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Sunday School. This was in 1833. When Spurgeon came to London, a close friendship was at once formed, and it was at Passmore's suggestion that a sermon was published weekly. Mr. Alabaster died on the 1st of November 1892. He was a strong Church- man, but differences of opinion never marred their friendship, and no company seems to have been more enjoyed at Mentone by Spurgeon than that of his two publishers. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.

PARRY AND PERRY FAMILIES (10 S. xii. 344). The following original references to persons of these names may interest MR. McPiKE :

On 8 May, 1592, probate of the will of Thomas Parrye, of SS. Anne and Agnes, Aldersgate, was granted in the Archdeaconry Court. I do not know if the Thomas Perry from whom the 1641 poll-tax could not be collected in the same parish by reason of his being " under age n was any descendant.

One James Parry was a vestryman in the parish of St. John Zachary (united to St. Anne's), 1753-7, serving the office of churchwarden in 1755-6. I do not, again, know if he was connected with the James Perry, bachelor, of St. Bride's, who married Margaret Bewley, " soluta " of St. Anne's, at the Charterhouse Chapel on 13 May, 1708. WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

The following may give a clue, extracted from a family Bible belonging to Admiral Parrey :

Nancy Parrey, b. Sep. 25, 1756, d. May 12, 1756, aged 8 mos.

Sally Parrey, b. July 4, 1757, d. Jan. 22, 1762, aged 4 yrs. 6 mos.

John Parrey, b. Apl. 13, 1759.

Siddell Parrey, b. Oct. 20, 1760, d. Dec. 21, 1761, aged 14 mos.

Robert Parrey, b. June 8, 1762.

Jane Parrey, b. Mar. 4, 1764.

Benjamin Parrey, b. Nov. 2, 1765.

Joseph Parrey, b. Apl. 29, 1767, d. May 13, 1768.

Elizabeth Parrey, b. Sep. 19, 1769.

Can " Siddell," the name of the fourth child, be intended for Sibyl ?

R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

" CORRECT TO A T " : " RIGHT AS A TRIVET (10 S. xii. 227, 273, 313, 376). A much less probable explanation is some- times given of " Right as a trivet,' J viz., that it is an allusion to the fortunate escape of the veteran campaigner Sir Thomas Trivet from drowning when great part of the English fleet suffered wreck in 1379. Twenty -five ships were lost off the coast of

Ireland, with most of their crews. Accord- ing to Thomas Walsingham the men of the Navy had violated the sanctity of a convent near Southampton, and carried av/ay the nuns with them to sea. When the storm burst the nuns were thrown overboard in appeasement, but in vain. The admiral (Sir John Arundell) and others of high birth perished in the catastrophe, R. B.

Upton.

' TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE l : CAPT. BUCKLEY AND MRS. ERRINGTON (10 S. xii. 368). MR. HOLWORTHY will find the infor- mation ha seeks in the following contem- porary pamphlets :

K, Memoirs of Mrs. Harriot Er g n, containing her amorous intrigues tete-a-tete with the following well-known characters : Col. M n, Col. Tarleton, Capt. Smith, Capt. Buckley, Capt. Roberts, Sir John L, Capt. Southby, Lord D .' With three plates. R. Randall, 1785.

'The Whole Trial of Mrs. H. Errington for Adultery with Captains Smith, Buckley, Roberts, Southby, Mr. Trayte,' &o. R. Randall, 1785. Mrs. Errington was divorced by Act of Parliament in 1788, for which see ' Journals of the House of Lords * for that year. In a newspaper of the time she is said to have been " tall and handsome, but destitute of accomplishments, and was formerly servant to her present husband " (i.e George Errington). This unfortunate man was shot by a Miss Anne Broadrick on 15 May, 1795, but the murderess was found to be insane (Gent. Mag., vol. Ixv. pt. i. p. 530 ; pt. ii. p. 612). He is said to have lived at Grays, Essex, and was possessed of very large landed property.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

SCOTT'S ' LOCHINVAR ' (10 S. xii. 268, 336, 378). ' Lochinvar,' as given in ' Marmion,* is Scott's rendering of the old Border ballad the original ballad the lines are : He's ta'en her by the milk-white hand
 * Katharine Janfarie * (or ' Johns tone ? ). In

And by the grass-green sleeve ; He's mounted her hie behind himsell,

At her kinsmen spiered ria leave. Scott in his version suggests facility of mounting the fair Katharine on the waiting steed, and he gives it When they reached the hall door, and his charger

stood near,

indicating not a spring from the ground, but from the hall steps.

Surely no acrobatic feat of exceptional agility was wanted to accomplish the spring on the part of either of the impatimt lovers.

ANDHEW HOPE. Prospect Park, Exeter.