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Reynolds ' styles him Capt. Blackwood, .and gives the date of the portrait as June, 1753. Hamilton, * Catalogue Raisonne of the Engraved Works of Sir J. Reynolds,' includes it, but gives no particulars. Can any one tell me who is the original of this portrait ?

C. W. FlREBRACE.

Beacon Hill Park, Hindhead.

COLOUR OF LIVERIES. What is the usual colour for liveries adopted by those in whose coat of arms the field is sable ? For ex- ample, what are the livery colours of the Marquises of Winchester and Anglesey, the Earls of Warwick and Harewood, Viscount St. Vincent, Lords Arundell and Kenyon, and others, the field of whose arms is in each instance sable ?

Also, what is the livery colour generally used by those families in whose coat of arms the field is ermine ?

I have consulted various heraldic works on the subject, but they invariably avoid giving the colours of the liveries to be used in the cases of the field being sable or ermine.

CURIOUS.

SIR JOHN KENNEDY, BART., OF GIR VAN- MAINS. This baronet, created 4 Aug., 1673, married Margaret -, who had remarried in 1688 Charles Gordon of Braco, in the Garioch, Aberdeenshire, ensign in the Edin- burgh Town Guard. Her name and re- marriage do not appear in G. E. C.'s ' Com- plete Baronetage ' (iv. 296). What was her surname ? J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W.

" AT SIXES AND SEVENS." Can any one of your readers give an explanation of the expression " to be at sixes and sevens " ?

V.

[Our correspondent DR. KBUEGER offered an explanation of the origin of this phrase at 9 S. xi. 266, which is practically identical with that in the ' N.E.D.' The derivation is from dicing, and the first form of the phrase is "to set on six and seven," a variant for " to set on cinque and sice." The plural form at present in use estab- lished itself in the eighteenth century. The first instance given in the * N. E. D.' comes from Chaucer, ' Troylus,' iv. 622, and the development of the phrase by change of preposition, &c., is illustrated by a good sequence of examples.]

' GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.' Before me is a line engraving, octavo, with a three-quarter figure in an oval, identified on the label as "Capt. Lemiuel Gulliver, Splendid Mendax Will some contributor kindly inform

Hor. :

me what is its date, and whether it formed the frontispiece to a skit on Swift ?

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

THE CLAY PIPES OF GENTILITY. Surtees in ' Ask Mamma,' 1858, chap, xlix., says :

" The gorse was within a stone's throw of the ' Public,' so Luff and some of the thirsty ones pulled up to wet their whistles and light the clay pipes of gentility."

Were clay pipes in fashionable use in the fifties or sixties of the last century ? The Luff mentioned, it should be observed, was a Capt. Luff, and not a stable hanger-on. G. L. APPERSON.

TOURGIS OF JERSEY. Can some reader give me information as to the family and parentage of Philip Tourgis, born 1798, in Trinity Parish, Isle of Jersey, and married, 1822, to Jane Neel of St. Saviour's Parish, Jersey ?

Is there any later or more extensive work on Jersey family history than Payne's
 * Armorial of Jersey,' 1860 ?

MINNESOTA.

DE GREY: HENRY DE GREY OF THURROCK, TEMP. RICHARD I.

(US. viii. 107.)

PERMIT me to inform your correspondent that the Auchitel de Grey who married Eva, dau. of Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon, was not the Auchitel de Croy or de Grey who held lands of the fee of William Fitz Osberne at the Domesday Survey (Domesday, i. 161). The former was grandson of the latter (Collins's ' Peerage,' 1741 ed., vol. ii. p. 22).

With reference to the identity of the wife of John de Grey, second son of Henry de Grey of Thurrock, called by Collins grandson of Auchitel de Grey and his wife Eva, genealogical writers differ.

Collins (as above, p. 27) says she was Emma, daughter and heir of Geoffrey de Glanville, giving as his authority " Lib. Geneal. p. 85 in bibl. Lambeth." (Banks's 'Dormant and Extinct Baronage,' ii. 231, says also vide " a MS. ped. penes Jo. Egerton of Oulton, co. Chest., arm.") On the other hand, we find Burke's ' Extinct Peer- age,' 1840 ed., p. 230, narrating, on the authority of Dugdale, that c. 35 or 36 Henry III. John de Grey was married to Lady Joane Peyvre, widow of Pauline Pevere (sic). Assuming that John de Grey married both ladies, as he doubtless did,