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THORNES OF OSSETT. I should be very grateful for any information about the Thornes family of Ossett and any dates previous to the marriage of Richard Thornes in 1593. Will any one who has access to Hopkinson's MS. pedigrees or Hunter's Yorkshire books kindly say if the name of Thornes appears in any of them ?

M. A. AUTY.

12, Limes Road, Folkestone.

TIGERS' WHISKERS. I am aware that Bengali natives pull out the whiskers of a dead tiger and use them in magic rites for which purpose they are supposed to be very potent. Can any one refer me to printed accounts of this practice ? Early ones would be particularly valued.

R. E. L.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Oh, the little more, and how much it is !

And the little loss, and what worlds away ! I should be glad to be informed as to where these lines occur. J. WILLCOCK.

Lerwick. [Browning's ' By the Fireside,' stanza xxxix.]

BOLINGBROKE ON THE HAPSBURG DY- NASTY. In the current number of The Quarterly Review a writer states, that Bolingbroke, speaking of the Hapsburgs in the eighteenth century, said :

" I never think of the conduct of that family without recollecting the image of a man braiding a rope of hay, whilst his ass bites off the other end."

Where can I find the passage in Boling- broke' s writings ? L. L. K.

BETH AM, ARTIST. Is anything known of an artist named Betham ? I possess a fine portrait in oils of Ralph Price, Esq., three- quarter length, life size, probable date about 1830-40, said to have been an excellent likeness, and executed for a public building (which was never completed) by a young artist named Betham, aged 21 years, whose later career could not be traced and whose Christian name I do not know. Did he belong to the family of Mary Matilda Betham, woman of letters and miniature painter, 1776-1852 (recorded in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' ), daughter of the Rev. William Betham, of Stonham Aspel, Suffolk, and Rector of Stoke Lacy, Hereford ? The painting is considered so good that an expert has pronounced it to be probably by Sir William Beechey, R.A., but there is no doubt that had it been by him it would have been recorded in the family catalogue of pictures.

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell,

WALKER FAMILY, STRATFORD-LE-BOW. I shall be glad to be referred to a source where I can find some record of the descendants of the above family, whose arms are described in Burke's ' General Armory ' (1884) as follows :

"Walker (Bow, near Stratford), co. Middlesex. Per pale ar. and sa. on a chev. betw. three crescents as many annulets all counterchanged. Crest, on a mount vert a greyhound sejant per pale ar. and sa."

In Bow Church there is an elaborate memorial erected by their son Thomas to James Walker, Esq., and his wife Dorothy, who died in 1712 and 1706 respectively. I have recently met with a record which states that James Walker, son of Richard Walker, married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Pecock, North End, Middlesex. In ' Hoi- den's Directory ' of 1808 I find that a Peter Walker, Esq., was residing at Neither Street, North End,Finchley. Was he of the same family of Walkers ? A. H. MACLEAN.

14, Dean Road, Willesden Green, N.W.

KENNETT, M.P. In the * History and Antiquities of Reading,' by Rev. Charles Coates, published 1802, there is

" A List of the Mayors of Reading from the first year of Henry IV. Such as have a Star affixed to their names have been Members of Parliament for the borough of Reading."

First of Henry IV. (1399). 1403. *William Kennet.

Henry V. 1415. William Kennet.

Surtees, ' Durham,' vol. i. part ii. p. 72, has a pedigree of Kennet of Sellendga in Kent, and of Coxhoe, Co. Pal. Durham, commencing with Reginald Kennett, said to be cennected with Kennetbury in Berks.

What confirmation is there of these state- ments ? R. J- FYNMORE. Sandgate.

' A TREATISE OF TREASONS ' : SCOGAN. Who wrote "A Treatise of Treasons against Q. Elizabeth and the Croune of England, &c. Imprinted in the Moneth of lanuarie and in the Yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXII." ? The book is a defence of Queen Mary of Scotland and the Duke of Norfolk, and an attack on Queen Elizabeth's ministers, especially Lord Burleigh. The author pretends to be a foreigner, but is clearly an Englishman. The British Museum Catalogue suggests that the work was published at Paris.

At p. 17 is this passage : " I have heard, that there was in your Country a man of meane honestie, called Scogan, who so frequently used (for covering of his owne lewdnes) constantly to charge other men with his own vices^ that thereof it is growen a Proverbe in your language