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the Burgoyne family of Staffordshire during the Plantagenet era I should be grateful for. I know the publications of the Stafford (William Salt) Historical Society.

CHARLES SWYNNERTON. Meran, Siid-Tirol.

REYNOLDS'S PORTRAITS OF Miss GREVILLE (10 S. vii. 29). The picture of Miss Frances Anne Greville and her brother, children of Fulke Greville, as Hebe and Cupid, is the property of the Earl of Crewe. Its history is fully described in Graves and Cronin's great work on Sir Joshua Reynolds.

W. ROBERTS.

GUEVARA INSCRIPTIONS AT STENIGOT : " POTIE " WARDEN (10 S. vii. 6)." Potie " = deputy. A good deal of information about John Guevara is to be found in vol. ii. of the ' Calendar of Border Papers.'

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ROMNEY'S ANCESTRY (10 S. vii. 9.) There are Kirklands in Mid- Cornwall, East and West Cumberland, West Dumfries, South Fife, Mid - Lancashire, Mid - Westmorland, South-East Wigtonshire, and Mid-Dumfries. See^Sharpe's ' Gazetteer.'

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. By the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval. (T. C. & E. C. Jack.)

CONSPICUOUS progress is made with the important genealogical task undertaken by the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval of supplying a list of those now living in whose veins the blood royal can be traced to Edward III. Three volumes devoted to the task have now appeared. The first (for which see 10 S. i. 19) supplied a roll of the living descendants of Edward ly. and Henry VII. of England and James III. of Scotland; the second (see 10 S. iv. 138), called the Clarence volume, gave the descen- dants of George, Duke of Clarence (" false, fleeting, perjured Clarence"); while the third, which now appears under the title of the Anne of Exeter volume, gives the descendants of Anne Plantagenet, Duchess of Exeter, sister of King Edward IV. and King Richard III., by her second husband, Sir Thomas St. Leger, K.G. From her first husband, Henry (Holland), second Duke of Exeter, whose body was washed up at Dover, she was divorced. The portraits of Anne of Exeter and her second husband, the common ancestors of the 25,052 living (or till very lately living) descendants mentioned in the volume, are given from the monumental brass in the Rutland Chapel, Windsor Castle, by way of frontisjriece.

The pla:i once more observed is that followed in the Clarence volume and in its predecessor the

Tudor volume. Fifty-nine consecutive tables show the descent from Edward III. and Philippa of Hainault to the last century, the descendants of the persons last named being given in the body of the work. The second table begins with the marriages of Lady Anne Plantagenet, Duchess of Exeter. By the second marriage came the Lady Anne St. Leger, who, marrying Sir George Manners, twelfth Lord Ros, became mother of the first Earl of Rutland, the present male representative of whom is the eighth Duke of Rutland. Of his pre- decessor, the seventh Duke, long known as Lord John Manners, an admirable portrait is presented. Another portrait is that of Philip, third Lord De Lisle and Dudley, who (and not the Duke of Rutland) is the heir of line of the Lady Anne Plantagenet, Duchess of Exeter. For the first time since the death of this sister of two English kings, 430 years ago, her blood is united with that of her brother King Edward's royal descendants in the grandchildren of his present Majesty, their High- nesses the Princesses Alexandra and Maud of Great Britain and Ireland, they being descended from Edward IV. through their mother, H.R.H. the Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife, and from Duchess Anne through their father, the Duke of Fife.

The present volume completes, according to the Marquis de Ruvigny, the Roll of the descendants of Richard, Duke of York, whose claim to the throne led to the Wars of the Roses. Sum- marizing the volumes already published, we have a single pedigree containing the names of from twenty to thirty thousand living descendants of Richard,. Duke of York, and showing 128,031 separate lines of descent from him. All the crowned heads of Europe, with the exception of the Kings of Sweden and Servia and the Prince of Montenegro, are in- cluded in the Roll, as well as 371 peers, many of the higher nobility of European countries, and the old aristocracy of the Southern States of America.. To these facts the Marquis points with just pride.. A single volume will deal with the descendants of Isabel Plantagenet, wife of Henry (Bourchier), Count of Eu and Earl of Essex.

In addition to the portraits already mentioned the illustrations include those of Richard Plan- tagenet, third Duke of York ; of Cecily, Duchess of York ; the tomb of Thomas, first Earl of Rutland ; Arthur, first Lord Capell, and his family; Lady Elizabeth Delme, nee Howard ; Mary Bedell, wife of Sir Thomas Leventhorpe ; Sir Edward Chester, of Royston ; Catherine, Countess of Dorchester; the Duke of Fife, K.G. ; H.R.H. the Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife; and T.H. the Princesses. Alexandra and Maud.

The Riot at the Great Gate of Trinity College Feb- ruary, 1610-11. By J. W. Clark, 'M. A., F.S.A. (Cambridge, Deighton & Bell and Macmillan & Bowes; London, Bell & Sons.)

THIS is the latest of the " octavo publications " of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, which does not confine itself to local history, as the list of members and publications we receive at the same time shows. The membership has now reached 301, as compared with 274 last year. It is hoped to increase this total, as " the resources of the society are smaller than its needs, and can be enlarged in the ordinary course of things only by an increase in the member- ship."

There could be no better commendation for the average man of this academic body than the paper