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well known in the Dark Ages. Further more, said he, sculptured stones have been found on which were portrayed persons under going the mesmeric art. Will any one confirm the authenticity of his public statement ?

ROBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE. 71, Bon- Accord Street, Aberdeen.

KILLED BY A LOOK. In Bishop Westcott' ' Life,' vol. i. p. 351, occurs the following foot note :

" About this time my brother Brooke, who wa reading for a history prize at Cheltenham, impartec to me, amongst other fruits of his research, tha Edward I. once killed a man by looking at him. course, as in fraternal duty bound, I scoffed at the idea, and suggested that the king brandished hi sword in the poor man's face ; but I believe it now.'

Where is this incident recorded ? Is it a unique instance 1 J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

BARON WARD. Can any corresponded give the birthplace of Baron Thomas Ward, born 1809 and died 1858? The accounts oi his life I have read do not agree as to the place. WILLIAM ANDREWS.

Hull Royal Institution.

MANZONI'S ' BETROTHED.' An English translation of this celebrated novel was published by Bentley in 1846, being No. 43 of his " Standard Novels and Romances." I believe another translation of this work was issued by some publisher in the fifties, but I am not quite certain. Perhaps some admirers of 'I Promessi Sposi' can tell me if this is the case, and if so, the name of the publisher. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

[A translation by Mrs. Apel was issued, with the original text, by Cornish in 1860. It was in 18mo, price Is. 6d.]

THACKERAY'S PICTURES. Can any one inform me whether a public sale of the above was held, or whether any sale of them took place, soon after the novelist's death ? Thackeray was the fortunate recipient of numerous pictures and drawings from artists, and instances of works stated to have come from his collection being offered for sale by dealers have come under my notice. W. B. H.

LONDON CEMETERIES IN I860. I am search- ing for material for a biography of my little sister, Eliza Ellen ; but I have been unable to find out where she was buried. 1 have written to Somerset House, and also to the present City officials of London ; but they have informed me that they have no record of her burial, and that I must apply to the cemetery authorities where she was interred.

But to know in which cemetery she was interred is the puzzling question. Besides, I have no knowledge of the names of the cemeteries then in existence. She died in Fetter Lane, 21 June, 1860. Now, if some good reader of 'N. <kQ.' would supply me with the names and addresses of the ceme- teries in use for London in June, 1860, I should then be able to get searches made in all the cemetery records until I found the right one. This is the only way it is possible to find it. F. A. HOPKINS.

536, California Street, Los Angeles, California.

ENGLAND'S INHABITANTS IN 1697. Have there been preserved the original MS. lists of the parochial assignments of the tax imposed on births, marriages, and burials by the Act 6 & 7 William & Mary, cap. 6 ? That they would be of very great service to the genealogist and the local historian is, of course, evident. DUNHEVED.

" THREE GUNS." In Strype's ' Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt.,' printed in 1698, I find on p. 38 the following pas- sage :

"And this was the Port he lived in before his .eavingof Cambridge. He kept Three Servants, and Three Guns, and Three Winter Geldings." [n the margin we are told that this happened in 1546, when Henry VIII. was still reigning, and iust a year after Roger Ascham pub- "ished his ' Toxophilus,' in which he says :

" Artillarie now a dayes is taken for .ii. thinges : Dunnes and Bowes, which how moch they do in war, both dayly experience doeth teache, and also ?eter Nannius a learned man of Louayn, in a ertayne dialoge doth very well set out, wherein his is most notable, that when he hath shewed xcedyng commodities of both, and some discom- modities of gunnes, as infinite cost and charge, ombersome carriage : and yf they be greate, the ncertayne leuelyng, the peryll of them that stand y them, the esyer auoydyng by them that stande ar of: and yf they be lytle, the lesse both feare nd ieoperdy is in them, besyde all contrary wether nd wynde, whiche hyndereth them not a lytle : et of all shotyng he cannot reherse one discom- moditie." Arber's reprint, p. 65.

From this interesting passage one cannot elp thinking that Ascham's treatise was rritten in defence of an expiring art. His reat friend Sir Thomas Smith, at all events, ad discarded the old weapon and armed his ervants with the new. His income at that ime amounted to upwards of 120/. a year, vhich was a very large sum in those days. ants in proportion to his wealth ? Is there ny ordinance to that effect? In that way nly, it seems to me, can the " Three Guns" e explained. JOHN T. CURRY.
 * Vas he compelled to keep armed men-ser-