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death. The house was No. 4, Adelphi Terrace, in which Garrick lived from 1772 till 1779. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

GENERAL LA POYPE (10 th S. v. 46). MR. R. B. MARSTON will find details of the life of General Baron Jean Francois de La Poype in vol. iii. ' Biographie UniVerselle et Porta- tive des Contemporains,' vol. iii. pp. 155-6, and in Chuquet, 'La Jeunesse de Napole'on,' vol. iii. pp. 303-4. He was one of the prin- cipal commanders before Toulon. Taken prisoner by the English on his return from ISan Domingo in 1804, he was exchanged in 1806, but was not employed again until 1813, when he was Governor of Wittenberg (not Wirtemberg, as in the ' Biographie'), on the Elbe. About 1822 he was elected deputy, but was imprisoned in 1824 for some pamphlet, after which he remained in re- tirement. Born in 1758, he died in 1851. He ' k belonged to an ancient and illustrious family of Dauphine, * now extinct." His daughter left children.

R. PHIPPS, Col. late R.A.

SIR THOMAS NEVILL, 1503-82 (10 th S. v.2). I have one or two corrections to make in my account of the Thomas Nevills. Through the misreading of a hasty note, I did the * D.N.B.' an in j ustice. It states that Elizabeth Amadas was the second, not the first, wife of Sir Thomas Nevill of Mereworth, the Speaker. I also gave the date of his death as 1543 instead of 1542.

I copied from Rowland the statement that Sir Thomas Nevill of Holt was knighted by Somerset in 1543. MR. W. D. PINK, with other notes quoted below, has kindly pointed out that it was Sir Thomas, the second son of Ralph, fourth Earl of Westmoreland, who was knighted at Berwick on 29 Sept, 1547 : no doubt he was in command of the earl's levies. I always wondered what Sir Thomas of Holt, who was forty-four, was doing at this war.

Sir Thomas of Holt was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI. on 20 Feb., 1546/7 The shortness of time not allowing the proper ceremonies, it was specially decreed that those made knights should rank as Knights of the Bath.

Sir Thomas, the subject of my article, was made a knight of the carpet, 22 Feb., 1546/7. He bore the arms of Nevill of Raby, with the cadency mark of a fifth son. The firsl Latimer of this branch was fifth son, thirc by Joan Beaufort, of the first Earl of West- moreland.

The Sir Thomas, K.B., who, according to Musgrave, died in 1546, may possibly have

been the Sir Thomas of Thorn tonbridge who appears in pedigrees (e </., Carnden's 'Vis. Leic.'). His sister and heiress Clara was the irst wife of Sir Thomas of Holt, who died in 1569, and was three times married.

With regard to the Sir Thomas of York- shire who married Frances Amiel at Bram- field in 1544, it is clear he was not the son of the Earl of Westmoreland, as he was already a knight ; nor could he have been the Sir Thomas of Thorntpnbridge, since he was alive in 1562, by which time the latter's sister Clara was dead. He seems, therefore, to be a fourth contemporary Sir Thomas Nevill. I find that Suckling gives the name of Frances's first husband as Jermy, thus confirming my suggestion that Jeromye was a mistake.

There was a Sir John Jermy, living 23 Ed. IV., married to Isabel Hopton, and I am inclined to doubt if Frances did marry a Jermy, as I find no mention of such a match in the Norfolk Visitation of Jermy. Evidently the first, or second, husband's name was Amiel.

In Muskett's 'Manorial Families of Suffolk 7 grave doubt is thrown on the pedigree of Hovell of Ashfield. It is stated on p. 195 of the Visitation of Suffolk that the William Hovell who married Frances Hopton, relict of Sir Thomas Nevill, lived about the time of Henry VII., which is obviously absurd.

One awaits with interest the promised complete 'Book of Knights.' If it gives all the knights of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, it will indeed be a magnum opus. RALPH NEVILL, F.S.A.

Castle Hill, Guildford.

HORSE-RACING IN FRANCE (10 th S. v. 167). Sebastian Munster was a geographer, as well as a Hebraist and mathematician. His 'Universal Cosmography' was printed in Germany in 1544 ; a French translation appeared at Basle in 1555, and contains the following passage :

" Les habitans de Semur sont gens paisibles, doux, debonnaires, et charitables, s'entr'aynmns et caressans et vivans ensemble en grande concorde, et qui se plaisent surtout en 1'accoinctance des etrangers."

The inscription dates from about 1840 or later. ROBERT B. DOUGLAS.

64, Rue des Martyrs, Paris.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND POETS LAUREATE (10 th S. v. 187). If the REV. F. ST. JOHN CORBETT had quoted the whole passage from Isaac D'Israeli's * Curiosities of Literature' in his 'History of British Poetry,' he might have come to a wrong conclusion, so