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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. m. MAR. 25, 1911.

With regard to MB. MERCER'S statement (in his second paragraph) that he doubts whether the emblazonment of an elephant dates so far back as Dante's Paolo and Francesca, I think he is probably correct, though, possessing very slight acquaintance with Italian heraldry, I am unable to say how far if at all the use of hereditary heraldic insignia in that country preceded that in our own. But I do not think that my previous reference to Dante (p. 232) " the Malatestas of Dante's ' Inferno ' : should necessarily convey the impression that I thought so, if that be the suggestion underlying MR. MERCER'S doubt.

I think MR. JONAS (11 S. ii. 353) must be mistaken in giving the elephant " as one of the crests of Parkington." Should it not be Pakington, a well-known Warwickshire (or is it Worcestershire ?) family ?

It is certainly a curious coincidence that two references should at the same time be given by your correspondents to War- wickshire families Pakingtons and Throck- mortons as bearing elephantine heraldic insignia insignia, as Dr. Woodward says, but " little used in heraldry."

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

Antigua, W.I.

JULIA PASTRANA (11 S. iii. 29, 94, 179). This extraordinary creature is duly included in Boase's ' Modern English Biography,' vol. ii. col. 1376. Mr. Boase refers to several books in which she is mentioned. v

RALPH THOMAS.

In ' The Living Races of Mankind ' (Hutchinson) there is a good photograph of Julia Pastrana, but whether from life or the embalmed body is not stated ; the peculiar stiff attitude seems to indicate the latter.

S. PONDER.

PYRRHUS'S TOE (11 S. iii. 89, 131, 174). The textual puzzle in Sir Thomas Browne's ' Hydriotaphia '. pointed out by S. W. S. is solved in Dr. Greenhill's commentary. The words "which could not be burnt" are included by the quarto of 1658 in the list of 'Marginal Illustrations omitted or to be added to the Discourses of Urn Burial and of the Garden of Cyrus.' Curll's 1736 edition of ' Hydriotaphia,' a copy of which lies before me, was the first to follow the correc- tion, and duly printed the words at the foot of the page (25). Simon Wilkin in his edition of Browne's works (vol. iii., 1835) inserted them in the text.

EDWARD BENSLY.

LONGEVITY : REV. H. M. SHERWOOD (11 S. iii. 186). It may be interesting to add that the Rev. H. M. Sherwood is the son of the Mrs. Mary Martha Sherwood whose books for children were formerly so much read, e.g., ' Little Henry and his Bearer,' &c. Mr. Sherwood was the only son of Capt. Henry Sherwood, the only son of Henry, who was the only son of another Henry Sherwood ; and as the Rev. Mr. Sherwood's only son is also Henry,, who in his turn has a son Henry (only son, I think), we find five (if not six) generations of Henry Sherwoods, all only sons.

W. BRADBROOK.

BARON DE STAEL IN SCOTLAND (11 S. ii. 387, 517). Jane Welsh, writing to Thomas Carlyle from Fort Augustus, 24 September,. 1822, says that on the day which she spent at Glasgow (a month earlier or more) she talked to a cousin of hers who had been at church that afternoon with a very interesting foreigner, Baron de Stae'l. She was very vexed to have missed seeing him. " To have been within a few minutes' walk of a person I would have given all my rings and necklaces to see ! " (' The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh,' 1909, i. 77-78.)' This day in Glasgow may have been 18 or 25 August, as Sunday fell on those dates in 1822.

L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

SIR W. ROMNEY, LORD MAYOR (11 S. iii. 169). According to the original edition of the 'D.N.B.* (vol. xlix. p. 201) he was the only son of William Romney of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and his wife Margaret. He is not given as Lord Mayor, but as Alderman of Portsoken Ward in 1602, and as one of the Sheriffs in 1603.

A. R. BAYLEY.

FREEMAN: BEAUCHAMP : LAWRENCE (II S. iii. 169). Concerning the two Sir Ralph Freemans see 6 S. xii. 476. Perhaps I may also refer to my article on the first Sir Ralph in vol. v. of Northamptonshire Notes and Queries. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchmgton, Warwickshire.

CECIL HOWARD (11 S. iii. 108). Cecil Howard published ' Dramatic Notes * annually from 1890 till near his death. The first three volumes were published by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. ; those from 1893 till the close were issued by Messrs. Gay"l& Bird. I have not heard of his ever having written a play. W. S. S.