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she of Gang Lane, Greenwich, and was previously Anne Hawkins, widow. Sh( left no children of her own, but mention,' Sybilla Soper and Sarah Parry, children of her late husband John Parry."

For several years I have sought facts bear ing on the ancestry and descendants of the said Sybilla and Sarah Parry. The above item makes a new starting-point.

Mr. Arthur E. Garnier of St. Leonards-on- Sea is interested in both the Parry and Soper families, not as connected directly with each other, but rather as connected each with that of Garnier.

Notes on the Parry and allied families will appear in The Magazine of History (New York) during the current year, and will probably be reprinted. Any additional facts will be much appreciated by the writer. EUGENE F. McPiKE.

1, Park Row, Chicago.

" FAIRER Y." This word is not in ' H.E.D.* but I find it in an advertisement in The General Advertizer of 23 Jan., 1750, the announcement being that George Woodfall had published ' ' A New System of Fairery ; or, a Collection of Fairy Tales, entirely New ; in Two Volumes. Translated from the French. Containing many useful Lessons and moral Sentiments."

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

" BRUCK." This word in the Orkney dialect is interesting and important because it is often selected by Orcadians to flourish (if I may say so) in the face of ' ' ferryloupers," and to show them how superior the Orkney dialect is to both Scotch and English. It means debris, rubbish, useless stuff, both in a material and a moral sense. To me, however, its Scottish brother has been long known, though the meaning of the latter is not so wide. "Broke"- or " broak " in Scotch means broken scraps of food, pig's meat, refuse of the kitchen. Both ' ' bruck " and "broke"- are evidently derivatives of 'break." ALEX. B.TJSSELL.

Btromness, Orkney.

GOLDSMITH ON COAL-MINES IN CORNWALL. In turning over my copy of the Globe edition of Goldsmith, I find I had marked a curious passage in 'The Vicar of Wake- field* (p. 41) in which the author refers to "all the coal-mines of Cornwall." Gold- smith evidently meant " tin-mines, " for there are, I believe, no coal mines in Corn- " wal l- W. BOBERTS.

(grants.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. I am preparing a critical biography of Thomas Love Pea- cock, the English novelist, to be completed, I hope, during the present year. Any infor- mation which readers of ' N. & Q.* can furnish me in regard to Peacock or his writings will be very gratefully received.

CARL VAN DOREN. Hartley Hall, Columbia University, New York City.

[We presume that our correspondent has con- sulted the numerous notes on Peacock recently contributed to our columns by DR. A. B. YOUNG.]

LIEUT. WILLOUGHBY : CAPT. MORRIS : LADY EDWARDES. Could some of your readers kindly, for purposes historic, put me into communication with the family or representatives of any of the following ?

1. Lieut. Willoughby of the Artillery, who blew up the magazine at Delhi, and died of his injuries at Meerut.

2. Capt. Morris, who commanded the 17th Lancers at the charge of the Light Brigade, and died in India during the Mutiny.

3. Lady Edwardes, widow of Sir Herbert Edwardes. DAVID Boss McCoRD, K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

"THE CHOSEN FEW," BUTTON INSCRIP- TION. I have in my possession a small copper button, three quarters of an inch across, and about a sixteenth of an inch thick, around the upper half of which the words "The Chosen," and the lower half me inform me for what purpose the buttons vere made, or by whom they were intended
 * he word "Few," are inscribed. Can any
 * o be worn ?

This button was given to me by my nother, who said that when she was a child, n either Drogheda or Athlone, in Ireland, a ew of them were distributed amongst her ntimate companions as tokens. That would >e close on eighty years ago. I believe that he late Vice-Chancellor Tisdall of Dublin Jniversity, and her brother the late John Shea, collector of Excise for Canterbury and Vlaidstone, received each a button ; but I do not remember the names of others.

E. McC. S. HILL. Wingham, Manning River, New South Wales.