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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. xn. JULY 17, 1915.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain, any information about the following Taylors or Taylours who were educated at Westminster School : H) Cecil Taylor, son of Christopher Taylor of London, who graduated B.A. at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1769. (2) John Taylor, son of Thomas Taylor of York, who matri- culated at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1733. (3) Joseph Taylor, son of Dixie Taylor of Woburn, Beds, who graduated M.A. at Oxford from Ch. Ch., 1674, and became Rector of Exton, and of Hint on Ampner, Hants, in 1679. (4) Richard Taylor, son of Richard Taylor of Limerick, who was admitted on the foundation at Westminster, 1756, aged 14. (5) John Taylour, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge from Trin. Coll., 1628. G. F. R. B.

LIEUT. JOHN DESCHAMPS, R.A. This officer published a book in 1845

" Scenery and Reminiscences of Ceylon, by John Deschamps, Esq., from Original Drawings and Notes made by him during a Service of Nine Years, as an Officer of the Royal Artillery, in that Island. Pub- lished for the Author by Aekermann & Co., 96, Strand."

He was in Ceylon from 1828 to 1837. I should be glad of further particulars about him. Did he leave the service in 1837 ? In his Preface, dated 20 Dec., 1844, he explains that one of his reasons for publishing the book was

"to beguile the tedium of leisure hours, which, for the first time in his life, he found to hang heavy on his hands."

PENBY LEWIS. Quisisana, Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset.

SIR CLOUDESLEY SHOVELL : HIS POBTBAIT BY W. DE RYCKE. I have an engraving by J. Smith, after W. de Rycke, entitled :

" S r Cloudislly Shovell, Knight, Rear Admiral ot the Red, on board their Ma ties Ship theRoyal William in y e late defeat given to the French, and also Lieut. Coll. of one of their Ma ties Marine Regi- ments."

Can any of your readers tell rue where the portrait of this admiral, from which the engraving is taken, may be seen ? Is it the one, by an unknown artist, mentioned in the ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.' as being in the Town Hall of Rochester ?

EBNEST H. H. SHOBTING.

Broseley, Shropshire.

STBABOLGI PEEBAGE CASE. In 1911 to 1912 it was shown that on the death of David de Strabolgi the barony went into abeyance between his two daughters. Eliza- beth, the elder, married, first, Sir Th. Percy, from whom coheirs were traced ; her second

husband was Sir Jn. Scrope, from whom no child was shown in the pedigree, though from Burke's ' Extinct Peerage,' &c., there are probably descendants now living from a daughter Elizabeth, who married Th. Clarel of Aldwark, whose daughter married Sir R. Fitzwilliam. Could any one say if this is perhaps an omission, or if descendants from her second marriage should not be considered coheirs ? R. D. G.

LACEY AS A PLACE-NAME. Can any reader tell me the origin of the word Lacey in connexion with several parishes in England, namely, Holme Lacey, Hereford, the home of the Scudamore family ; Kingston Lacey, Dorset, the home of the Bankes family ; and Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey, late home of the Farquhar baronets ?

LEONABD C. PBICE.

Ewell, Surrey.

THE SITE OF THE GLOBE. (11 S. x. 209, 290, 335 ; xi. 447 ; xii. 10.)

IN my reply (ante, p. 10) to MBS. STOPES'S note, whiclTappeared at the fourth reference, I endeavoured to show, from the Coram Rege Roll of 1616 and other documents, that the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare was on the north side of Maiden Lane, and not on the south, as MBS. STOPES contends. In my reply I left unanswered the various quotations from the " Sewars Presentments " which were made by MRS. STOPES, and about which she says : " Nothing, therefore, in the Sewers Books suggests that the Globe lay north of Maiden Lane."

The quotations, so far as they are applic- able, appear to me to indicate that, on the contrary, the Playhouse was on the north side.

It should be here realized that it was incumbent upon the owners or occupiers of the land abutting upon these sewers, or open ditches, to keep them in repair, so as to prevent a nuisance being created.

The first extract from the " Sewars Presentments " is from p. 143, in the year 1587, as follows :

" We present Thomas Brand, or his tenant John Potter, to pyle, board, and fill up with earth nine poles of his'wharfe lying in Maiden Lane against the common sewer there."

We know that some land lying to the north of Maiden Lane was in th 3 ownership of the Brand family, and this land is clearly