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gives a charter of Lanfranc, dated in 1087,* which ends :

" Hujus autem concessionis & restitucionis rogo quod testes sint Herbertus episcopus Suffolchie & Baldewynus abbas sancti Edmiindi, & clerus & populus totus in coniitatibus Suffolchie et Cante- breggie et onines alii Christi fideles ad quorum noticiam futuris temporibus hoc factum perveiiiat. Acta, &c."

" Herbertus " apparently stands for the name of Herfast, Bishop of Thetford ; and I shall be glad to know whether he or other later bishops are elsewhere referred to as " of Suffolk " in authentic instruments.

Q. V.

COTJRVOISIER. I am anxious to know whether this man, who was executed for the murder of Lord William Russell in 1840, had been tried for murder previously ; and the following story, related to me by Laura Cecilia, Countess of Antrim, in 1875, is my reason for wishing to know :

" My father, the fifth Earl of Macclesfield, when residing in London, was made aware of his butler's habit of staying out late at night ; and being determined to put a stop to it, he told the maid who, he discovered, was to let him in that he would take this job on on a certain night, sending her to bed. At an early hour the next morning the butler's return was announced by a signal that Lord Macclesfield had learnt from the maid. The man was cloaked and booted, and covered with mud. Observing some hesitation on the part of the man to go first upstairs, as well as a sinister move- ment on his part to his pocket, his master whipped out a pistol and bade him go up first, got him up, and locked him in."

This man was, said Lady Antrim, Cour- voisier, who was tried for highway robbery and murder committed by him that night on Hounslow Heath.

HAROLD MALET, Col.

IBBOTSON : HYDE. A yeoman farmer of Derbyshire named Samuel Ibbotson married, about the beginning of the nineteenth century. a lady named Anne Hyde, of (I believe) a county family of Derbyshire. Are any particulars to be ascertained of this family of Hyde ? A resident at the Antipodes, I am not in a situation to use a reader's ticket at the British Museum, and must ask the assistance of some kind reader of ' N. & Q.' R. M.

CROMWELL : BETTISS : KINDERLEY. To facilitate identifying three portraits of the Cromwell family, on the same canvas, said to be painted by Jonathan Richardson,

MS. Faustina, B.v.
 * Thorpe professes to copy from the Cottonian

could your readers give any information upon the following subjects ?

1. Cromwell. The place and date of the marriage of Sarah Gatton and Richard Crom- well, son of Major Henry Cromwell, son of Henry, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Also the places and dates of their deaths, and names of their children, with any further particulars.

2. Bettiss. Any particulars of a family of this name. Late in the eighteenth century George Bettiss came from the Eastern Counties to Carnarvonshire as private secretary to the first Lord Newborough. In Carlyle's ' Cromwell ' a Sir John Fetters of Suffolk is named. Could that be meant, in those days of erratic spelling, for Bettiss ?

3. Kinderley. Information of the family history of Nath. Kinderley, the great engineer, who cut the channel of the Dee in 1730-40, and was engaged in draining the Fens in 1750-51. A snuff-box has the following inscription : " Nath. Kinderley, R. LI. G. 1736."

Communications may be sent direct to myself. E. F. W.

1, Paradise Row, Chester.

' IGNES FATTJI,' HXTDIBRASTIC POEM. Can any reader give the name of the author of a poem in Hudibrastic verse ' Ignes- Fatui ; or, False Lights,' printed and pub- lished in 1810 by Rouse, Kirby & Lawrence, Canterbury ? The copy in my possession bearing that date is cap. 8vo, 53 pp., in grey wrapper, price Is. 6d. The writer, in a lengthy preface, describes himself as one who " sought relief from the duties of an anxious and toilsome profession in poetical composition." The book contains only the first canto, and the remainder was to follow if the first part met with public approval. In my opinion, the verse is equal to ' Hudibras,' of which it is an imita- tion. The following passage from the preface may assist in identifying the writer. He refers to himself as situated in a retired village, and, after describing the rustic bower in which he was writing, adds :

" In the fore part of my prospect I have one of the most venerable monastic houses in the king- dom, partly in ruins, and the village church. At a distance I catch a view of the Downs, the Roman ruins of Richborough, and a part of the fine country of East Kent."

This description seems to suggest the neigh- bourhood of Langdon Abbey, between Dover and Sandwich, or Minster in the Isle of Thanet. J. BAVINGTON JONES.

Dover.