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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. *n. OCT. 2,

Stuart (John), second Marquis of Bute and sixth Earl of Dumfries. B. 10 Aug., 1793 ; d. 18 March, 1848.

Sutton (Christopher), 1565 (? )-1629. Add : Author of ' Disce Mori : Learne to Die,' 1600 ; ' Disce Vivere: Learne to Live,' 1626; 'Godly Medita- tions.' All reprinted several tunes. A native of Hampshire. Went to Oxford 1582. Made Prebendary of St. Peter's, Westminster, by James I. in 1605, for his eloquent preaching.

Timperley (Charles H.), 1794-1846. Add : Author of ' Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typo- graphical Anecdote,' 1842.

Toland (John), 1670-1722. Add : Wrote ' Life of Milton,' Amsterdam, 1698 : ' Amyntor ; or, Defence of Milton's Life,' 1699 ; ' Remarks on Life of Milton,' 1699 ; ' ' Memoirs of Denzil, Lord Holies,' 1699 ; ' History of the Druids,' 1814.

Tomson (Laurence or Leonard), 1539-1608. Add : Translator of Calvin's sermons on Timothy and Titus, 1579.

Train (George Francis). Author of ' Young America in Wall Street,' 1857 ; ' Young Ame- rica Abroad,' 1857; ' Observations on Street Bail- ways,' 1860. Laid in 1860 at Birkenhead the first system of city tramways, London declining the experiment until it succeeded elsewhere.

Trevelyan (Frances A.). Author of ' Lectures on English History ' ; ' Quarr Abbey,' 1862.

Tymme (Thomas), d. 1620. Add : Translator of Calvin's commentary on Corinthians, 1577, and on Genesis, 1578.

Vaughan (Richard), 1550-1607 (?). Add : Pro- bably the " R.V." who translated Calvin's com- mentary upon Galatians, 1581.

White (Robert), author, antiquary, biblio- phile, printer, and publisher. D. 1 March, 1908, at Worksop, in his 89th year. Author of 1875 ; ' Dukery Records,' 1904.
 * Worksop, the Dukery, and Sherwood Forest,'

Whitfield (P.), Liverpool mechanic. Taught himself Latin and Hebrew. Author of ' Disserta- tion on the Hebrew Vowel-Points,' 1748.

Wilberforce (Samuel), 1805-73. Add : Author of ' Eucharistica,' 1839, issued anonymously.

Wilcox (Thomas), 1549-1608. Add : Trans- lator of Calvin's ' Three Propositions or Speeches,' 1580.

Wilkins (William Henry), F.S.A. D. 22 Dec., 1905. Author of ' The Love of an Uncrowned -Queen,' ' Life of Caroline Matilda,' ' Romance of Lady Burton.' Collaborator in several novels.

Willis (Humphrey). Author of ' Time's whirli- gig, or the blew-new-made gentleman mounted,' 1647. A satire on the new Parliament.

Wills (James), 1790-1868. Add : Author of
 * Letters on the Philosophy of Unbelief,' 1835.

Withers or Wythers (Stephen). Translator of Calvin's ' Treatise declarynge what great profit might come to all Christendome,' 1561.

Wolcombe (Rev. Robert). Author of A Glasse for the Godly,' 1612.

Wood (Michael), Translator of Bp. Gardiner's De Vera Obediencia,' 1553.

Woodall (John), 1556 (?)-1643. In the Epi- logue to his ' Surgeon's Mate,' 1639, Woodall speaks of having " run through the cares of sixtie-nine yeares," so that the year of his birth \vasjprobabiy 1570, and not 1556.

WM. JAGGAKD.

' SHOUT WHIST,' BY MA JOB A. (See ante, p. 204.) The author of this book was Charles Barwell Coles, author of ' The Dis- carded Son : a Tale,' 1823 ; ' Hints on Life and How to Rise in Society,' 1845 ; and ' Tea : a Poem,' 1865. The two works first mentioned were issued anonymously, the ' Tale ' being in five volumes. ' Tea : a Poem,' bore the author's name in full, and was published at a shilling. The title- page did not, however (I believe), mention the fact of the authorship of ' Short Whist.'

The first edition of this famous book was issued in 1834 or 1835 : it was last reprinted (seventeenth edition) in 1865, and has long been out of print. WM. H. PEET.

HABTWELL, BUCKS. MB. PIEBPOLNTT is surely wrong in stating (ante, p. 193) that Hartwell is " a seat belonging to the Marquis of Buckingham." Admiral Smyth in. ' ^Edes Hartwellianse ' (4to, London, 1851) states that Hartwell belonged to the family of Luton for 160 years, and passed by marriage to the Hampdens, who held it for a still longer period. Sir Alexander Hampden, a cousin of John Hampden the patriot, made his will in 1617, and at his death the estate came to his sister Eleanor, wife of Sir Thomas Lee. By Sir Thomas and his son Thomas the present mansion was erected, temp. James I. ; but it was greatly enlarged by Sir Wm. Lee, 4th baronet, w T ho inherited it in 1749. It was his second son, the Rev. Sir George Lee, 6th baronet, who, having succeeded to the estate in 1801 through the death of his brother Sir William, 5th baronet, unmarried, let the mansion to Louis XVIII. The estate, I may add, is still in the possession of this family, Col. E. D. Lee being the present resident owner. RICHABD WELFOBD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

" ESABE." Perhaps hereafter many visitors to Lucca may puzzle themselves as I did concerning the origin of the above word, now in use as the title of a Lucchese journal. Prof. Regolo Casali has kindly enlightened me in reply to my inquiry, and lest others may seek and not find the derivation, I append his answer :

" The ancients called our river Aesar, Auser, and even Auseir. In later times it was called Auserclus, afterwards Serclus, finally Serchio, as it is to-day.

" Now ' Esare' is the vulgar form of Aesar (i.e., the Serchio). You may see below the title of the journal a bridge of three small arches, and one very big, which is the bridge at Maddaleiia ii Mozzano that you must frequently have seen on your visits to the Baths of Lucca. It was ordered to be built by Castruecio Castrucarie degli Anselminelli. The