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The other two tablets are of less interest. A small tablet just above Peregrine's is to the memory of his brother John, who was sometime Gentleman Usher to Prince George of Denmark, and died 2 Nov., 1723. The sixth, above the south door, commemorates Edward, the youngest son, who died when only twenty-seven years of age. He, too, is said to have shown great promise.

MR. BRESLAR will find much of interest inside Chelsea Old Church as well as outside. ALAN STEWART.

Full copies of the Chamberlayne inscrip- tions on the outer walls of Chelsea Church will be found in ' Chelsea Old Church/ by Mr. Randall Davies, F.S.A. (1904), pp. 256-63. They are eight in number : to Dr. Edward Chamberlayne, 1616-1703 ; Susanna Cham- berlayne, ob. 1703 ; Peregrine Clifford Chamberlayne, 1660-91 ; Edward Chamber- layne, 1660-97 ; Anne Spragge (nee Cham- berlayne), 1667-92, " fought in man's attire in a fireship, 30 June, 1690 ? ' ; John Chamberlayne, F.R.S., ob. 1723 ; Elizabeth Tyndale, 06. 1821, "a descendant of the family of Chamberlaynes " ; and Anne Catherine Phelps, ob. 1849, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Tyndale. GEORGE SHERWOOD.

MR BRESLAR appears to allude to Chelsea Old Church, outside which, on the left side of the great western window, is a large mural slab bearing a long epitaph on Dr. Edward Chamberlayne, author of * The Present State of England, 1 by his friend Walter Harris. This Latin epitaph, which will be found in extenso, with a translation in Faulkner's ' Chelsea,' 1829, vol. i. pp. 242- 243, states that, with a view to benefiting posterity, Chamberlayne had had some books of his (the list is also given by Faulk- ner, p. 243) enclosed in wax and buried with him ; " but as these were not forthcoming when the tomb yielded to the injuries of time (having probably already been rifled), the present state of England," says Mr. Blunt in his Handbook of Chelsea, 4 " re- mains unbenofited in this respect."

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

MR. BRESLAR will find an interesting account of this famous historic church, and of its monuments, inside and outside, from that of Sir Thomas More to that of Miss Mary Astell, an eighteenth-century Suffrag- ette (!), in a pamphlet entitled A Short Account of Chelsea Old Church,* published by Ernest Holland, 207, King's Road, Chel- sea, price fourpence. I. M. L. [Mu. \V. R. B. PRIDEAUX also thanked for reply.]

LANDOR ANECDOTES (11 S. i. 128). Landor, it may safely be affirmed, never published the collection of anecdotes about English diplomatists referred to in his letter to Walter Birch (Fortnightly Review, February) ; but some of the stories may have found their way into the imaginary conversations. Here there are two or three about Mr. Dawkins, denounced in the same letter as the most consummate scoundrel in Europe. An explanation of Landor's animosity against this gentleman may be gathered from what Forster says in his bio- graphy of Landor, vol. ii. p. 91, first edition. The unnamed adventurer mentioned in the first edition (1824) of the 'Imaginary Con- versations,* vol. i. p. 307, must be identified with Mr. Dawkins, in spite of an anachronism. In the second (1826) edition, vol. i. p. 290, he is called "the Sieur Dorcas," and the story of his attentions to an Italian lady is added. In the 1846 edition some portions of the narrative are discarded, and the re- mainder is transferred to another conversa- tion (vol. i. p. 325). In Forster's final edition (1876, vi. 208) "the Sieur Dorcas "' becomes "the Sieur Dorkins.'* Mr. Molloy in his ' Gorgeous Lady Blessingtoii ' prints a letter in which Landor describes Mr. Dawkins in the most contemptuous terms. Had he ever published his collection of anecdotes, Lord Cowper and the Hon. W. F. Wyndham would no doubt have figured in it. That he had a mind to tell some stories about them may be seen on reference to his ' Works,' 1876, vi. 225, and to his ' High and Low Life in Italy/ in The Monthly Repository, 1838, p. 247. STEPHEN WHEELER.

Oriental Club, Hanover Square.

SIR HENRY AUDLEY (US. i. 87). Audley, I presume, is a misprint for Dudley. The 'D.N.B/ (xvi. Ill) gives Northumberland by Jane Guildford five sons and two daughters. The eldest son John, Lord Lisle and Earl of Warwick, married Anne Seymour, daughter of the Duke of Somerset ; was, like all his brothers, implicated in his father's plot in favour of Lady Jane Grey ; was condemned to death ; pardoned ; but died, without issue, in 1554, ten days after his release from the Tower. For his younger brother, Lord Henry Dudley, who fell at St. Quentin, see ' D.N.B., 1 Supplement, ii. 160.

For Sir Henry Dudley (d. 1565 ?) see 'D.N.B.,' Supplement, ii. 159. He was son of John Sutton de Dudley, sixth Baron Dudley ; and in 1556 devised a plot to rob the Exchequer, marry Princess Elizabeth to