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one former owner, " Alfred H. Kebby, 1873," whose son is assistant librarian therein. " Habent sua fata libelli."

^Vho was its author ? No reference can be found either to him or his book in the Catalogues of the British Museum, Ry lands Library, Manchester, or Advocates' Library, Edinburgh ; nor are they mentioned in either the ' D.N.B.' or Gent. Mag. for 1785-6. Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' can reveal the identity of the mysterious author of this pretentious volume.

J. B. MCGOVEBN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

CAPT. JOHN WARDE, 1544-1601, OF YALD- INC4, KENT. With the Cecil Papers there is a petition (596) of John Warde, " a poore ould servitor," soliciting the renewal for twenty-one years of a lease of the Parsonage of Yalding in Kent, recounting his services from the " wininge of bullon " (1544) to his appointment as " Mayster of the Campe in Kent, when the flett of Spannerdes came " (1588). Warde had been granted a lease of Yalding, 8 March, 1568, and appears as Captain of Sandgate Castle in 1573. In 1579 and 1581-3 he was Mayor of Folkestone. He was buried at Hythe, Kent, 31 Jan., 1601. His will was proved 13 Feb. following ; in it he mentions a grandson Luke.

I desire to ascertain his relationship to Capt. Luke Warde, a notice of whom is in the ' D.N.B.,' vol. lix. p. 350.

Capt. John Warde must not be confused with the notorious pirate, who also finds a place in the ' D.N.B.,' occupying a column and a half. R. J. FYNMORE.

" WHORLGOGY." In the Churchwardens' books of St. John's, Frome, is the following entry under date 1584 : " Item Payd for setting up the whorlgogy 4d." Can any one enlighten me as to the nature and use of a " whorlgogy " ? FREDERIC TURNER.

Frome, Somerset.

[One can but suppose this is an amusing local variant for "horology. 5 "

1. RUBENS AND GERARD Dou. Can any reader tell me who is the best living authority on the lives and works of the above painters ?

2. Louis GABRIEL. Can any one give me information about an artist of this name ? He is supposed to have been French, and lived probably 150 years ago.

I should like to know when and where he lived, where he painted chiefly, what were his subjects and styles, whether he was a prolific painter, and whether he made a great reputation. M. Y. P.

COTTINGTON. Can any of your readers inform me whether Lord Cottington (who was Lord Chancellor to Charles I.) had other brothers besides Maurice, whose son Charles succeeded ? (The family came from Frome, Somersetshire.) Are there any descendants of the family now living ?

The title became extinct in 1758 or 176O, on the death of Francis, Lord Cottington (grand-nephew to the first lord), who alienated the Cottington property Fonthill Abbey to Mr. John Jenkinson.

E. R. C.

HIGHAM FERRERS. In 1902 Miss Mary Bateson printed (Eng. Hist. Rev., xvii. 290) the charter granted by William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, to eighty-eight of his "ho- mines de Hecham,' from the Charter Roll 36 Hen. III. m. 25. By this it is provided :

" quod terras et catalla et tenementa sua habeant

et teueant in libera burgagia de cetero, sicut

continetur in carta nostra quam eisdeni fieri fecimus de libero burgo in Hecham habendo."

Does any other charter exist that fulfils this description ? Q. V.

SCARLET GLOVES AND TRACTARIANS. In Henry Kingsley's ' Leighton Court ' one of the characters is a Tractarian vicar ; his wife " wore scarlet gloves, in deference to her husband's orders." Why ?

M. H. DODDS.

ANTHONY MUNDAY, DRAMATIST. In the 'D.N.B.' it is stated that the father of Anthony Munday the dramatist was Chris- topher Munday, draper of London. Is anything known of this Christopher Munday ?

P. D. M.

'MUSARUM DELICI2E,' 1656. At 11 S.

vii. 337 there is a quotation given from this book, but I have not yet been able to dis- cover a copy. The only book bearing that title I can find in the British Museum Cata- logue is one printed by Anne Griffin in 1635, and containing " more than a select Century of Royall Latine Anagrams. .. .perused anew.... by Arthur Pyne." Could your correspondent kindly oblige with further information on the more recent book from which he quoted ; L. L. K.

AGNES CROPHALL, LADY DEVEREUX. Will any reader of ' N. & Q.' kindly tell me who was the mother of this lady, who is described in Burke' s ' Peerage and Baronet- age ' as Agnes de Crophull, wife of Sir Walter Devereux ? According to Dr. Hard- wicke in the Appendix to his valuable