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the bard and song- writer. My grandfather married his cousin Miss Scudamore Stanhope Morris.

Please reply direct. R. BOLTON.

8, Langham Mansions, Earl's Court, S. W.

SEVENTEENTH - CENTUBY BIOGRAPHY. Can any lover of seventeenth -century bio- graphy inform me whether there is any smal history of English literature which treats of such minor lights as Samuel Boyse, George Psalmanazar, John Oldmixon, John Dennis, &c. ?

Would Nichols's * Literary Anecdotes supply more exhaustive information than Isaac D'Israeli's works and the notes to Pope and Churchill's poems ?

Replies direct would be esteemed a favour.

FREDERICK CHARLES WHITE. .?(>, Arran Street, Roath, Cardiff.

COLERIDGE ON FIREGRATE *FOLK-LORE. I should be much obliged to any one who would tell me what is the popular fancy or superstition connected with the film on the bars of a grate referred to in S. T. Cole ridge's ' Frost at Midnight ' as " that fluttering stranger. 11 M. C. D.

ATKYNS OR ATKINS AND RIGAIL FAMILIES. MR. J. B. WAINE WRIGHT, in his note on Mrs. Charlotte Atkyns, referred at 10 S. ix. 344 to her brother-in-law John Atkyns- Wright of Crowsley Park and his wife, nee Mary Rigail. Now one of my great-grand- fathers, whose name was Atkins, also married a Miss Rigail. I do not remember the Christian names of either of them, but her father was, I believe, called Jacob, and married a Miss Sutherland. One of my mother's cousins was a godson of Mr. Atkyns- Wright. I presume that Mrs. Atkyns - Wright and Mrs. Atkins were sisters ; and perhaps there may have been some relation- ship between the husbands. I should be glad of any light on the subject. F. W. S.

" HoGLER,' 1 CHURCH OFFICIAL. From 1607 to 1620 two Hoglers were appointed at the Easter Vestry meeting, for each of the two divisions the Marsh and the Upland into which this parish was portioned out, their duty being to collect the church-gifts. At the meeting held in April, 1620, they are called "Sidesmen & Hoglers 21 ; and after that time the term ' ' Sidesmen n only is used. A new vicar had been instituted in March, 1620. What are the derivation and meaning of the term " Hogler 2? ?

C. S. TAYLOR. Banwell Vicarage, Somerset.

ANGLO-SPANISH AUTHOR. George Borrow says ('Bible in Spain,' ad an. 1837) :

" His [Mendiza'bal, the famous Spanish Minister of Finance] Secretary, a fine, intellectual-looking man, who, as I was subsequently informed, had acquired a name both in English and Spanish litera- ture, stood at one end of the table." On this Mr. U. R. Burke, the editor of my edition (1907) of the work, observes in a note: " I have been so far unable to discover the name of this gentleman.' 2

Has any one been more fortunate since ? It would, apart from politics, be interesting to learn the name and publications of this bi-linguist at least in our literature.

J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester,

' COLLIER'S WATER 2 : CHARLES PEARSON. Am I correct in attributing this privately printed pamphlet, issued in 1862, to Charles Pearson ? Although the subject is removed from his many projects for City improve- ments, there is considerable similarity in style, and the title-page bears his favourite device of the mace and sword crossed under the swordbearer's cap and the City motto, the whole above a locomotive.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

COL. JOHN PIGOT. I should be glad to know the locality and date of death of Col. John Pigot. In January, 1778, he is de- scribed as of the 59th Regiment. Shortly after (July) he was in the 56th ; and in December of the same year he joined the 80th. Passing through the 85th (the Buck- inghamshire Volunteers), he exchanged in 1795, vice Hawkins, into the 113th Regiment of Foot. He was on full pay until 1798, and in September, 1803, was advanced to the rank of "Colonel in the Army.'* He was on the Army books until 1807, after which date I have lost sight of him.

Information as to his parentage, marriage, and family would be acceptable to

J. H. R,

88, Grange Road, Bradford.

WATERING-PLACE GUIDE, 1803. Can any one throw light on the authorship of the following book ?

" A Guide to all the Watering-Places and Sea- Bathing Places ; with a Description of the Lakes ; a Sketch of a Tour in Wales ; and Itin- eraries. Illustrated with Maps and Views."

[t purports to be by " The Editor of * The Picture of London,' " and was printed for Richard Phillips, 71, St. Paul's Churchyard, t contains almost the earliest reference to vent's Cavern, Torquay.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.