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of Simon Green, Merchant, by the Rev. Henry Biddall Swanzy, M.A., and Thomas George Hennis Green, M.R.I.A. Dublin, Alex. Thorn & Co., 1902. (Privately printed.)

Greene Pedigree of the Family of Greene* formerly of Greenville, &c. Compiled by Lieut.-Col. J. J. Greene, B.A., M.B., Dublin, of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Dublin, the Wood Printing Works, 1899.

Maunsell History of the Family of Maunsell or Mansel, &c. Compiled by Robert George Maunsell. Cork, Guy & Co., Ltd., 1903.

Nixon see French.

Pollock The Family of Pollock of Newry and Descendants, by the Rev. Allen Stewart Hartigan, M.A. Folkestone, Birch & Co. ; no date on title-page, but note on arms dated 1901.

Slacke Records of the Slacke Family in Ireland, by Helen A. Crofton. About 1901.

Spedding The Spedding Family, with short accounts of a few other Families allied by Marriage, by Capt. John Carlisle D. Spedding. Dublin, Alex. Thorn & Co., Ltd., 1909. (Pri- vately printed.)

Stawell A Quantock Family : the Stawells of Cothelstone and their Descendants, the Barons Stawell of Somerton, and the Stawells of Devonshire and the County Cork. Com- piled and edited by Col. George Dodsworth Stawell, late Director of Military Education in India. Taunton, Barnicott & Pearce, 1910.

Townshend An Officer of the Long Parliament and his Descendants, being some account of the Life and Times of Col. Richard Townesend of Castletown (Castletownshend ), and a Chro- nicle of his Family. Edited by Richard and Dorothea Townshend. London, Henry Frowde, 1892.

Tyrrell A Genealogical History of the Tyrrell?. Compiled by Joseph Henry Tyrrell. Privately printed, 1904.

HENRY B. SWANZY.

HICKEY AND ALEXANDER, DRAUGHTS- MEN TO LORD MACARTNEY'S CHINESE EM- BASSY, 1793. Included in the sale of Sir Thos. Phillipps's library just over were several items of interest connected with Lord Macartney's embassy, among them a large volume of water-colour drawings. There was a curious piece of jobbery con- nected with the appointment of Hickey to this embassy. It was well known that he was without the necessary artistic quali- fications, and so Alexander, afterwards Keeper of Prints, &c., at the British Museum, was appointed assistant draughtsman. I have never seen a drawing of Hickey's illustrative of this embassy, and I doubt if any one has, whereas there were hundreds done by Alexander. It would seem that the explanation of this piece of jobbery was the fact that Hickey was the natural son

of " The Lion's " captain. A friend con- nected with William Alexander's family acquainted me with this. Perhaps some reader can supply a corroboration.

While on this subject may I say that Alexander's work is too little known t His architectural drawing was scarcely inferior to Turner's, and his touch of the same delicate character. I have just seen a drawing of Wells in the possession of Messrs. Palser of King Street, Covent Garden, that will, I think, bear out this statement. W. Louis KING.

Wadesmill, Ware.

THE DOUBLE NAME BEFORE THE TROU- SERS ERA. The following entry from the Register of Hanney may be interesting as an early example : " Georgius Hermes Abner Eugenius, son of George Dew of East Hanney, practiconer of physick, bap. 3 July, 1706 S " E. R. NEVILL, F.S.A.

[For the early use of double Christian names see 6 S. vii. 119, 172; viii. 153, 273, 371; ix. 36, 438; x. 214, 333 ; 9 8. vi. 107, 217.]

LANCASHIRE SOBRIQUETS. To the best of my remembrance, some of the following " Lanky " nicknames have not yet been registered by ' N. & Q.' : " Owdham Roughyed," " Rochda Bulldog," " Yewood Monkey," " Middleton Moonraker," " Bow- ton Trotter." Does the story told of Middleton men correspond with that which accounts for " Wiltshire Moonrakers " 1

ST. SWITHIN.

JAMES LACKINGTON THE BOOKSELLER. Autograph letters of this interesting man are sufficiently uncommon to make any which are illustrative of his life and work worth publishing in these pages. The following is on one side of a quarto sheet addressed to " Mr. Edwards, No. 6, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London " :

SIR,

You have now the whole of the copy except indix. Please to send to the Temple of the Muses sealed up diricted for me one sheet B and two sheets of each of all that are worked of as I want to make the indix and you will oblige J. LACKINGTON.

Alverton, Dec. 12th, 1803.

P.S. Pray do all you can as it is very much wanted among the Methodists and indeed by others. Send the above sheets as soon as you receive this as there is a parcel coming to me from the Temple. As soon as you have finished the work excep[t] the Indix send the sheets by coach two of each if such as you have not sent before. With the sheets to the Temple say if you have any Binder or not [so] as I may have time to write to some if you have not. Sopose the book