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says, at p. 400 (but without citing any authority), that he died in Ireland " while serving with Robert Allen." It would seem most probable that Sander died in April, 1581, thus surviving Dr. Allen a year and a half. So Mackenzie Walcott's statement is clearly erroneous ; but perhaps he had authority for calling Dr. Allen Robert. One Robert Allen took the degree of B.A. at Oxford, 15 June, 1 44 ; and one Robert Alyn matriculated at Cambridge from St. John's College in 1556.

One Roger Allen took the degree of M.A. at Oxford, 13 July, 1554; and a priest of this name is said in the ' Concertatio Ecclesise ' to have died in Chile before 1588.

If Dr. Allen was an Englishman, I am in- clined to think it probable that his Chris- tian name was Ralph, and that h~> is to be identified with the Ralph Allen who took the degree of M.A. from Brasenose College, Oxford. 14 Feb., 1564/5, and arrived at the English College at Douay in 1572, as a priest of this name is said in the ' Concer- tatio ' to have died in exile before 1588, and Dr. Allen is always treated as though he were junior to Sander. Where was Ralph Allen ordaii ^d ? Whence did Dr. Allen obtain his degree ?

JOHN B. WAINEWKIGHT.

FENWICK. I have read somewhere that the Sir John Fen wick, Bart., who was be- headed 28 Jan., 1697, and buried the same day at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, left an illegitimate son, who, on the death of Mary Fenwick, the widow of Sir John, was taken by Sir William Blackett and put to sea. If any reader can corroborate the statement and inform me where the same is recorded, I shall be grateful. R. C. BOSTOCK.

A WOOL-GATHEBING STICK. I have lately been shown a curiously carved wool-gathering stick, with an iron hook at the end, from Sixhills, Lincolnshire. A friend of mine tells me also that he once heard wool- gathering sticks casually mentioned in the railway station at Doncaster. I should be glad of further information about them.

M. P.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

I am anxious to obtain information about the following Old Westminsters : (1) Henry Chester, admitted 1751, aged 12. (2) Wil- liam Bromley Chester, M.P. for Gloucester- shire, who died 12 Dec., 1780. (3) Jacob Chevet, admitted 1716, aged 11. (4) John Child, admitted 1721, aged S. (5) Richard Child, admitted 1720, aged 8. (6) Thomas

Child, admitted 1717, aged 11. (7) Abra- ham Chitty, at school 1689. (8) Richard Church, admitted 1777. (9) Bartholomew Churchill, born March 29, 1809, admitted 1817. (10) Charles Churchill, admitted 1730, aged 9. (11) John Churchill, admitted 1745, aged 10. (12) Robert Churchill, admitted 1720, aged 10. G. F. R. B.

THOMAS LEGETT of Beccles, in the county of Suffolk, clockmaker, worked about the middle or the third quarter of the eighteenth century. Information concerning him or his work will be gratefully received by

H. D. ELLIS.

7, Roland Gardens, S.W.

JOSEPH CARNE, F.R.S. Where may I find a portrait of this Cornish worthy, one of the founders of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, a society that this year has cele- brated its centenary? J. H. R.

WALL-PAPERS. (11 S. x. 29, 75.)

THE earliest history of paper-hangings occurs in Beckmann's ' History of Inventions and Discoveries,' dated 1797.

In the year 1692 the first patent for paper- hangings was obtained by William Bayly (see 11 S. i. 268, 350). The date of this patent seems to fix the exact time when the manufacture of paper-hangings began in England. With the production of suitable paper, the demand for such a cheap form of decoration, no doubt, rapidly increased, for in 1712, in the reign of Queen Anne, the manufacture attracted the attention of the Government, and a duty was imposed.

In 1753 Edward Deighton obtained a patent for

" an entire new method of manufacturing Paper for Hanging and Ornamenting of Rooms, and other

purposes, and the same will be of great use

and benefit to the public."

In 1754 a manufacturer of paper-hangings at Battersea, named Jackson, published a work on the invention of printing in chiaros- curo. From Jackson's account it is evident that paper-hangings were then in general use, though they were doubtless rather expensive, and to be found principally in the houses of the wealthy, and places of public resort. At this period English paper-hang- ings are said to have been much superior to those of the French, with regard to both