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by Prince Albert, the Queen's reply, and the prayer by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

My father has written on the cover : " Second edition, 34 pages of advertisements, no duty." The back page is occupied by Bennett the watchmaker, who paid 1,000 guineas for the privilege, which was the largest sum at that time ever given for a single advertisement. The Religious Tract Society have the third page of the cover ; and among others who have pages are John Murray ; Colman of mustard fame ; C. Cox, King William Street, Strand (devoted to works originally published by Charles Knight) ; and Charles Knight, 90, Fleet Street, his Cyclopaedias and other books.

On p. 32 of Part I. of the Official Illus- trated Catalogue it is stated that the Com- mittee appointed

" to suggest inscriptions for the Prize Medals recommended for the medal to be executed after design No. 1 the following line, very slightly altered, from Manilius (' Astronomicon,' v. 737) : Est etiam in magno qusedam respublica mundo. For the medal from design No. 2, the following line from the first book of the ' Metamorphoses ' of Ovid (v. 25) :

Dissociata locis concordi pace ligavit. For the medal design No. 3, the following line from Claudian (' Eidyll.,' vii. 20)

Artificis tacitae quod meruere manus." Messrs. Spicer Brothers were the exhibitors of a large roll of paper 46 inches wide and 2,500 yards in length. This was the first time that the public were informed that it was possible to make paper of any length. JOHN COLLINS FBANCIS.

I do not think NEL MEZZO is quite correct as to the motto of the Exhibition. The motto on the title-page of the Official Cata- logue is " The earth is the Lord's and all that therein is, the compass of the world and they that dwell therein." The quotation he gives as the motto is the inscription on one of the medals, and the fault that he finds with its Latin is not apparent in the intro- duction to the Catalogue, where the offending word "concordia" is correctly given

concordi." The quality of the Com- mittee appointed to suggest inscriptions for the prize medals was too high to make such a blunder possible. The members were :

The Hon. W. E. Gladstone,

The Lord Lyttelton,

The Hon. T. B. Macaulay,

The Rev. H. G. Liddell, Head Master of Westminster School.

J. T. STEELE, Secretary, Spicer Bros., Ltd.

BARLOW TRECOTHICK:, LORD MAYOR (11 S. ii. 209, 298, 335). A portrait of Barlow Trecothick, if found, would be of interest to Bostonians, for some of his relatives were born here ; others lived here ; he himself was married here on 2 March, 1747, to Grizel Apthorp, a daughter of Charles Apthorp of Boston ; he was a friend to the American cause before the outbreak of the Revolution ; and from 1765 to 1772 he was the agent in London for New Hampshire. He died not 2 June (as sometimes stated), but 28 May, 1775 (London Chronicle, 27-30 May, 1775, xxxvii. 511).

His father was Capt. Mark Trecothick, a mariner, who presumably died late in 1734 or early in 1735, as letters of administration were granted to his widow Hannah on 22 March, 1735. The estate was inventoried at 34Z. 2s. Barlow Trecothick' s brother Mark, also a mariner, was married here to Sarah Davis on 2 April, 1740. In his will, dated 2 August, 1745, Mark appointed the above-mentioned Charles Apthorp his exe- cutor, and mentioned " my Hon d Mother M rs Hannah Trecothick of Boston Widow," " my Sister Hannah Trecothick," and " my Brother Edward." Charles Apthorp ren- dered his account 7 April, 1747. The widow, Sarah Trecothick, does not mention any Trecothick in her will, dated 28 January, and proved 14 February, 1750 ; but in an account rendered 8 October, 1763, by her executor (her brother Amos Davis) there is the item, " To Barlow Trecothick, 1,271Z. 2s. lid."

Barlow Trecothick's sister Hannah was born here 2 December, 1724 ; and here married James Ivers on 23 September, 1753. Their son James Ivers was born here 7 July, 1754 ; graduated at Harvard College in 1773 ; took the name of Trecothick on the death of his uncle Barlow Trecothick ; and died in 1843.

A portrait of Barlow Trecothick's first wife, by Robert Feke, presumably taken before her marriage, still exists (or did exist in 1878) in Boston. She died at Addington, Surrey, 31 July, 1769, leaving no children. On 9 June, 1770, Barlow Trecothick married Ann Meredith. A portrait of her by Rey- nolds is reproduced in Graves and Cronin's ' History of the Works of Sir J. Reynolds.' In the same work (iii. 987) Mr. C. W. Franks says :

" I was wrong in saying that Alderman Trecothick had no children. He had a son, and that son an only child, a daughter, who married Capt. Strachey, lately of Bownham, co. Gloucester."