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Aniiesley, George, Viscount Valentia, after- wards 2nd Earl of Mountnorris, F.R.S. ; born 1769 ; succeeded his father Arthur, 1st Earl, in 1816; died 23 July, 1844. (See Burke, ' Peerage,' 1908, s.v. Valentia ; J. J.Halls, ' Lifeof Henry Salt,' 1834, i. 463.) He travelled in the East, and published his ' Voyages and Travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the Years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806,' in 3 vols., 4to, 1809, and 3 vols., 8vo, and atlas 4to, 1811; also in French, 4 vols, 8vo, Paris, 1813.

Gordon, Capt. Robert James, R.N., travelled to Sennar for the African Associa- tion ; died at Welet Medina 27 Sept., 1822. (See 10 S. xii. 29, 138.)

Hoskins, G. A., travelled up the Nile to Meroe 1833, and in Egypt in 1835. Published versus Egypt,' 1836 ; ' Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert,' 1837 ; ' Spain as It Is,' 1851 ; ' Winter in Upper and Lower Egypt,' 1863.
 * Travels in Ethiopia', 1835 ; ' Ethiopia

I shall be glad to receive additional in- formation about any of the above.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS. 39, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W.

GENERAL EYRE. I should be glad if some of your readers would kindly, for purposes historical, put me in communication with representatives of General and Mrs. Eyre, the great friends of Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde. They were living at Chatham in DAVID Ross McCoRD, K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

W. BILLYNG'S ' FIVE WOUNDS or CHRIST ': LOMBERDALE HOUSE. In 1814 Billyng's poem was printed by W. Bateman of Darby, near Matlock, ' ' from a finely written and illuminated parchment roll .... about 2f yards in length," dated 1400-1430. At

S. iii. 229, the original parchment roll was stated by the late LLEWELLYNN JEWITT, F.S.A., to be at Lomberdale House. Can any reader of N. & Q. tell me where Lomber- dale House is, or give any further informa- tion concerning William Billyng's manu- script ? " (Miss) H. M. R. MURRAY.

Oxiord.

M. D'HERWART AT BERNE IN 1750. I find in an interesting old chronicle relating to the little town of Vevey, on Lake Leman, a notice of a " Monsieur d'Herwart, 1' Ambassador- Em tannique a Berne." Who was this official ? Is the name Herbert here mis- spelt ? Of course there never was a British

Ambassador to Switzerland. The represen- tatives of the Powers have always been Ministers, with the exception of that of France. Louis XIV., in view, presumably, of the valuable contingent of Swiss officers and soldiers supplied by the little republic, raised the status of the French representa- tive at Berne to that of Ambassador, and so it has remained ever since ; but the town knows no other foreign dignitary of this rank. I may mention that informa- tion regarding M. Herwart is not available at the Chancery of the British Legation at Berne, as the records, when forty years old, are sent to the Rolls Office in London.

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC. Sch o ssRothberg, Rougemont, Switzerland.

G. CHALMERS'S ' SCOTICAN^ ECCLESIJE INFANTIA.' There was sold at Sotheby's on 2 Dec., 1879 (Sale Catalogue of David Laing's Library, Part I., No. 607) :

" Camerarii vel Chalmers (G.), Scoticanse Ecclesiae Infantia, virilis ^tas, Senectus ; auto-

gr-aph of ' Liber Patricii Camerarii,' ' Sir J. J. halmers,' with Latin verses on Aberdeen citizens, and ' D. Laing ' ; calf extra, g.e., extremely rare, unknown to Lowndes, Paris, 1643."

I cannot trace this work in any library catalogue ; nor do I even know whether the author is the George Chalmers of my query, ante, p. 226, or the " Gulielmus Camerarius, Scotus," of the following query.

Information is desired.

P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

WILLIAM CHALMERS'S ' DISPUTATIONES THEOLOGIC^E.' I have lying before me a small octavo of pp. [xii.] -f 165 + [11], with the title :

" Gulielmi | Camerarii, | Scoti, Fintrsei, | Sacrae Theplogise | Doctoris, | et Professoris emeriti, &c. Disputationibus Roberti Baronis, Ministri et Professoris | Neabredonensis, de iisdem materiis. | Parisiis, | Apud Dionysium Houssaye, via Car- melitana. | M.DC.xxxix. | Cum approbatione."
 * Disputationes Theologicae | .... | Opposite |

Who was this William Chalmers, native of Fintray in Aberdeenshire ? Whence did he get his degree of Doctor, and where was he professor ? The work described is in neither the British Museum nor the Biblio- theque Nationale. P. J. ANDERSON.

CONDE, MUSICIAN TO MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Can any one give me a record of a Conde in Scotland ? Servais de Conde was one of Mary's Court Musicians at Holy- rood. He was later her Steward, and was apparently Darnley's Master of the Ward- robe.