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 io* s. in. JC.VE 24, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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HOUSE OF LORDS, 1625-60 (10 th S. iii. 448). One way of obtaining the information sought by G. T. is to consult the 'Journals of the House of Lords,' copies of which are to be found in most of pur principal reference libraries. In vol. iii. of that work, p. 435, the meeting of the first Parliament of Charles I. is recorded. The report com- mences thus :

" Anno primo Carpli Regis. Die Sabbati, videlicet, 18 die Junii, Domini tani Spirituales quam Tem- porales, quorum noniina subscribuntur, pnesentes fuerunt."

Then follow the names of two archbishops, twenty-four bishops, and ninety-six peers. This process is repeated at each sitting until the dissolution of the Short Parliament in May, 1640. After the Long Parliament assembled the names of peers are not re- corded until 22 September, 1643. From that date till the Commons abolished the Upper House the attendance is given, though it was very small, generally under twenty. At the Restoration, with which vol. xi. of the 'Journals' commences, full lists reappear. Peers and bishops are all English in these enumerations. EICHARD WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

If G. T. can get to see a copy of ' Heath Chronicles,' printed 1663, he will find the list he is looking for on pp. 813 to 826. He can have any information from my copy with pleasure. J. C. LEADBETTER.

Failsworth, Lancashire.

ST. PATRICK (10 th S. iii. 450). The ballad

sought for is by Samuel Lover, and is to be

found in all editions of his works (Routledge)

under the title of 'The Birth of St. Patrick.'

JOHN S. CRONE.

{The copy of the verses sent by MB. ALFRED HALLAM has been forwarded to the querist.]

INDIAN KINGS (10 th S. iii. 449). I am sorry I cannot translate the names of the four Indian kings whose visit to London in 1710 excited so much attention. These names belong to the language of the Mohawks or Maquas (misprinted Naquas in the query), with which I have no acquaintance ; more- over, they are differently spelt by almost every writer who records them. The rnosl interesting of these monarchs was the one MR. HOLDEN MAcMiCHAEL calls Oh Nee Yeabh Ton No Prow, the Ganajohbpre sachem. There is a full-length mezzotin portrait of him, by W. Verelst, engraved by John Simon, which represents him in th forest, holding his bow, while his title is given as " Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row

ing of the Generethgarich." These variant irthographies, Ganajohbore and Genereth- O r arich, both represent the name which we now call Canajoharie. A grandson of this Danajoharie sachem was the notorious Joseph Brant, the Mohawk chief who fought on the British side during the revolutionary ir. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

' THE LASS OF RICHMOND HILL ' (10 th S. iii. 66, 289, 334, 352). This subject, I should say, has been thrashed out in the pages of ' N. & Q.' and elsewhere. The best and most xhaustive account of the "Lass" and her 'amily, the I'Ansons of Den ton Hall, co. Northumberland, is to be found in vol. vii. of the 'Visitation of England and Wales,' dited by J. J. Howard and F. A. Crisp, the latter of whom kindly made me a present of the volume, which is admirably got up, and
 * pntains many excellent engravings, Fac-

similes, and portraits. No men could bring to the work more general information and accuracy than they have done.

There are three engravings of members of the I'Anson family, probably from miniatures : William I'Anson, the father, William I'Anson, the brother, and Frances I'Anson, " the Lass of Richmond Hill," who was born in 1766, and died in 1795 in Dublin. There is a pedigree of I'Anson of Denton Hall, with an engraving of their coat as on record in the College of Arms.

Leyburn, where the family occasionally resided, is a little town in the large parish of Wensley, co. York, most beautifully situated in Wensleydale, having a fine natural terrace called Leyburn Shawl. The Powletts, Dukes of Bolton, had in those days extensive estates there, which have now descended to Lord Bolton, whose mansion, Bolton Hall, was destroyed by fire some little time ago.

Richmond, in Surrey, is much disinclined to give up the honour of claiming the " Lass," and it may be reconciled by supposing that her father, an attorney-at-law, whose place of business was at Bedford Row, London, still the resort of solicitors, lived occasionally at Richmond, Surrey. We are rather re- minded of the knights who quarrelled con- cerning the tinctures of the shield, and so we may differ, and yet agree.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

LA SCALA (10 th S. iii. 448). To rename this new theatre the "Robertson" would only commemorate one period in the long history of its predecessor. Far preferable would it be to revive the old name "The