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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1907.

CONTENTS. No. 202.

NOTES: The Perreau Brothers and Mrs. Rudd, 361 Inscriptions at Naples, 362 Puttick & Simpson, 363 (.'apt. Cook's House at Mile End The Skittle Alley in ( >range Street Cost of a Peerage in 1628, 364 Tyburn : Proposed Removal in 1719 Juvisy : its Etymology - "Barnard's Inn" Tavern, 365 'The Pedigree Register' ' Book -Prices Current' Index " Chase," 366 Taxi- meter Cab, 367.

QUERIES : John Heywpod's Death " All the trees of the forest" Law Family, 367 College Heraldique de France "Tenne": "Sanguine": " Erminites " Cove- sea Caves Wieland's ' Agathon 'Conservative Club Purim Token : Cabbage Society ' Jack Trim, the lawyer's Man,' 363 Earliest British Music Publisher Mediaeval Games of Children French and English

Penny W. Dockwra Shakespeare Allusions, 370.

REPLIES : The Sword of Bruce, 370 St. George's Chapel Yard " Pot- waller "" Dry," as applied to Spirituous Liquors' Lincolnshire Family's Chequered History ' St. Oswald Exeter Hall, 371 S, Long and Short "Jag" "Down in the shires" "Umbre oton," 372 Tooke and Halley Families Napoleon's Carriage ' ' Morellianism." 373 Authors Wanted" Diabolo " Rotherhithe, 374 Cromwell and Milton, 375 "The Common Hangman" "Maru" Crosby Hall "As deep ns Garrick," 376 Chrisom, Baptismal Robe Sir Thomas Warner's Tombstone Jamaica Records Latta Surname, 377.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Sir Rowland Hill : the Story of a Great Reform 'Reviews and Magazines.

THE PERREAU BROTHERS AND MRS. RUDD.

Do the majority of authors, whose works have not attained the dignity of a second edition, appreciate sufficiently the con- venience of these pages as a means of cor- recting false impressions and slips of the pen ? In a book dealing with famous criminals, published two or three years ago, I stated incorrectly that Robert and Daniel Perreau, forgers, executed at Tyburn on 17 Jan., 1776, were buried at St. Martin's Church, Ludgate. As these unfortunate brothers resided in the neighbouring parish of St. James, their burial-place more naturally was St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, where they were interred in a vault on Sunday, 21 Jan., 1776. The church register describes their death as " sudden " ; says they were forty- two years of age (they were twins) ; and states that the burial fees were 61. 14s. Sd. for Robert, and 61. Is. 2d. in the case of Daniel. The former, however, had " prayers, candles, Great Bell, and six men." A long description of the funeral of these celebrated malefactors will be found in The Public Advertiser, 23 Jan., 1776.

It^would appear also that I was wrong in

my assumption that the notorious Mrs. Rudd, the mistress of Daniel Perreau, died in 1779. In The Morning Post, 29 Nov., 1786, the following paragraph occurs :

" The celebrated Mrs. Rudd, who has been so often killed by the newspapers, was on Monday night at Co vent Garden theatre."

Nor is this the only reference to the lady. In The Monthly Magazine, Ixxx. 83, Janu- ary, 1789, there is a notice of a pamphlet called " Mrs. Stewart's Case, written by herself, and respectfully submitted to the enlightened part of the public, including her letters to Lord Rawdon," 4to, Is. 6d., Kerby. In this the reviewer remarks :

"We have observed a letter in The Morniny Post of Jan. 9, 1789, signed Justice, and addressed to Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd, alias Stewart. Now if our spirited authoress be really the celebrated Mrs. Rudd," &c.

A criticism in The Gentleman's Magazine, February, 1789, pt. i. pp. 156-7, is more explicit, declaring that the tract is

" Mrs. Rudd, new revived, as a publican wrote upon his sign, the King's Head, and claiming a peerage which the Scotch heralds are ready to cut and dry for anybody, and whereby the noble Lord here men- tioned has for a while been duped."

In the same month The Monthly Magazine, Ixxx. 172, in reviewing a second pamphlet, entitled ' A Postscript to Mrs. Stewart's Case,' 4to, 6d., attributed it to the same authoress :

" Mrs. Stewart, alias Rudd, continues her spirited

invective against Lord Rawdon She also takes

notice of certain newspaper paragraphs that have appeared against her."

Those familiar with the numerous tracts written about the Perreau forgeries will remember that Stewart was one of the names which Mrs. Rudd adopted as an alias, and that she claimed to be a descendant of the Earls of Galloway.

The Gentleman's Magazine on p. 188, pt. i., 1800, announces the death of Mrs. Rudd at Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, on 3 Feb- ruary ; and on p. 483 of the same volume it is stated :

" Mrs. Rudd was the person who had so narrow an escape for her life on her trial for the forgery

for which the two Perreaus were hanged For

some years she gained a competent living by writing for the Reviews."

However, according to the parish registers of Hardingstone, the lady who died on this date was Mrs. William Rudd ; but the name of Margaret Caroline's husband was Valen- tine. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' inform us when and where this clever, beautiful, and wicked woman drew her last breath ?

--HORACE BLEACKLEY.