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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. AUG. is, 1911

Some time ago a portion of the paper became discoloured through water finding its wny through the roof. By accident a roll of the identical wall-paper was found in a store cupboard. This was used, and it is almost impossible to-day to say where the strip of new paper was placed.

W. G. WILLIS WATSON. Exeter.

The best general accounts of wall-papers are in Havard's ' Dictionnaire d'Ameuble- ment et Decoration ' and in Larousse's ' Grand Dictionnaire.' Both these works contain encyclopaedic articles crystallizing all the important data, historical and artistic, under the heading ' Papier-peint.' The chief wall -paper factories on the Continent were at Bixheim, Lyon, Metz, Caen, Tou- louse, Epinal, and Le Mans. The great centre in Paris for the sale of wall-papers is in the Faubourg St. Antoine.

Beckmann's ' Inventions ' is a little out of date, but it has a lengthy historical article on wall-papers. There was published in Liverpool in 1875 ' The History of Paper- Hangings, with a Review of other Modes of Mural Decoration,' by G. H. Morton. I have not seen this book, and it is not in the British Museum. Other authorities are D. Kaeppelin, ' Fabrication de Papier- Peint,' in E. Lacroix's ' Etudes sur 1'Exposi- tion de 1867,' vol. i. (1867) a later edition was issued (perhaps separately) in 1881 ; K. Sanborn, ' Old -Time Wall-Papers,' 1905; and A. S. Jennings, 'Wall -Paper Decora- tions,' 1907. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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THE MARQUIS DE SPINETO, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY (11 S. ix. 510). I have just seen in 'N. & Q.' of 27 June that inquiries are being made concerning the Marquis de Spineto.

From the Burial Register of All Saints', Cambridge :

" August 24th, 1812. Matilda, wife of Nicola D'Auria, Marchese di Spineto of the Kingdom of Naples, was buried ; aged 20."

Her surname is unknown.

From Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal, Isle of Ely Herald, and Huntingdon- shire Gazette of 1 Sept., 1849, in the obituary notice of the Marquis :

"....was a native of Italy. In early life he held a commission in a regiment of cavalry, and fought under the Austrian colours at the Battle of Marengo. Through life he was on the side of the established order, and the sincerity of bis attachment to that cause was exemplified by his sufferings on its behalf. Upon the ascendancy of Napoleon he quitted his native country, choosing

that course rather than the more profitable one of deserting his principles and paying court to Murat, King of Naples. He accompanied Lord Nelson to England, being upon terms of intimacy with that immortal hero, and for some time after- wards, being cut off from his paternal property, he came down to Cambridge, and about the year 1807 was nominated by Professor Smyth to the academic office of Italian -teacher, which he filled to the day of his death."

The Marquis's eldest son, Samuel Marie Rocco Doria, was born 14 Feb., 1807, in the county of Middlesex. This has been gathered from the Registers of Admission of Shrews- bury School, Felsted School, and St. John's College, Cambridge.

Can any reader tell me the place and date of the Marquis's first marriage ? (The second was in Edinburgh in 1814.) In what parish was Samuel born ?

The two other children of the first mar- riage, Matilda, born 1 Oct., 1808, and Adair Andrew, born 17 Sept., 1810, were baptized at All Saints', Cambridge, 12 Oct., 1813, and were presumably born in Cambridge.

GLORIA SANER (great-granddaughter of the Marquis).

THE CUSANI (11 S. x. 90). May one suggest that the savage custom alluded to was, perhaps, observed among the Cumani, a tribe of the Turkish race, described by the Byzantine historians of the Middle Ages, who first invaded Rxissia in the eleventh century ? After having been driven back by the Tatars in the thirteenth century they entered Hungary, and received there a separate district. Their descendants still exist between the Danube and the River Tisza, but are now mostly mixed up with the Magyar people of Hungary. H. K.

Herodotus (v. 4) tells this story of the Trausi. I cannot trace Cusani. H. C.

VOLTAIRE IN LONDON (11 S. ix. 70). In the first volume of Parton's ' Life of Voltaire ' it is stated that Voltaire was, for much of his time in England, at the house of Everard Falkener, silk and cloth merchant (afterwards Sir E. Falkener, English Ambas- sador at Constantinople), at Wandsworth. No more details of the address are given.

DAVID OWDEN.

THE STONES OF LONDON (11 S. vi. 429, 515; vii. 16, 77, 211 ; viii. 18). Small marble slabs from the Tivoli Music -Hall in the Strand, lately demolished, have been used in the construction of a footpath around a bowling green laid out on the local recreation ground at Woking, Surrey. SYL VIOLA.