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 3t)4 iv. NOV. n. im. NOTES AND QUERIES, Lucas, of St. John's, in Colchester, in the •county of Essex, Knt.: she died 5 July, 1613, and is buried in St. Giles's Churcli in Colchester. Sir John Fertnor was made one of the Knights of the Carpet at Westminster on 2 October, 1553, the day after the coronation of Queen Mary. During her reign he was "chose Knight of the shire for the county of North- ampton in two Parliament* ; and was Sheriff of the Bounty in the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary. He died on December 12th, 1571, at little St. Bartholo- mew's, in London, and from thence was brought to his house at Easton-Neston, and buried in the parish church there on Thursday the 20th of the same month, with great solemnity, the Officers •of Arms attending his funeral."—See 'Collins's Peerage of England,' augmented by Sir Egerton Brydges. 1812, vol. iv. pp. 198, 202, «.». 'Fermor, Earl of Pomfret.' The reference given regarding the deaths of Sir John Fermor and his wife is "Funeral Certificate, MS. I. 16, p. 106, in Offic. Armor." Richard Ferinour in the time of his pros- perity had in his service as jester Will Spmers, who when he was afterwards the king's jester persuaded Henry VIII. to order a restitution of estates to his former master. Only part of his estates were restored to him, and those not till the fourth year of Edward VI. (p. 199). _ Some of the above appears in the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography,' s.v. 'Fermor or Fermour, Richard.' ROBERT PIKRPOINT. Sir John Fermor, son and heir of Richard Fermour, of Easton-Neston, co. Northampton, and Anne, daughter of Sir William Brown, Lord Mayor of London, his wife, was knighted 2 October, 1553, and married Maud, daughter of Sir Nicholas Vaux. Knt., Lord Vaux of Harrowden. He died at little St. Bar- tholomew's, in London, 12 December, 1571, «nd was buried at Easton - Neston. Issue, three sons and three daughters. The eldest, •Catherine, married twice : 1. Michael Poulte- ney, of Misterton, in Leicestershire ; 2. Sir Henry Darcey, Knt. JOHN RADCLIFFE. PRISONS IN PARIS DURING THE REVOLU- TION (10th S. iv. 349).—When the prisons were so gorged with prisoners that they could hold no more, Fouquier-Tinville established -auxiliary places of confinement for those who he thought could pay for this privilege. The ohief one was kept by Belhomme, a raad- •doctor, and they found it a very good specu- lation, as every one tried to get there. So •long as the prisoners were able to pay the -exorbitant prices, their lives were safe, but so soon as they came to the end of their resources they were transferred to the com- mon prisons and soon condemned. Amongst those at Dr. Belhomme's establishment were the Duches.se de Gramont and her friend the Duchesse du Chatelet. "En verit*," Madame du Chatelet said one day to Belhomme, " vous n'etes pas raisonnable, et il m'est, a raon vif regret, impossible de vons satisfaire." "Allons, ma grosse," answered Belhomme, " sois bonne fille. je te ferai remise d'un quart"; but even this she and the Duchesse de Gramont could not pay. They had to leave, and a few days after were guillotined, Belhomme remarking, " Que ces dames perissaient victimes d'une economic mal entendue." CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield. Full information on this point will be found in Dauban's ' Prisons de Paris sous la Rcivoln- tion ' (Plon, 1870); Len6tre, ' Paris Revoln- tiounaire' (Perrin, 1896); Barth, 'Histoiredes Prisons' (1840) : Madame la Comtesse Bobm, 'Prisons en 1793'; Pottet, ' Histoire de la Conciergerie.' An interesting account of the life inside is given in the 'Memoires du Comte Beugnot' (Dentu, 1808), vol. i., of which there is an English translation,'Life and Adven- tures of Count Beugnot' (Hurst & Blackett, 1871). The ' Memoires de Monseigneur de Salomon, 1'Internonce a Paris pendant la Revolution' (Paris, Plon-Nourrit, 1892), give a striking account of the massacre of Sep- tember. Probably Dauban and Beugnot will give all that E. W.-L. wants. I think the " Anglaises " was intended for women ; bat in the Cannes, Conciergerie, <kc., the sexes lived together. R. W. PHIPPS, Colonel late Royal Artillery. E. W.-L. can get the information he wants in the book 'La Conciergerie du Palais de Paris, 1031 a 1900,' published in Paris by the Societe Fran^aise d'Editions d'Art, 9, Rue Bonaparte. G. T. P. Abundant references to the literature on prison life in Paris during the Terror are given in Stephens's ' French Revolution,1 vol. ii. ch. x. pp. 345-6. IDA FITZMAURICK. CIVIL WAR EARTHWORKS (10th S. iv. 328).— At a distance of 1,850 feet to the south-east of Walmgate Bar, in the walls of York, stands Lamel Hill, a tumulus of Anglian origin, which was considerably raised and utilized as an earthwork by the besieging force in the siege of York, 1644. It was excavated by Dr. Thurnara, who found numerous vestiges of the Parliamentarian occup8ition(videArck<eoloyicaMournal, vol. n. p. 36). There is another earthwork due west of