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Catholic Chapel. Whether Casanova mean that the house of the Venetian resident wa on the opposite side of Sutton Street, o on the opposite side of the square, is no clear.

The Venetian resident, called in R (v 432) Cullato, in G (vi. 355) Zuccato, offended Casanova by his unwillingness to presen him at Court. The resident was at Cour when Casanova was presented to George III and the Queen by M. de Guerchi, the French Ambassador (R, v. 432 ; G, vi. 357). In the ' Notice sur Cazanova ' in G (vol. i. p. x the Frenchman is called M. de Guerchy In the ' Note sur les Ouvrages de Casanova (ibid., p. xiv) the Brussels edition is nol mentioned, but

" la presente edition r^unit toutes les conditions qui nous ont paru devoir la rendre superieure aux pre^dentes, y compris meme celle de Leipsick, en 12 volumes, a laquelle il manque un index ana- lytique."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE CARNWATH PEDIGREE (10 S. viii. 445). MR. D ALTON (to whose labours all students of family and military history owe so much) quotes rather an out-of-date authority in the first edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ' Peerage of Scotland ' ; but as a matter of fact Sir Robert is quite correct in the genealogy he gives, so far as it relates to the parentage of Sir John Dalzell, the father of the 6th Earl of Carnwath. Not only is Sir John stated to be the son of Sir Robert in the Warrant Book quoted by MR. DAI/TON, but he was served heir male and of entail to his father in the lands and barony of Amis- field, 2 Sept., 1686. The whole Carnwath pedigree is very fully given, with references to the authorities for the facts stated, in vol. ii. of ' The Scots Peerage,' a work at present in course of publication under the editorship of the Lyon King-of-Arms.

J. B. P.

The genealogy in Burke's ' Peerage ' would seem to be incorrect, as the baronet of Nova Scotia created on 11 April, 1666, was not the Hon. John Dalzell, second son of Robert, 1st Earl of Carnwath, but " Robert Dalzell of Glenae, co. Dumfries," stated to have been the only son of the said Hon. John Dalzell by his wife, Agnes Nisbet. This Robert was created a baronet on 11 April, 1666, vitd patris, with remainder to the heirs male of his body.

This same Robert Dalzell was returned to'the Convention of the estates of Scotland held at Edinburgh, 2-4 Aug., 1665, as M.P. for Dumfries Sheriffdom or Nithsdale and

the Stewartry of Annandale, under date 25 July, 1665, as "Robert Dalzeel the younger of Glenae " ; and when returned for the same constituency, under date 2 Jan., 1667, to the Convention of Estates held 9-23 Jan., 1667, he is described as " Sir Robert Dalziell of Glenae, the younger." He was returned for the same constituency 28 Sept., 1669, as " Sir Robert Dalzell of Glenae, Knt. " ; again returned, 5 July, 1681, as " Sir Robert Dalzeall of Glenae, Knt., Bart." ; and again, 25 March, 1685, as " Sir Robert Dallyell of Glenae, Knt." He died 2 Sept., 1685, vitd patris, and was succeeded both in his baronetcy and in his seat in Parliament by his eldest son, Sir John Dalzell, 2nd Baronet, who, however, died in March, 1689, while still M.P. for the same constituency, having succeeded to the estate of Glenae upon the death of his grandfather, the aforesaid Hon. John Dalzell, 24 Feb., 1689, a week or two previously. It was the 3rd Baronet, Sir Robert Dalzell (an infant in arms at the period of his father's death in 1689), who succeeded his kinsman in June, 1702, as 6th Earl of Carnwath, and who, in consequence of his participation in the Rebellion of 1715, forfeited all his honours, receiving a pardon as to his life and estates. F. DE H. L.

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, IN EDINBURGH 'ASTLE (10 S. viii. 249, 333). Referring to D. M. R., I have refrained from replying until I had ascertained, as far as I was able, what substantial grounds there existed for >he story, which each of your correspon- dents designated as but a "rumour." At all events, both agreed that such a ' 'rumour " did exist, and was brought to notice by
 * he letters of MR. ELIOT HODGKIN and
 * he press some thirty odd years ago.

In a letter to me, under date 1 November, he Under-Secretary of the Society of Anti- quaries of Scotland states :

"In reply to your inquiry as to the date of the iscovery of the child's bones in a recess of the utside wall of the west front of the royal apart- ments in the Castle of Edinburgh, you will find t recorded as 'in the year 1830' in Wilson's Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time,' ml i. p. 125, ed. 1848, and ed. 1891, p. 165. He dds that the discovery was reported at the time Major-General Thackeray, K.E., so that the eport may be preserved in the archives of the Loyal Engineers of that date. While it is possible bat the place may have been visited and inspected y individual members of this Society, there is no mention of the matter in the minutes of the Society or that year."

Acting on the suggestion, I wrote to the ecretary of the Royal Engineers' Institute