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whose two brothers, of four children, also died without issue, 1761-72 (the last being the husband of Cowper's friend), and the manor house was sold for a girls' boarding- school. The sister of the last three had but one child living to maturity, a daughter, who had but two children. I do not know the fortunes of the two sisters of the elder branch ; but the male line of both had been utterly wiped out in one generation, by the deaths childless of six brothers of two well-separated lines, five at least coming to maturity and successively inheriting the title. This curious and sudden failure of vitality in the male and at least part of the female strain was not due to environment, for the two branches lived a good distance apart ; and it can hardly have been the result of war or accident. I do not know whether all the males married ; but if not, the argument does not lose much of its force.

FORREST MORGAN. Hartford, Conn.

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.

" TALLY." Will any one who can explain tally as formerly used in certain card games, like faro and basset, send an explanation to me at Oxford.

I wish also to learn about French tailler, taille, similarly used. J. A. H. MURRAY.

VERDANT GREEN IN 1744. In reading a letter of the date 1744 I came across the name Verdant Green as a familiar allusion. Can anybody help me to discover who or what this prototype of Cuthbert Bede's famous character was ? JOHN MURRAY.

50, Albemarle Street, W.

WARLY LETTERS. On 4 Jan., 1870, a sale was held at Canterbury of the contents of what was known as the Church House, formerly belonging to the families of Oxenden and Warly. Although there is no express mention of any private letters amongst the lots, there may have been some. I am anxious to trace any letters of John and Mary Warly and Lee Warly their son (1700-1800), and shall be much obliged if any of your readers who possess such letters will com- municate with me. HENRY R. PLOMER. 44, Crownhill Road, Willesden, N.W.

" STANDING FOR PARLIAMENT. 1 ' What is the earliest use of the phrase " to stand for Parliament " ? I find it in a letter of 20 Feb., 1678/9, mentioning a " Mr. Finch, who stands to be parliament man for this University [Oxford] " ; and again in one of 8 Feb., 1685/6 written by the recipient of the other advising a friend to " stand for the county " (Historical Manuscripts Com- mission, * Report on the MSS. of the Earl of Egmont,' vol. ii. pp. 79, 179).

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

MASTER STEPHEN AND HIS HAWK. Can any one who is versed in the works of old dramatists tell me what play is referred to by Beckford in Letter II. of ' Thoughts on Hunting * (1781) when he says " like Master Stephen in the play, first buy a hawk, and then hunt after a book to keep it by n ?

E. D. C.

SIR HENRY AUDLEY. Will some reader kindly inform me whether Sir Henry Audley, elder son of John, Earl of Warwick, after- wards Duke of Northumberland, was exe- cuted for high treason ? If so, was it for complicity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's plot or on some other charge ? John, Earl of Warwick, had thirteen children, of whom two were named Henry and two Katherine. The younger Henry was killed at the siege of St. Quentin. EGERTON GARDINER.

MOHACS : THE BATTLE. Where can I find the best account of Eastern Europe at the time of the battle of Mohacs and im- mediately after, when the greater part of Hungary became a province of the Ottoman empire ? I have been reading a drama in the Croatian language called ' Frankopan,' by Mirko Bogovic, and should like to see how the facts appear in the more sober light of history. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

THE COLUMBINE IN THE SIXTEENTH CEN- TURY. What was the significance of the columbine flower in Great Britain in the sixteenth century, and what families in England or Scotland used it as a device or badge ? MARY F. S. HERVEY.

22, Morpeth Mansions, S.W.

FISHWICK OF ISLINGTON. In Highgate Cemetery there is a marble tablet recording the births and deaths of several of this family among others, Lucille, the wife of Richard Fishwick (who died in 1855, aged 88 years), and John her son (born in 1804, died in 1846). At the time of his death he was living in Canonbury Terrace, Islington, and had an office in Laurence Pountney.