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If MR. HARVEY BLOOM will compare similar accounts, this way of expressing the approximate date of a marriage is not at all uncommon, and is sometimes followed, when the actual date of the death is also known, by a parenthesis which gives it. I will give an instance from another family of the Earls of Warwick (at p. 590), referring to George Plantagenet, brother of King- Edward IV. : " m: Lady Elizabeth Neville, elder d. and co-h. of Richard, Earl of War- wick and Salisbury, July llth, 1469 (d. Dec: 22, 1476)." And then, just below : " Executed Feb: 18th, 1478,"' which, of course, refers to the death of the Earl. From this it would seem to me that your correspondent has misread his author.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Your correspondent ^ MR. J. HARVEY BLOOM has misread h'is Doyle. " Before 1340 " relates to the date of the marriage of Thomas (de Beauchamp) I., Earl of Warwick, with Lady Katherine Mortimer, and not, as he supposes, to the date of her decease.

Confirmatory evidence is forthcoming from the fact that their son, Thomas II., Earl of Warwick, named in his mother's will, was born in 1345.

FRANCIS H. HELTON.

9, Broughtoii Road, Thornton Heath.

DUCHESS OF BOLTON (11 S. viii. 349). The Catherine Parry who married Lord Henry Paulett was the daughter of Francis Parry of Oakfield, Mortimer, Berks. I cannot give all the dates required, but she was under 12 in 1700, and was married before 1717. It is probable that she was married at St. James's, Duke's Place, on 28 Oct., 1714, though the marriage is entered in the Register of that parish as between Henry Parry and Catherine Paulett. The other Catherine* daughter of Charles Parry, was buried at Mortimer, 7 March, 1787. G. S. PARRY.

17, Ashley Mansions, S.W.

SUPERSTITION IN THE TWENTIETH CEN- TURY (11 S. viii. 347). Harrow is not alone in this enlightened second decade of the twentieth century of the Christian era in yielding to the popular prejudice against the number 13. Evidently with the expecta- tion that the more superstitious of the in- habitants of Wimborne would be oblivious of the fact that, in every street of sufficient length, there would be a house which, whatever number it bore, would be the thir- teenth from the beginning, the authorities,

preparatory to the Census of 1911, when assigning numbers to the houses, omitted the number " 13." Consequently, throughout the town, with one exception which escaped notice, the numbers affixed to the doors run. on from 12 to 14. JAS. M. J. FLETCHER. The Vicarage, Wimborne Minster.

The following extract from the Nuova Antologia, 1 Nov., 1912, p. 13, may interest readers :

" A Londra si e cercato di fare un movimento- nazionale contro il numero 13. Nel 1911 (dico- 1911) il London County Council ha discusso lungamente, sul caso di una signora che, dopo- aver domandato al municipio di cambiare il numero 13 in 12 bis di una casa dove esercitava una piccola pensione, sarebbe stata costretta di chiuderla a causa dell' aversione del pubblico. di vivere in numero 13. Quando la signora aveva presso in affitto la casa, questa portava un altro- numero, ma in seguito ad una nuova numerazione le era proprio toccato questo numero fatale, con 1'effetto che gli inquilini avevano subito disdetto i loro contratti e non so ne potevano trovare- a ltd che li'sostituissero."

W. CLARK THOMLINSON.

THE MODEL OF WATERLOO (11 S. viii. 348). The model about which P. D. M. seeks information is undoubtedly the monumental work on which the late Capt. William Siborne laboured unremittingly from 1831 to 1838, and which for many years was exhibited not only in London, but in all the chief towns of the United Kingdom, until it w r as finally purchased by subscriptions from the officers of the British Army, and deposited in the Museum of the Royal United Service Institution in 1851, where it still forms one of the most attractive ex- hibits. I believe that one way or another its construction cost the best part of 10,OOOZ. Capt. Siborne spared no pains in making a most accurate survey of the ground, the position and extent of every object and enclosure, the level of the surface and un- dulations of the ground, and the disposition of the troops being determined with mathe- matical accuracy. The model is constructed upon a scale of 9 ft. to a mile ; it is 21 ft. 4 in. in length by 19ft. Sin. in breadth, and covers an area of 400 square feet.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

Timbs's ' Curiosities of London,' 1855, states that the United Service Institution Museum, Whitehall Yard, had a model of the Battle of Waterloo, scale 9 ft. to a mile y area 440 square ft., showing the entire field, and the British, French, and Prussian armies by 190,000 metal figures, with the villages, houses, farmyards, and clumps of trees. It cost Capt. Siborne 4,OOOJ. when he made it