Page:Notes and Queries - Series 11 - Volume 2.djvu/194

 188

NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vm. SEPT. 6, 1913.

regiment has, or desires to have, such por- traits, and that they were originally given to intimate friends, or, perhaps, to those who had attended the wedding.

The Princess wears on her head a wreath of roses and leaves and a narrow velvet band. The Prince wears a scarlet coat, a broad blue ribbon over the left shoulder, and seven orders, mostly hanging from neck- ribbons, besides one nearly hidden by the dark-blue ribbon.

According to 'The Annual Register* for the year 1816, p. 60 of the 'Chronicle,' he

" wore at the wedding a full British uniform* decorated with the insignia of the new Hanoverian order of the Guelphs, and other emblems of Knighthood of Saxony, and of Austria, Russia, the Netherlands, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Denmark."

As the dark-blue ribbon probably is that of the Garter, and the Prince was not made a Knight of that order until 23 May, 1816, the portraits were presumably engraved after the wedding, which took place 2 May, 1816.

The Prince was appointed a general in the 'army on his wedding day, and a field- marshal on the 24th of the same month. See Haydn's ' Book of Dignities,' continued by Horace Ockerby, third edition, 1894.

I should like to have any information about these portraits. In the catalogue of the auction where I bought my copies they were described as " Murat and An English Princess " ! ROBERT PIERPOINT.

8, Cleveland Square, W.

THE MILKWORT IN LITERATURE. On a recent visit to Wales my father and I, admir- ing this exquisite little flower, which gives such a charm to a bare hillside, commented on the curious fact, if fact it is, that it has never won recognition in poetry. But is it indeed a fact ? Can any reader refer me to a poem or poems devoted to the milkwort ? In Katharine Tynan and Frances Mai tland's ' Book of Flowers,' 1909, p. 175, no poetical references are given. H. I. B.

THE SURNAME LAROM. Some fifty years ago there was a Baptist minister in this city of the above name. I am unable to trace his antecedents. Is anything known of the origin of the name or the parentage of the Rev. Charles Larom ? He is said to have come from London to Sheffield when a youth. The name does not occur in the 'Post Office Directory,'

CHARLES DRURY.

12, Ranmoor Clifle Road, Sheffield.

BEARDMORE AT KHARTUM. llie Lorn- bardini, in his ' Essai sur 1'hydrologie du Nil,' Paris, 1865, says that the curve pub- lished by Beardmore for the rise of the river at Khartum in 1849 is of great utility. Is anything known of Beardmore and his- observations in the Sudan ? Probably he was the Nathaniel Beardmore, civil engineer,. 1816-72, who is noticed in the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

RICHARD WALLER of Cully, said to have held a commission in Cromwell's army in Ireland, 1641, is stated in ' Landed Gentry r to have made his will 6 October, 1676. Where would this will have been proved,, and where can a copy be seen ?

G. B. S.

MARKYATE. Can any of your readers help me to the meaning of the name of this place, Markyate, or Markyate Street ? Any authentic information on the subject will be useful. S. A. J.

Markyate, Dunstable.

[We would suggest a reference to the late Prof- Skeat's 'Place-Names of Bedfordshire.']

OLD LONDON DIRECTORIES. Can any one tell me if there was a London Directory for the years 1790 to 1827 giving these streets : Davies Street, Berkeley Square ; Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square ; also the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Charing Cross ? If there was such a Directory, where can a copy be seen ? C. S.

[There is a large collection of London Directories in the Guildhall Library. MESSRS. KELLY & Co. stated at 8 S. xi. 78 that the first edition of the 4 Post Office London Directory ' was issued in 1798. There were, however, earlier Directories.]

" CAT-GALLOWS." There is a paragraph in The Engineer of 4 July, 1913, p. 13, col. 3, stating that a quaint structure at Nun- eaton, known as " Cat-Gallows Bridge," i* about to be demolished. What is a " cat- gallows " ? and what is the origin of tho designation ? R- B. P.

WARWICK : DURELL. (See ante, p. 28.) I know now that Ann, the only daughter of Vice-Admiral Philip Durell, was married to the Rev. Thomas Warwick. The repre- sentatives of this union I should be very glad to find.

DAVID Ross McCoRD, M.A., K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

LADY HAMILTON'S GRAVE. Where exactly does Lady Hamilton lie buried at Calais ? Is the spot accessible to the traveller ?

J. H.