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students must have discovered its faults at an earlier period. Did they call attention to them in print anywhere ? I know that Mr. A. S. Ellis warned readers not to place reliance on the compilation. It would be interesting to read some of the reviews which appeared upon its publication.

LEO C.

CHARLES MARSH. He is the reputed author of * The Clubs of London,' and was elected M.P. for the borough of East Retford in October, 1812. He is supposed to have died in 1835, aged 66. I wish tc know the exact date of his death.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

[Much information about Marsh is supplied at 11 S. xi. 474.]

NOTTINGHAM I REEHOLDERS. I have been informed that freeholders of Nottingham have not a Parliamentary vote unless resi- dent, and that this is in consequence of an old charter. I shall be pleased to hear an explanation of this rule, which seems to over- ride the law of the country. W. B. S.

ARTHUR YOUNG.

(US. xii. 241, 282.)

THE references sought for are both found in " The Autobiography of Arthur Young, with Selections from his Correspondence. Edited by M. Betham -Edwards. London, 1898." The allusion to Lord Carrington is found on p. 361. It is an entry hi Young's * Diary ' made at Bradfield (his small Suffolk estate) - the date is 25 May, 1801 :

" Mr. Hoole called and was let in. He has heard at a great table (he did not say where) a very so-so account of Lord Carrington fidgeting, restless, dissatisfied, ambitious, avaricious, with a mere show of parts and knowledge. He has made immensely by the loan ; and the richer he grows so much the worse. The eldest girl said to Mr. H. when he called : ' My papa used to have prayers in his family; but none since he has been a peer.' What a motive for neglecting God ! Also he is a dissenter and a democrat. The Lord show mercy to him, and, by interrupting his prosperity or lowering his health, bring him to repentance."

" Mr. Hoole," referred to above, was the Rev. Samuel Hoole, son of the famous John Hoole, translator of Tasso and Ariosto. He married in 1791 Young's daughter Elizabeth.

Lord Carrington was Robert Smith, first Baron Carrington. He was born at Notting- ham 2 Feb., 1752. Pitt selected Smith in 1786 to look into the state of his (Pitt's) disordered private affairs. It was owing to

his friendship with Pitt that on 11 July, 1796 he was created Baron Carrington of Bulcot Lodge in the peerage of Ireland, and on 20 Oct., 1797, he was created Baron Carring- ton of Up ton, co. Nottingham, in the peerage o5 England. He married, (1) 6 July, 1780, at Tottenham, Anne, first daughter of Lewyns Boldero-Barnard, of Monk Hill, near Pont- efract. She died Whitehall 9 Feb., 1827, and was buried at St. Peter's, Nottingham, aged 70. He married (2) Charlotte, widow of the Rev. Walter Trevelyan. He died 18 Sept., 1838, and was buried on 3 Oct., atWycombe, Bucks.

The reference to the Suffolk parson appears on p. 355. It is a diary entry also made at Bradfield, Suffolk, on *9 April, 1801. The spelling of the name is given incorrectly in the Diary as " Balgrave."

" Dined with Mr. and Mrs. Balgrave. Balgrave is a good-tempered Suffolk parson, neglects the duty of his church, idle, indolent, drinks his bottle of port, and reads his newspaper, but [is] what is called a respectable character, no vices, nor any imprudent follies."

As everything to do with the life of Arthur Young is of interest to us, I am providing a few notes.

George Belgrave was born at Preston, Rutland, 5 April, 1745 (baptized 2 May, 1745). His father was the Rev. Jeremiah Belgrave. Of the Belgrave family there is a pedigree in Nichols's ' Leicestershire,' vol. ii. part i. p. 207. George Belgrave attended Uppingham School, and entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in July, 1765. He was admitted a Fellow of the College 7 April, 1772, became a Senior Fellow 7 March, 1788, and vacated his Fellowship on marriage. He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Peterborough, 2 June, 1771. He was pre- sented by the College to the Rectory of Cockfield, Suffolk, 2 June, and instituted

5 June, 1788. He was instituted Vicar of Stebbing, Essex, 23 June, 1802, on the pre- sentation of Thomas Buttey. He held both livings until his death. He married,

6 Aug., 1788, Fanny, daughter of James Neave, of Walthamstow (Cambridge Chronicle, 16 Aug., 1788 ; Gentleman's Magazine, 1788, ii. 750). He took the B.D. degree at Cam- bridge in 1781, incorporating at Oxford from Trinity College, 16 June, 1802, and taking the B.D. degree there 17 June, 1802. He resided constantly at Cockfield, where he died. On the south wall of the chancel of Cockfield Church is a white marble slab with the following inscription :

" Within a vault beneath is deposited the body of the Rev. George Belgrave, D.D., Rector of this