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 236 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. SEPT. is, ISXB. members are recorded as of the ancient nobility. From 1528 to 1751 the successive generations of the Garibaldi are recorded in the 'Libro d' Oro'; and the last name but one there entered is Joseph Garibaldi, born 1792, probably an ancestor of the dictator. In 1685 Jeannetia Garibaldi was one of the four senators who accompanied the Doge of Genoa to Versailles, after Louis XIV. had nearly destroyed Genova la Superba by bombs, to apologize to the ruthless tyrant. See The Standard, 29 September, 1860. The famous 'Golden Book' of Genoa has never been printed; but as I possess one of the very few MS. copies of it, I transcribe the entries of the Garibaldi family. The names occur on leaf 172, and are placed one under another. D. M. J. [We have forwarded the transcript to MK. HEBB.] SHEPHERD'S BUSH (10th S. iv. 89).—It may be well to remember, in connexion with this question, Milton's testimony that Every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. ' L'Allegro,' 67-8. I may also profitably note the annexed passage_ from the preface of the 'Townleey Mysteries,' published by the Surtees Society (p. xv), which mysteries contain references and expressions that affiliate them to the neighbourhood of Wakefield, in Yorkshire :— " When the two Shepherds appoint to meet the place which they appoint is 'the crokyd thorn.' Now though it cannot, perhaps, be shown that there was any place or tree then precisely so denominated, yet it can be shown that at no great distance from Horbury there was at that time a remarkable thorn tree which was known by the name of the Shepherd's Thorn. It stood in Mapple- well, near the borders of the two manors of Notion and Barton. A Jury in the 20th of Edward IV., on a question between James Strangeways ot Harlsey and the Prior of Bretton, found that the Shepherd's Thorn ' was in Darton': and in the time of Charles I., one John Webster, of Kex- borough, then aged 77, deposed that the inhabitants of Mapplewell and Barton had been accustomed to turn their sheep on the moor at all times, and that it extended southward to a place called 'The Shepherd's Thorn,' where a thorn tree stood." ST. SWITHIN. GEORGE III.'s DAUGHTERS (10th S. iv. 167) —Much information on their public ane private life can be obtained from the ' Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay,' who held the position of Second Keeper of Bobes to the Queen from July, 1786, to July, 1791. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. See 'George the Third, his Court, and Family,' 2 vols., London, Colbnrn, 1820 >ublished anonymously, but attributed to- lohn Gait. It contains well-executed stipple >ortraits of all the king's children. W. B. H. See 'Memoirs of George III.,' by R. Hnish, pp. 666-7 (London, 1821), for details of the llness and death of the Princess Amelia, 783-1810, and for the " pretty plaintive ines " by her, quoted by Thackeray in ' The "'our Georges' as being "more touching than better poetry":— Jnthinking, idle, wild and young, " laughed, and danced, and talked and sung, &c. WM. H. PEET. M. REBOUL will find portraits and bio- graphies of nearly all the daughters of George III. in La Belle Assemble of 1806- and 1808, several of the portraits being after he pictures of Sir W. Beechey, R.A., now at Buckingham Palace. W. EGBERTS. THE ALMSMEN, WESTMINSTER ABBEY (10th S. ,v. 168).—Like your querist, I was for a long time seeking information upon this subject, and have only just found it in the Report made to the Charity Commissioners con- cerning the Endowed Charities within the Administrative County of London connected with the parishes of St. Margaret and 3t. John. Westminster, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 25 Feb- ruary, 1901. The information ia rather scanty, but we may gather that "King Henry the Vllth founded an Almshouse ia the Little Almonry, for 13 poor men, to whom h« appointed certain allowances in money, coals, and clothing, to be made by the Abbot of Westminster, with further allowances to three women, who dressed their meat and tended tham in sickness." The Report goes on to state that " by the charter of 2 Elizabeth, which established the present Chapter of Westminster, these Alms- men were incorporated into the collegiate church, and we are therefore precluded from any farther inquiry concerning them." There are still twelve pensioners supported from the funds of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. These pensioners of the present day (who are doubtless the successors of the former almsmen) are appointed by royal warrant on the recommendation of the Dean. The charity is confined to old sailors and old soldiers, there being six of each, but no residential qualification is required. Each pensioner receives 121. 17*. per annum, and a Furple or violet gown every two years ;_but believe gowns are in future only to be given when the previous one is too shabby to be worn. This garment has long hanging loose sleeves ; upon the left one is placed theTador