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from the original of Sir Joshua Reynolds." MR. ADAMSON'S query elicited no reply. Fifteen years have elapsed since it was printed, and perhaps a repetition of the inquiry to day may be more successful.

RICHD. WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

MAITLAND FAMILY. Who were the parents, and what was the ancestry, of Richard Mait- land, who died, 12 May, 1775, at the "Bear," Inn, Hungerford, on his proposed journey to London from Bath 1 He was buried, on the 19th of the same month, at Woodford, Essex, where his wife who was she 1 had been buried on 26 September, 1772, having died on the 18th. Richard Maitland was a West Indian merchant in the City of London. In the *' Heads of a Will," and in a codicil dated 1 May, 1775, which were proved 24 May, 1775 (P.G.C. 195 Alexander), the only relation apparently mentioned is his son Thomas Maitland, who, in the ' History of Antigua' by Vero L. Oliver, is given as having married settlement dated 9 August, 1776 Jane, one of thedaughters of General Ed ward Mathew, of Clanville Lodge, co. Southampton, by his wife Lady Jane Bertie, sister and eventual coheiress of Brownlow Bertie, last Duke of Ancaster. When did Thomas Maitland die 1 It was prior to 7 March, 1798. His widow is stated to have died at Brighton, 5 June, 1830, aged seventy-three. General Sir Peregrine Mait- land, G C.B. (see 9 th S. v. 375, 525), their son, died 30 May, 1854, aged seventy-six, having married, on 9 October, 1815, as his second wife, Lady Sarah, a daughter of the fourth Duke of Richmond. She died 8 September, 1873, aged eighty -one, and left issue. Richard Maitland, in " Heads of a Will," names Daniel Mathew ; his brother Col. (afterwards General) Edward Mathew; Brownlow Mathew, a son of the latter ; George Dewar ; Beeston Long ; Charles Spooner ; James Gordon, of Moor Place, in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, and left 10,000^. to the Marshall College, Aberdeen This bequest he revoked by the codicil, in which he names John Warren, James Bogle French, and Robert Willock. I know the pedigree of Maitland in Miscellanea Genea- logica et Heraldica, vol. ii. pp. 205-13 in- clusive.

REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON.

Worthing.

PRINCESS ROYAL'S DAUGHTERS. These having been given the style and title of Highness and Princess, are they princesses of the United Kingdom ? of Fife 1 or merely Princesses Duff ? The ' Almanach de Gotha '

s profoundly silent on this point, and only one of the British Peerages describes them as Princesses of Fife. G. B.

HERALDIC. Can any of your readers dndly say whose the following arms were ? Gules, a cross clechee or. It has been sug- gested that they have some connexion with the Prior and Convent of Durham or St. Cuthbert. SADI.

DR. JOHNSON'S CLUB AND THE LITERARY JLUB. Have any complete lists been pub- lished of the members of Dr.' Samuel John- son's Club, founded in 1783, and of the Literary Club, founded in 1764?

G. H. JOHNSTON, Lieut. -Col.

Kilmore, Richhill, co. Armagh.

RHYL, NORTH WALES. I should feel grateful to any of your correspondents for the derivation and meaning of Rhyl whether it is of Welsh or English extraction with quoted authorities in support.

EDWARD ROBERTS.

Swansea.

THE BABINGTON CONSPIRACY. Can any reader give title, author, and publisher of a novel published a few years ago on the subject of the Babington conspiracy, 1586? The heroine has numerous adventures whilst disguised as a soldier under the name of Capt. Maud. H. T. S.

JOHN AUG. LONGWORTH. In a book pub- lished in 1853 it is stated that ** the journal

of Mr. Long worth was on the point of

publication, when he received a consular appointment, and it was consequently sup- pressed." According to 'The Foreign Office List,' Long worth retired from the British consular service in February, 1875, and died in July of that year. Is that journal still in existence ? The only thing he published was a book entitled 'A Year among the Circas- sians '(London, 1840). L. L. K.

MERIAH. Will some one who is acquainted with the dialect of the Khonds of Orissa and Ganjam kindly explain the derivation of the word " meriah," which is applied to the well- known human victim sacrificed by these people 1 EMERITUS.

" HAMBERBONNE " OF WHEAT. What is this word ? It occurs in the proceedings of the Cinque Ports Court of Record at Rye, 24 February, 1454, whereby the master of a ship (or Baling) was adjudged to pav, for share of freight and portage, six pounds and two kamberbonnes of wheat. H. P. L.