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anconsiderative to Amazement, of the Prior Obligation they are under to their Religion." E. S. DODGSON.

SIR HENRY WOTTON AT VENICE. A very beautiful stained-glass window has been placed in the English Church at Venice to the memory of Sir Henry Wotton. (By .the by, is it not somewhat strange that we moderns always speak of the man by his baptismal name, while to those who knew him personally at Eton he was invariably " Sir Harry " ?) The window is due to Helen, Countess of Radnor, who thought of it, and who partially gave and partially collected the money. The quarterings of the Wotton coat are accurate ; but it may be as well to place upon record that the crest is inaccurate, unless Burke and other high authorities are to be ignored. The motto is also inaccurate, being copied from dear, unreliable Walton, instead of from Sir Henry's own seal, an impress of which is now in Somerset House. M. E. W.

WEST INDIAN HURRICANE LORE. In Jamaica they have this " hurricane " rime, which shows that from the end of June to October navigation sho*uld be suspended in view of storms. Nevertheless the worst hurricane I remember occurred in the first week of October, 1866.

June, too soon ; July, stand by ; August, you must ; September, remember ; October all over.

FRANCIS KING.

^ STEPNEY COURT ROLLS. I have recently bought a small book, ' The Customs, &c., of Stepney and Hackney Manors,' dated inside the cover 1736; but the customs refer to 1617, and there are long lists of copyhold tenants, which would probably help many inquirers interested in those manors. I ^wanted the name Warton or Wharton about 1736-1761, of Schoolhouse Lane. Thomas Wentworth was the chief landlord in both places. A. C. H.

BENJAMIN KENNET, VICAR OF BRADFORD. In the library of Sion College is a copy of the following sermon :

The Manifold Evidence of the Being of a God considered, &c. in a Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of Bradford, on Sunday September 16th 1744. By B. Kennet, M.A. Vicar of Bradford. Leeds. Printed by James Lister. l~4o. Small 4to, 12 leaves ; text Hebrews xi. 6. This copy has the preacher's manuscript dedication to the Bishop of London (Ed-

mund Gibson), who, twenty-six years before, got him, " an obscure person," a dispensation to be privately ordained by the Bishop of Oxford (John Potter, a native of Wakefield), " now " Archbishop of Canterbury ; dated Bradford in Yorkshire, 9 March, 1744/5.

Benjamin Kennet's pedigree is set out in Joseph Hunter's 'Familiae Minorum Gen- tium,' ii. 520-21 . Mary Kennet, his third wife, and widow, made her will 8 Oct., 1753, being then of Wakefield. In it she mentions her late brother William Dawson, Walker Daw- son his son, and Catherine his daughter ; her own son Richard and her daughter Hannah, and her sister Mrs. Hannah Allott. The will was proved at York 2 Aug., 1754.

On 16 Feb., 1807, by royal grant, Benjamin Kennet of Wakefield, Esq. son and heir of Benjamin Kennet of Manchester, merchant, who was the son of the above-mentioned vicar of Bradford by Mary Stockdale, his second wife was authorized to use the sur- name of Dawson in addition to that of Kennet ; and on the 26th of the same month he had a grant of arms, quarterly, Dawson and Kennet, with a crest for each.

W. C. B.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" MOALER." What is (or was) a " moaler lamp " ? It is mentioned in 1843, in the report of an action brought against the Eastern Counties Railway Company. What is the origin of the word ? I should be glad of any other examples of its occurrence.

HENRY BRADLEY.

Clarendon Press, Oxford.

CARLO GOLDONI'S BICENTENARY. In con- nexion with the celebration of the bicentenary of Carlo Goldoni's death, which is to take place in Venice towards the end of this month, I venture to draw attention to the fact that at the time of his death in Paris his private papers got lost, and that there is some ground for believing that they were conveyed to England and consigned to the repository of some private collection, as happened in the case of Rosalba Carriera's papers, now in the Laurentian Library, Florence. Perhaps one of your numerous readers will be able to give me some infor- mation as to the whereabouts of Goldoni's papers, now missing. G. A. S.