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[L. L. K. thanked for reply.]

LIBRARY WANTED (11 S. x. 68). The London Library, St. James's Square, has :

' Selected Essays and Addresses.' By P. Ed. S. Paget. 8vo. 1902.

' The Alcohol Question.' By Sir J. Paget and Others. Sm. 8vo. 1879.

' Memoirs and Letters of Sir J. Paget.' Ed. Stephen Paget. 1901.

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Waltham Abbey, Essex.

THE WRECK OF THE JANE, DUCHESS OF GORDON (11 S. vii. 447, 496 ; viii. 53, 114 ; ix. 496). I am obliged to MR. E. H. FAIR- BROTHER for his information. Can he say what other vessels besides the Jane, Duchess of Gordon, and the Lady Jane Dundas were lost in this storm ? The William Pitt left Colombo in their company. According to Mr. J. J. Cotton (' List of Madras In- scriptions,' pp. 42 3), the storm "destroyed nearly a whole squadron off the Cape." The extract quoted from The Caledonian Mercury of 25 June, 1810, refers to the " loss of the ships Lady Jane Dundas, Bengal, Calcut a, and Duchess of Gordon." Does this necessarily mean that they were all lost in the same storm ? Another Bengal " Hon. E.I. Com- pany's ship " probably the successor of th r s one, was burnt in Galle Harbour on 19 Jan., 1815. There is a description of the catastrophe in the ' Journal ' of Lady Nugent, which was privately printed in London in 1839. Lady Nugent, who was at Galle on her way home from Calcutta, where her husband, Sir George Nugent, had been Commander-in-Chief, was a witness of it. The Bengal seems to have been an unlucky name. PENRY LEWIS.

PENMON PRIORY (11 S. ix. 490). This old priory on the east of the island of Anglesey has been dealt with in Archceologia Cam- brensis, vol. iv. (1849), pp. 44, 128, and 198.

Pennant in his ' Tours in Wales,' vol. iii. p. 37, edition 1810, has some account of it ; and so has Richard Llwyd in his ' Beau- maris Bay,' p. 24, edition 1832 ; he also gives the following important references regarding it : " Dugdale's ' Monasticon,' ii. 338; Tanner, 699."

Perhaps the most trustworthy account of it is that given by Miss Angharad Llwyd in her admirable ' History of the Island of Mona ' 1833), pp. 317-27. Of course, all tho

modern guides to North Wales have notices of it, and they are generally trustworthy as far as they go. T. LLECHID JONES. Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed.

TITMARSH (11 S. ix. 487; x. 16). I observe that this word has not a place in the ' H.E.D.' That makes in favour of the theory that there is no bird which is so called. As surnames we have Tidmarsh, Titchmarsh, and the like, but their origin is local, places in Berkshire and Northamptonshire respec- tively being thus designated. The only human Titmarsh I can think of was W. M. Thackeray, though the author of ' Chez John Bull ' writes of a Mr. Titmarsch.

ST. S WITHIN.

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL USHER (11 S. ix. 469). Pierson Lloyd was the son of Thomas Lloyd of Westminster. He was probably admitted to the School before 1715, and in 1717 was an unsuccessful candidate for election into College. In 1718 he was elected into College, and in 1722 ob- tained his election to Trin. Coll., Camb.

RALPH CARR (US. vii. 70, 133, 193 ; ix. 488 ; x. 33, 75). My query at vii. 70 was about the Ralph Carr who was one of the Stewards of the Westminster School Anniversary Dinner in 1795. The query at ix. 488 was about a Ralph Carr who was admitted to the School 6 Nov., 1781. The two queries are not necessarily about the same Ralph Carr, for there is another admission to the School of a Ralph Carr on 5 June, 1776. Perhaps MR. WELFORD can identify these two, or possibly three, Ralph Carrs.

To save valuable space in ' X. & Q.,' may I assure MR. BAYLEY that the ' Alumni Oxonienses ' has always been consulted before troubling your correspondents with these school queries ?

ROBERT CLAYTON (US. ix. 430, 475). If Robert Clayton's age is correctly given as 28 in his epitaph at St. Martin's, he could hardly have been Sir Robert Clayton's son, who was " christened Robert and died very young." According to the monument in Bletchingley Church, Sir Robert's wife died 25 Dec., 1705, after "a happy partnership of forty-six years." She must, therefore, have been married in 1659. The Robert Clayton who was buried in St. Martin's in 1672 must have been born in 1644 ! More- over, the Robert Clayton, the subject of my inquiry, was admitted on the foundation of Westminster School in 1664.

G. F. R, B.