gentleman's Magazine, xlvii. 247). Where is Sir Joshua's portrait of Fletcher ? To what family of Fletcher did the colone belong ? I shall be grateful for any refer- ences to books or MSS. which relate to him.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

" GRZYMALA." Can any reader explain the meaning of this Polish word, used as signifying aristocratic armorial bearing ?

HERALDIC.

" KNIGHTS WITHOUT NOSES." In Wycherley's play ' The Plain Dealer ' (Act III. sc. i.) occurs the following : " I 'd rather dine in the Temple-rounds or walks with the knights without noses or the knights of the post." Hired witnesses were known as knights of the post ; but what were the knights without noses ? Or are the two terms synonymous ?

HENRY FISHWICK. The Heights, Rochdale.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Blue rejoicing sky. Quoted by De Quincey in ' The Spanish Military Nun,' p. 163 of vol. xiii. of Masson' edition.

2. Pass like night from land to land. Quoted by De Quincey in the same, p. 195. V. H. COLLINS.

Napoleon is said to have quoted the follow- ing lines after the battle of Dresden in 1813 " from a favourite poet." Is this Corneille or Racine ?

J'ai servi, commande, vaincu quarante annSes ; Du mpnde, entre mes mains, j'ai vu les destinees ; Et j'ai toujours connu qu'en chaque evenement Le destin des ^tats dependait d'un moment.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Will you kindly give context and name of author of the line,

Here in this ancient haunt of Peace ?

M. TITCHMARSH.

["A haunt of ancient Peace " is 1. 88 of Tenny- son's 'Palace of Art.']

ARCHDEACON PHILIP STUBBS : PORTRAIT. Can any of your readers inform me as to the present whereabouts of the portrait of Archdeacon Philip Stubbs (1665-1738), painted by T. Murray in 1713 ? I have a copy of a fine mezzotint engraving after it by John Faber, 1722. H. STUBBS.

Danby, Ballyshannon.

BULLINGDON CLUB. Can any reader of 'N. & Q.' inform me when this club was founded at Oxford, and who were the founders and original members ?

COLLNOR.

BROKEN CROSS, WESTMINSTER. Where and what was this ? ' The Square and Cube Root Compleated and Made Easie ' was sold by the author at the Chequer at Broken Cross in Westminster (London Gazette, Feb. 27-March 1, 1687).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

R." FERNANDES IN DUKES PLACE." - I recently purchased a square blue and white jar (Lambeth ?) with this lettering under the glaze. I should like to find out whether Fernandes was an apothecary or Italian warehouseman, and the date at which he traded in Dukes Place. A reader of ' N. & Q.' possessing London Directories of the latter part of the eighteenth century could probably give me the information.

ISRAEL SOLOMONS. 91, Portsdown Road, W.

^AMERICAN GENEALOGIES. I should be much obliged to a correspondent for the title of some such work as Burke or Debrett giving genealogies of American families of English or Scottish descent down to the present generation. ELS.

" SPANISH STRAPPS " : " MORBUS GALLI- cus." What instruments of torture were these ? They are specified in the account of a witch at Royston in 1606, who is said to have caused her victims such pain that the agony inflicted by these was " nothing to it." W. B. GERISH.

Bishop's Stortford.

[May not "morbus Gallicus" be an allusion to the disease of that name ? The earliest quotation for it in the 'N.E.D.' is 1579.]

CHAMBER-HORSE FOR EXERCISE. What was this ? Was it in the nature of a rocking- horse ?

"We hear that Gentlemen and Ladies may see gratis the Chamber-Horse for Exercise, at Mr. Marsh's, in Stanhope Street, near Clare Market. He has a list of many Persons of Condition who have purchas'd these Machines of him. JJauy Advertiser, 16 June, 1742.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

CHARLES FITZGEFFREY. In the marriage register of Purton, Wilts, under date 17 Sept., 1604, occurs the entry "Charles ^effery and Anne Arman." Is this the ecord of the marriage of "the poet