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at Quebec " the Gibraltar of the Western world " in the attack on the French en- trenchments on the River Montmorency, on 31 July, 1759, their loss was 18 men killed, 6 officers Col. Fraser, Capts. M'Pherson and Simon Fraser, Lieuts. Cameron, M'Donald, and H. M'Donald ^ind 86 men wounded, and 2 men missing.

In the battle on the Heights of Abraham, before Quebec, on 13 Sept., 1759, their loss was 3 officers Capt. Ross, Lieuts. Rory M'Neil and Alex. M'Donell and 15 men killed; 10 officers Capts. J. M'Donnell and Simon Fraser, Lieuts. Ron. M'Donnel, Arch. Campbell, Alex. Campbell, John Doug- las, and Alex. Fraser, sen., Ensigns James M'Kenzie, Alex. Gregorson, and Male. Frazer, sen. and 138 men wounded, and 2 missing. An officer in one of his^ letters wrote : ""When these Highlanders took to their broad- swords, my God, what havoc they made ! They drove everything before them, and stone walls

alone could resist their fury.' City View, Lincoln.

J. C. RlNGHAM.

MR. GWYTHER cannot do better than see ' The Fighting Frasers of the 'Forty - Five and Quebec,' by Bernard W. Kelly, pub- lished by Washbourne, 1, Paternoster Row {1908, 8vo, pp. vi, 57). J. M. BULLOCH.

According to Grant's ' British Battles on Land and Sea,' vol. ii. p. 93, 44 the troops on board were the loth, 28th, 35th, 43rd, 47th, 48th, 58th, and 60th Regiments, with the Master of Lovat's Fraser Highlanders, or old 78th, disbanded in 1763."

G. H. W.

WEBSTER'S 'DUCHESS OF MALFI ' (11 S. viii. 221, 244, 263, 282, 304). The following has only a slight bearing on MR. SYKES'S most valuable and interesting papers on Webster's play. It seems to me, how- ever, that it does relate to ' The Duchess of Malfi.'

A Venetian writing from London on 7 Feb., 1618, complains that

41 the English deride our religion as detestable and superstitious, and never represent any theatrical piece, not even a satirical tragi-comedy, without larding it with the vices and iniquity of some Catholic ohurchman, which move them to laughter .and much mockery, to their own satisfaction and to the regret of the good. On one occasion my colleagues of the Embassy saw a comedy performed, in which a Franciscan friar was introduced, cunning and replete with impiety of various shades, includ- ing avarice and lust. The whole was made to end in a tragedy, the friar being beheaded on the sta^e Another time they represented the pomp of a Car- dinal in his identical robes of state, very handsome and costly, and accompanied by his attendants,

with an altar raised on the stage, where he pre- tended to perform service, ordering a procession. He then reappeared familiarly with a concubine in public. He played the part of administering poison to his sister upon a point of honour, and moreover of going into battle, having first gravely deposited his cardinal's robes on the altar through the agency of his chaplains. Last of all, he had himself girded with a sword, and put on his scarf with the best imaginable grace. All this they do in derision of ecclesiastical pomp, which in this kingdom is scorned and hated mortally." ' Calendar of State Papers Venetian.' xv. 134, quoted in ' Court Masques of James I.,' by Mary Sullivan, Ph.D., 1913.

The second play described appears to be ' The Duchess of Malfi,' though, as one would expect, the description is not accurate in every detail.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

Sheffield.

DHONA (11 S. viii. 269). Perhaps an excerpt from Mr. Cornelius Brown's ' Annals of Newark,' p. 167, may be useful to your correspondent. The author quotes from the parish registers entries of the burial of military men in 1645, and adds :

At an earlier period is the following : * Lord Barinet Douer, generall ouer quene ffoursis.' He was interred in the altar vault June 27, 1643...

Dugdale's 4 Diary,' under the date of June 21, 1643, has the following: 'The queene's forces... advanced from Newark towards Nottingham... Baron Done slayne on y e K. p'te. ' And under date of June 24 (the register distinctly says the 27th) the following : ' The Barron Done buried in y e Quire of Newarke Church, in y vaut at y e east end w th great solempnity.'

The baron is mentioned as haying been a kins- man of the Prince of Orange, and in order to ascer- tain the correctness of this statement, MR. EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A., communicated with a Dutch friend of his, learned in historical and genealogical matters, who thus replied* : ' Your baron Done or Douer, a kinsman of the Prince of Orange, can be only a younger son of the well-known German family of Dhona, sometimes written Dona. In the exten- sive genealogy of the Dhona or Dohna family given by Hubner in his genealogical tablets, I see many of them registered, but without the date of their death ; and as your baron has not given his Chris- tian name before dying, it will be most difficult to ascertain whether he was any of those mentioned in the said book. I have not the least doubt that the one who fought and died in England anno 1643 was a yofinger son of that family of warriors, who were to be found wherever any war was going on.' "

ST. SWITHIN.

ST. VED AST'S CLOCK (US. viii. 310). imagine that church clocks without faces are not very uncommon. I may instance the cathedral churches of York, Durham, and Lincoln. J. T. F.

Durham.


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