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12. (6) William Corry, admitted 1721, aged 12. (7) Edmund Cosyn, a student at Cambridge, 1543. (8) John Cotes, ad- mitted 1731, aged 15. (9) Edward Cot- trell, son of Charles Cottrell of York City, at school 1761, aged 14. G. F. R. B.

LORD ERSKINE'S SPEECHES. In Philli- more's ' Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England,' vol. ii. p. 1231 (edition 1873), it is stated in a foot-note that " the whole trial " of the Bishop of Bangor at the Shrewsbury Assizes in 1796 " is reported in vol. i. of Lord Erskine's Speeches." Can any reader of 1 N. & Q.' inform me in what edition of the Speeches this report is to be found? I have consulted some editions, and failed to find it in them. Phillimore in the last edition of his ' Ecclesiastical Law ' has, I think, speci- fied ' Miscellaneous Speeches,' but I have failed to find that the Catalogue of the British Museum Library contains such a title. T. LLECHID JONES.

Yspytty Vicarage, Bettws-y-Coed.

" LADY." When first was the wife of a Knight called " Lady" ? E. G.

WILLIAM CARR, MAYOR OF LIVERPOOL 1741. Can ai*y one inform me who was the father of this William Carr ? He died 9 May, 1752, aged 63 years, and married Mary Gildart, the daughter of Richard Gildart, who was Mayor of Liverpool, 1714.

Her brothers were (1) Francis Gildart, Town Clerk of Liverpool, 1742 ; (2) J. Gil- dart, merchant of Castle Street, and Mayor of Liverpool, 1786 ; and (3) Richard Gil- dart, M.P., 1734, and Mayor of Liverpool, 1736. The Gildart family remained in Liverpool until after 1800, when the Rev. James Gildart, curate of St. Nicholas's, 1808- 1813, became Rector of High Wycombe. William Carr's father is supposed to have been a certain Stephen Carr of Cocken Hall (co. Durham), who is said to have settled in Liverpool, 1690. It is this connexion which I wish to establish, and I shall be very grateful for any help that your readers may be able to give me. (Rev.) W. ARNOLD CARR.

Brighton.

SAMUEL DERHAM, M.A., M.D., died of smallpox at Oxford, 26 Aug., 1689, and was the author of ' Hydrologia Philosophica ; or, an Account of Ilmington Waters in Warwickshire.' I shall be obliged to any of your correspondents who can tell me what relation (if any) he was to William Derham, admitted in May, 1675, at Trinity College, Oxford, who was subsequently Vicar of

Wargrave, Berks, and Canon of Windsor (1716). In 1730 he received the degree of D.D. by diploma from the University of Oxford, anddied 5 April, 1735, at Upminster, Essex, in his 78th year. A. C. C.

PORTRAIT OF WELLINGTON BY WILLIAM SALTER. Where is the original of that portrait of the Duke, standing with his sword under his left arm and his hat in his right hand, which was published on the back of p. 21 of ' Lest We Forget, a Keepsake of the Nineteenth Century,' by the late Mr. W. T. Stead ? POTASSIUM.

SIR GREGORY NORTON, THE REGI- CIDE, AND HIS SON SIR HENRY.

(1 S. ii. 216, 251 ; 6 S. xii. 187 ; 7 S. viii. 324, 394 ; 10 S. vii. 168, 330, 376, 416 ; 11 S. x. 12, 51, 91.)

TOWARDS the end of 1659, when the Restora- tion was almost daily expected, Sir Henry Norton (who, as already stated, came into possession of the manor of Richmond in 1<557) must have known very well that when Charles II. came to his own, he (Sir Henry) could lay no legal claim to this property, which had belonged to the late unhappy king. We are not surprised, therefore, to find that in January, 1660, either as a result of pressure brought to bear upon him by the Royalists, or feeling that it would be more dignified for him to take the first step, he decided to give up the manor and his home there. How this was effected is shown in the following document, to be seen in the Record Office. One cannot help feeling that it was a bogus case, and that Mathew Mead was a mere " man of straw," probably in the hands of the Parliament, who were by this time practically on the King's side :

" Between Mathew Mead gent ptf And Henry Norton baronett & Mabella his wife defen to of the Mannor of Richmond otherwise West Sheene with the appurtenances and of three messuages three gardens three orchardes one hundred and twenty acres of land forty acres of meadow one hundred and sixty acres of wood & comon of pasture with the appurtenances in Richmond & West Sheene Whereupon a plea of covenant was sumoned between them etc That is to say That the aforesaid Henry and Mabella have acknowledged the aforesaid Mannor tenaments & comon of pasture with the appurtenances to be the right of him the said Mathew As those which the said Mathew hath of the guif t of the aforesaid Henry & Mabella And those they have remised