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 NOTES AND QUERIES, ao*8. iv. JULY -29, iocs. stead, and Warwick. These are a few that are known to me. Replies should be sent to me direct, and any photographs forwarded will be carefully returned. EDWARD HUDSON. 71, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park. HISTORY OF HIGH PEAK AND SCARSDALE.— Is anything known of the whereabouts of the MSS. of the history and topography of the hundreds or wapentakes of High Peak and Scarsdale, co. Derby, believed to have been written by Mr. S. Mitchell, of The Mount, Sheffield, before the middle of the nineteenth century? H. C. FANSHAWE. 107, Jermyn Street. BATTEN FAMILY OF CORNWALL AND DEVON. —Can any of your readers give me assistance in tracing the ancestry of John Batten, of Madron, Cornwall? He married, 13 June, 1646, Maud (surname unknown), and was ancestor of the well-known family of Battens of Penzance. Some of these bear the arms and crest of Batten of Devon, viz. : Arms, a chevron sable between three battle-axes azure; crest, an arm embowed, holding in the hand a battle-axe vert. Humphrey Batten, of Donsland, North Devon, whose heiress Philippa married John Arscott, died 15 Nov., 1522, and had a brother John, I am informed. Was this latter John the ancestor of John of Madron ? I have been referred (in an index of pedi-- grees) to the 'Visitation of Devon, 1620," Harleian Society's Publications. No. 67, pub- lished in 1872, and now out of print. Will any of your correspondents who have access to this book look at p. 13 for the name of Batten and give me any further information on this point ? WILLIAM MAXWELL BATTEN. 5, Rosebank, Manningham, Bradford. JOSEPH ANSTICE (1808-36) was, I believe, the second son of William Anstice, of Madeley, Salop. He married, in July, 1832, Elizabeth, daughter of J. Buncombe Poole. The ' Diet, of Nat. Biog." gives neither his parentage nor his marriage. I should be glad to learn any particulars of his mother and of his father-in-law. O. F. R. B. DE FAUBLAS.—I happen to possess, from the library of a defunct friend, thirteen diminutive volumes (the sixth excepted) of the amorous adventures of the Chevalier de Faublas, published in London in 1790. They are divided respectively into three parts, thus: vols. i. to v., ' tine An nee de la Vie <lu Chevalier de Faublas' (second edition); vols. vi. and vii., ' Six Semaiues de la Vie du Chevalier de Faublas'; vols. viii. to xiii., 'La Fin des Amours du Chevalier d» Faublas.' The author is Lou vet d* Couvray. The moral of the series is as- unmistakable as that of 'Nana'; the story itself is (if true) a deplorable picture «f life in France towards the end of the eigl- teenth century. Is it possible to secure, through 'N. & Q.,' the missing volume (tie sixth) of this edition ? I observe that a latjr edition is offered in a recent catalogue at something over a sovereign. Please refly direct. J. B. McGovERN St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. [A full account of this notorious work wil be found in the ' Bibliographic des Ouvrages relatis i 1'Amour,' &c., of which more than one edition has been issued.] "GENTLEMAN" AS A TITLE.—What "S<ve- reign Lords" of England, other than Kng Edward VI., conferred the title of "Genie- man " by letters patent? E. S. DODGSOJ. BUNYAN'S ' HOLY WAR.' — In Bunym's ' Holy War' one of the men who strove to cumber Mansoul with abundance is caled " Mr. Get i' th' hundred and lose i' th' shte." What is the significance of this nickname MEDICULU. [Is it not a paraphrase of Mark viii. 36?] NATHANIEL COOPER, of Plymouth.co. Dettn, gentleman, was the father, are. 1717, of another Nathaniel, who was admitted a student of the Middle Temple, 29 June, 177. I desire information of this family. Is thre authority for the belief that it is of gipy origin? P. MONTFORT. GEORGE CUMBERLAND.—Is anything know, of George Cumberland, who wrote froc Bishopsgate, Windsor Great Park, and dedi cated, on 1 January, 1796, to his frient Charles Long, M.P., his "Attempt to describ Hafod and the neighbouring scenes abou the bridge over the Funack, commonly callec the 'Devil's Bridge,' in the county of Car digan, an ancient seat belonging to Thomas Johnes, Esq., member for the county oi Radnor"? At the end of my copy of the book (which has a fine view of Hafod _ Hall as frontispiece, and contains a map) is an announcement from which it would appear Cumberland also wrote ' Thoughts on Outline Sculpture and the System that guided the Ancient Artists in composing their Figures and Groups,' 'Anecdotes of Julio Bonasoni.' ' Lewina, the Maid of Snowdon,' and ' British Landscapes.' The Hafod estate was long in Chancery, and was fruitlessly offered for sale, with a reserve of 75.000J., on 6 September, 1832; but in March, 1833, it was sold to the