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 V.JAN. 6, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WILL-POWER AS RECORDED IN HISTORICAL PORTRAITS. In some magazine article by Mr. Harry Furniss, which I came across not long ago, the author remarked that as a caricaturist he had observed that women of marked intellect had masculine-looking jaws. Great women singers, whose gift is physical, may have the lower part of the face feminine in type, but the other celebrities of their sex resemble men in this respect.

Is Mr. Fu miss's opinion borne out by those historical portraits which are con- sidered to be more accurate than flattering 1

Further, do masculine portraits con firm the general belief that a heavy jaw indicates a commanding will?

Have the great men of action, whose special faculty is the power of compelling others to follow their lead, stronger jaws and chins than other gifted people* with capacious skulls and highly organized brains ]

Personally I have known a very weak jaw go with great tenacity, and on the con- trary, have observed strong jaws whose possessors never got a hold on the wills they were anxious to guide.

It has yet to be discovered, I believe, how it is that certain men, without apparent effort, extort obedience from the rest of their world ; while others, however right and reasonable, however steadfast to their point, are as impotent for good as Cassandra.

J. A.

CALFHILL FAMILY. In 1570 James Calfhill was nominated to the bishopric of Worcester, but died before consecration. In 1601 James Calfhill was curate (vicar) of Folkestone, Kent. Were they related ?

I also find in a pedigree of Kennet of Sel- lendge, in Kent, and of Coxhoe, co. Pal. Durham, that Reginald Kennett, about 1480, married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir John Calfhill, of Kent. Arms, Erm., a calf passant gules. I do not find the name in the general index to Archceologia Gantiana.

11. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

GARIOCH : ITS PRONUNCIATION. Howshould this name, as title or place-name, be pro- nounced? I ask because, having just nad occasion to look it up, I find that authorities differ. In the list of * Peculiarly Pronounced Proper Names' in 'Who's Who 'it is given as Garrick ; yet in a well-informed article in M.A.P. (2 Dec.) we are told that it should be sounded Geery. Which is correct ?

JAS. PL ATT, Jun.

PIPER AT CASTLE BYTHAM. Can any cor- respondent of *N. & Q.' tell me what writer

gives the earliest account of the piper who went into an underground passage at Castle Bytham, in Lincolnshire, and was never seen again, although he could be heard playing on his pipes for some time ?

If my memory does not deceive me, he is spoken of as a Scot in Wild's * History of Castle Bytham' ; but surely this is a modern error. Does not the tale come down to us from a time when Lincolnshire pipers were well known ? What other versions of the story occur 1 ? I imagine the legend must be current in many parts of the British Islands.

G. T.

NAPOLEON'S CORONATION ROBE : ITS GOLD BEES. Can any of your readers tell me where the gold bees are to be seen which were used on Napoleon I.'s coronation robe ? They were solid gold and of Greek workman- ship, and were dug up in an old tomb. I should be much obliged for any information concerning them. D. CRISP.

Broadhurst, Godalming.

RIGGS. Under date of 12 July, 1666, Pepys records in his immortal ' Diary ' :

"With Sir W. Coventry into London to. the office. And all the way I observed him mightily to make mirth of the Duke of Albemarle and hia people about him, saying, that he was the happiest man in the world for doing of great things by sorry instruments. And so particularized in Sir W. Clerke, and Riggs, and Halsey, and others."

Who and what was this Riggs ?

In 1689 Ensign John Riggs brought to Lieut.-Governor Nicholson, of New York, the official announcement from England of the accession of William and Mary to the throne. Can any reader inform me who this officer was ? E. FRANCIS RIGGS.

Washington, D.C.

'CENSUS REPORT, 1851.' Who was the author responsible for the historical part (Ivi-lxxix) of the 'Results and Observa- tions ' ? Q. V.

ROBERT WESTON. I should be much obliged if any reader could help me to the birthplace and parentage of a Robert Weston, who was born 1740, and was steward of the manors of Christ Church, Duchy, and Windsor. He married a Jane Howard, of Brackley. His birthplace will probably be found in Oxfordshire or Northants.

F. H. WESTON.

Lastingham Vicarage, Sinnington, R S.O, Yorks.

BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK. Sir William Brandon, Knt, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Wingfield, of Letheringham, M.P. for Suffolk, 6 Hen. VIIL, by Elizabeth,