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company of "Don Robert Shirley, brother of the tetgnew Anglais, who has gone to Vienna." They reached Kasbin on 1 November, and soon after their arrival George Agelastes died of scarlatina. Tec- tander remained at the place four days, and had to continue the journey alone, as Robert Shirley had left him, and handed him to a seigneur persan, who was to accompany him to Tauris and present him to Shah Abbas.

Cf. "Iter Persicum Traduction publiee

par Ch. Schefer," Paris, 1877, pp. 42, 46.

L. L. K.

PSEUDONYMS. I venture to protest against ' Gray's Elegy ' (see ante, p. 69) being used as a pseudonym. The real ' Gray's Elegy ' crops up for query and reply from time to time in ' N. & Q.' ; e.g., in the indexes of the last two volumes there are four references to it.

When the index of vol. iii. appears there will be among the items 'Gray's Elegy on Tyrrell Family.' Indexes are difficult enough to make, and troublesome enough for refer- ence, without useless confusion being intro- duced. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, m order that the answers may be sent to them direct.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS. We venture to appeal through your far-reaching columns for some indispensable help in a matter of historical research. We have been for some years engaged on a comprehensive ' History of English Local Government from 1689.' For this we have studied the MS. archives of Quarter Sessions and other local authorities in many parts of the kingdom. We have failed (with insignificant exceptions) to dis- cover any records of the orders or other groceedings of the Justices in Petty or pecial Sessions, though at these meetings much administrative business was transacted (notably Poor Law, Highways, Licensing, Militia, &c.).

We should be very grateful if any one possessing any such records prior to 1835, or knowing of their existence, would com- municate with us.

We have also practically no records of the proceedings of individual justices, though these were constantly urged to keep diaries of their action as justices. One such diary by members of the Mosley family, 1616-23, has been published by the Lancashire and

Cheshire Record Society. Another, 'The Diary of a Gloucestershire Justice,' was the subject of two articles in The Law Maga- zine of 1837 (of this we should like to see the original). We believe that many other diaries or notebooks kept by justices must exist; these would probably yield valuable evidence of the care with which most rural magistrates performed their duties.

Old pamphlets (1689-1835) on the work of justices or on the expenditure of Quarter Sessions would greatly help us. One such (' Observations upon the Institution of Unpaid Justices of the Peace ') was reviewed in The Times, 4 May, 1829, but cannot now be discovered.

SIDNEY AND BEATRICE WEBB.

41, Grosvenor Road, S.W.

PORTRAITS WHICH HAVE LED TO MARRIAGES. Can any readers give me information re- garding portraits which have led to the marriage of the originals 1 An instance that occurs to me is Mr. Watts's portrait of Miss Pattle, with which tradition says Lord Somers fell in love. R. DE C.

"BORN ON HOLY THURSDAY, AND IDLE." Strange sayings drop now and then from people's lips. A workman, speaking about another whom he called " a shack," said the reason was that the man was " born on Holy Thursday, and idle." Is it known else- where? THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

NEWSPAPER "EDITIONS." What is a news- paper "edition"? The query is prompted by the announcement which appeared in a London evening journal on 11 March, that

"on and after Tuesday there will be five editions of the paper instead of three as at present, and the

names and times will be slightly changed The

editions will be named third edition, fifth edition, early special, five o'clock, and special."

There are thus no first, second, or fourth editions ; and it may be asked when the prac- tice of dropping such began. A. F. R.

MRS. SMITH AS SYLVIA IN *CYMON.' This lady is stated in Mathews's ' Catalogue Raisonne ' to have made her first appearance at Drury Lane, 1772, in the above character, and to have been "pretty, with innocent figure, and a fine singer." What else is recorded of her apart from Genest's account of her appearances up to 1775] R. W.

HELVELLYN. Is there no earlier form of the name of this Cumberland High Peak recorded ? and is Isaac Taylor's obvious ex- planation of the original meaning of Hel-