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REGISTERS OF ST. MARY-LE-BOW PARISH, CHEAPSIDE. The Registers are now being printed by the Harleian Society, and there is missing the Register 1631 to 1653. Mr. Bradford, who was appointed Rector in 1093, found it missing in 1697.

Is there any possibility of tracing it ?

It might well be that it was lost in the Great Fire, when apparently the other Registers were saved.

E. L. TRUSTRAM, Vestry Clerk. 61, Cheapsicle, E.G.

GARIBALDI : REFERENCE WANTED. Some years ago I read an article which pur- ported to be the reminiscences of an English- woman in Italy during the War of Libera- tion. I think that it appeared either in Harpers or The Century Magazine, but I am not sure of this. The writer gave an account of a very hard winter, when she sent to England for warm materials and made clothes for the poor. Presently the Austrian police accused her of helping the insurgents. She denied this, saying that she acted only out of charity ; but they replied that she must be a friend of Gari- baldi, for she was giving people red shirts. She then remembered that she had ordered a quantity of red flannel from England, without any thought 'of its political signifi- cance.

There was another horrifying story of a young man who died of cold in an Austrian prison.

I should be very much obliged to any one who could give me the reference for this article or story, and who could tell me whether it was truth or fiction.

M. H. DODDS.

I should be glad to have some information concerning this publication and the writers for it. The volume in my possession is stated to have been " Printed at Dublin :
 * THE TRIBUNE ' (EIGHTEENTH CENTURY).

London Reprinted 1729." It is in two

parts, containing twenty-one numbers, and at the end " An Epistle to His Excellency John Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. By the Rev. Dr. Delany," and a Latin poem by William Dunkin.

J. DE L.

FLORA MACDONALD'S JAILER. Where was the house of Mr. Dick, the Messenger, in which Flora Macdonald and other Jacobite prisoners were housed in 1746 ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W

GENERAL WOLFE. I am most anxious to- obtain information on matters which I was unable to clear up in my * Life and Letters of General Wolfe ' (1909), viz. :

1. Is any.hing known, or does any docu- ment exist, of Major Walter Wolfe of Dub- lin, the General's devoted uncle ?

2. Have the General's two aides-de-camp. Capt. (afterwards General Sir) Hervey Smyth and Capt. Thomas Bell, any living representatives ?

3. Information wanted concerning Thomas Fisher of Axe Yard, Westminster, Wolfe's army agent. Also of

4. Robert Wright, Wolfe's biographer (1864). BECKLES WILLSOX,

Clifton, Windsor, Nova Scotia.

TARRING. There is a Tarring - Neville near Newhaven. Tarring Peverel or, as it is now called, West Tarring near Worthing, was originally known as " Terringe." Can any one tell me at what date the change of spelling was made ?

One of the vicars of West Tarring is said to have been Simon de Terringes. Is it known if any others adopted the name ?

" Tarring " was known as a patronymic about 1700 in Holbeton and Totnes, South Devon. Its variants were Tarrin and Torring. Is anything known of it in that district at an earlier date than 1700 ? G.

OLD STORIES SOUGHT FOR. Two stories I read many years ago I should like to find again.

1. About 1863-5. not later. A young man with lofty ideals of social sincerity pro- vokes his companions to bet him that he cannot stick to the unvarnished truth for three days. He takes the bet, and within twelve hours (I believe) is discharged by his employer for telling customers the truth about goods, discarded by his sweetheart for refusing to say he thinks her the prettiest girl of his acquaintance, and disinherited by his uncle for declining to admit that he should be inconsolable for the old man's death ; in a few more he is lodged in a lunatic asylum as of unhinged mind. He comes out with flying colours, owing to the author's optimism. The story was probably English, though I saw it in an American periodical.

2. A few years later ; I think about 1873, possibly as early as 1869. This was cer- tainly English, and a burlesque of boisterous humour. A young married couple quarrelled and wished a divorce, but could not legally obtain one ; so it was decided that the