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deceased in parts beyond the seas. I shall feel much obliged if any of your readers can inform me who was his wife, and when and where the marriage took place.

WlLLOUGHBY A. LlTTLEDALE.

26, Cranley Gardens, S.W.

HAYMABKET, WESTMINSTER. What was the exact site occupied by this market ? ' have not met with any account of it in descriptions of the city ; but the following occurs in The Grub Street Journal of 28 Nov., 1734 :

"The inhabitants of St. Margaret's, Westmin- ster, have lately obtained a new grant from his majesty, for the keeping of a hay-market in the Broad-way : where there was one formerly, granted by King James II. D.A."

The D.A. means that the paragraph has been taken from The Daily Advertiser.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

WINE FOB THE KING OF SPAIN. The Gordons of Xeres, cadets of the Gordons of Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire, are said by The Sketch (11 March, 1896) to have the privilege of supplying wine to the royal family of Spain " to all eternity." Is this really the case ? J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall, S.W.

M. H. FROST. Is anything known of an artist of this name ? I have a water-colour portrait of a clergyman, painted about 1850, signed as above. CHR. WATSON.

' THE KINGDOM'S INTELLIGENCER,

1660-1663. (10 S. vii. 148, 238.)

I THINK I can answer W. J. C.'s query. A the Restoration there were (as before two weekly issues of a Government " news- book " or " diurnall " one on Mondays the other on Thursdays. The names of these were changed on a new "author" being appointed. This is the only significant that the names (except as after mentioned bear. Up to 1666 all other " newsbooks : were ephemeral rubbish, and can be dis regarded. The Government newsbooks wer (under salaried editors) as follows.

Mondays. From 26 March to 31 Dec 1660, The Parliamentary Intelligencer. Th paper then changed its name, in consequenc of the Convention Parliament ending, an became The Kingdom's Intelliqencer unt 24 Aug., 1663.

Thursdays. Mercurius Publicus from

April, 1660, to 20 Aug., 1663.

Sir Roger L'Estrange then received, by oyal patent of 15 Aug., 1663 (inter alia], tie sole right of producing " all narratives, dvertisements, Mercuries, Intelligences, Di- .rnalls, and other books of public intelli- ence." They then became Mondays, The ntelligencer, first number 31 Aug., 1663 ; ^hursdays, The Newes, first number 3 Sept., 663.

L'Estrange's career as a journalist ended on extremely favourable terms) with the lumber of 29 Jan., 1666. He, however, ublished an (apparently) solitary number in imitation of The Oxford Gazette] entitled The Public Intelligencer, on Tuesday, 28 Nov., 665. In infringement of his patent, The Oxford Gazette was published bi-weekly from Thursday, 14 Nov., 1665, to Monday, Jan., 1666. From this date, coincid- ng with the termination of L'Estrange's ' authorship," this paper became The London Gazette, as it is to our day. A second >i-weekly Government newspaper, Current intelligence, in opposition to the Gazette, appeared on 4 June, 1666, and lasted for twenty-six numbers. Intelligence (the first real private newspaper) succeeded it.

I think my answer already too lengthy, 3ut ma3^ add that I hope to publish shortly an article dealing minutely with all these papers and their " authors " the true story of them has never yet been told. Hugo Arnot's and Chalmers's statements were made probably through confusing the exact titles. The British Museum Cata- logue is correct throughout so far as it goes ; but the word " discontinued " is misleading. J. B. W.

There appears to be some difficulty in fixing the date of the latest issue of The Kingdomes Intelligencer, which started in 1661 (the first issue being for 31 Dec. 6 Jan., 1660/61), and ceased probably about the end of August, 1663.

In connexion with this I may mention the Mercurius Publicus (a paper which succeeded a Mercury published under the same title), which came into existence at this time, No. 1 being for 2 9 Jan., 1660/61. The latest issue of this paper that I have seen is No. 34, 17 24 Aug., 1663.

I suspect that both these papers were discontinued in August, as the Newes ap- peared, No. 1 on Thursday, 3 Sept., 1663, and the Intelligencer, No. 2 on Monday, 7 Sept., 1663. These papers were published alter- nately on Thursday and Monday until the