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wife of John Beaumont, lighterman, of East Greenwich ; and to the testator's two granddaughters Sybilla Parry and Sarah Parry (the latter then under age). This document proves the (then) existence of descendants of Dr. E. Halley (1656-1742), and supports the theory printed at 9 S. xi. 464. Sybilla Halley's will is made as of East Greenwich, Kent. Can any reader supply particulars of the Parry descendants, if any known ? EUGENE F. McPiKE. 1, Park Row, Chicago, U.S.

JOHN CUSTIS. Did the American family of Custis migrate from Nottinghamshire or the north part of Lincolnshire, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Gainsborough ? I possess a copy of " Lieut. -Colonel J. Lilburn Tryed and Cast ; or, His Case and Craft discovered .... Published by Authority. London, Printed by M. Simmons in Alders- gate-street, 1653." It contains on a fly- leaf at the beginning three signatures of a John Custis, written in a good and clear hand, which I have no doubt is that of its first owner. It may not be straying away from the subject to note that the above- mentioned work contains references to John Lilburne's riotous doings in the Isle of Axholme. The volume belonged to member of an old yeoman family whose ancestors may very possibly have taken part in the Isle of Axholme disturbances. EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

LADY HATTON : 'Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.' This play is said to be founded on B. Yonge's translation of Montemayor's ' Diana.' Yonge was at the Middle Temple, and dedicated an earlier work to Sir William Hatton. Can any one inform me whether the Lady Hatton who was Bacon's cousin, and whom he wanted to marry was the widow of this Sir William ? If not, what was the relationship ? AMBROSE T. PEYTON.

47, Connaught .Street, W.

'LAWYERS IN LOVE.' I should be glad

to hear where I could obtain the book

Lawyers in Love; or, Passages from the

Life of a Chancery Barrister.' The author

is unknown to me. D

SIR JOHN BARNARD'S DESCENDANTS - Sir John Barnard, Kt., the worthy and

S^J^* L( J rd Mayor of L ndon in 1737-8 (d. 1764), left one son, John (d. c. 1784) known as a collector of drawings of the old masters, the sale catalogue of which is in the British Museum. Was this family further extended ?

Jane Barnard, the younger of Sir John's daughters, was married to the Hon. Henry Temple (d. 1740), and thus was grandmother of Henry John Temple, third Viscount Palmerston, the Prime Minister.

W. L. PvUTTON.

ADRIAN GILBERT, of Wilton, Wilts, Esq. Consistory of Sarum. Inv. and account 3 June, 1628. Was he related to Sir Humphrey Gilbert ? E. ALD WORTH.

Laverstock Vicarage, Salisbury.

HEALING SPRINGS FLOWING TOWARDS THE SOUTH. It is a prevalent Welsh super- stition that every spring with healing pro- perties must have its outlet towards the south. See ' By-Gones,' 1893-4, pp. 23, 258. Is this belief known in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Brittany or other parts of France ?

The idea that holy wells should be visited at midsummer, which seems to be an allied

superstition, is widely spread.

I. G.

PUBLIC OFFICE = POLICE OFFICE,

POLICE COURT.

(10 S. vii. 47.)

As DR. MURRAY says, the Act of 1792, cited by ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' in 1838, authorizes the establishment of " seven several public offices," and nowhere speaks of them as police offices. As this statute also refers to " the public office in Bow Street," it would appear that the in- tention was to extend the term " public office," which was already well known in connexion with the Bow Street Office, to the new establishments. But this intention either never took effect or was soon departed from, as DR. MURRAY shows. I have not up to the present been able to ascertain whether there was any statutory authority for using " police office " instead of " public office," or whether this was merely popular. Unfortunately, no general index to the repealed statutes of this period is published. At any rate, by 1822 the Legislature recog- nized the custom, since the 3 Geo. IV. c. 55 speaks of " police offices " and " the public office in Bow Street." This, it will be noted, is the same phraseology as that used by the writer of the article in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' in 1838. Subsequent Acts down to 1839 also use these terms ; and to this latter year I think we can definitely fix the introduction of " police court," at