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journal contained an advertisement for " any will or other testamentary document " of his father, Sir William Home Gordon. These inquiries seem to be symbols of several mysteries in the history of the house of Embo. One of these is the question, Who was the fourth baronet ? G. E. C. (' Com- plete Baronetage') calls him Sir William Gordon, and says he died in 1760. The Egerton Brydges MS. (6. 1. 7) purchased at the Phillipps Sale by the Advocates' Library also calls him Sir William, but says he died in 1742 clearly mixing him up with his distant kinsman Sir William Gordon, of Invergordon. ' Burke ' also gives him as Sir William, although in some editions of the nineties it gave him as Sir John in which it was correct, as a reference to the invalu- able ' Services of Heirs ' proves :

" Sir John Gordon of Embo, Bart., to his grand- father Sir Robert (Jordon of Kmlo, Hart., who died HiW|<;.K.C. gives the date as IW71, heir

sjtecial in Embo, Hiltonn, or Bellakmeik, Achin- thesaurer, &c. [in Sutherland], Jan. 10, 1721."

None of the pedigrees gives a very clear account of Robert Home Gordon, of Conduit ^Street, London, and Embo, to whom Sir Orford Gordon was served heir of provision general, 14 Dec., 1840. The Brydges MS. says :

" Sir Robert Gordon [of Embo, second baronet] had four sons: (1) .John, his heir; (2) Robert, who married a daughter of Sir (leorge Munro of Cul- cairn, and from him are descended .John and ( Jeorge Ionlon, and from the former is deseended the present Robert Home Gordon, of Conduit Street, London ; (3) James; and (4) William."

Who was this Robert Home Gordon pre- cisely ? A mystery seems to surround his marriage. Susanna Gordon (or Hope) was served heir " to her husband Robert Home Gordon of Embo " (died 19 Nov., 1826) on 10 March, 1828. But The Gentleman's Magazine (vol. xii., N.S., p. 211) records the death of Robert Home Gordon's widow at Knightsbridge, 18 July, 1839, as that of '* Samuel [sic] Harriott." He seems to have been the Robert Gordon, of Shorum House, Kent, co-respondent in a divorce case [in 1794. J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

FLORA MACDONALD. At the exhibition of the Royal House of Stuart held at the New Gallery, Regent Street, in 1889, several .articles which had belonged to Flora Mac- donald were exhibited by Major-General John Macdonald and by Miss Juliet Mac- donald of Inverlair.

I am desirous of knowing the names and addresses of the present representatives of

Flora Macdonald, as I wish to consult, for a literary purpose, the correspondence (if still in existence) which took place in 1750-2 between her, Mr. Jo. Mackenzie, Messrs. Innes & Clerk, Messrs. Fairholme, &c., relative to certain moneys which were raised for her beneh't (see Athenaeum, 8 June, 1844, p. 525). C. MASON.

1*1, Kmperor's (iate, S.W.

SIR JOHN SUCKLING : " PALLAT." Suck- ling, in his Prologue to ' The Goblins,' writes : When Shakespear, Beaumont, Fletcher, rul'd tho

Stage, There scarce were ten good Pallats in the Age.

And again, lower down : The Pallats are grown higher, number increas'd, And there wants that which should make up the Feast.

What are pallats ? T. M. W.

[Is it />tt/(tt<, i.e., tastes?]

SHAKESPEABE AND NICHOLAS BRETON. Has this parallel been noticed ? Nicholas Breton (1545-1626) has in a poem entitled ' An Odd Conceit ' the words :

\Yise and kind and fair and true,

Lovely live all these in you. Shakespeare, Sonnet cv., has :

Fair, kind, and true, have often liv'd alone,

Which three, till now, never kept seat in one. C. R. HAINES.

THE LYTTONS AT KNEBWOBTH. I should feel much obliged for information on the following points :

1. What are the details of the quartering* of the coat over Sir William Lytton's tomb ut Knebworth, in particular the seventh (Rede of Munden, Herts) ?

2. Does the Lytton old home still exist ? and, if so, in whose charge ?

3. Are there any coats of arms on its walls, windows, &c. ?

4. Whence can Knebworth be most con- veniently visited ?

Perhaps some reader of your widely circulated paper can kindly oblige me.

(Major) (J. It. M.\cMuLLEN. frfi, St. Michael's Road, Bedford.

DIPPING WELL IN HYDE PABK. A friend is very anxious to learn something of the history and the subject of a coloured print, in his possession, representing a well in a glade, and parents dipping their children in

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