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I have tried to identify the localities in which these events happened, and it woulc seem that one of the two harvest tales comes from near Walkern, and the green-nek story from Gaddesden. W. B. GERISH.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

THE OLD SQUIRES OF ENGLAND. I am writing a book, which will be published shortly, on the Squires of England, a race which will soon be extinct. I should be most grateful for any stories relating to them humorous, pathetic, descriptive, or otherwise with any notes or references to their lives, virtues, and achievements,.

P. H. DlTCHFIELD. Barkham Rectory, near Wokingham.

RICHARD ROLLE : ' THE PRICK OF CON- SCIENCE.' I desire information on two questions connected with a study which I am making of the work of Richard Rolle of Hampole. Dr. Morgan Cowie in his catalogue of the manuscripts of St. John's College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1842), refers (p. 14) to a " notice of the controversy as to the author of ' The Prick of Conscience ' in The British Critic, No. 61, p. 23." This reference is evidently wrong, for The British Critic was not published in numbers. I should be very grateful for a clue as to the real reference. The article referred to perhaps mentions Thomas Ascheburne, a Carmelite of Northampton, since Dr. Cowie goes on to mention the connexion of Asche- burne' s name with the poem.

Again, Ritson (' Bibl. Poet.,' p. 37) refers to a manuscript of ' The Prick of Conscience,' " once in the possession of Dr. Monro," which was " left after the death of Hampole and his brother to the Society of Friars Minor at York." It would be of great interest to me to learn the whereabouts of this manuscript, or of a description of it. These questions are of particular interest to me, since I do not believe that Hampole wrote ' The Prick of Conscience.' I should be very grateful for any assistance towards answering them, or for any 'information whatever that might throw light on the larger question of the authorship of the poem. HOPE EMILY ALLEN.

23, Montague Street, W.C.

JOHN THANE, PRINT-SELLER AND EN- GRAVER. I shall be glad to have particulars of the birth and parentage of John Thane, the celebrated collector of Soho 1748-1818. Probably the family came from France, but the * D.N.B.' gives no information on this point. W. S. BRASSINQTON.

Stratf ord-upon- Avon.

JTJNIUS AND THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. In a note to his letter to the Duke of Bedford, 19 September, 1769, Junius declared that this nobleman was " horsewhipped. . . .with equal justice, severity, and perseverance, on the course at Litchfield," by Mr. Heston Homphrey, " a country attorney." From the description of Junius it would seem that the Duke was the victim of a set of rioters, as he was at Honiton later in his life. Is there any corroborationof Junius' s statement? The incident, if it did happen, must have occurred, according to the report, before 1760. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

REV. MR. GARRARD. Can any of your readers give me information concerning the above, who wrote letters to Strafford (Strafford, ' Letters,' vol. i. p. 463) ?

J. WlLLCOCK.

Lerwick.

BISHOP WALKER OF DERRY. Can any one tell me where is the picture of the Rev. George Walker, Bishop and defender of Derry, painted by Kneller by William III.'s order ? Is there any other authentic picture of the defender of Derry ? INQUIRER.

MRS. SIDDONS AT SANDGATE. Some years ago I was given a copy of a letter written
 * o Lady Harcourt by Mrs. Siddons, dated

Sandgate, 2 August, but the year omitted. Apparently she had just returned from the Continent, being

' nearly twenty hours on the sea on our return, and irrived at Dover fatigued and sick to death. We made haste here, and it is the most agreeable sea- )lace, excepting those on the Devonshire coast, ! ever saw.

I am desirous of ascertaining the year ' We have been here nearly three weeks, wid propose staying, if possible, till Sep- ,ember." R. J. FYNMORE.
 * hat has been omitted. Mrs. Siddons writes :

Sandgate.

REV. JOHN COWPER OF PENRITH. Can any reader tell me anything of the ancestry

,nd marriage of this gentleman, who was Vicar of Penrith 1750-88, and for 59 years master of Penrith Grammar School ? He

ppears to have been born in 1709 at Winton,