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RUSSIAN PAINTING. I have an oil paint- ing of a scene in a Russian town, with " J. R. M., 1849," attached.

Can any of your correspondents tell me the name of the artist ?

J. GARRETT HOBDER.

TYRRELL FAMILY. Where can I get information as to the ancestry and con- nexions of Capt. Garrett Tyrrell, killed at the breach of Cavan in 1690, and Rear- Admiral Richard Tyrrell, whose monument is in Westminster Abbey ? They may have some connexion with Ballyburley House, King's County.

(Mrs.) B. DE Z. HALL.

11, Dingle Mount, Liverpool.

FIRST ENGLISH JESUIT. The late Father Taunton says in his ' History of the Jesuits in England ' (1901), p. 26 :'

" William Good, a Somersetshire man, had been one of the altar boys at Glastonbury before the dissolution of that house. He was, we think, the first Englishman to become a Jesuit."

Is this a fact ? and if so, to what branch of the Good family did he belong ?

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

JOHN COTTON OF BOSTON. In 1656, four years after the death of the famous John Cotton of Boston, a pamphlet was pub- lished entitled ' A Censure of .... Mr. John Cotton, lately of New England, upon the Way of Mr. Henden of Bennenden in Kent.' In it Henden's idea of toleration was attacked, Cotton being willing to tolerate unessential differences of opinion only. It was, perhaps, a reply to Simon Henden's work published in 1652, ' The Key of Scripture Prophecies ; or, a Glass of some New Discoveries : being an Answer to a Book published by Mr. John Elmeston.' A work which would throw further light on the subject, ' An Essay for the Discovery and Discouraging of the New Sprung Schism raised and main- tained by Mr. Simon Henden of Bennenden in Kent,' 4to, 1652, I have not been able to consult. George Hammon, pastor of the Baptist Church at Biddenden ; Hezekiah Holland, a clergyman of Sutton Valence ; and Matthias Rutton, minister of Boughton Monchelsey, were also involved in con- troversy with S. Henden. I can find no reference to the affair in the lives of Cotton, and should be glad to know how it was that he thought it worth while to trouble about a small sect in a remote part of Kent.

GEO. W. WRIGLEY.

68, Southborough Road, South Hackney.

THE IRISH PARLIAMENT. Is there any good history of the Irish Parliament from its institution down to the Union with Great Britain ? KOM OMBO.

SECRET LANGUAGES. I am anxious to learn where I can obtain particulars of the "A. P." or any other secret language, and shall be obliged for references.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

LATTA SURNAME. I am desirous of ascer- taining the origin of the surname Latta. Possibly some of your valued correspond- ents can supply the information.

MERCURIUS.

MEYERBEER SCHOLARSHIP. Where can one find a list of the winners of the Meyer- beer Scholarship for Music, awarded every third year ? L. A. KLEMANTASKI.

" SUCK-BOTTLE " : " FEEDING - BOTTLE." Richard Baxter in his autobiography, under the date 1643, speaks metaphorically of " a suck-bottle " in relation to theological babes. When did the infant's feeding- bottle come into use in this country ?

STANLEY B. ATKINSON.

10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C.

[The first instance of "feeding-bottle" in the 'N.E.D.'isl858.]

REV. JOHN GORDON AND THE ' NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT or SCOTLAND.' In Sir William Eraser's ' Book of Sutherland ' (i. xxvii) reference is made to the Rev. John Gordon as having edited the ' New Statistical Account of Scotland.' Who was he ? Perhaps the greatest living authority on the personnel of the Scots Kirk tells me he can throw no light on the statement.

J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

COL. HUTCHINSON AND SANDOWN CASTLE,

KENT. The Illustrated London News, 22 Jan., 1853, has a view of Sandown Castle, and on the preceding page an account of the castle and its connexion with Col. Hutchinson, who had been removed from the Tower of London (whither he had been committed on suspicion of treasonable practices) to Sandown, where he died 11 Sept., 1664. The article states that

" at Sandown they show a sedan, in which he was brought into the fortress ; the chair in which he customarily sat is also preserved here ; and a por- trait of the staunch Parliamentarian hangs in one of the apartments of the castle."

The castle has virtually been swallowed up by the sea ; but what has become of the above interesting relics ?

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.