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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. DEC. 17, 1904.

MSS., 765/191 E, a stemma of the Foy, Cann, and Edgar families, all notable in Bristol in the eighteenth century, and all intermarried. For my own purpose I extracted thus much :

John Foy m. Cath. Cann, in or before 1729 Ann Cann Foy, m. Alex. Edgar, 1760

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John Foy Edgar

Alex. Edgar, Robt. Cann Edgar, ob.s.p. ob s.p.

Alexander Edgar, the son-in-law of Alderman John Foy, was mayor in 1788, and on 16 March of that year invited John Wesley to preach at the Mayor's Chapel on College Green, and afterwards to dine with him at the Mansion House.

Latimer, ' Annals of Bristol,' nineteenth century, p. 26, gives some account of John Foy Edgar, with whom the name and fortune of the united families passed away.

H. J. FOSTER.

WOMEN VOTERS IN COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS (10 th S. i. 327, 372). If it is not too late, may I refer to the following authority, which has not, so far as I can find, been mentioned in ' N. & Q.' ? This is the case of Chorlton v. Lings, in the ' Law Reports,' Common Pleas, vol. iv. p. 374. Supposed instances of such women voters are stated and discussed, in the arguments by Mr. (afterwards Lord Chief Justice) Coleridge on the one side, and Mr. (afterwards Lord Justice) Mellish on the other, and in the judgments of Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Mr. Justice Byles. I think it safe to conclude that all instances worth mentioning were brought before the court on this occasion. CLUNI.

DUCHESS SARAH (10 th S. ii. 149, 211, 257, 372, 413). The reference in Burke's ' Peerage,' 1879 edition, respecting the age at, and year of, death of John, Marquis of Blandford, is incorrect.

In Burke's * Peerage,' 1897 edition, the error as to age was practically admitted, for at p. 977 it is properly given as seventeen (see Mrs. Thomson's ' Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Maryborough,' i. 414), but the year of his decease is still inaccurately stated as 1702/3.

Smallpox was raging in Cambridge in the summer of 1703, but it was not until the following January that the young lord, who was the eldest son though third child of Duchess Sarah, being born in 1686 (see Mrs. Colville's 'Duchess Sarah,' p. 59), was attacked. He succumbed to the malady on the morning of Saturday, 20 February, 1703/4 (see p. 422 of vol. i. of the first-named, and p. 141 of the last-mentioned work), and was

interred, as stated by MR. PICKFORD, in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

FRANCIS H. HELTON. 9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

It is certainly rather misleading, though legally correct, for Burke's 'Peerage' of 1879 to describe the Marquess of Blandford as dying in infancy of the smallpox when he was sixteen years of age. Another rather misleading statement occurring elsewhere is o.s.p., applied to little children.

The following extracts from ' Esmond/ though not cited as authoritative, may prove illustrative, for Thackeray had made the days of Queen Anne his special study :

" The young Marquis of Blandford, his Grace's son, who had been entered in King's College, in

Cambridge had been seized with smallpox, and

was dead at sixteen years of age." Chap, ix., 'I make the Campaign of 1704.'

" His Grace joined the army in deep grief of mind with crape on his sleeve, arid his household in mourning." Chap. ix.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

DENNY FAMILY (10 th S. ii. 288). Would any of the following prints be of any assist- ance 1

Sir Anthony Denny, educated at St. Paul's School, benefactor to Sedbergh, died 1549; four engravings of this man by Harding, Hollar, Holbein, and Picart.

Sir John Maynard, Serjeant at-Law, 1653. A. E. WHITEHOUSE.

49, Knightsbridge, S.W.

The following list of old-time clergymen of this name may help the researches of MR. DENNY.

Richard Denny, of Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1836, was vicar of Ingleton, Yorkshire, in 1844.

Richard Cooke Denny, of Trinity College, Oxford, B.A. 1839, was vicar of Norton Sub- course, Norfolk, 1851.

Robert Denny, of Worcester College, Oxford, B.A. 1824, was vicar of Shidfield, Hants, 1842. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore, House, Bradford.

"CHARACTER is FATE" (10 th S. ii. 426). In 'Our Daily Faults and Failings ' (an Address by Joseph Kaines, 21 October, 1883, London, Reeves & Turner), on p. 9, are the words, "Habits form character, and character is destiny." That this was original with Kaines (whom I knew), I feel no doubt. FIEF.

MARKHAM'S SPELLING-BOOK (10 th S. ii. 327, 377). 'An Introduction to Spelling and Reading,' by Wm. Markham, schoolmaster, appeared in a fifth edition in 1738, and con-