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arms were Argent, two bars sable ; on a canton of the second a cross formee of th< first, charged with an annulet gules. Was Col. Sir Kalph Bingley, who commandec a regiment of foot in Buckingham's dis astrous expedition against the Isle de Rhe in 1627, a member of this family ? Is any thing known with regard to his former or subsequent career ?

I am told that the monument to the memory of the Elizabethan soldier Francis Vere (1554-1609), in Westminster Abbey includes figures of his four esquires, one o whom is said to have been of the name o Bingley. If this is correct, can any one tell me whether this Bingley belonged to the Nottinghamshire family of that name ?

A well-known medical practitioner of the name of Bingley (I do not know whether he was a physician, surgeon, or apothecary was established at East Retford, Notts, about the end of the seventeenth or beginning of the eighteenth century, and he left a numerous family. One of his sons was in business in London, and died about 1785. Can any one give me information regarding this East Retford doctor or his descendants.

A. H. BINGLEY, Lieut.-Col. Simla.

BACON AND BTJNGAY. In The Popish Courant attached to The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome (No. 45, 15 April, 1681) the phrase occurs " Heirs Survivant to Bacon and Bungy." Is there any special significance in this combination of names, always associated in our literature with the dissolved firm of Bacon & Bungay, the publishers described in ' Pendennis ' ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

[The collocation of the names Bacon and Bungay is much older than Thackeray. The allusion in The Popish Courant of 1681 is no doubt to Robert Greene s play ' The Honourable History of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay,' reprinted in Dodsley's 'Old Plays.' The new edition of Thoms's 'Early English Prose Romances,' recently issued by Messrs. Routledge, includes ' The Famous Historic of Fryer Bacon,' one section of which relates 'How Fryer Bacon did helpe a young man to his Sweetheart, which Fryer Bungye would have married to another.']

LATIN LINES ON BTJXTON. Having visited Buxton lately, I found in Glover's Derby- shire ' a statement that the pathetic little couplet,

Buxtona, quse calidse celebrabere nomine lymphse, Forte mmi posthac non adeunda, vale !

was adapted by Mary, Queen of Scots, from Caesar's lines upon Filtria.

I should very much like to know what

those lines were, and where they may be found. Can you oblige me with the refer- ence and the words ?

GEORGE B. HOWARD. Bromlev, Kent.

" THE DOLEFUL EVEN-SONG." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me when the French Ambassador's house at Blackfriars at which this accident occurred in 1623 was demo- lished ? Father Ethelbert Taunton in his ' History of the Jesuits in England ' says :

"In the forecourt of the said French Ambas- sador's house was digged a great pit (eighteen feet long and twelve feet broad), in which were laid forty-four corpses in order piled one upon the

other There was another pit also (twelve feet

long, eight feet broad) made in the said Ambas- sador's garden near adjoining, where fifteen others were interred."

To what burial-ground were these removed when the house was pulled down and the site built over ?

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

MATTHEW DIAMONDBTJLD DEMONT. In the marriage register of Lamberhurst, Kent, under date 1658, there is an entry of an intended marriage between Matthew Dia- mondbuld(?) Demont, of (name torn: the man was probably a foreigner and gun- founder), and Elizabeth Gibbons, of Lamber- hurst. What can the second Christian name be ? Does the name occur in any list of foreigners in England ?

R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate.

HISTORIANS OF THE IRISH REBELLION, 1798. Dealing with another subject (10 S. vii. 233), MR. SIRR remarks that excerpts in the works of Mr. Fitzpatrick (author of ' The Sham Squire ' and ' Secret Service under Pitt ') should be verified, as though questioning accuracy. Mr. Lecky, who is quoted as trustworthy, has paid some tribute to Mr. Fitzpatrick ; and valuable nformation is given in Madden' s ' United Irishmen ' and Maxwell's ' History of the Rebellion of 1798 ' two other works pilloried by MR. SIRR. Did not Mr. Fitz- jatrick bring to light the personality of the jetrayer of Lord Edward Fitzgerald ?

KESTERS.

' MITE," A COIN. In Johnson's diction- ary, and in the ' Encyclopaedic,' this small
 * oin (which is mentioned in Shakespeare's

Pericles ') is said to have been of the value of the third part of a farthing. 'The Century Dictionary,' however, quotes Hill's Arithmetic ' (date 1600), which puts it at mly the sixth of a farthing : "4 mites is