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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. ROBERT HOLDEN, son and heir of Richard Holden of Lincoln's Inn and Cooke's Court. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, 1754. Married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Winch of Shoppenhangers, Bray, Berks, by whom he had two daughters, who married respectively Richard Webb and Sir Adam Gordon. Wanted, legal career and death.

2. JAMES MORGAN of St. Anne's parish, Westminster, and Abercothy, Carmarthen- shire. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, 1751. Married Mary, one of the four daughters and coheirs of Charles Parry of Oakfield, Berks. Wanted, legal career and death.

3. GEORGE LEWIS NEWNHAM, K.C. Son of Nathaniel Newnham, jun.. of New Court, St. Swithin's Lane. Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, 1772. Wanted, marriage, descendants, legal career, and death. M. S. T.

ORIGINAL OF TRANSLATION WANTED. I shall be glad if some one will kindly give, in the original, the passage from Theophilus's ' Diversarum Artium Schedula ' (chap, xxx., Second Book) which has been translated by Winston as :

"Take sapphire and green glass, which should be made to liquefy very slightly by the heat of the fire."

The Second Book of Theophilus is printed in Raspe's ' Essay on Oil Painting,' but I have not access to a copy. J. A. K.

SPONG. I should be pleased to have some particulars of the ancestry of William Spong of Cookham Hill, Rochester.

G. D. LUMB.

JOHN TEKELL AND HIS HOUSES. In 1800 John Tekell of Hambledon, Hants, married Lady Griselda, daughter of the third Earl Stanhope. Burke gives the name as " Tickell," which is incorrect. After the marriage John Tekell lived at Frimley Park, Surrey, near Bagshot. Did this John Tekell build " Tekell Castle," near Camberley ? This latter building was burnt down some ten years ago. One of the houses in which John Tekell lived was afterwards bought by the Government and converted into a military academy. If so, what is the name of the building now ? Is it Sandhurst College ?

I have reason to believe that John Tekell of Hambledon was a near relative (possibly a half-brother) of my great-grandfather, William Tekell of Chalford (adjoining Bisley) in Gloucestershire.

FREDERICK TEKELL.

3, Edwy Parade, Gloucester.

PORTRAIT OF BISHOP RICHARD BARNES. Can your readers give me information of any painted or engraved portrait of Richard Barnes ? He was born at Bold, near War- rington, in 1532; of Brasenose College, Ox- ford; Bishop of Carlisle 1570; Bishop of Durham 1577.

J. G. WILSON, Bishop's Secretary.

Chapter Office, Durham.

IRISH GHOST STORIES. I am anxious to compile a book of Irish ghost stories, culled from every corner of Ireland, and thus thoroughly representative of the country. There must surely be a large mass of local tales and legends of great interest, if one could only lay hands on them, and so I purpose adopting the following plan for collecting them.

Might I trespass upon the kindness of your readers, and ask them to send me any ghost stories they know of, either as personal experiences or as popularly related among their friends and acquaintances ? If any such are already printed in any newspaper or magazine, would they be so good as to give me the exact references, which I can then consult myself ? If unpublished, might I ask them to go to the trouble of writing out at full length whatever they know, and forward the same to me to the address given below ? I want tales dealing with the following subjects :

1. Family and ancestral ghosts.

2. Haunted houses and buildings.

3. Haunted localities (roads, lanes, gateways, churchyards, forts, fields, &c.).

4. Apparitions of persons seen at or after death.

5. Visions of any description seen by day or night.

6. Spectral black dogs, horses, hares, head- less coaches, banshees, corpse-candles, &c.

7. Poltergeists, or ghosts which play mis- chievous pranks ring bells, upset furniture, throw objects about, &c.

8. Appearances of the devil.

9. Any amusing tales of supposed ghosts which really turned out to be something ordinary,

or any stories of the supernatural in Ireland which do not at first sight seem to come under any of the above heads.

I earnestly request your readers not to send any " faked " stories. It will be quite impossible for me to test the accuracy and genuineness of all the tales I hope to get, so such a joke would be an exceedingly poor one.

The names of all thosa correspondents whose materials I make use of will be gratefully acknowledged by me in the Pre- face. Should any persons have in their