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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vii. MARCH so, 1007.

On the day I was at luncheon tin- height, llj inches, WM OOITeotly guessed by one guest ; Imt no one bit off the girth, wrhiohwaa26| fnohe,or the

weight, which was '241 b. 'Flic Bffloking room is

t'u 11 ot history- -hero long clay pipes are smoked in the luncheon hour."

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

BROTHERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME. ' N. & Q.' lias recorded a number of instances of two brothers bearing the same Christian name; butthewillof Nicholas Brent, of Stowe upon the Olde, in the diocese of Gloucester, dated 22 Oct., 1582 (from J'. ('.('. Rowe 8), deserves a note, as it mentions .three brothers with the same name, and all living at the same time :

" I give to the poor people ot Stowe 10x. To the reparations of the Cathedral Church of Gloucester \'2.s. To the children of Thomas Blowen, equally amongst then), 'J*. To William Brente my eldest, son, if In- live to accomplish his age of twenty years, 'Mil. To William Brent, my second son, 30/Y. ; and to William Brent, my third son, 4Qli., at their like ages. To Elizabeth, my daughter, 40/t. at her age ot twenty. The said sums of money shall remain meanwhile in the occupation of my wife Elizabeth, who shall give bonds to my overseers. The residue of all my goods I give to my said wife, whom I make my executrix ; and I request my brother Mr. William Brent and my kinsman Ancar Brent and William Crafts to be overseers of my will.

"Ancar Brent, William Craftes, Witnesses.

"Proved 11 Feb., 1582/3, by Robert Say, notary public, proctor for the executrix named."

W. N. B.

LORD BROUGHAM AND ' PUNCH.' Mr. Stanley J. Weyman writes in ' Chippinge ' {chap, ii.) on Lord Brougham :

" His high cheekbones and queer bulbous nose are familiar to us; for, something exaggerated by the caricaturist, they form week by week the trailing mask which mars the, cover of /'ititc/i."

Were a number of Englishmen asked what Hritish statesman has appeared most fre- quently in Punch, I wonder how many would answer " Brougham." W. CORFIELD.

Calcutta.

'GOLDSMITH'S ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. When the godly man of Isling- ton in this elegy was bitten by the dog. the neighbours assumed that the cur was mad, and that the man would die.

lint soon a wonder came to light

That sliow'd the rogues they lied The man recover'*! of the bite,

The dog it was that died. In a MS. commonplace book, full of epigrams,

epitaphs, and " titbits " in prose and verse undated, but apparently written at the end of the eighteenth century the same idea finds expression in a French quatrain : Un gros serpent mordit Aurele ; Quo croytv.-vous <|u'il arriva? Qu Axirele en mourut ? Bagatelle ! Ce fut le serpent qui creva !

RICHARD WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

TI:A AS A MEAL. (See 8 S. ix. 387 ; x. 244 ; 9 S. vii. 511 ; xii. 351.) To the allusions to the tea-table I gave at the third of these references I should like to add one of 1724, which suggests another link between tea and conversation. This is an advertise- ment which appeared in The Daily Courant of 17 Feb., 1724, running thus :

"On Friday next will be Published, The Tea- Table. Number I. To be continued every Monday and Friday. Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane. Price Two-Pence."

Roberts was the publisher also of The Instructor, a weekly journal, issued on Wednesdays, containing one long moral essay ; and The Tea-Table (of which some specimens are to be seen at the British Museum) was of a similar, though lighter stamp. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

(Quirtas.

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.

" BULKMASTER." William Wilson, who entered University and King's College, Aberdeen, in 1811, and in later life was a solicitor in Inverary, is described as " son of Alexander Wilson, bulkmaster, Inverness." What is a " bulkmaster " ? The word does not appear in the ' H.E.D.,' the ' E.D.D.,' or Jamieson. P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

NAVAL ACTION, 21 JUNE, 1814. Can some correspondent kindly give me any particulars of an action which took place on 21 June, 1814, and the name of the ship in which Lieut. Thomas Barratt Power, who is stated to have been then killed, was serving at the time ? F. D. L.

THE MYSTERIES or THE EMBO BARONETCY. The Times of 25 February contained an advertisement desiring information "as to wills " of the late Sir Home Seton Gordon, Bt., of Embo. On 18 Sept., 1876, the same