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 46 NOTES AND QUERIES. u0"=s.1v.Jm15, 1905- along the Great North Road that Noah Claypole replied to his sweetheart’s question, ‘Is it much »further?’ with ‘Look there! those are the Lights of London] Mr. Sims revived the phrase, wit an unmeamnlg alteration, in the title o his play ‘ The Lights o’ ondon ’ at the Princess’s, nearly six years ago; and it now, therefore, has some part in the history_ of t-hree forms of art-the literary, the -dramatic, and the pictorial.” But the idea goes back farther than is thus traced, for Byron, in the eleventh canto of "Don J uan,’ stanzas xxvi.-xxviii., waxed almost ecstatic over the lights of London, IB the lines beginning:- The line of lights, too, up to Charing Cross, Pall Mall, and so forth, have a coruscation, Like gold as in comparison to dross, Match’d with the Continent’s illumination. ALFRED F. ROBBINS. [See post, p. 50.] ‘DUPLICATE ‘VILL REGISTERS.-During the Vacation, when Somerset House is closed to literary men, it may save some of my fellow- .genealogists a long wait if they know that a register belonging to the Commissary Court of London, covering the years 1792-4, is in the Public Record Hice, where for the same period is a register of the Consistory Court -of London. The official references are Trea- fsury, Miscel. Various, 181 and 182. GERALD FOTHERGILL. 11, Brussels Road, New Vandsworth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND VHA'1`ELY.-I have ‘somewhere read that the great American President, when a deputation during the Civil War ventured on the remark, “We trust, sir, that God is on our side,” replied, “It is more important to know that we are on God’s side.” This seems to have been (and the parallel is strikin ) an unconscious replica of Whately’s wel€known sa ing, “It is one thing to wish to have trutli on our side. and another thing to wish to be on the side of truth.” J. B. MCGOVERN. St. Stephen’s Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. CHAIILES I.’s EXECUTION.-I do not know whether attention has been called to the bearing of the tract named below on the controversy respecting the mode of deca- pitation of Charles I. Brown Bushell was executed on Tower Hill, by beheading, on “ Saturday last, being the 29 of March, 1651." 'This works out correctly. The ‘Dict. Nat. Biog.’ makes it 29 April, which was Tuesday. The British Museum copy (1132 a. 48; an- other copy K. l a. 8*) o ‘The Speech And 'Confession of Capt. Brown-Bushel,’ &c., 1651, -quarto, has a woodcut on the title-page re- Eresenting him as stretched at full length, is head projecting beyond a very low block. In the minute account which the tract, “ by G. H., an Eye-witnesse,” gives of the exe- cution, is a dialogue between Bushell and the headsman, in which this occurs (p. 5): “Is this the Block and Ax which my late Royal Master received the fatal blow from? yes Sir, these are the same.” The account further states that Bushell produced a “ Red Scarf,” measuring five yards by three. which was laid upon and “covered the Block and all the Sawdust,” and became, by Bushell’s gift, the property of the headsman. V. H. 1. L. I. C. I. V. Quzrizs. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to afiix their names and addresses to their ueries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. SIR T. VVILKINSON.-Of the many Govern- ment oflicers who have served in the Chota Nagpur country, the name of one, Capt. T. Wilkinson (loca ly known as Olkissen Saheb), is remembered by the people to this day. Ca t. T. Wilkinson came to Chota Nagpur as Porlitical Agent in 1832, and subsequently was made Agent to the Governor-General for the South-West Frontier Agency, which in- cluded Chota Nagpur. In 1839 Capt. (then Major, I think) Wilkinson was transferred to Burra Na ur, and for several years filled the ost oflllesident at the Court of the local chiefl Subsequently he was knighted. I want to procure a copy of his portrait (if such exists) to hang up in the Court Room of the Commissioner at Ranchi. I have failed to trace any portrait in India, though I have been informed that one exists, and therefore I venture to write and ask you if you would be so good as to help me to ascertain whether any portrait of Sir T. Wilkinson exists in the British Isles. F. A. SLACKE, Commr. C. N. Div. Ranchi, Chota Nagpur, India. ADOLPHE BELOT.-I shall feel obliged if any reader can furnish me with the names, if possible in both languages, of any novels (not lays) by this writer which have been trangated from French into Enlglish. JAs. LA'r'r, Jun. Music t. LoUIs XIV.-Le 20 juin, 1853, il s’est vendu chez Wilkinson cinq volumes de musique, reliés en maroquin bleu aux armes de Louis XIV., intitulés ‘Festivitatum Om- nium quo in sacello Regis Christianissimi celebrantur Libri V.,’ recueillis par Philidor l’ainé l’a-n 1691. IIS furent achetés par Durand.