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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x. NOV. 28, i 9 u.

AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. x. 389). The author of ' The Clubs of London,' &c., is given by Halkett and Laing as Charles Marsh, of whom there is an account in the ' D.X.B.,' where he is stated to have been a barrister who practised successfully^ Madras. After his return to England he was elected M.P. for East Retford, which seat he held from 1812 to 1818. In a long speech in. Parliament lie denounced Wilberforce for attempting to force Christianity on the natives of India. The " Letters of Vetus," which appeared in The Times of 1812, have been wrongly ascribed to him. They were written by Edward Sterling (1773-1847), the "Thun- derer " of The Times, the father of John Sterling. R. A. POTTS.

Speldhurst, Canterbury. [MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE also thanked for reply.]

OLD ETONIANS (11 S. x. 388). (10) Per- haps Wilh'am Hanbury, s. William of St. George, London, arm. Trinity Coll., Oxon., matric. 6 July, 1765, aged 17 ; prob- ably (of Kelmarsh, Northants, arm.) father of William Hanbury of 1798, the first Lord Bateman.

(11) Perhaps John Hanson, s. John of Isle of Jamaica, arm. Magdalen Coll., Oxon, matric. 26 Feb., 1760, aged 17.

INSCRIPTION ON BRASS AT QUEEN'S COL- LEGE, OXFORD (11 S. x. 387). The Rev. Herbert Haines in his ' Manual of Monu- mental Brasses ' (1861), p. xxx, referring to " the brasses with curious devices at Queen's College, 1616," says in a note :

"On these are the initials A. H. and R. H., probably for Abraham and Remigius Hogenbergh, who were employed in England c. 1570. See Strutt's ' History of Engraving,' vol. ii. p. 22."

But Mr. Herbert Druitt in his ' Costume on Brasses ' (1906), p. 14, thinks

"it is possible that the latter may refer to Dr. Richard Haydock, Fellow of New College, whose work is to be seen in the brass of Erasmus Williams, 1608, at Tingewick, Bucks, and who composed the inscription to Thomas Hopper, 1623, at New College."

See ' A Catalogue of the Brasses in Queen's College, Oxford,' by P. Manning, M.A., F.S.A., pp. 67-79 ; Journal of the Oxford University Brass - Rubbing Society, i. 2, June, 1897, p. 78. But Remigius Hogen- bergh is supposed to have died c. 1580 ; and Abraham, who seems to have been his nephew, is stated to have worked at Cologne 161050, and is not known to have been in England in or about 1616.

A. J5. BAYLEY. [Miss IDA M. ROPER also thanked for reply.]

OLD WESTMINSTERS : EDMUND LEWIS, M.A. (11 S. x. 387). The above-named ws appointed Master of Kilkenny School by Duke of Ormonde in 1714, and held tl office till his death in 1743. While holdir the Mastership he was appointed Prebends of Blackrath, diocese of Ossory, in 1715 and was collated to the Prebend of Monde- ligo, diocese of Lismore, 2 Dec., 1742. He married Mary, second daughter of the Rev. Heighes"Woodforde, B.C.L., Rector of Elvetham, Hants, and Vicar of Epsom, Surrey. G. D. B.

RICHARD LLUELLYN(!! S. x. 387) was the second son (by his second wife, Martha, daughter of George Long of Perm, Bucks) of Martin Lluellyn, M.D., Christ Church, Oxon, F.R.C.P., Physician to King Charles I., and Mayor in 1671 of High Wycombe, in which town he practised medicine. He was a noted Royalist ; raised a troop of volunteers,, while a student at Oxford, for the King; and is said to have accompanied his Majesty to the scaffold, receiving the gloves the King w T ore upon that occasion. He is buried in. the chancel of High Wycombe Church, beneath a stone slab bearing a partially effaced long Latin inscription, of which I have a copy and a translation. See ' D.X.B.,' Munk's ' Roll Roy. Coll. Physicians,' Gibbs's ' Worthies of Buckinghamshire,' and the local and county Histories.

Major Martin Lluellyn, the doctor's only son by his first wife, became a cavalry officer under James II., and Commissary-General in Portugal under Queen Anne. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Halford of Edith Weston, co. Rutland, by whom he had four children. See Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, vol. i. ; also Pedi- gree of Halford in Maddison's ' Lincolnshire Pedigrees.'

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.I).

A "TRAWN CHAER" (11 S. ix. 488; x. 32). MR. PARKER'S inqiiiry as to " thrown chair 1 ' and " trawn chaer " as part of a Clitheroe schoolroom equipment, "one wiker chayre and a thrawen chayre," at sight, surely has nothing to do with any lathe M T ork ; surely rather "throne" and Greek 6p6vo<; are the originals from which thrown or thrawen chair comes. As to " chair " also. presumably Celtic coder and Ka6e8pa and "cathedral " are the connexions. Only great men had chairs ; simpler folk sat on benches or on the rushes, or, Zulu or Australian fashion, " on their heels." MR. PARKER'S query, therefore, as to "thrown chair"