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PORTRAITS BY JAMES LONSDALE. Can any one direct me to the present resting place of the following portraits by this artist, which were exhibited at the Roya Academy in the various years shown ?

1. Mr. D. Davies (1802).

2. Mr. W. F. Collard (1802, 1806, 1809 1831).

3. Richard Threlfall (1809).

4. J. Elmes, architect (1810).

5. J. Thelwall (1811).

6. W. Woodburn (1811).

7. C. Kynnersley (1811).

8. J. Blackett (1812).

9. S. Woodburn (1813).

10. W. H. Manning (1813).

11. Alderman Combe (1807, 1814).

12. G. Norman (1815).

13. Mrs. Toulmin (1813).

14. W. Toulmin (1815).

15. Mrs. Thelwall (1816).

16. Muzio dementi (1817).

17. C. Elers (1819).

18. F. Atkinson (1820).

19. Count Vasali (1821).

20. J. B. Logier (1821).

21. Sir Humphrey Davy (1822).

22. Bishop Bathurst of Norwich (1822).

23. W. Austin (1822).

24. J. Pepys (1822).

25. Sir Alexander Grant, Bart. (1823).

26. Thomas Deane (1824).

27. Richard Arnold Smart (1824).

28. John Richards (1825).

29. R. T. Lonsdale (1829).

30. John Lodge Hubbersty, Recorder of Lancaster (1835).

31. Edward F. Lonsdale (1838).

32. T. Lonsdale (1812).

33. W. Pennington (1808).

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

BLOOMFIELD : DISRAELI. In an interest- ing account of the " shoemaker " poets of our country in The Boot and Shoe Trade Journal for 4 June, the writer mentions Bloomfield as having been specially eulogized by Lord Beaconsfield. What is the reference for this ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

HAZLITT : " FREEMEN OP HIGHGATE." What does Hazlitt mean by the phrase " Scholars should be sworn at Highgate " ? A foot-note says : " An allusion to the jocular custom (long since become obsolete) of making one a freeman of Highgate."

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

South Hackney.

[See ' Swearing on the Horns at Highgate,' 6 S. ix. 69, 238, 316.]

HASSOCKS. I should be glad if any one could tell me the derivation of this place- name. Originally it was called " Hassocks Gate," and over that gate an ass and an ox looked at the passers-by ! An ancient farmer assures me this is the derivation of the name. I wish it was.

I am told, also, that "Hassocks," in old Sussex dialect, means a sand-pit. We have a sand-pit. But can anybody tell me why " gate " ? And I hope somebody will support the ass and the ox theory.

PERCY ADDLESHAW.

HERALDIC QUERY. May I ask your readers to assist me in discovering the owner of the following coat of arms ? On a round shield, surmounted by a count's coronet (probably French), and supported by two lions (or leopards) rampant, Quarterly : 1, a sun in splendour ; 2, three stars ; 3, four crosses ; 4, seal defaced, but the charge may have been an amulet or key. The seal appears to be that of a French family, probably that of Vezian, which, I am* informed, differs from the family of De Vezian in the French Peerages.

ARMIGEB.

PEAT FAMILY. Information would be welcomed with regard to the Vicar of Brentwood, about 1835, who is called in documents the Right Rev. Sir Robert Peat, Grand Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

79, Talbot Street, Dublin.

A PHANTOM PARLIAMENT. Some years ago I read in a weekly publication now out of print the following, and I shall be glad if any reader will tell me where it can be found, and also its basis :

' One evening late, a Prussian sovereign was out walking, and to his surprise noticed the parliament House, then not in session, brightly lluminated. On arrival he was amazed to find a session of phantoms, the actors being of a Parliament of about one hundred years earlier, and in the dresses of that period."

THOS. PRITCHARD.

AGNES, DAUGHTER OF Louis VII. Can any of your contributors tell me who was

he husband of Agnes, daughter of Louis VII. of France ? I have seen two accounts : one,

hat she married Adhelm de Burgo, Earl of Cornwall ; the other, that she married Alexis,

on of the Greek Emperor. Can it be that she was twice married ? A. M. LA T.