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Queen Street ; but this is an error, the only place in which Franklin worked on his first visit to this country having been Watts's printing-office in Wild Court, now demolished. An old hand-press, said to have been the identical press on which Franklin worked, and now in the Philadelphia Museum, U.S.A., was for some time in use in Messrs. Cox &, Wyman's office, and this circumstance may have given rise to the story of Franklin having worked there.

The front portion of the premises (No. 74) was the residence of Mr. Edward Fresco tt Hold way Knight, a comedian of some cele- brity, who died here 21 February, 1826, aged fifty-two, and was buried in St. Pancras Church. Knight's son, J. Prescott Knight, R.A., Secretary to the Academy, was, I believe, born in this house. JOHN HEBB.

THE CAMPDEN MYSTERY. This story is retold by Mr. Andrew Lang in his ' Historical Mysteries,' 1904, pp. 55-74. William Harrison, Lady Campden's agent, is stated to have been collecting his mistress's rents on 16 August, and Mr. Lang begins his doubts about the narrative by remarking that " August seems an odd month for rent-collecting, when one thinks of it." But at the present day, in that very neighbourhood, the " half -quarter," as it is called, is commonly fixed by the agent for the rent-audit. So that in 1660 an agent who had to go round to collect the rents from the tenants, instead of having a fixed day and place for their receipt as now, would be quite likely to be so engaged on 16 August. Mr. Lang ought to know, though Harrison did not, that Wisbech is not "in Lincoln- shire" (p. 70); and on p. 64, 1. 2, "1559" should be 1659. W. C. B.

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

DILLON FAMILY. In ' N. & Q.'for 19 Octo- ber, 1850, appeared a query from my father, John Francis Dillon, under the pseudonym FRANCIS, regarding issue of the younger sons of the first Earl of Roscommon. On 7 Decem- ber (1 st S. ii. 468) was printed a reply, signed AN HIBERNIAN, with the address Mivart's Hotel, London. The information given in the reply was, and is, very important to me. I am engaged in tracing a pedigree of my family, and I shall be very grateful if, even at this distance of time, any reader can

put me in communication with AN HIBERNIAN or his descendants. FRANCIS F. DILLON. Auburn, Bellevue Road, Durban, Natal.

JOHN FAUCHERREAUD GRIMKE, son of John Paul Grimke, of Charlestown, South Carolina, was admitted to Westminster School, 31 July, 1765. He afterwards became a fellow com- moner of Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1774. I shall be much obliged if American or other correspondents of 'N. <fe Q.' are able to furnish me with particulars of his career and the date of his death. G. F. R. B.

SAMUEL CHARLES CARNE, son of Samuel Carne, of Charlestown, South Carolina, was admitted to Westminster School in 1773. At the age of eighteen he was admitted as a pen- sioner to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1782. Can American or other correspondents of ' N. &, Q.' give me any further information of his career 1

G. F. R. B.

TURVILE. There was a Henry Turvile (who spelt the name in this way), a captain in the navy in Queen Anne's time. According to Charnock (' Biographia Navalis,' iii. 57), he died in 1719. I have never been able to find out anything relating to his private life, but fancy he may have been an exiled Frenchman, or the son of one. I shall be glad of details about him.

J. K. LAUGHTON.

" WHARNCLIFFE MEETING." What is this ]

MENTOR.

[For answers to other queries see 'Notices to Correspondents.']

FlTZGERALDS OF PENDLETON. In Mr.

Joseph Gillow's 'St. Thomas's Priory ' (p. 156) is the following :

" Richard Fitzgerald, an Irish barrister, of Little Island, co. Waterford, eldest s. and h. of Lieut. - Col. Nicholas Fitzgerald, M. P. for Waterford [killed

at the Boyne, 1690], established his wife's claim

to a moiety of the Fowler estates in the case of ' Fauconberg v. Fitzgerald.' Dying sine prole, he bequeathed the manor of Pendleton, near Salford, co. Lancaster, and certain other Fowler estates in Staffordshire, to his relatives the Fitzgeralds, who still retain possession."

Can any one tell me the present repre- sentative of the family who benefited by Richard Fitzgerald's bequest, and whether the manor of Pendleton is still held or claimed by him ? STAR.

LORD BEACONSFIELD'S FAITH. Is it per- missible to write of this deceased statesman as " a buried Jew " ] I find the expression in some poetry printed by a London daily news-