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" BARBIAN," SPANISH WORD. Can DON F DE UHAGON or any other reader inform m as to the history of this Spanish slang terra I have a vivid recollection that when I wa in Madrid, in 1888, it was used by every one on every occasion, always in a complimen tary sense. My conclusion is that it ha( then just come into vogue. Am I right as t( this 1 Is its origin known ?

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

ROBERT AWSE was in the fifth form a Westminster School in 1728. Can any corre spondent of 'N. & Q.' give me inforraatior concerning his parentage and career?

G. F. R. B.

LEWIS DACIBR was educated at West minster School in the third decade of th eighteenth century. I should be glad t obtain particulars of his parentage am career. G. F. R. B.

CHARLES ARNOTT became a King's Scholar of Westminster School in 1745. Any further information concerning him would oblige.

G. F. 11. B.

LORD ROWTON. How did Lord Rowton pronounce his name? G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

[He pronounced the first syllable to rime will now.]

GHOST STORY IN DICKENS. I shall be glad if any reader will give me the name oi Dickens's story in which the ghost is asked why he frequents such dismal places : to which he replies that he will mention it to the other ladies and gentlemen.

R. LUCAS.

" POGROM." What is a "pogrom"? and what is the derivation of the word ? It appears to mean a riot or attack by a mob. The following quotation illustrates its use : "The 'Pogroms' in Bessarabia. We have re- ceived the following letters, dated December 3rd and 9th, the first from Ismail and the second from Bucharest :' The "pogrom "of Ismail, organised under the very eyes of the police and with the co- operation and assistance of the latter, has brought about the complete ruin of three hundred families.'" -' The Russian Correspondence issued bv Sympa- thisers with the Russian Struggle for Freedom ' 15, Essex Street, W.C., 23 Dec., 1905.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

JOHN LATTON. In 'Musgrave's Obituary' (Harleian Society's Publications) Latton is stated to have died at his residence, Burwood House, Surrey, 15 Nov., 1727, and is de- scribed as "favourite of King Wm. III." A note I have relating to the Johnson family states that Lieut. - General John Johnson,

Colonel 33rd Regiment, of Burhill, Surrey, married Roberta, daughter of John Latton, Esq., of Esher Place, Surrey, but late of Bur- wood, Walton-on-Thames, who died 8 Feb., 1729, cet. 29. Had John Latton disposed of the Burwood estate before his death, or not? In what way was he favoured by King William III? D. K. T.

JERVIS FAMILY OF BIRMINGHAM. I shall be extremely grateful if any of your readers can give me information about the ancestors of Charles Jervis, son of David Jervis (or Jarvis), baptized at S. Mar- tin's, Birmingham, 30 Sept., 1749. This Charles Jervis is described in the Ad- mission Book of Trinity College, Oxford, as "of S. Martin's, Birmingham, gentleman." He married at same church, on 1 July, 1771, Sukey Heycocke, and had by her two sons : (1) John Heycocke Jervis, born 1774 ; and ^2) Charles Jervis, born 1782 (M.A., Trin. Coll. Oxon.), rector of Cheltenham and rector of Luddenham, Kent, and private chaplain to H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge. John married Eliza Voules, and had issue four daughters, only one of whom married. Charles married Maria Grape, heiress of Richard Grape, of New Windsor, Berks (arms, Vert, a talbot passant in base, and in chief 2 pheons or ; crest, a stag erminois, collared gules, grazing on a mount vert), and had issue two daughters, one of whom married. About eight of these Jervises are buried in Moseley Church, near Birmingham. On the tomb are the following arms : Sable,

chevron ermine between three martlets or ; crest, a martlet argent. Who was Daniel Jervis? The family was possessed of con- iderable wealth and large quantities of valuable plate. H. V. JERVIS-READ.

The College, Winchester.

'THE KING'S SEAL,' BY E. S. G. S. - I find a printed sheet of eight verses under his title, arranged with an ornamental >order, amongst my papers, signed with the nitials and address "E. S. G. S., Furze Cottage, Ipswich, December 1872." The first erse is as follows :

Glowing autumn sunrise

Shining over all, E'en as in the spring time

Smiling on the fall, On the still green branches

And the leafless stems, Casting in the lakelet Many-tinted gems.

Will any reader kindly inform me whose ame the initials represent?

HUBERT SMITH.

Brooklynne, Leamington Spa.