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portraits of her and of the Duchess of Port- land, her eldest sister, which was in Canning's possession. Where is this picture now ? Has it ever been engraved ?

The Print Room of the British Museum has been searched, and I have made inquiries in various quarters, without being able to get the information I want.

HARRY B. POLAND.

CLERGY IN WIGS. The passing of old types of wearing apparel, like many other things, is interesting and worth noting, therefore I propose the query, When were wigs discontinued in the pulpit in the United Kingdom ? T can locate one clergyman who wore a wig in the pulpit as late as 1828 about the time, perhaps, when Dickens was getting up his ' Pickwick,' and not many years before Sam Weller immor- talized the current expression, " Dash my wig ! "

My grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Han- cock, vicar of St. Florence (Pembroke), I presume would be one of the latest to wear a wig in the pulpit. His son, Prebendary Thomas Hancock, Oxon (St. David's Cathe- dral), I know abandoned this headgear, and I well remember, when quite a youngster, in the above year, putting my grandfather's best wig on my head, for which act I suffered at the time a sharp reprimand. His Sunday wig was slightly different from the one he wore on weekdays, and closely resembled that worn at the present day by barristers, without the queue. Both were made of grey horsehair, but the wig for the Sunday service and other church occasions had three rows of curls, instead of two, and without a break in their length. Is there any authentic record of the clergy in England and Wales wearing wigs later than the date given ? And I should like to know if the wig was in favour at any time with any of the Scotch divines. I have failed to meet with an instance of the latter case.

THOS. W. HANCOCK.

[Much on episcopal wigs will be found at 6 S. iv. 427, 493, 546; v. 36, 173, 296; ix. 434; 8 S. xi. 104; 174, 251, 270, 374.]

FRENCH REFUGEE BISHOPS IN BRITISH TERRITORY. At p. 87, ante, I gave a list which I now wish to supplement.

24. Urbain de Herce, Bishop of Dol, was in London in 1793, but returned to Brittany, and, having been captured at Quiberon, was shot at Vannes, with his brother and sixteen other priests, 30 July, 1795.

25. Francois Gaspard de Jouffroy ( Goussons), Bishop of Le Mars, is mentioned

n the ' Biographie Universelle,' which does not say that he was ever in England. Else- where, however, he is said to have died in London in 1796. Where was he buried ?

26. Louis Mathias de Barral, Bishop of Troyes, also has a notice in the * Biographie Universelle.' He was in England from 1793 to 1802, and in the latter year resigned his see in accordance with the Concordat. He afterwards became Archbishop of Tours, and died 6 June, 1816.

27. Alexandre Amedee Adon Anne Louis Joseph de Lauzieres de Themines, Bishop of Blois, of whom also the ' Biographie Uni- verselle ' gives an account, came to London from Spain in 1802, and stayed in London for twenty-seven years. The last survivor of those bishops who refused to agree to the Concordat, he died at Brussels, 3 Nov., 1829.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

MRS. MARSH, AUTHORESS OF ' THE VALLEY OF A HUNDRED FIRES.' What is the full name of the above Mrs. Marsh ? According to Halkett and Laing's ' Dictionary ' she wrote ' The Pemberton Family,' ' The Queen of the County,' 'Margaret and her Brides- maids,' ' Woman's Devotion,' &c. The ' Dictionary ' gives references to eleven books written by her, but gives no Christian name. Anne and Catherine Marsh have their separate places in the index. To the books attributed to her as above should be added ' His Portmanteau ' and ' His Hat Box ' (one story in two parts) in ' Some- body's Luggage,' the Christmas number of All the Year Bound, 1862. In 'The Nine Christmas Numbers of " All the Year Round," ' republished in one volume about 1869, is a " Contents " page, in which the authors of all the stories are named excepting the above, which is attributed to " The Authoress of 'The Valley of a Hundred Fires.' '

As Messrs. Chapman & Hall have recently republished the Christmas numbers of Household Words with the names of the authors given for the first time names which have been hidden away in the old office book of Household Words it is pro- bable that they could identify Mrs. Marsh. Her date, according to Halkett and Laing, was 1856-76. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[The new edition of the London Library Cata- logue attributes ' The Valley of a Hundred Fires, 'The Pemberton Family,' 'The Queen of the County,' and 'Margaret and her Bridesmaids' to Mrs. Anne Marsh, the author of ' Father Darcy,' ' Emilia Wyndham,' and ' Two Old Men's Tales.' But 'The Valley of a Hundred Fires,' when re- viewed in The Athenaeum of 10 Nov., 1860, was