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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. JULY 13, 1907.

c. 1743-9, or at any rate resident there (? parish of St. Ann) before 1770 ?

(Rev.) A. W. STOTE. Wimborne, Dorset.

BARNABY BLACKWELL, BANKER. He married on 23 June, 1747, Miss Gordon of Charterhouse Square. What is known of him beyond the fact that he was a banker in Fleet Street ? Was Miss Gordon any relation of the Rev. Osborne Gordon's family ? J. M. BTJLLOCH.

118, Pall Mall.

MAJOR RODERICK MACKENZIE, 71ST REGI- MENT. Can any reader give me the date of death of this officer ? He was author of one or two books, and served with distinc- tion in India and America. D. M. R.

Louis NAPOLEON : ENGLISH WRITINGS. In a book entitled ' Biographical Sketches of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,' by Henry Wikoff, published at Dublin in 1849, there are printed as an appendix several specimens of what profess to be the writings of Louis Napoleon. These are written in English, and four of them are in verse. The verses are ' Napoleon's Address to the Statue of his Son ' ; ' Eustace de Ribaumont,' a ballad ; ' Stanzas to Ireland ' ; and the introduction to an unpublished poem on Ireland. The prose fragments consist of ' Erina : a Vision ' (said to have been printed in a magazine in 1828) ; ' American Orators ' (extract from a letter) ; ' An American Camp Meeting ' ; and ' County Life in England.' All these, with the ex- ception of the last, are said to have been written in English. Could Louis Napoleon write English in 1828 ? And are the verses printed in this volume really from his pen ? F. H. CHEETHAM.

ENGLISH REGIMENTS IN IRELAND. Was any English regiment stationed at Tipperarv about 1820 to 1830 ? and if so, which ?

BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.

Moorside, Far Headingley, Leeds.

COL. CROMWELL, ROYALIST, 1646. A

little before 14 Feb., 1646, Col. Cromwell at the head of 120 Cavaliers, in an attempt to raise the siege of Corfe Castle, surprised the town of Wareham, Dorset. The Royal- ists were soon beaten out of Wareham by Col. Edward Cooke, and Cromwell, and others taken prisoners. Who was he ? Was he Col. James Cromwell, eldest son of Henry, the future Lord Protector's cousin ?

A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern.

CROSBY HALL. (10S. vii. 481.)

ON 20 June some interesting documents were sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, which future editors of Stow may find it to their interest to examine, as they throw some light on the devolution of the property as recorded in ' A Survey of London.' By the courteous permission of the firm, I am enabled to give an extract from the sale catalogue (lot 562). The documents in- cluded :

" A license in favour of Antonio Bonvix concern- ing Crosbye Place in Bysshoppesgate, a beautifully written document in Latin, in Gothic characters, 27 lines, on vellum with seal in white wax intact, commencing 'EDWARDUS SEXTUS dei gra Anglic Francie et hibernie Rex,' dated June 22 in the 4th year of the king's reign.

"Grant of the old lease of Crosby Place by the Lord Darcy to Benedicte Bonvix, long document in English, dated ' in ye first yere of ye reigne of our lady quene Mary by ye grace of God queue of Eng- land Ff ranee and Ireland.'

"Certificate of Thomas Wytton, relating to Ger- main Cioll, long document with seal, dated in the 1st yere of Q. Mary.

"Assignment of Crosbye Place to Germaine Cioll.

" Assignment from Germane Cioll to hys brother Jho. Cioll of Crosbie Place in ye Paryshe of Saint Helene, Bysshoppsgate, a beautifully written in- denture in Englisn of 43 lines with signatures and seals, dated 'In the thyrd yeare of ye Reigne of our Souvarayne lady Elizabeth.'

" Indenture of sale and bargain of Crosby Place from Germane Ciol to Wm. Bond, document, of 72 lines in English on vellum, dated in the ' nynth yere ' of Elizabeth.

"And another finely written document in refer- ence to John Crosby in Latin, in Gothic characters, of 25 lines, dated in the third year of Elizabeth, on vellum with great seal (equestrian effigy of the Queen with Tudor rose and crown).

"In all neven vellum documents, dating from 1551 to 1567, of great antiquarian interest, relating to the last of London's historic mansions." I understand that the lot was purchased for Wl. by Mr. Goss, who is believed to be connected with the Bishopsgate Institute, and it may be hoped that when the proper time comes the deeds may be thrown open to the inspection of London antiquaries.

The fate of this historic building will be awaited with keen interest by the members of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, for it was in Crosby Hall that the first two general meetings of the Society were held, on 14 Dec., 1855, and 28 Jan., 1856, respectively. It was at the second of these meetings that the interesting paper by the late Rev. Thomas Hugo, which is mentioned by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS, was