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as one of the Council, prove the statement of Rous to be false. It also shows that Warwick had not been superseded, and that he was still heir to the throne just before the battle of Bos- worth. He was probably a member of the King's household and one of the children mentioned in the Royal Ordinance of July 23, 1484."

Sir Clements Markham believes these children to have been Richard's three young nephews : the sons of Edward IV., aged 13 and 11, declared illegitimate, and the son of Clarence, aged 9 all three murdered by Henry Tudor, the former two in 1486, soon after his marriage with their sister Elizabeth; the latter in 1499. The rest of the Plantagenet family were left to the tender mercies of the conqueror's successor. Sir Clements Markham also notes that the Earl of Lincoln fell at Stoke in 1487, fight- ing, not on any claim for himself, but for Warwick as rightful king.

EDWARD NICHOLSON.

Cros de Cagnes, near Nice.

DICKENS: ST. GEORGE'S GALLERY (11 S. vii. 249, 434; viii. 13). The article by Dickens entitled ' The Noble Savage ' did -not appear in All the Year Round, but in Household Words, vol. vii. p. 337 (11 June, 1853). It was afterwards included in ' Re- printed Pieces,' not in ' The Uncommercial Traveller.' St. George's Gallery was built by Mr. Nathan Dunn, the proprietor of the celebrated Chinese collection at No. 18, St. George's Place (now No. 33, Knights- bridge), on part of the old barrack drill - ground. This ground was behind the houses of St. George's Place, and the Gallery ran westward at the back of No. 18 and the adjoining houses. Traces of it can still be seen on the blank wall reached by entering Old Barrack Yard from Knightsbridge, and turning sharply to the right at the end of the passage. T. W. TYRRELL.

ANN POLLARD (US. vii. 487). In saying that this lady was " the first white woman who stepped on land in what is now Boston " MR. HUCK is stating as a fact what may or may not be fact. In 1861 the late James Savage wrote :

" Of the exact truth of this pleasant myth, the possibility is not to be denied ; but I would fully learn three points the name of the ship in which she arrived and who brought her ; and still more important is her maiden name. Tradition has not ascertained the fact, and possibly it is not worth adding, whether she was the only one of her sex, that crossed from Charlestown in the first boat." ' Gen. Diet N.E.,' iii. 449.

So far as the present writer is aware, these points have never been determined.

" The Deposition of Anne Pollard, of Boston, Widow, aged about eighty-nine years," taken 11 Dec., 1711, is printed in Proceedings, Mass. Hist. Soc., xiv. 185 ; in this nothing is said about the story. But the Rev. William Balch, who died in 1792, told his son and granddaughter that when he was a student at Harvard College (from which he graduated in 1724) he met Mrs. Pollard, who related the story. This was first printed in an unknown issue of the Salem Gazette, and thence copied into Bowen's Boston Nevis Letter, and City Record of 18 March, 1826, i. 152. MR. HUCK will be interested to learn that the Massa- chusetts Historical Society owns a portrait of Mrs. Pollard, painted when she was supposed to be 103. See also Sewall's ' Diary,' i. 73, iii. 367-8 ; Proceedings, Mass. Hist. "Soc., xiv. 200 ; 3 Mass. Hist. Colls., vii. 291.

May I be allowed to add that the issue of The New England Courant of 11 Dec.. 1725, was not printed by Benjamin Franklin ? Exactly when he left Boston is not known, but perhaps the following advertisement in the issue of 30 Sept., 1723, affords a clue : " James Franklin, Printer in Queen-Street, wants a likely lad for an Apprentice." At all events, Franklin was in Philadelphia in October, 1723 : see A. H. Smyth's ' Writings of Franklin,' i. 260, x. 153.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, Mass.

BLACK HOLE or CALCUTTA (11 S. viii. 28.) The names of the Black Hole victims are inscribed on the Black Hole monument erected in Calcutta by Lord Curzon in 1902. They include those that appeared on Hoi- Well's original monument, long ago demo- lished,with certain alterations, and also others since ascertained. A full list of the names now recorded upon the tabl ets is given in Mr. H. E. A. Cotton's ' Calcutta Old and New,' pp. 418-20 (Calcutta, W. Newman &

Co., 1907). WlLMOT CORFIELD.

1 would refer W. G. D. F. to a pamphlet published in November, 1902, apparently by Government, entitled

" List of Europeans and others in the English Factories in Bengal, June, 1756. S. Charles Hill, B.A., B.Sc., Officer in charge of the Records of the Government of India."

This gives Nominal Rolls of persons

1. Who committed suicide.

2 Who were killed in the fighting. 3. W T ho perished in the Black Hole.

C. HAGGARD.