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pool granted, and to whom ? Where ca the fullest account be found of his parentage

J. R E.

MANSFIELD GOOSE SERB Y-TABT FAIR. " Did you ever hear tell of Mansfield Goose berry-Tart Fair ? " asks Mrs. W. " Th gooseberry tarts were pies like pork pies not made in a dish, and they were goo when I was a girl."

Are these raised pies still made at Mans field ? If so, is there any peculiarity abou the preparation of the pastry ? and is ther any special day on which the pies should b eaten ? G. W.

" PAWS OFF, POMPEY." Can any on give me an explanation of the words " Paw- off, Pompey " ? I have heard it said t< children when they put their arms on the table. CHB. WATSON.

SIB JOHN CLABIDGE'S PORTRAIT. Wanted information respecting a portrait of Sir John Claridge (Canton, and 10, Nortl Crescent, Bedford Square), painted by Greorge Chinnery, R.H.A., and exhibited in the Royal Academy, Burlington House 1831. CELT.

ROCHER DE GAYETTE. The other daj I picked up a little etching, apparently of the seventeenth or eighteenth century, depicting a curious cliff on a seacoast, anc inscribed : " Rocher de Gayette lequel se fendit en deux lors de la passion de Notre Seigneur." In the cleft of the rock appears a small domed building, which, according to a scroll in the sky above, is the " Chapelle de la Trinite."

I should be glad to know where the " Rocher de Gayette " is, and if there is any more detailed tradition as to its breaking apart. I cannot find the place in any gazetteer I have been able to consult. Lieut.-Col. C. FIELD, R.M. Chatham.

SIB WILLIAM HAMOND, KT. Does any portrait, print, or drawing exist of Sir William Hamond, of Carshalton, Levant merchant. Director of the South Sea Com- pany, knighted 1717, and ancestor of the Hamonds of Pampisford Hall, co. Cam- bridge, and Haling Park, Surrey. He was buried in Carshalton Parish Church in 1741.

GEORGE BROUNCKER HAMOND. 33, South Eaton Place, S.W.

FLINT AND STEEL. It will be useful and obliging if some one who is old enough to remember the days of the family tinder-box.

with its indispensable flint and steel, will state whether in any, and what, part of the country persons striking a light held the flint in the left hand and hit it with the steel. I mean, of course, the ordinary domestic practice. In my experience, during the " hungry forties," it was the steel, held firmly by its handle, that occupied the left hand, while the right hand, holding the flint, struck the forceful sliding blows that sent the shower of sparks into the tinder-box. In other words, it was the flint that (as also in the firearms of that time) was always the moving body. In the ' Encyclopedic Dictionary,' s.v. ' Steel,' is a quotation from Knox's ' Essays ' which confirms my ex- perience, as follows :

"The steel must be struck in a proper manner and with proper materials before the latent spark can be elicited."

Yet I am told that in a book on ' Bygone England,' by Mr. W. Andrews, it is stated that the steel was the moving body, and the flint received the impact.

RICHD. WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

VIRGINIA AND THE EASTERN COUNTIES. I am anxious to learn whether there was any emigration to Virginia from the Eastern

ounties in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. So many place-names as well as surnames in Virginia are identical with


 * hose in the East Anglia of that time that

one would suppose there must have been a certain amount of emigration from Nor- ^olk, Suffolk, &c., to " the Old Dominion," as Virginia loved to be called. The import-

iit city of Norfolk on the coast, now a naval lepot of the U.S.A., probably owes its name

o some settler from the county of the same

name in the Mother Country, as also, no

doubt, does the county of Suffolk, Virginia.

I have come across surnames in the eastern

art of the State quite peculiar to the

lastern Counties, especially Norfolk and Suffolk, which leads me to think that at east some of the early settlers in Virginia

ame from East Anglia. I should much like to have some corroborative evidence in avour of this suggestion.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

BUNYAN AND MlLTON GENEALOGIES.

I shall be glad to learn what connexion any) may be presumed to have existed etween the author of ' The Pilgrim's ^rogress ' and the under-mentioned :

John, son of John Bunnion," baptized t St. Anne's, Aldersgate, 25 Aug., 1650. unyan had an only son, and namesake,