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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. (1) Thomas Talbot, who was elected upon the foundation at Westminster School, 1677. Any particulars of his parentage and career are wanted. (2) James Taswell, son of the Rev. William Taswell, Rector of Bermondsey, who matriculated at Oxford from Univ. Coll., 30 May, 1718, aged 17. Particulars of his career and the date of his death wanted. (3) William Taswell, Vicar of Brookland and of Tenterden, Kent, 1771. Date and place of his death wanted. (4) William Tatton, son of George Tatton of London, who graduated B.A. from Trin. Cell., Camb., 1683-4. Particulars of his career and the date of his death wanted.

(5) Jerameel Terrent, Rector of Clewer, Berks, 1661. The date of his death wanted.

(6) Robert Theobald, M.A. of Trin. Coll., Camb., who was Head Master of Nottingham Grammar School 1626-30. Particulars of his parentage wanted, and also the date of his death. G. F. R. B.

SOURCE OF RIMES WANTED. I should be very glad if I could obtain in full certain rimes which I used to know as a child, but of which I can now recollect only parts. These rimes begin as follows :

1. Peg top, peg top, fast asleep,

Pray how long do you mean to keep ?

2. Said Tommy in the round straw hat,

" My pop-gun bring to me, And I will shoot that tabby cat Up in the cherry-tree."

3. The kite went flying up to the moon,

And the man in the moon who lives up there Kicked it through with his clouted shoon, And the tail hung dangling down in the air.

4. A was an alderman fond of good cheer, Who invited his friends to a feast once a year.

5. A was my aunt who was graceful and fair, B was the ball which she gave once a year.

6. Lord Lovel he sat at his own castle gate,

A-combing his milk-white steed,

When out came Lady Nancy Bell,

A-wishing her lover good speed.

J. W. R.

[For r Lord Lovel' see 11 S. v. 330; vi. 37, 115, 171,217,296.]

KIRKOVER, MINIATURE PAINTER, NINE- TEENTH CENTURY. Is anything known of a miniature painter of this name ? I have a fine group on ivory (size 8 in. by 6| in.) of the two daughters of Col. Thomas Carteret Hardy, York Fusiliers, after the oil painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A. It was copied on ivory four times by Kirkover. I shall be most grateful for any information respecting him.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

CHILCOMB. There have come intoj^my possession a number of old projectiles the larger ones apparently cannon-balls re- cently dug up by members of H.M. army while training at Chilcomb, near Winchester. They are four in number : three are circular, varying in size from 2 in. diameter to 1| in. The other consists of a circular head and a stem about 3 in. long the latter now broken and separate, but former connexion being pretty obvious. They are thickly coated with chalk or lime from the stratum where they have lain.

Can any reader inform me what righting took place at Chilcomb, and when ? The relics conform in size and appearance to Cromwellian projectiles I have seen.

HENRY EGBY.

14, Carey Street, Reading.

ROUGET DE LISLE. I see that the ashes of Rouge t de Lisle, composer of the ' Mar- seillaise,' are now to repose in the Pantheon in Paris. Can any one tell me whether he was related to the family of De Lisle (D'ln* sula) of the Isle of Wight and Northumber- land ? Some of its members were in France.

L. R. B.

THE BEST ENGLISH HISTORICAL NOVEL. Which is the best historical novel in the English language ? The question has been discussed before now, and the late Sir Walter Besant declared unhesitatingly in favour of Charles Reade's ' The Cloister and the Hearth,' a claim that would probably have astonished the author had he lived to hear of it.

History was a good deal " on the make " at home and abroad at home especially during the very brief period of the fifteenth century dealt with in ' The Cloister and the Hearth,' and there is certainly little history to be learnt from it except that the countries between Holland and Rome were not safe ground for wayfarers.

Perhaps the question may have some interest for your readers.

J. J. GORHAM, M.A. Royal Societies' Club, S.W.

AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR WANTED. Who was the author and the translator of the following work ?

"Secret Memoirs of Napoleon Buonaparte. Written by one who never quitted him for fifteen years. Translated from the French. In two volumes. London : Printed for H. Colburn, Con- duit Street : and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row. 1815."

A. S. WHITFIELD.

High Street, Walsall.