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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x. SK*T. 12, 1911.

John. The patronage for that turn appa- rently belonged to the Archbishop of York. John Dampier's institution is not recorded in the bishop's (i.e. Bishop of Salisbury) register. John Dampier's name occurs only once as the officiating minister in the Wylye Register ; his father's does not appear at all ; he evidently was non- resident. He was a Prebendary of Ely, of which diocese his brother Thomas was bishop, and died there in 1826, aged 76.

J. J. H.

EARLS OF DERWENTWATER : DESCENDANTS (11 S. x. 148). Having been from childhood interested in the Derwentwater family, my great - grandmother on the paternal side having been a daughter of a ward of the last earl, who was out with him in the so- called rebellion, I have tried to glean any information respecting the family, and all I have been able to discover is that the unhappy earl's brother, Charles Radcliffe, went to Paris, presumably after the con- fiscation of the family estates. I have not been able to find out if he left any descend- ants. Has MR. HARVARD been able to trace any particulars of the lady calling herself, if I remember the name quite correctly, Mary Matilda Amelia Tudor Radcliffe, who established herself at Dilston some years since, and made an attempt to recover the estates ? She possessed rnany heirlooms, and some of the county families, I believe, espoused her cause, but, failing in her attempt, she disappeared.

MATILDA POLLARD. Belle Vue, Bengeo.

HENRY IV.'s SUPPER OF HENS (11 S. x. 150, 194). With reference to DR. PAGET TOYNBEE'S inquiry at the former reference, it seems that Gray must have been referring to the story told in the Fifth Novel of the First Day of Boccaccio. The hero of that story is, however, " Filippo il Bornio," King of France, whom I cannot identify, as none of the Philips who reigned in that country appear to have been blind of one eye. F. W. S.

RESULT OF CRICKET MATCH GIVEN OUT TN CHURCH (11 S. x. 167). I remember, many years ago, reading in a newspaper that at a confirmation in a certain northern diocese in England one of the clergy gave out from within the altar-rails that the bishop would be happy to see the clergy at luncheon at the county hotel.

F. E. R. POLL ARD-URQUH ART.

Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

AUTHOR WANTED : ' THE SPIRIT OF THE; NATION' (11 S. x. 148). Is it possible! that MR. HORNER, living in Dublin, has never- seen this work, which has gone through! some sixty large editions ? Its sub -title is " Ballads and Songs by the Writers off] ' The Nation,' " and practically every author's! name is attached to the poem, and given in the index. A few pseudonyms are still) retained in the stereotyped editions, but,: however necessary in the earlier issues, they; are secrets no longer.

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'

JOHN CHARNOCK (11 S. x. 90). Maunder' aj ' Biographical Treasury ' has this entry :

" Charnock, John. An English naval offices | and miscellaneous writer ; author of a ' Historyj j of Marine Architecture,' ' Biographia Navalis,' a ' Supplement to Campbell's Lives of the Admirals," &c. Died 1807."

This date makes Charnock 83 at his death. ' The Annual Register ' or The Gentlemajvs Magazine of 1807 or 1808 would, perhaps, answer the query. M.A. j

GELRIA : A PLACE-NAME (11 S. x. 168).

Probably meant for Geldria, now thejj name of a province of Holland, a large portion of which once formed part of the Duchy of Geldern, whose ancient capit Geldria or Gueldria (Welderen), near Dusselj dorf, is now in Rhenish Prussia. The yoi man of Geldria may have been of the diocea of Utrecht, even if the place of his origii did not belong to the same. L. L. K.

JOHANNES RENAD^US (11 S. x. 150).- " Renod. Joannis Eenodaei Medici Parisier institutionum Pharmaceuticarum libri quim, quibus accedunt de materia medica libri tr Parisiis 1608, in quart."

The above is from the list of authors cit in Lemery's ' Traite Universel des Drogue Simples ' (Paris, 1723). C. C. B.

THE CALENDAR (11 S. x. 171). ' Tl Nautical Almanac,' published annuallj several years in advance, under the directic of the Admiralty, is the ready source information from which the compilers diaries and almanacs obtain their varioi forecasts. F. A. RUSSELL.

116, Arran Road, Catford, S.E.

" LE SINISTRE " (11 S. x. 169). The ter as applied to fire originated with the ir surance companies. Any loss or dar to insured goods is " un sinistre," as it awkward for the company. " E valuer sinistre " = to assess the damago.

ARTHUR MORRIS.