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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. xii. JULY 17,

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD'S ENGLISH (11 8. xi. 491). The following is a copy of a letter written by the Prince to his father. The original is in the Derby Museum, having been presented to the town in 1873 by Queen Victoria :

Edinburg ye 22d. Oct re O.S. 1745.

SIR, I have charged Sr. Gems Stuard to carry this as far as Paris, and to forward it inimediatly by Courier to y r Majesty, as also to write you a distinct account of ye situation of affairs, he is an understanding capable man, and can be depended on, which has made me chuse him to send to ye F. C. with proper compliments to the F.K. and to hesten them for succors. I hope your Majesty will be satisfide with his procidings. I have nothing particular to add, but what he can say makes it needless for me to say anymore at present. I am thank God in perfect health, but still in ye usual actsiety for want of letters to which there is no help, but Patience. I lay myself at y r Majestys Feet moste humbly asking blessing and remaining with profoundests Respects

Your moste

Dutifull Son

CHARLES P.

P.S. As I writ to you in my haste I shal not fail to get rid of Stricland as soon as possible. Your Majesty I hope will forgive the scrawl, not having time to write it over, being so much hurrid with Business.

To the King.

F. WILLIAMSON.

Derby.

In Vaughan's ' Last of the Stuarts ' the writer states that

'* the vacant place [of tutor to the Old Pretender's children] was given to an Irish Roman Catholic, Sir Thomas Sheridan, and the Abbe Legouz, of the University of Paris. That the former was incap- able of teaching his native tongue is sufficiently proved by his elder pupil's strangely ill-written and ill-spelt letters in after life ; yet Henry, owing to his more studious nature, somehow contrived to obtain a very fair knowledge of the English lan- guage, which he always wrote with ease and clearness, though not without many eccentricities of grammar and spelling. " P. 6.

Quoting from ' Lettres sur 1'Italie,' by Charles de Brosses, the same writer says :

"When he [the Old Pretender] sits down to dinner, his two sons, before seating themselves, go to kneel before him for his blessing. He usually speaks to them in English, but to the others in Italian or French." P. 18.

W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

VERGER'S STAFF (11 S. xi. 494). I have received the following information from Mr. J. P. Freeman, one of the vergers in Durham Cathedral :

" We carry our verge or mace when in procession in the right hand, resting on the right shoulder. When walking the Cathedral, or waiting for the Dean or Canons, we carry it in the left hand, at rest

on the left arm. The University Bedell carries his-- mace in the same manner. At Lich field the ver- gers carry theirs on the hip, pointing straight out in front of them as if to push away any obstacle that might impede their way."

J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.

It may be noted that the full - length portrait by J. Wright, engraved by Hancock in mezzotint, of William Hopley, Verger of the Cathedral Church of Worcester, shows- the verger with his mace over the right shoulder, with the medallion facing to the front. The portrait of Hopley was evidently a carefully studied one, and the pose of the mace was probably founded on ancient custom. W. H. QTJARRELL.

WELTJE (11 S. xii. 9). A short account of this man, with portrait, is contained in ' Prince of Wales's Lodge, No. 259, List of Members, &c.,' by Thos. Fenn and others,. London, 1910. J. T. THORP.

Leicester.

CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS (11 S. xii. 10). KOM OMBO should know the famous name of John Leslie (1571-1671), Bishop of Clogher " the fighting bishop " translated 'to Raphoe in 1633, to Clogher in 1661. See ' Diet, of Nat. Biography.'

H. H. JOHNSON.

Leonidas Polk (1806-64) graduated from West Point ; then took orders ; became Bishop of Louisiana ; founded the University of the South at Sewanee ; was appointed a^ general in the Confederate army ; and was killed at the battle of Kenesaw. See ' Leonidas Polk : Bishop and General,' by W. M. Polk, M.D., new edition, 2 vols. r Longmans, 1915. WM. H. PEET.

LONDON M.P.'s, 1661 (11 S. xi. 473; xii. 18). The names of the two City M.P.'s about whom j^our correspondent inquires should read Love and Thompson, (not " Tenison "). They were William Love and Sir William Thompson, both of whom will be found in the Official List as returned to the Parliament of 1661. On 3 July, 1661, it was reported to the House that Love and Thompson " had not yet taken the sacra- ment," and they were to comply forthwith. Thompson, who was said to be " then in the House," seems to have obeyed, but Love was suspended from sitting, " the House being: much unsatisfied with the matter and manner of his excuse."

Sir William Thompson was of Bradfield, Berks, and Lime Street, London. He was- the fifth son of Robert Thompson of Watton,.