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consisting of jacket, trousers, and hooded cape, all formed of irregular patches of leather three or four inches square. His left hand rests on the handle of a three-pronged digging-fork ; in his right is a round-bellied flask, whilst two other bottles hang on his arm, and a clay pipe is stuck into one of the patches on his sleeve. His shoes are certainly large, but not enormous, and the soles are not unusually thick. The engraved descrip- tion under the portrait follows in most respects the letter of Hearne, from which it must have been directly or indirectly taken ; but the information is added that the cave was dug up some years before the date of the print by Sir John Vanhatton, of Dinton, in hopes of discovering something relative to Bigg, but without success.

J. ELIOT HODGKIN.

CURE-TON'S MULTANIS (10 th S. iii. 269, 318). The 15th Bengal Lancers were raised in 1858 by a different Cureton from the Charles Cureton who fell at llamnagar by a son of the latter, I believe. H. P. L.

SIR HARRY BATH : SHOTOVER (10 th S. iii. 209, 277). A lengthy review of the name of Shotover Hill, near Oxford, and the amusing errors of writers upon the subject of place- names (including mistakes made even by the late Isaac Taylor), may be found at pp. 148-50 of vol. i. of ' The Oxford, Gloucester, and Mil- ford Haven Road," by Chas. G. Harper.

F. W. A.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS (10 th S. iii. 287). The Court Leet Rolls throw a vast light on local government. They are in the custody of the manor stewards. The eigh- teenth-century Court Rolls of the Royal Manor of Savoy contain much interesting matter that would now come before a magis- trate. These are in the Public Record Office. GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, S.W.

MRS. HUMBY, ACTRESS (10 th S. iii. 288). May I suggest that Mr. Knight, in his account of this lady (' Diet. Nat. Biog.'), has not only given the salient features, but has nearly exhausted the public career of this " Queen of Chambermaids" ? I trace a later performance at the Lyceum in April, 1850, as Fatima in Blanche's pastoral ' Cymon and Iphigenia,' in the preface to which (see "Testimonial Edition," vol. iv.) the adapter alleges as an inducement to his efforts " the engagement of Mrs. Humby, the best repre- sentative of the waiting-maids in the old comedies that has ever been seen by the

existing generation of playgoers." June of the same year witnessed Mr. Humby's death in Guernsey, and the late Mr. Walter Lacy assured me Mrs. Humby then withdrew from the stage, remarried, and was living at Hammersmith. Many amusing stories are still current of this lively lady. She strongly resented John Forster's vulgar interference during Macready's rehearsals atDrury Lane, and his " At her again, Mac ! at her again ! " was not received with compliance or com- placency. As to her second husband, as yet he is relegated to the same limbo of obscurity that veils the first husband of George Col- man's wife, the sweet Mrs. Gibbs.

Evans's 'Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits ' mentions an original coloured drawing of Mrs. Humby, as a jockey, by De Wilde. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

SHORTER : WALPOLE (10 th S. iii. 269, 317). Sir John Shorter, Knt., citizen and goldsmith of London, Sheriff 1675, Lord Mayor 1687-8, died 4 September, 1688, and was buried in St. Saviour's, Southwark. He married Isa- bella Birkhead, and she died 14 January, 1703, being buried with her husband. Their son John Shorter married Elizabeth Phillips, and had the following issue : Charlotte, married Francis Seymour (Lord Conway) ; John, Arthur, and Erasmus, died unmarried ; and Catherine (eldest daughter), who became the first wife of Sir Robert Walpole (Lord Orford). Their son, Horace Walpole, of Strawberry Hill, erected the monument to his mother in Westminster Abbey. She died 20 August, 1737.

This does not answer MR. VIDLER'S query, but may be of some help. The earlier volumes of The Genealogical Magazine contain much information regarding the Walpoles and Nelsons, while your correspondent should see The Sketch of 19 January, 1898, where, on p. 525, is an illustrated article headed ' A Forgotten Worthy : some Account of Sir John Shorter, his Pageant, and his Kindred.' Dr. Goldsworthy Shorter, of Hastings, is (if still living) the chief representative of the Shorter family and last of his name.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON DICKENS THACKERAY (10 th S. iii. 22, 73, 131, 151, 196, 275). In The London Magazine of September, 1902, p. 176, is an article on ' The Romance of Book-Collecting,' by the editor of The Con- noisseur. Inter alia is a reduced reproduction of the title-page of "Is She his Wife? or, Something Singular, a Comic Burletta in One