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mont are a lion rampant surrounded by seven fleurs - de - lis. Did Simon, Earl of Leicester, assume with adaptation his Beau- mont ancestor's arms 1 If so, are any Montforts representative of his brothers or family ? Or, if deriving from the Warwick family, have they either by mistake taken Simon's arms, or, thinking Amicia's heirs were extinct, believed that they themselves, through Adilen, had become representatives of Beaumont ? P. MONTFOET.

Rossall Beach, Fleetwood.

PAPER-MAKING INVENTIONS. On 21 June, 1762, George Gordon wrote to Mr. Da Costa, Mincing Lane, about his "manner of making Asbestos paper " (Add. MSS. 28,537, f. 255). He says the paper may be made of any lightness, and he asks Da Costa to "convince Dr. Sylvander that it is not impossible." Who was this Gordon 1 and what is known of his invention 1

In 1692 a Patrick Gordon, "gent.," prayed for a patent in Ireland to protect his inven- tion of " an extraordinary way of making blue, purple, and all sorts of paper and pasteboards, and of embellishing and beauti- fying the same by such methods as were never yet known in Ireland." What is known of him and his invention ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

JAMES, EARL OF DERWENTWATER. Can any of your readers inform me whence the following lines about the Earl of Derwent- water, and quoted by Gibson in his * Visit to Dilston Hall,' are taken :

1. For the Radcliffe hath spoken. The Radcliffe hath broken

The chains the usurper had made.

2. And many a smile In merry Carlisle,

As the young earl bowed lowly attests, &c.

3. Was martial and high, Yet were tears in his eye,

As he turned to see Skiddaw again.

4. With viewless steps the bearers pass, By day a silent vigil keep.

5. How the young earl had given His soul up to Heaven.

6. Where the Radcliffe, alas ! rules no more, And that time-hallowed wall

And the old trees recall

His goodness and grandeur of yore.

7. We muse on glories gone.

On Radcliffe and his festive halls, Now lowly and forlorn.

E. G. C.

GROSVENOR : DE VENOIX. Was the former name derived from Venoix, a hamlet on the

Great Odon river at Caen, in Normandy, near the Pont Carrel ? The Earls of Chester were Viscounts of Caen in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. William Quarel was created Viscount of this town in 1204. In the tenth and eleventh centuries the two Odons (Great and Little) passed under the bridge St. Pierre. Colville - sur - Orne, a tributary of the Odon, in the eleventh cen- tury belonged to the Louvells. William Lovel was Viscount of Caen. There was a Cardinal le Veneur, Bishop of Lisieux.

T. W. C.

BOOKSELLER'S MOTTO. The motto of John Day, bookseller, of London (born 1522), was "Arise, for it is day." Is it a parody on Ezekiel vii. 10, or simply a brilliant pun on his name ? PATRICK.

Dublin.

ELIZA METEYARD'S LOVE STEPS OF DOROTHY VERNON.' Where can I find a story thus entitled ] F. H. C.

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM'S 'THE KING OF THE PEAK.' This short story appsared, I believe, in The London Magazine, but I should like to have this confirmed, along with the date (? 1822). F. H. C.

CAPT. CURRY, 1759.- Can any reader in- form me if there was a Capt. Curry serving in the 28th Regiment in 1759, or give any particulars of this officer 1 H. L.

EDWARD BREREWOOD. My late father, THOMAS HUGHES, F.S.A., asked in 'N. & Q. ; on 25 Feb., 1854 (1 st S. ix. 173), to be referred to any portrait of this well-known Oxford scholar. He apparently obtained no answer. It has occurred to me that the recent exhi- bitions of portraits belonging to Oxford colleges may have unearthed one. I have not seen the catalogues. Any reference will oblige. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

RAMSGATE CHRISTMAS PROCESSION. In The European Magazine for May, 1807, is an account of a curious procession at Christmas : "The head of a dead horse is affixed to a pole string affixed to lower jaw horse- cloth attached to whole under which one

of the party gets pulling the strings, and

causing the jaws to snap," &c. "This is called a Hodeiiing." Is this custom still ex- tant in any shape at Ramsgate, or on Thanet Isle? J. HARRIS STONE.

ROMAN BAGPIPERS. Is anything known of the present situation of the two small bronze figures of Roman bagpipers, mentioned in