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 io s. XIL DEC. 4, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI : ENGRAVED POR- TRAIT. Can any of your readers tell me who was the engraver of a mezzotint portrait of Benjamin Disraeli when a youngish man, apparently about twenty-five to thirty years of age ? W. M. CROOK.

Devonshire Club, S.W.

BRITISH ARMY IN 1763. Fellow-readers of ' N. & Q.* will save me much labour if they can inform me where I shall find information about the general life and conditions of service in the British Army, circa 1763. Are there any military memoirs of this period, and shall I find what I seek in some of the histories of regiments ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

BRIDGE FRODSHAM (1734-68). When and whom did he marry ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog. 1 refers to his widow, Isabella, but gives no particulars. G. F. R. B.

SIR RICHARD LANE (1584-1650), LORD KEEPER. When and whom did he marry ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog. J states only that his widow Margaret, " who was apparently aunt to the poet Thomas Randolph," died 22 April, 1669, and was buried at Kings- thorpe, co. Northampton. G. F. R. B.

RICHARD NEILE (1562-1640), ARCHBISHOP or YORK. Whom and when did he marry ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.'- mentions his son Paul, but says nothing about his wife.

G. F. R. B.

BURIAL-PLACES OF NOTABLE ACTRESSES. I am unable to find in the pages of numerous biographical works the burial - places in which the following actresses were interred :

1. Mrs. Nisbett, who died 16 Jan., 1858, Lady Boothby.

2. Emily Saunders, who became Lady Donne, and died (I believe at Edinburgh), 20 Sept., 1875.

3. Maria Foote, died Countess of Harring- ton, 27 Dec., 1867.

4. Lavinia Fenton, died Duchess of Bolton, 24 Jan., 1760.

5. Fanny and Patti Josephs.

If any reader of ' N. & Q.* can give me the full names of the cemeteries, I shall be very grateful for the information.

HAROLD GODWYN. 38, Meredith Street, Plaistow, Essex.

JENNENS, JENNINGS, OR JERNINGHAM FAMILY. In The Athenceum of 23 October (p. 494) reference is made to the Jennens family, and as I am interested in their pedigree, I should be very grateful if any of your readers could give me some informa-

tion regarding the Stone- Jerningham branch, as the Jerninghams gave their name to that district. I do not know the village, so am unable to say whether there are any monu- ments or other memorials of the family left.

The Jennings are said to be of Danish origin, and the name has been corrupted at various times into Jerningham, Jennings, and Jennens. VERUS.

BEESWING CLUB. Mr. Herbert Shelley, in his ' Inns and Taverns of Old London,' p. 224, refers to this Club, which met in the British Coffee-House in Cockspur Street. Where can I get a fuller account of it ? and who was the George Gordon who frequented it ? Mr. Shelley describes him as being known about town as " the man of wit."

J. M. BULLOCH.

DANTE!*? MSS. In Ulntermediaire of 20 Dec., 1891, the following appeared :

" Decouverte a Milan d'un exemplaire de la ' Divine Comedie' aux armes des Alighieri M. Carta, Directeur de la Bibliotheque Estense de Modene, vient de signaler un exemplaire inconnu de la ' Divine Comedie,' aux armes de la famille Alighieri, a la Bibliotheque de Brera (Milan). Ce manuscrit aurait ete ecrit vers 1327."

Is anything known further of this MS. amongst Dante scholars in England ?

Also in the same journal, under date, 20 Feb., 1892, it was announced that

" L'inventaire des MSS. achetes r^cemment par le pape a la famille Borghese va bientot etre imprime. ...... Parmi ces MSS. on remarque la 'Divine

Comedie' de Dante, ecrite de la main meme de Boccace " ;

but in a letter quoted from Cardinal Capece- latro, Librarian of the Vatican, this state- ment is somewhat qualified :

" Parmi les MSS. borghesiens il s'en trouve un de ' ' du XIV siecle, paraissant de

, et bien semblable Dante du Vatican."

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la 'Divine Comedie' du XIV siecle, pa la main de Boccace, et bien semblable

au celebre

In the John Rylands Library in this city there are two other MSS. of the 4 D.C.,' concerning which Mr. H. Guppy, the Libra- rian, makes the following remarks in a recently published catalogue of a Dante Exhibition.

" 1. MS. 1416 on paper, 4to. A MS. of the ' D.C.' containing a number of variants from the common text. It has not yet been studied by any Editors of Dante. Of the transcriber of the Mb. nothing is known. There are a number of comments in the margin written in a smaller hand, but probably by B. Landi de Landis."

" 2. MS. 16th cent, on paper, 4to. A MS. written in double columns, with the Credo and other poems at the end. At one time in the possession of CavA- liere S. Kirkup."