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USE OF MILITARY TITLES. One fre- quently finds military rank claimed by officers who have resigned from the regular Army, and (more rarely) by those who have at some time held commissions in the Auxiliary Forces. Is there any official warrant for this practice ? Are officers holding commissions in other than regular units entitled to be addressed by their rank when not engaged in military service ? An authoritative statement on these points from some correspondent with knowledge would be, I think, very useful. Is it entirely a matter of the " unwritten law," or are there any official pronouncements on the subject ? T. W. JACKSON.

Elba, Fox Hill, Natal.

NOTES AND TRANSCRIPTS OF DEBATES IN THE IRISH PARLIAMENT. Mr. McCullagh Torrens, who sat for many years in Parlia- ment, and was the author of a Life of Lord Melbourne, had in his possession notes and transcripts of debates in the Irish Parlia- ment. They consisted of thirty-seven MS. volumes, quarto, of speeches made in the House of Commons between 1776 and 1789, with the corresponding shorthand notes in oblong note -books, interleaved with blotting paper. These documents are the subject of a report to the Historical Manuscripts Commission by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice in 1871. Is anything known of what became of them after the death of Mr. Torrens in 1894, at the house of his daughter, 23, Bryanston Square, W. ?

MICHAEL MACDONAGH.

149, Abbeville Road, Clapham Park, S.W.

ELKANAH SETTLE : BAYMOND OF HACK- KEY. It appears from the ' Fam. Min. Gent.' that Elkanah Settle wrote ' Threnodia Hymenoea, a funeral poem to the memory of the honoured Mrs. Anna Raymond,' fol., 1712. No copy seems to be in the British Museum or Guildhall. The Hackney Parish .Register shows that on 2 March, 1707, Mr. Samuel Raymond of St. Olave, Jewry, and Mrs. Ann Skinner of Hackney were married at Cripplegate; and under date 8 Aug., 1712 : " Ann, wife of Mr. Samuel Raymond, merchant, was buried in the South aisle of the chancel." She was daughter of Nicholas Skinner, and, according to the ' F.M.G.,' lived at Hackney, had been married near five years, and left issue. I should be glad to know whether a copy of Settle's work is in existence, and, if so, whether it reveals any further information respecting the families of Raymond and Skinner.

GEO. W. WRIGLEY.

OZIAS HUMPHRY : MINIATURES. Will you allow me to appeal to readers of ' N. & Q.' concerning a collection of miniatures by Ozias Humphry which I am particularly anxious to find ? I am engaged in preparing a book on this important miniature painter, and in 1845 Mr. Charles Hampden Turner, of Rook's Nest, Godstone, succeeded, on the death of Mr. William Upcott, to a most important collection of finished and un- finished miniatures by Humphry which had been bequeathed by Mr. Upcott to him, together with some volumes of Humphry's sketches, his colour book, colours and brushes. I have a list of these miniatures, and many of them were exhibited at South Kensington in 1865. When Mr. O'Donoghue wrote the article on Humphry for the ' D.N.B.' he had some evidence that this collection was still in the possession of Mr. Turner's descend- ants, but as he has not retained his papers concerning the article he is unable to help me. He also had a letter from a Mr. Winslow Jones concerning Humphry, but unfortu- nately is not able to tell me what this letter contained, nor to give me the address of the writer. It is to the highest degree important that I should find out where these miniatures are, and, if possible, see them ; and I appeal to readers of ' N. & Q.,' asking them if they will be good enough to help me in my search for them.

GEORGE C. WILLIAMSON.

Burgh House, Well Walk, Hampstead, N.W.

" PRIVATE HOTELS." What is the origin of the word " private " when used for hotels ? Public-houses have licences from justices to sell on the premises alcoholic drinks. That seems a distinction, but if any one that can. pay is admitted, why " private " ?

W. W. GLENNY.

Barking, Essex.

PLACE-NAMES : SHRAPE, THRUNGE. Can any one suggest the probable origin of these ugly words ? The Shrape is the name of the mud-flat on the eastern side of the River Medina where it enters the Solent.

The Thrunge is a narrow alley-close, or wynd, in an old part of the town of Cowes. Strange to say, there is no reason to consider these to be old place-names ; but as there prevails in the Isle of Wight a loose generali- zation to the effect that its many mono- syllabic names, both of families and places, are derived from the Jutish settlers, it would be interesting to learn if there are any known instances of these words in other supposedly Saxon settlements. Y. T.