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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. VIL FEB. IG, 1907.

HUGH MILLER OF VIRGINIA. I should much obliged for information as to t birthplace, parentage, whereabouts of re dence at time of death, age at death, burial-place, of Hugh Miller, merchant Greenscroft, Bristol parish, Virginia, lat of London, England, who died in Londo 13 Feb., 1762. His will, recorded a Somerset House, gives no information o the above points, but mentions his Scottis cousins Freebairn, and relations in Virgin of his wife, Jane Boiling. He was o 9 Sept., 1757, appointed first master Blandford Lodge of Freemasons in Virgini WILLIAM SCOT. Charles Street, Somerset East, Cape Colony.

'THE CORNWORTHIAD.' Can any Wyke hamist tell me where I may find a copy o ' The Cornworthiad,' a poem commemoratin Mr. Barter, of Cornworthy, Devon, and h three notable sons, Charles of Sarsden Brudenell of Highclere, and Robert, Warde of Winchester. W T ICCAMICUS.

' EDINBURGH REVIEW ' ATTACK ON Ox FORD. In 1810 there appeared in Th Edinburgh Review a vehement attack o Oxford studies and on classical learning Of the three articles which contained i one was written by D. K. Sandford, wh afterwards recanted and expressed regret I shall be grateful to any one who can te me the authors of the other two. W._T.

DEAN VAUGHAN'S PUPILS. At Don caster, and when Master of the Temple the late Dean of Llandaff took, gratuitously clerical pupils. I have always heard them spoken of as Vaughan's " doves." In the ' Daily Mail Year-Book ' for this year I find on p. 93 that the present Archbishop o Canterbury is mentioned as having been one of his "lambs." Will one of the many former pupils who may see this inquiry tel me which name was usually applied to the men trained by the Dean ?

STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

LANGTRY ESTATE IN IRELAND. Will some one kindly inform me where the estate in Ireland of Mr. Langtry (father-in-law of the well-known actress) was situated ? I wish also to know the name and area of the property adjoining it, which belonged until about 1855 to one John Burke.

ERIN.

CORRODIES : " LIBER SERVIENS." I have a copy of a grant of a corrody by an alien abbey. The grantee is to be the "liber

serviens " of the abbot. What is the mean- ing of this term ? I shall be glad to be referred to printed copies of similar docu- ments, as there is an omission of some word or words in the list of articles to be yearly supplied by the abbey, which comparison of other grants ought to enable me to supply.

Q. V.

HICKFORD'S ROOM, BREWER STREET. It is interesting to learn from The Musical! Times that this long-forgotten concert-room, is still in existence. For thirty-five years, during the middle of the eighteenth century,, it was a much-frequented and fashionable resort, but, as the neighbourhood changed and other halls were erected, it gradually sank into oblivion. The building now forms part of the premises of the Club Franais. Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' wili contribute information as to its history.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. 13, Westbourn Place, Clifton, Bristol.

THE ENGLISH TRANSLATOR OF SALLUST.. In Thomas Cogan's ' Haven of Health r (chap. 242, p. 287, ed. 1636) there is a curious reference to the mutilation " that Master Smith, a canon of Hereford, practised upon limself in the beginning of the raigne of the queene's majesty that now is." This imi- tator of Origen is stated in the margin to be- ' the translator of Salust into English." This I take to be Simon Smith, who held the stall of Huntingdon in 1561, was arch- deacon in 1578, and died in 1606. Cogan's >ook first appeared in 1596, so that Queen Elizabeth is the monarch intended, and he came to the throne in 1558. But what s meant by the assertion that Smith was the ranslator of Sallust ? The early translators of the Latin historian were Alexander Barclay (1520), Thomas Heywood (1608), nd W. Crosse (1629). If the allusion is to- aluste du Bartas, our bibliographers seem o have missed this translation by " Master mith." WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER : POLITICAL SONG. In the summer of 1838 there was launched

le historic " People's Charter," which was; listory of this country during the next
 * o play so important a part in the political

ecade ; and various accounts have ap- >eared of the origin of the name. The credit 'or its creation has sometimes been given o O'Connell ; while, according to Charles

ackay in his * Forty Years' Recollections ' vol. ii. p. 50), " the Charter derived its

ame from the French Charter of 1830,"

lough, in point of fact, the French Charter