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those families. On 4 Feb., 1822, he was created Earl Temple of Stowe, co. Bucking- ham, Marquess of Chandos, and Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

Robert de Chandos, a companion of William the Conqueror, is supposed to have been the ancestor of two families one settled in Herefordshire, and the other in Derbyshire. To the latter branch Sir John Chandos (d. 1370), the famous soldier and friend of the Black Prince, belonged. To the Herefordshire branch belonged another Sir John Chandos. He was grandson of Roger de Chandos, who was summoned to Parliament in 1333 and 1353 as Baron Chandos, and son of Sir Thomas Chandos. He died on 16 Dec., 1428, without issue. Alice, the daughter of his sister Elizabeth Berkeley, married Giles Brugges or Brydges, the ancestor of the Brydges family, succes- sively Lords Chandos and Dukes of Chandos. Richard Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), married in 1796 Anne Eliza Brydges, only daughter and heiress of James, third Duke of Chandos.

A. R. BAYLISY.

SEVENTH CHILD OF A SEVENTH CHILD (11 S. x. 88). I do not know if in other counties this superstition applies only to the male line, but I do know that in some parts of South Devon the seventh daughter of a seventh son was believed to possess certain gifts of healing. An old lady, now dead, who belonged to a good Devonian family, was always ready to help her neighbours by fhe inherited powers she believed herself to possess.

It may be worthy of record in the year 1914 that she undoubtedly did cure warts (amongst other maladies), and I am not ashamed to own that I asked her aid for myself some twenty years ago. The " cure " was simple to a degree. She looked, she counted, she wished, and she changed the subject. When, after a very few days, the warts had vanished, and I tried to thank her, she evaded the subject, only saying that the ' power " was her birthright, that she had never yet failed in seventy years, and that she could not talk about it or the other inys ic ifts that distinguished her.

In rister it is truly " no joke to be a seventh son," for I knew in my childhood of small traders in country towns who were j 'stored by patient-, to the groat hurt of their business. They could not refuse their

aid to those who had been brought in spring- less carts some thirty miles of mountain road, but they detested their own celebrity. My impression is that they chiefly dealt with erysipelas and such diseases, and that they professed to cure by prayers and in the name of God.

In Norfolk the superstition is so strong that the seventh son was till recent days fated to be a doctor from his cradle.

Y. T.

NAPOLEON III. AT CHISLEHURST (11 S. ix. 509 ; x. 37). Count d'Herisson, in his book on the Prince Imperial, published in 1890, writes that Miss Emily Rowles, to whom Prince Louis Napoleon (later Napoleon III.), after his escape from Ham in 1846, became attached, lived then with her father at Camden House, Chislehurst.

Is this exact, and under what circumstances did Camden House pass in 1860 into the possession of Mr. Strode, as mentioned by your correspondent MB. E. BASIL LUPTON ? Was Mr. Rowles the owner of Camden House in 1846, or who else, in case Mr. Rowles then only rented the property ? It is further doubtful that in 1871 Mr. Strode placed Camden House gratuitously at the disposal of the Emperor. There is reason to believe that the Empress Eugenie rented the property through an agent with- out the intervention of Mr. Strode.

M. L'E.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS HOLCROFT: GORDON RIOTS (11 S. x. 43). With respect to the pamphlet giving an account of the Gordon Riots, I may say that I possess a similar pamphlet of thirty-two pages. The title is so remarkably like the one printed at the above reference that I venture to repro- duce it :

" Riots. | A Genuine j Account | of the | Pro- ceedings | of the late | Disturbances and Riots | in the | Cities of London and Westminster, | and count of the burning of Newgate, the King's | Bench, the Fleet, and New Bridewell Prisons. Like- j wise the Houses of Lord Mansfield, Sir John Fielding, | Messrs. l<angdale, Hainsforth, Cox, Hyde, &c. Romish | Chapels, Schools, &c. with an Account of the Com- | mitment of Lord George Gordon to the | Tower. | And Anecdotes of his Life. I To which is added, | An Abstract of the Act lately passed in favour of the Ro- | man Catholicks. | London : | Printed by O. Adams & Co. 1780. | [Price Six-Pence.]
 * Borough of Southwark. [ Containing I An Ac-

OLD ETONIANS (11 S. x. 28). John Chartres might possibly be a relative of the Rev. James Chartres mentioned at 9 S. vii. 447 ; viii. 68. JOHN T. PAGE.