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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. JAN. 5, 1907.

period during the Reformation was sent to London, and there burnt along with other objects of a like character. Can any one direct me to contemporary evidence for this statement, and say in what part of London the fire took place ?

K. P. D. E.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Give my youth, my faith, my sword,

Choice of the heart's desire ! A short life in the saddle, Lord, Not long life by the fire.

H. B. L.

BODDINGTON FAMILY. InBurke's ' Landed Gentry ' a pedigree of this family gives the descent from Timothy Boddington, of Barton, co. Oxford. He had a son, John Bodding- ton, and other issue. John's son Thomas had a son John besides other three sons and three daughters ; John, the son of Thomas, also had junior issue, the names of whom are not given by Burke. Can any of your readers give me information of the junior issue in the above cases, or of any of their descendants ?

There was a John Boddington at North Leigh, co. Oxford, about the beginning of the nineteenth century. Tradition speaks of him in those parts as being contractor for the maintenance of the roads. He was married twice. Any information regarding his parentage, his marriages, his birth, or his death, will be gratefully received.

WILL o' GLOUCESTER.

OFFICERS OF STATE IN SCOTLAND. These appear to be :

1. Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal.

2. Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal.

3. Lord Clerk Register.

4. Lord Advocate.

5. Lord Justice Clerk.

Will some one conversant with the matter please say how it happens that while the Lord Justice Clerk is one of the officers of State, the Lord Justice General is not ?

J. CHRISTIE.

181, Morningside Road, Edinburgh.

JOHN STIVENS, Surgeon-in- Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, died 2 August, 1737. Can any reader give me information about him ? W. A. MACNAUGHTON, M.D.

Stonehaven, N.B.

SCOTT ILLUSTRATORS. Where can par- ticulars be found of the illustrations to Sir Walter Scott's works, such as the names of the artists, the number of illustrations by each, and the dates of the editions in which they first appeared ? E. N. G.

FIRST FEMALE ABOLITIONIST. (10 S. vi. 365, 470.)

IN reference to MR. ALBERT MATTHEWS'S reply on the above subject, I am in a position
 * o throw a little light on the last paragraph

n regard to women's anti-slavery societies n England.

The last clause of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's Constitution, drawn up in 1839, runs : " That the committee do nvite and encourage the formation of adies' branch associations in furtherance of the objects of this society." But the formation of such ladies' associations was very far from being a new thing in 1839. Fn connexion with the previous Anti-Slavery Society, which existed before the Act of 1833, a very large number of women's associations seems to have been formed. The volumes of the journal of that society, The Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter (which was begun in 1825 by Zachary Macaulay, and ably edited by him until his death), are before me, and the first mention which I can find of a Women's Anti-Slavery Asso- ciation having been formed is of that started at Colchester in July, 1825; a similar one was formed at Calne (Wilts) in the following month. The subscription lists for 1826 show that the Clifton and Bristol Women's Association (to which MR. MATTHEWS refers) was in existence at that date. The lists of the folio wing -four years show that a great many women's associations were added, all over the country, during that time.

At the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840, as is well known, Mrs. Lucretia Mott and other ladies, who came over as delegates from the United States, were excluded, after long discussion, from taking part in the conference, on account of their sex. It was, however, announced in the Reporter published before that conference that the committee wished to " afford accomodation, as far as the room will permit, to their female friends, to whose exertions the cause of freedom is already so much indebted,"" and that tickets would be issued admitting ladies to the galleries and other spaces not necessarily occupied^by members. Hay don's large picture of the Convention (now in the National Portrait Gallery) shows that a number of women (most of them in Quaker bonnets) actually sat in the body of the hall. It seems probable, although I am