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 us. VIIL OCT. 4, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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DHONA. " Lord Barinet " or " Count Dhona, general of Queen Henrietta's forces, killed during siege of Newark, May, 1643, was reputed a cousin of the Prince of Orange. Can any reader suggest to me where to search for the correct title or designation of this soldier, who, according to Ashmole, was " buried with great solempnity " in Newark Church ? County histories give name variously as above, Doner, and Douer.

A. P.

LEGH'S ' ACCEDENS OF ARMORY,' 1568. After folio 89 in this volume there is a folding woodcut, which is thus described in a book- seller's catalogue (Downing, 1895) :

" The woodcut is a fine and curious design, showing a coat of arms within a collar of SS, with a pendent medallion of Pegasus, motto ' Volat alta ad sidera verttis,' surmounted by a crest and supported by two figures of Hercules and Athlas. It is not mentioned by Lowndes, and is frequently absent from the book."

There is nothing to indicate the artist or engraver, and I shall be obliged if any one can tell me the name of either. The drawing of the figures is singularly bold, and suggests the school of Albrecht Diirer.

WM. NORMAN.

LACE MADE AT PORTCHESTEB CASTLE BY FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR. Can any correspondent give me any information on this subject ?

At one time no fewer than 3,000 prisoners were engaged upon this industry. The lace commanded so great a sale among the gentry of the neighbourhood that the manufacturers of Honiton and elsewhere petitioned the Government for its suppression, as injuring the trade of poor people who paid taxes, and their petition was granted.

FRANCIS ABELL.

CAGES FOR CRIMINALS. Can any reader give me reliable information concerning the use of " cages," made of timber, in small places of detention, for minor criminals ? When were they introduced into England, and when done away with ? B.

[See 5 S. viii. 267.]

THE ROAR OF GUNS AND THE GLARE OF FIRE. Mr." F. W. H. Cavendish says in his Journal (1), under November, 1832, that he heard the French and Dutch cannon at the siege of Antwerp on the beach at East- bourne ; and (2) under 16 Oct., 1834, he saw " plainly " from the Downs near that town " the glare of the conflagration " of the Houses of Parliament.

Can these statements be correct ? I remember that Pepys says the guns at the battle of Southwold (in 1672), were heard in London 90 miles away. I think that this has been discussed in ' N. & Q.' H. C. [See 9 S. vii. 207, 258, 493 ; viii. 112.]

REFERENCE WANTED. Can any of your readers give chapter and verse for the remark that,

" of all the pagan philosophers, Cicero is the only one whom we think of testing by the Christian standards,"

or words to that effect ?

J. B. DOUGLAS.

BRIGADIER - GENERAL THOMAS Fox- STRANGWAYS, Royal Artillery, was killed at the battle of Inkermann, 5 Nov., 1854. In a biographical notice which appeared in Jackson's Woohvich Journal of December, 1854, the following sentence occurs :

" He also received the gold medal of Sweden ' for bravery and good conduct,' the Order of St. Anne of Russia, and the Order of the Sword of Sweden."

These medals and decorations were granted in recognition of services rendered with the Rocket Brigade, R.H.A., at the battle of Leipzig, in October. 1813.

Information is asked for as to the present possessor of the decorations. They are not mentioned in any Army Lists in the list of ' Foreign Orders conferred on Military Officers.'

J. H. LESLIE, Major R.A. (retired list).

31, Kenwood Park Road, Sheffield.

' MAURICE RHYNHART ; or, A Few Pas- sages in the Life of an Irish Rebel.' By J. T. Listado. A novel in two volumes thus entitled was published by Chapman & Hall in 1871. Could any reader give me information regarding the author's name ? That on title-page I take to be a pseudonym. The book gives the best description I know of the events preceding the Young Ireland outbreak of 1848.

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'

Kensal Lodge, N.W.

LAWRENCE : WASHINGTON. The fre- quency of the Christian name Lawrence in the Washington families of Warton (Lanca- shire), Sulgrave, and Virginia has been ex- plained by the statement that a Washington of Warton married a lady of the Lawrence family of Ashton, Lancashire, her father's arms being Argent, a cross ragulee gules.

When, where, and between whom did this marriage take place ?

F. H. WlLHELMSOHN.