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 i.«>s.iv.DKc.i6,i9Q5.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 489 Saracina). Among these is the name Albigna. Will any one kindly tell ine the equivalent in Arabic? ' B. H. CHARLOTTE COLEMAN : RYDER : CHRIS- TOPHER BLOUNT.—I should be very grateful for any information regarding the following persons, their families or descendants :— 1. Miss Charlotte Coleman, who made a copy of the MS. of Lady Fanshawe's ' Memoirs' in 1766 (preface to the edition of 1829), and gave the picture of Lady Fanshawe by Teniers (1660) to the grandfather of Col. H. Walrond. She is described in the preface of the 1829 edition of the 'Memoirs' as a great-grand- daughter of Lady Fanshawe, and on the back of the picture as having lived in Frith Street, Soho. 2. The Ryder whom Lady Fanshawe's daughter Ann married. It would seem pro- bable that Miss Coleman was the grand- daughter of Ann Ryder. 3. Christopher Blount, whom Lady Fan- shiwe's daughter Elizabeth married. It is of this daughter and Lord Somers that Mrs. Mtnley relates a terrible scandal in ' The New Atlantis.' H. C. FANSHAAVE. 107, Jermyn Street. CROCKFORD'S.—Could you or any of your readers inform rue of any articles that have appeared relating to William Crockford's life and gambling rooms ? CECIL TRESILIAN. Arwenack, Falmouth. (.The ' ! >. V I:.' states that a minute account of Crockford's career will be found in Sentley'n Mia- cellany, xyii. 142-55, 251-64. Various other articles are mentioned in the authorities appended to the life in the'D.N.B.'] ' POETIC WORKS BY A WEIRD.'—Can any of your readers give me the name of the author of a small book entitled 'Poetic Works by a Weird ' 1 The book was published by A. K. Newman & Co., London, and R. T. Edgar, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. in 1827. R. T. R. ENGLISH ARMY IN IRELAND, 1630-40.— Can you inform me if there is any list extant of the officers of the army raised in Ireland between the years 1630 and 1640, and where I can obtain any information about that body ? D. Y. M. [Many references to lists of Essex's army in Ireland are given at 9th S. xi. 256. Army Lists published by the Cavaliers and the Roundheads in 1642 are in the Bodleian.] • MILITARY DISCIPLINE.'—I possess a copy, minus title-page and preliminary matter (if any), of ' Military Discipline ; or, the Young Artillery Man.' It is a small 4to of 174 pages and one leaf of contents, and its date is circa, 1640. I shall be very grateful to any of your correspondents who can give me any infor- mation as to its authorship and a brief copy of title-page. I am unable to identify it at the British Museum. J. IS. A. MR. CUMBERLAND, according to Mrs. Papondiek, was brought up in the Duke of Cumberland's apartments in St. James's, "and was educated at Westminster as a day scholar, whither he went and returned in the Duke's carriage" ('Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte,' vol. ii. p. 258). His mother appears to have been a Miss Knissel, a Hanoverian actress. lie is said to have lived at Kew, and to have died young. I should be glad to know the dates of his birth and death, as well as further particulars of his mother. G. F. R. B. NORWICH COURT ROLLS.—A ' Calendar of Deeds relating to Norwich and enrolled in Norwich Court Rolls,' edited by Mr. Walter Rye, was referred to at p. 237 of The Ancestor, April, 1904. Has this calendar been published ? And where ? (j. V. CROMWELL HOUSE, HIGHGATE. (10th S. iv. 48, 135, 437.) MR. H. JOHNSON, after referring to the " obliging experts " who have attempted to reply to his query, adds to the difficulty by making erroneous statements. I hold no brief in favour of any one of the his- torians of Highgate ; they all make palpable mistakes, which are perpetuated by the copyists in the local press. MR. JOHNSON says :— 1 It is desirable to bear in mind that Prickett's Prize Essay has to be read with caution. The fol- lowing is a glaring instance of the author's careless- ness. He says that in the Register of Hornsey Church there is an entry of a man dying in 16fi3 at Highgate, in the house of the Countess of Hunting- don, who, according to Prickett, was the celebrated countess who so zealously supported Wesley and Whitefield." MR. JOHNSON then refers to Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and speaks of Howitt as falling into the same error, "probably mis- led by Prickett." If MR. JOHNSON reads carefully Mr. Lloyd's 'History,' to which he refers, he will find a little more information. Prickett's ' History of Highgate,' 1842, is not the Prize Essay. William Sidney Gibson, of Lincoln's Inn, wrote the essay which gained