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Edition," London, Taylor, 1825, 8vo, pp. 446 I should have put the book down as a Welsl ' Robinson Crusoe,' but it is dedicated bj the editor, John Eagles of Bristol, t( " Benjamin West, Esq.," the celebratec painter, by West's " kind permission," and because of his " intimate knowledge of th Author, and the circumstance of his having communicated to you many of the fact recorded in it." Eagles also asserts tha West knew Eagles's father, who in 18CK showed him ' Penrose's Journal,' and Wes said of several parts : "I know to be true I knew the man too, and, what is more extraordinary, had it not been for him I should never have been a painter." He then adds that he met him at Philadelphia On p. viii West says that the man's rea name was Williams, and he took that o Penrose from a great shipbuilder. Now Wornum mentions that West receivec instruction, when at Philadelphia, from a painter named Williams (' Imperial Die tionary of Universal Biography,' iii. 1327) and he refers to Gait's ' Life of West.' This seems to show that Penrose was not i Robinson Crusoe, but an Alexander Selkirk Perhaps some reader can prove whether the book is fictitious or not. If it is, it is an unwarrantable liberty to take with West's name, unless he himself was mistaken.

D. J.

[Halkett and Laing state that John Eagles was the author.]

SLAVERY IN ENGLAND. I should be much obliged to any correspondent who would inform me as to the supposed number of slaves in this country about 1772, when Lord Mansfield's decision declared such servitude illegal. INQUIRES,.

ANNE PLANTAGENET, DUCHESS OF EXETER. I am anxious to collect as much infor- mation as possible about this royal lady, my ancestress. She was born in 1439 at Fotheringhay ; married to Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, whom, apparently, she divorced in 1472 (?) ; married secondly Sir Thomas St. Leger in 1473-4 ; had one daughter by her second marriage, Anne, who married George Manners, Lord Roos ; and died about 1479. The tomb of herself and her husband Sir Thomas St. Leger is, or was, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. I find she had a daughter by her first marriage, who apparently died young. Was her husband the Thomas St. Leger executed by Richard III. for being concerned in an insurrection against the King in 1484 ? Are any particulars

of Anne's divorce known ? Any details which can be given me, or directions where to find such details, I shall receive grate- fully. I have other royal descents, but the one through Anne is the last, and conse- quently the most interesting. HELGA.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. The tombs of Macleod and Maclean, of Maclean

and Macleod,

They stand in the wind and the rain, and the drift of the white sea shroud.

2. He came on the Angel of Victory's wing,

But the Angel of Death was awaiting the king.

3. He died, as such a man should die, In the hot clasp of Victory.

4. Et la bonne vieille de dire, Moitie larmes, moitie sourires, J'ai mon gars, soldat, comme toi.

W. EDWARD OSWELL.

LATIN LINES. Whence are the following lines taken ? Apart from the authorship, there can be, I think, but little question as to the truth conveyed :

Errata alterius quisques correxerit, ilium Plus satis invidise, gloria nulla manet.

EDWARD LATHAM.

FLAVIAN MONKS. In the 'Romische Tage- biicher ' of Ferdinand Gregorovius (Stutt- gart, 1893), p. 124, and under date " Genez- zano, 13 August, 1861," the following entry occurs in a description of La Mentorella, in the Campagna :

" Basilica und Kloster, wo Flavische Monche sich befinden, liegen auf dem riffartig herausspringenden Felsen in unoeschreiblich schoner Einsamkeit."

Will some one please say what is meant by " Flavische Monche " ? I am told that the Italian translation has ftoridi for " Fla- vische." C. C. B.

HATCHING CHICKENS WITH ARTIFICIAL HEAT. In Thomas More's 'Utopia' (first printed in 1551) occurs the following :

" They brynge vp a great multitude of pulleyne and that by a meruaylouse policye. For the hennes doe not sytte vpon the egges : but by keepynge x ,heym in a certayne equall heate they brynge lyi'e nto them and hatche theyrn."

When was this idea first put in practice ? The incubator now in use is quite a modern nvention. HENRY FISHWICK.

The Heights, Rochdale.

WINDMILLS IN SUSSEX. Can any reader nform me if there are any returns by which he number of windmills in Sussex can )e ascertained ? P. M.

JOHN LAW OF LAURISTON. From a newspaper cutting I find that some years