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consist of layers of a coloured paste super- imposed on a flat foundation. The o\mer, who knows nothing of the picture but that it has been in the possession of the family for at least two generations, has always heard it described as composed of coloured sand. Please reply direct to

THOMAS HUTCHINSON. 1 41, Ebury Street, S.W.

" ALL SIB GARNET." This expression is used by soldiers to signify " all right," and is taken from the Christian name of Field - Marshal Viscount Wolseley, who inherited the name from John Garnet t. Lord Bishop of Clogher. How did the expression originate ?

F. W. R. GABNETT. Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place.

THE WAUBES OP cos. WARWICK AND STAFFORD. Dugdale gives a descent of these Waures. I should feel greatly obliged if some one would say what their arms were. They descended from one Seward of Domes- day, and in ' Liber Niger ' occurs Robert fitz Seward de Waure, whose grandson, Robert de Waure, is said to have married Emma Pantulf. C. SWYNNEBTON.

SIR CHABLES SAXTON, BART., was in Canada in 1819. The baronetcy is extinct. I should be obliged if I could, for historical purposes, be placed in communication with his representatives.

DAVID Ross McCoRD, M.A., K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

LONDON TO BUDAPEST IN 1859. How long did this journey then take ? My reason for asking the question is that The Times printed on 28 June, 1859, a letter purporting to have been received from Pest, in which the writer referred to a communication which had appeared in its issue of the 21st of the same month. According to a recent number of The Daily Chronicle, sixty years ago the journey from Paris to London in one day Was considered worth a mark of exclamation. I suspect that the letter dated from Pest had been penned at a place somewhat nearer to Printing House Square than Hungary.

L. L. K.

THOMAS GREENE : COUSIN OF SHAKE- SPEARE. Can any Shakespearian kindly oblige me with the date of his birth ?

GALLAGHER.

[Vide 6 S. ix. 463 ; xi. 349, 410 ; 8 S. Hi. 227, 331.]

NATHANIEL EATON.

(11 S. vii. 410.)

THE notice of him in the ' D.N.B.' is un- satisfactory. The writer has overlooked a statement in Winthrop's ' Journal ' (ed. Savage, ii. 342) to the effect that Eaton married in Virginia a daughter of Thomas Graves. On 8 June, 1657, the Rev. Francis Doughty issued a notice that " there is a marriage to bee had and solemnized between me ffrancis Doughty of Northampton County in Virginia & Ann Eaton of ye same County " ; and in a document dated March, 1669, he referred to " my Well Beloved wife Anne Doughty " (Publica- tions, Col. Soc. Mass., x. 274-5). Was the Nathaniel Eaton who married Anne Graves in Virginia identical with Nathaniel Eaton, the first head of Harvard College ? If so, Was he dead before 1657 ? or did he, as has been alleged, flee to England in 1646 and desert his second wife, who was allowed to marry again ?

The will of the Rev. Richard Eaton (printed in N.E. His. and Gen. Register, xxxviii. 29-31) mentions his wife Elizabeth and nine children, among them Nathaniel. In 1637 " M r Nathaniel Eaton was chosen Professo r of the s d Schoole," that is, Har- vard College (MS. ' College Book No. 3,' p. 2) ; he was dismissed 9 September, 1639, and fled to Virginia. In 1640 his wife and children were lost at sea, but one son (Benoni) remained in Cambridge. On 11 January, 1659,

" Thomas Cheeseholme & Isabell his wife are both of them members of this Ch. & in full Com- munion, In his family and under his Care is Benoni Eaton (Son of M r Nathan Eaton) who was baptized here & whose mother dyed a member of this Church." ' Cambridge Church Records, 1632-1830,' p. 7.

Benoni became a maltster, and died 20 December, 1690, leaving several children and a widow Rebecca, who in 1691 married John Hastings, and died probably before 1723 (Paige, * Hist. Cambridge,' p. 539).

Benoni was the only known surviving child of Nathaniel Eaton, the first head of Harvard College. But in her ' History Genealogical and Biographical of the Eaton Families,' 1911, pp. 579-83, Kezia Z. R. Molyneux assigns to him three other children. All three were children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Eaton of Boston, and were born in Boston on the following dates : Eleaser,