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Mary Magdalene married Peter F. Luard, M.D., and has descendants ; and Sarah married Holroyd and has descendants.

William Morgan died at Gower Street, London, in March, 1824, and was buried at St. Anne's Church, Soho, in the vault of the Trotters of Dyrham Park.

Any information would be much appre- ciated. Please reply direct.

G. A. MORGAN. Lonsdale, Downs Park East, Bristol.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following occur in Kinglake's ' Eothen ' :

1. Equal to either fate.

2, Sits in permanence. 2. Sing history.

4, Sting of truth.

5. Pay all their debts with the roll of his drum.

V. H. C.

Is the following from Tennyson or Brown- ing ? I am not sure about the exact words : As if some lesser God had made the world, And had not power to shape it as He will.

(Rev.) E. C. EVERARD OWEN.

Oar. noisy years seem moments in the being Of the Eternal Silence.

ZEPHYR.

I say it with its best and oldest meaning : May God be with you, dear, on land or sea !

ETHEL R. S. BOYS.

COL. GODFREY. Was Arabella Churchill's husband, Col. Godfrey, a Devonshire man ? How did the Godfreys come to Devon ?

T. DEVONIENSIS.

ROBERT TOKER OR TUCKER OF EXETER. How many brothers had Robert Toker or Tucker, Mayor of Exeter in 1540 ? Who was his father ': T. DEVONIENSIS.

GASPAR MANOR, STOURTON, SOMERSET : COMBE FAMILY. Will any reader kindly give me information about a Robert Combe who owned this property at the end of the seventeenth century ? It afterwards belonged to his brother Edmund. Their wills cannot be found in Somerset House, or at Taunton or Wells, nor any register of their deaths at Stourton. They were born at Dinton, Wilts, but cannot be traced there. What would be the best way of getting their wills and death registers ? There were some Exchequer proceedings about the estate : would these have been held in the country ? I cannot trace any reference in the Record Office. The infor- mation is required for family history.

W. R.

SCOTT'S ' LOCHINVAR.' In ' Lochinvar r Scott wrote :

So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung ! When asked how this feat was accomplished^ I could not find an answer. How would a man mount lightly and quickly when his best-beloved was seated just behind the saddle ? B. L. R. C.

" DARK AS BLACK PIGS." A friend of mine, born at Paignton, where she is residing, often makes use of the above saying, as, for instance, when she goes into a dark room or into the street at night. She says it is a common remark through the county of Devon that things are at such times " as dark as black pigs." Is it an exclusively Devonshire saying ? I remember once to have heard something very similar in the North of England.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

NEWINGTON PLACE, SURREY. This house was inhabited by James Powell of the Custom House in 1794. I can trace neither the family nor the house, though I am Powell's great-grandson. R. B. G.

DEPUTATION DEFINED. Can any one supply the authorship of the definition of a deputation as a noun of multitude signifying many, but not signifying much ? R. L.

GENERALS AND THE ENEMY. Who is the author of the saying, " I don't know what impression our generals will make on the enemy: they fill me with alarm " ? R. L.

MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIPS. In The Gentleman's Magazine for 1767 (vol. xxxvii.), p. 191% in the list of marriages for 1767 is the following :

"Wm. Rowland to Mary Matthews at Upper Ottery, Devon, by which marriage there is a boy, whose own mother is become his grandmother, his- father his brother, and his sister his mother." Can any one explain this puzzle ? As the above appears in the April number of the magazine, presumably the boy was not the son of William Rowland and his wife Mary. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

PELLICAN FAMILY. Can any reader give particulars of the arms of this family ? It was of foreign extraction. Thomas- Fuller, the Church historian, in his 'Abel Redevivus,' 1651, has some genealogical facts about the Rev. Conrad Pellican, the learned friend of Lady Jane Grey, and states that he was born " at Rubeac in Swedeland.'*