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LANCASHIRE IN 1574 THE " SINCKE OF POPERY." In the ' Acts of the Privy Council ' recently published occurs the above description of Lancashire. It is worthy of a place in ' N. & Q.' for two reasons : because it confirms what has many times been stated, that Popery was prevalent in this county at that time, and for the singular use of the term " sincke of Popery." In Lancashire to-day the sink is always understood to be the drain pipe of the scullery slopstone, down which is poured all the liquid refuse of the kitchen ; and doubtless the writer of the letter to Lord Derby applied the word in a similar social sense. The letter states that Lord Derby's

"respite to make more full certificate is very well liked, in respect that the same tendeth to roote out the bottome of such abuses in that cuntrey [Lan- shire], being the very sincke of Poperie, where nore unlawful! actes have been comitted and more unlawfull persons holden secret then in any other parte of the realme. The Lordes expresse gladnes mat his Lordship doth finde it, therby assuring the jest and spediest rneanes of redresse and amend- nent no lesse to his Lordship's credit then to the good quiet of the cuntrey."

HENRY FISHWICK.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

WREN AND THE MOON. Sir Christopher Wren made a globe of the moon for King Charles II. in 1661 :

" The globe was in solid work, accurately repre- senting the moon's figure from the best tubes

Both the globe itself, and the letter signifying the King's pleasure for making it, are now [1740 ?] in the possession of his son, Christopher Wren, Esquire." Ward's 'Lives of the Professors of Gresham College,' 1740, foot-note to p. 100.

If this globe could be examined now, it might give valuable astronomical infor- mation. Can any of your readers give help in tracing it ? H. H. TURNER,

Savilian Professor of Astronomy.

University Observatory, Oxford.

' DIARY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE TIMES OF GEORGE IV.' I am at present engaged in the preparation of a new edition of this in 1838 by Henry Colburn, was undoubtedly founded on the MS. diary of Lady Charlotte Bury (nee Campbell), but was issued anony,- mously, and, owing to this mystification many of the names are left blank in the
 * Diary.' The work, originally published

original text. I shall be grateful if any one can tell me if a copy of the book exists in which all the names have been filled in by a contemporary. A. FRANCIS STEXTART. 79, Great King Street, Edinburgh.

ANDERSON FAMILY. I am collecting material for a comprehensive ' History of the Anderson Families of England, Ireland, and Scotland,' and I shall highly appreciate copies of pedigrees and other documents that any of your readers may be disposed to send me direct.

JAMES S. ANDERSON, Bt.

112, Empress Avenue, Ilford, Essex.

ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE : SHOT- MARKS. The rector and churchwardens of St. George's, Hanover Square, have noticed upon the lower half of the doors and posts under the portico, now stripped of paint, a number of spots caused by filling-in circular depressions with white material. It has been suggested that these and small holes at the same level in the Portland stone of the portico and pillars are not the result of corrosive or parasitic processes, but shot-marks, e.g., canister shot-marks. Can any reader give information as to such an occurrence as a riot and the firing of canister in George Street, or suggest some other explanation of the marks ? The church was finished in 1724.

WALTER G. SPENCER, One of the Churchwardens.

CATHERINE HAMPDEN HOPPNER, accord- ing to a statement at 4 S. xi. 505, " lies in a village churchyard near Bath." Can any of your readers favour me with the name of the village and the date of his death ?

W. ROBERTS. 47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

MARY FARRAH. I wish to communicate with Mary Farrah, authoress, respecting a short poem entitled ' A Song of Springtime,' written by her, and published in Good Words in April, 1905. I have written to both the past and present proprietors of the above- named periodical, and also to the Society of Authors ; but they are all unable to trace her address. Can some reader of 'N. & Q.' help me to obtain it ?

(Mrs.) OLIVE GOSLING.

Farm School, Redhill, Surrey.

GEORGE III. AND LADY SARAH LENNOX. The communication of your correspondent H., under the head of 'Hannah Lightfoot,' ante, p. 323, contains a piece of information which, lest it be forgotten, should be repeated