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 io< S.V.JUNE 9, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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They had an only daughter, Cecilia Kempe, who married John Toke, Esq., whose daughter married a Tylden of Milstead.

But it is from William Chichele, the arch- bishop's second brother, that most of the kinship is derived. In this line Sir John Chichele, Kt., of Wimpole, Cambs., married, about 1600, a daughter of Sir Thomas Kempe, of Rosteage, Kent, and their descendants carried on the family until it became extinct in the male line at the death in 1738, without issue, of Richard Chichele, D.C.L., Master of the Faculties and secretary to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. His sister and heiress married James Plowden, of Ewhurst, so that the Chichele-Plowdens, of whom the genial London magistrate is perhaps the best known, are now the direct representatives of this ancient familj 7. It may not be without in- terest to mention that two members of the Chichele-Plowden family* who were in the H.E.i.C.'s service, are buried in Capetown.

My own descent is from Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Chichele, of Wimpole, Esq., High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire temp. Elizabeth and James I. fdied 1616), through the Woods of Fulbourne, Cambs., and others. My great- grandfather, who was of Christ Church, Oxford, claimed and " had his claim allowed '' a Fellowship at All Souls, as founder's kin. J. A. HEWITT, Canon.

Cradock, S.A.

HERALDIC (10 th S. v. 408). MR. H. V. JERVIS-READ will probably find the arms on the porcelain to be those of Sir Charles Frederick, Bt., viz. : Or, on a chief azure three doves argent : Crest, on a chapeau azure, turned up ermine, a dove, as in the arms, in the beak an olive-branch proper. S. D. CLIPPINGDALE.

COLERIDGE AND NEWMAN ON GIBBON (10 th S. v. 387, 435). For Coleridge's opinion of Gibbon's style as '* detestable," see his * Table Talk,' under date of 15 August, 1833.

R. E. FRANCILLON.

[MR. R. A. POTTS, H.K. ST. J.S., and MR.L.R.M. STRACHAN also give the reference to Coleridge.]

CANBURY HOUSE, MIDDLESEX (10 th S. v- 409). The Canbury House concerning which

S)ur correspondent inquires is Canonbury ouse or Canonbury Tower, Islington, ren- dered famous as being at one time the resi- dence of Goldsmith. I think it is Lysons who reproduces an advertisement, dated 11 April, 1780, in which it is described as " Canbury [sic] Mansion House, near Isling- ton." I will gladly supply A. T. M. with a copy of a paper I have published on Canon-

bury Tower if he will favour me with his address. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

This is simply an abbreviation of Canon- bury House. See Timbs's and Loftie's works.

S. D. C.

REV. SAMUEL MARSDEN, CHAPLAIN OF N.S.W. (10 th S._ v. 389). There are two engraved portraits of this gentleman men- tioned in Evans's * Catalogue of Portraits/ Nos. 6921 and 6922 : the former is an octavo, engraved by Terry, and the latter a quarto, engraved by Fittler. One or both would almost certainly be found in the Print-Room, British Museum ; or MR. HOCKEN might address a request to Mr. W. V. Darnell, Great Mortimer Street, W. W. ROBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

J. RAMPINI (10 th S. v. 410). Giacomo (Jacques) Rarnpini, author of several operas and composer of church music, was born at Padua about 1680, and was leader of the cathedral orchestra there. For further par- ticulars cf. F. J. Fetis's A Biographie Univer- selle des Musiciens ' and Rob. Eitner's both of them works of reference which will often help where Grove's 'Dictionary of Music' fails. L. L. K.
 * Quellen-Lexikon der Musiker ' (vol. viii.) ;

VANDECAR (10 th S. v. 370). From the Venedi, Veneti, Winidse, or Wends, says Robert Ferguson, may be derived names which, according to Grimm (* Gesch. d. Deutsch. Spr.'), may be referred also to the Vandals, both u Wend " and "Vandal " being traceable to the German wenden, the English wend, wander, &c. Some of the instances given come very near not only the name of Vandecar, but also those of Wintem(berg), Vent, Vandeleur, <fcc. ('The Teutonic Name System,' 1864, pp. 315-17).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

THE BABINGTON CONSPIRACY (10 th S. v. 190, 354, 395). Surely there is some mistake here. My recollection of * The House of the Wolf ' is that it is a romance by Mr. Stanley Weyman, the subject being the adventures of certain young noblemen of France during the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew. The scene is laid partly in an old town in the South of France, but chiefly in Paris. If I mistake not, it was one of the author's earliest efforts in that direction, and by no means the least successful. T. F. D.

TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND, 1600-1700 (10 th S. v. 348, 414, 433). See a manuscript in the Lansdovvue collection in the British Museum