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a taking of what is sacred ; privilege to in- dicate a private law or right.

Will some reader correct any mistake in this explanation 1 S. T. AND C. C.

City of London College.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. I should be glad if some reader could inform me, direct and at once, who wrote the following, and refer me to the work in which it occurs :

"As she sat that evening in her chamber, leaning her pretty head on her hands, there came a tap, tap on the silvery pane, that brought a smile to her lips."

C. LONGLEY JENKINS.

14, Argyle Road, West Baling.

BISHOP RICHARD Cox, 1500-81. On what authority is it generally stated that Bishop Cox came from Whaddon, in Buckingham- shire ? A family who claim descent from him came from Wiltshire, where there is also a Whaddon. Was it his daughter Rachel (?) who married Thomas Bentham, Bishop of Lichfield ? Is anything known of his son John and where he settled ? E. G. C.

[The ' D.N.B.' states that Cox was born at Whaddon, in Buckinghamshire, and that he re- ceived part of his education at the Benedictine priory of St. Leonard Snelshall, which is in the parish of Whaddon. The only daughters named in the 'D.N.B.' are Joanna, widow of John, eldest son of Archbishop Parker ; and Rhpda. The wife of Bishop Beutham is called Matilda in the ' D.N.B.,' but her surname is not mentioned.]

CURETON'S MULTANIS. Brigadier-General Charles Cureton, after a brilliant military career, fell in a skirmish at Ramnagar, which preceded the great battle of Chilianwallah in 1849, and some eighty or ninety of his soldiers fell with him. When galloping down to extricate his cavalry from a defile, he was shot through the heart. What is the mean- ing of " Cureton 's Multanis" in the sub- joined cutting from The Standard of 18 Feb- ruary] He seems to have given his name to a regiment :

" India Office, Feb. 17 [1905]. -R. B. B. Howe, 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry ; and A. C. H. Smithett, 15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis), to be Majors."

There is a memorial of Cureton in St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury.

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

CROKER'S PANTOMIMES. Will some kind reader give a list of the pantomimes written by Thos. Crofton Croker? The ordinary bibliographies do not print them. I have a copy of his " Harlequin and the Eagle ; or, the Man in the Moon and iiis Wife. As

acted in the Adelphi Theatre, Christmas, 1826." In his fine bold autograph I find on title " By Thos. Crofton Croker," in the proper place for republication. I believe all his anonymous writings were collected in his library, and so marked, perhaps with a view to reprinting in his " works." JAS. HAYES. Ennis.

WESLEY AND THE WIG. Can any of the contributors to ' N. &, Q.' kindly tell nae if the Rev. John Wesley wore a wig ?

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

Hull Royal Institution.

SHORTER : WALPOLE. Can any of your readers tell me the Christian name and exact relationship to Lady Walpole of the person mentioned in the following entry among the deaths in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1734 ? "Dy'd Oct. 19. Shorter, Esq., a near relative of Sir Robert Walpole's Lady."

LEOPOLD A. VIDLER.

The Stone House, Rye.

GROVES FAMILY. I should be grateful for any particulars of my great-uncle, (?) Groves, who was a friend of Count d'Orsay, and of the Emperor of the French (presumably Napoleon III.), under whom he lived in Paris. My grandfather, Thomas Groves, brother of the above, was born in 1791-2, his father oeing Paul Groves, who was, I believe, a London banker. Any information relating to any of these, or to other members of the family, will be gratefully acknowledged.

ARTHUR GROVES. 91, Friern Barnet Road, Friern Barnet, N.

HOLBORN AND BLOOMSBURY.- Will Some

correspondent kindly furnish me with infor- mation, or refer me to good authorities, con- cerning the original owners, their successors, and the dimensions of the manors of Holborn, Bloomsbury (Bleinundsbury), St. Giles, and Portpoole (Gray's Inn)? I have consulted Domesday Book, Clinch, Blott, Parton, Dobie, Loftie, and other books on the district and London generally, and from these I learn that at the time of the Conquest Hole-burn was Crown land, and Rugmere (St. Giles's and Bloomsbury) a prebendal manor of St. Paul's ; also that the manor of Holborn was granted by John le Straunge, Earl of Knokyn, to the Earl of Arundel and others in 1385 ; that at the erection of St. Giles's Leper Hospital a manor of St. Giles was probably formed out of Rugmere ; that William de Bleraund, or De Bleomont, or Beaumunde, made Blemund's Ditch in the reign of King John, and was lord of the manor of Blemunds- bury ; also that Portpoole was an ancient