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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. JULY 4, 1914.

SIR JACOB ADOLPHUS (US. ix. 268, 397). He was appointed a Hospital Mate in the Army by warrant dated 2 Oct., 1795. In May, 1797, he became Lieutenant and Surgeon of the Xew Romney Fencible Cavalry, with which regiment he served during the rebellion in Ireland, until the corps was reduced in 1800. He then reverted to his employment as Hospital Mate until he obtained a commission as Assistant Surgeon of the 60th Foot, 10 Oct., 1802. He passed through the grades of Regimental Surgeon, Staff Surgeon, and Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, and became Inspector of Hospitals, by brevet, 27 May, 1825. On his retirement on half -pay in November, 1827, he was promoted to the permanent grade of Inspector of Hospitals. He took part in the Walcheren Expedition, but his service abroad was principally in the West Indies. There he appears to have passed his early years, having served his apprenticeship to a medical practitioner in Spanish Town, Jamaica. On 19 Nov., 1816, the degree of M.D. was conferred on him by Marischal College and University of Aber- deen.

A son, Edwin Adolphus, M.D. Edin. 1 838 (born 5 March, 1817), was an officer in the Medical Service of the Army from 1839 to 1849. W. JOHNSTON, Col.

Newton Dee, Murtle, Aberdeen.

" TlTMARSH " IN AN ALLEGED POEM BY

TENNYSON (US. ix. 487). This bird is, I believe, a titmouse (Parus) most probably P. palustris. It figures in the Index of Swainson's ' Provincial Names and Folk- Lore of British Birds,' and lures you to p. 33, but is not to be found when you get there. ST. S WITHIN.

The latest authority (Mr. H. Kirke Swann in his ' A Dictionary of English and Folk Names of British Birds,' 1913) does not include the word " titmarsh."

It may be that the marsh tit is intended ; if so, the British species is now termed Pants palustris dresseri, Stejn. The British willow-tit, P. atricapillus kleinschmidti, Hellm., and the Northern willow-tit, P. atricapittus borealis, Selys., have often been confounded with the British marsh tit ('A Hand-List of British Birds,' by Ernst Ha-rtert, F. C. R. Jourdain, N. F. Ticehurst, and H. F. Witherby, 1912).

If in the poem the word " titmouse " had been used, it would not have affected the scansion, and would have retained the form employed by the older authors

MacGillivray and Yarrell having set the- fashion of abbreviating it to "tit."

The term " blackcap " for this species is to be deprecated, as this is the recognized shortened name of the blackcap warbler, Sylvia atricapUla atricapUla, Linn.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE.

NELL GWYN : ROSE GWYN (US. ix. 410). Mr. Cecil Chesterton probably derived his? information from the notes to Mr. Gordon Goodwin's admirable edition of Peter Cun- ningham's ' Story of Nell Gwyn ' (see p. 215). It would appear that in December, 1663... " Rose Gwynn " was imprisoned in Newgate for robbery, but she possessed influence enough to gain a reprieve before judgment at the Old Bailey, and she was visited in prison by the King's favourite, Thomas Killigrew, and by Browne, the Duke of York's cupbearer. On 30 Dec. she obtained her discharge, having pleaded that her father had lost all he had in the service of the late King (' Cal. Stiate Papers, Dom., T 1663-4, pp. 390, 393). The probabilities point to this Rose being Nell Gwyn's sister of that name.

Rose Gwyn's first husband is stated to have been John Cassells, who apparently flourished as a highway " captain " for a time, and died in 1675, leaving his widow penniless. Charles II. gave her a pension of 2001. a year on the Irish establishment, which she enjoyed until the accession of William and Mary. Subsequently she mar- ried a person named Forster, and received a legacy of 200Z. from her sister Nell in the first codicil of the latter' s will, and a further sum of 2001. in the second eodici}. Her husband was bequeathed " a ring of the- value of forty pounds or forty pounds to buy him a ring." Nothing further seems to be known of her. W. F. PRIDEATJX-

JOHN SWINFEN (11 S. ix. 307, 375, 438). The following additional particulars may be found useful. John Swinfen was M.P. for Stafford, not Tamworth, in the Long Parlia- ment, from 30 Oct., 1645, until secluded in " Pride's Purge " in December, 1648. He was eldest son of Richard Swinfen of Swinfen, co. Stafford, by Joan, daughter of George Curitall, gent. He was born 19 March, 1612/13, bapt. at Welford 28 March; suc- ceeded his father 10 May, 1659; married, 26 July, 1632, Anne, daughter of Mr. John Brandreth ; and died 29 March, buried 13 April, 1694. at Welford, having survived all his sons. His wife was buried at Welford 29 April, 1690. Their only daughter and