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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. OCT. so, 1915.

GEORGE BRUDENELL came to Eton in 1757 ; his father General Brudenell was, according to Eliza Berkeley (Preface to ' Poems ' by G. M. Berkeley), Deputy- Governor of the Round Tower at Windsor. The boy was expelled from Eton about 1759, and (again according to Mrs. Berkeley) first went into the Army, and afterwards took orders, marrying the only daughter and heir of Major Hepbourne of Hepbourne Castle in Northumberland. Can any reader identify this George Brudenell or his father ? The Hon. Robert Brudenell, described as Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle, died on 21 Oct., 1768 (Gent. Mag., 1768, p. 4956) ; he was a younger brother of the Duke of Montagu, but according to ' Burke's Peerage ' did not marry until 1759, so that he will hardly suit. R. A. A.-L.

MB. HAUCK, PORTRAIT PAINTER. It is recorded in The Chester Courant of 18 May, 1781, that there died in the city of Chester " on Friday last" Mr. Hauck, " an eminent portrait painter." I shall be glad of re- ference to any biographical details respecting him and of information as to the present resting-place of any of his works.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

Bows AND ARROWS IN THE CRIMEAN WAR I think I remember seeing a statement to the effect that a regiment of men armed with bows and arrows was brought into the Crimea by the Russians in the war of 1854. Can this be confirmed ? If not, what is the last recorded instance of archers being engaged in warfare ? W.

[See the discussion at 10 S. i. 225, 278, 437, 497.]

'THE LADY OF ELCHE.' I found lately in a ' Life of Goya ' mention of a bust in the Louvre called ' The Lady of Elche,' a unique remnant of lost Iberian art. I cannot discover any allusion to it in Murray or Grant Allen, and artistic friends know nothing of it. Special mention was made of the lady's smile. J. D.

FLEETWOOD'S ' DUCHY OF LANCASTER.' Sir William Fleet wood, Recorder of London, wrote in 1596 an account of ' How the Duchy of Lancaster had its Commencement and Continuance to the Present Time.' The manuscript afterwards came into the posses- sion of George Vertue, the antiquary, whose collection of MSS. was purchased bv Horace Walpole.

At the Strawberry Hill sale in 1842 the foho volume was purchased by Thomas

Thorpe, the celebrated bookseller, since which time all trace of it has been lost. Can any of your readers help me to discover its present whereabouts ? I know of the copies of this MS. at the British Museum and Bod- leian Library. ARTHUR W. GOULD. Staverton, Briar Walk, Putney, S.W.

SISTERS OF BENNET LANGTON. Could any reader inform me what were the names of the sisters of Bennet Langton, the friend of Dr. Johnson ? Also in what year was each born ? JOHNSONIAN.

'THE TRUSTY SERVANT. 5 (US. xii. 193, 267.)

THE following notes may possibly assist this discussion.

1. I have a copy of Walcott's ' William of Wykeham and his Colleges' (1852), which the author's widow gave to Clifford Holgate, and he subsequently to me. It contains many MS. notes by Walcott himself, and two of them, on p. 209, are these :

(a) " The Trusty Servant was, probably, copied from a French original. Similar allegorical figures are mentioned by Gilbert Cousin, of Nozeroy, in ' 'OtK^njs, s. de officio famulorum,' torn. i. f. 223, Basil., 1562 [Paris, 1535] : cited by Beyerlinck, ' Magnum Theatrum Vitae Humanae,' torn. iii. p. 525, Venet., 1707 ; see also Hoffman, ' Lexicon Universale,' s. voce Asininse, Leyden, 1698. In the Computus [i.e., Bursars' Accounts] of 1637 is this entry : ' Pictori pingenti servum et carmina, 0. 13s. 0.' "

(6) " It is mentioned by John Aubrey to Antony a Wood in a letter dated Oct. 27, 1671, as ' The Faithful Servant at Winton, done by the Serjeant when he went to school there.' Qy., Hollo way or Hoskins ? "

2. It seems clear that the paragraph cited by CANON DEEDES from " an old common- place book " was derived either from Hoff- man or from a source common both to Hoffman and to the writer of the paragraph. For what Hoffman said under ' Asininse ' is :

"... .Sed et Asinince aures attentionis ac obedientiae symbolum, in celebri Apellis pictura, qua officia servorum Auribits hujusmodi, naribus porcinis, manibus omni instrumentorum genere refertis, humeris patulis, venire macilentd, pedibus cervinis, labiisque obseratis, reprsesentavit . . . . "

3. These notes of mine had reached this point when I discovered that Walcott's, as given above, are merely summaries of two out of three notes or replies which occurred in ' N. & Q.,' 1 S. vi. 12, 417, 495. ( a) sums up an elaborate note by SIB