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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. vm. JULY 19, 1913. Author Wanted: Lines in a Parish Register. On the fly-leaf of our Parish Register is written the following:—

"A man may many frendes teine and not

have scant cause doth raise a proofe he may of

frendshipp want."

The dotted part is quite illegible. It was written apparently during the seven- teenth century. Can any one tell me if it is a quotation, and what the full quotation is ? A. V. PEATLING.

Carshalton.

GLASGOW MEN AS PAPAL ZOUAVES. The Tablet, 25 November, 1911, in record- ing the death (at Roehampton on 16 Novem- ber) of Dr. Charles Menzies Gordon, late Vicar-Apostolic of Jamaica (born 1831), states :

" When the news came about 1867 that the French

Empire had ceased to defend the Pope Charles

Gordon raised a force of sixty men, recruited chiefly in Glasgow, armed them at his own expense, and took them to Italy. In one or more engage- ments with the Piedmontese troops, he received severe wounds, the marks of which he bore till his death."

A member of his family informs me that he was " very reticent on the subject." Can any reader dispel the reticence by giving particulars as to this corps ? Are any of its members still alive ?

J. M. BULLOCH. 123, Pall Mall, S.W.

PENNINGTON.- Can any reader give me information about the antecedents of Thomas Pennington of Alford, co. Lincoln, and Vicar of Horncastle in that county (died 1849) and Robert Rainey his brother, a Governor of the Foundling Hospital (died 1849) The family claims descent from a younger branch of the family from which Lord Mun caster derives. E. PENNINGTON.

BRADDOCK FAMILY. I am a descendan of Major-General Braddock, who servec under Marlborough, and am interested in finding the date and place of his birth.

This question has been raised in ' N. & Q with reference to his son General Braddock who commanded the forces in America i 1755, and was killed in the unfortunate expedition a.gainst Fort Duquesne (see 1 S. ix. 11, 562 ; xii. 72 ; 3 S. xii. 5).

SERVIENS, the querist at the first refer- ence, considers that the family was of Irish extraction. The elder Braddock had three sons and two daughters, but my great-grandfather's grandfather, one of the sons, was the only one to leave issue.

Can any reader help me to find out the 'ollowing ? (1) In what part or parts of -he kingdom the name is common. (2) What ground there is for saying the family was of Irish origin. (3) Whom the elder Braddock married. (4) Whether the name is known in Perthshire. The younger Braddock, afterwards General Braddock, was born in Perthshire in 1695. Is his Birthplace known there ? Any other in- 'ormation would be welcome. The coat of arms and other relics are still in the Dossession of the family.

F. ROBERTSON SMITH.

NAPOLEON I. AND DUELLING. Is there any historical evidence of Napoleon I. having prohibited duelling in the army while on active service ? HUSSAR.

" THE CROOKED BILLET." I shall be lad of any particulars of " The Crooked Sillet." Tower Street, mentioned in 'Bar- naby Rudge. ' J. ARDAGH.

" THE Two REYNOLDSES." I should be glad to have an explanation of the allu- sion in the following passage written by the Shakspearian editor Edmund Malone in 1803 : " Like the two Reynoldses, we have changed sides, and each converted the other." G. C. MOORE SMITH.

Sheffield.

OLD-TIME CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND STORIES: ' LADY ANNE.' (11 S. vii. 310, 356, 374, 411.)

I HAVE a copy of a children's story en- titled :

" The Life and Adventures of Lady Anne, the Little Pedlar, by the author of the 'Blue Silk Workbag,' ' Harcourt Family,' &c. London : printed for J. Souter, at the School Library, 73, St. Paul's Church- Yard ; By J. and C. Adlard, 23, Bartholomew Close. 1823." Another edition appeared in 1852 from the same publishing house, then Charles A. Law, late Souter & Law, the School Library, 131, Fleet Street.

A " New Edition " Was published by James Williamson, 290, High Street, Lin- coln, with a Preface by the Bishop of Lin- coln, dated 1873. In this the Bishop wrote that the book " was first printed about a hundred years ago," but I find no internal evidence nor other indication that the storxr was not written for the 1823