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nated by a number of chandeliers, besides wax-tapers held by skeletons." Was this customary in the eighteenth century 1

W. E. WILSON. Hawick.

MORLAND'S GRAVE. Has any monument ever been erected over the grave of this great painter in St. James's Chapel, Hampstead Road? He was buried there in 1804, and some twenty years since it was proposed to mark the spot by a suitable memorial. Perhaps some reader of * N. & Q.' can tell me if this plan was ever carried out, and also if any other memorial exists to Morland. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

DICKENSIAN LONDON. Where can I find an illustration of No. 3, Chandos Street, Strand, as it was previous to 1889, in which year the house was demolished to make room for an extension of the Civil Service Stores 1 Warren's blacking warehouse, in which Dickens worked, was removed to this house from Hungerfprd Market. I should also be glad to know if a view exists showing No. 4, Gower Street North. T. W. T.

BRONTE FAMILY. As one of the founders of the Bronte Society, I should like to ask if it is known as an absolute fact that the family is totally extinct. The impression seems to be that there is positively no relative of the Rev. Patrick Bronte living (excepting his son-in-law, the Rev. A. B. Nicholls, of co. Down). A chemist of this name, who was formerly in business in South Africa, has recently died in New Zealand, and I am desirous of knowing if he was in any way connected with the Brontes of Ha worth.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Bradford.

S. HOWITT, PAINTER. Was there any S. Howitt other than Samuel, who appears in Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers,' born about 1765, died 1822 ? He appears to have produced mainly oil paint- ings of wild animals, hunting scenes, and the like. In Pickering <fc Chatto's catalogue 4 Sports, Pastimes, Arts, Sciences,' recently issued, are the items (659, 660) :

"A New Work of Animals containing One

Hundred Plates, drawn from the Life and Etched

by Samuel Howitt London 1811. First

Edition."

"The British Sportsman by Samuel Howitt,

containing Seventy Plates. London 1812. First

Edition."

I have a pair of water- colour drawings signed S. Howitt, sized 10A in. by 8i in. They are views of parts of a ruined abbey or

church. There is nothing written on front or back which would identify the rums. In the foreground of one is a man in breeches, stockings, &c., with a gun and two dogs; in the foreground of the other is a cow awkwardly drawn. With that exception both pictures are good. Their style, colours, &c., would apparently place them well before 1822. The signatures are in printing letters, in each case on a stone in the picture. 1 shall be glad of any information about the pictures, or about the artist, other than what is to be found in Bryan or in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' s.v. 'Samuel Howitt.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[Between 1783 and 1815 he exhibited three paint- ings at the Society of Artists', ten at the Royal Academy, and three at other exhibitions, bee Graves's ' Dictionary of Artists. ]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Pitt had a great future behind him.

2. Have you any religion ? None to speak of.

3. Instinct is untaught ability.

4. Meditation is the science of the saints.

5. A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions.

MEDICULUS.

TROOPING THE COLOURS. I remember reading somewhere that the Prince Regent (or George IV.) invented an intricate military manoeuvre, bearing the above designation, m order to test, or to ensure, the sobriety of the officers of the Guards at ten o'clock in the morning in that hard-drinking age. It is now usually called " Trooping the Colour, m the singular. In the Times of 28 June, p. 9, col. 6, the headline to the last paragraph runs : " The Prince and the Troop of the Colour." What is the meaning of the last

Va The 'Century Dictionary' says : "Troop- ing the Colors, in the British Army, an elaborate ceremony performed at^the publ mounting of garrison guards. Is this correct? A. D. JONES.

Oxford.

SIR HUGO MEIGNELL, 1363.-Who was the wife of Sir Hugo Meignell, or Meynell, who died in 1363 1 Nichols (' History of Leicester- shire,' ii. 531-2) says that he married Alice, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset of Drayton, and cousin and heir of Roger de Verdon ; and in another place that he married Alice de Verdon. Dugdale says that he married the widow of Ralph, Lord Basset. A Plea Roll abstracted in the William Salt ' Historical Collections,' xii. 54-55, states that Ralph Basset, of Drayton, granted the manor ot Rakedale to Ralph his son and to Alice 1 wife and the heirs of their bodies, and the