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in Nicholas Carlisle's family history (London, 1822) or the life of Lock) wick Carliell by Prof. Chas. H. Gray of Kansas University (Chicago, 1905). M.

THE FRENCH CHAPEL IN LITTLE GEORGE STREET, formerly Little King Street, Port- man Square, was used for the last time on Septuagesima Sunday, 12 February. Founded in 1799 by the Abbe Bourret, and originally dedicated to Notre Dame de 1' Invocation, it was the sole survivor of a group of five French chapels founded in London about this time, the other four being Holy Cross in Soho ; the Holy Angels', Fitzroy Square ; one in Somers Town (pro- bably represented by St. Aloysius's, Claren- don Square, still standing, but no longer French) ; and St. Louis' in St. George's Fields. When the last - mentioned dis- appeared the chapel in Little King Street seems to have taken the name of St. Louis. It was the scene of two magnificent requiem masses for the Duke of Montpensier, brother of Louis Philippe, afterwards King of the French, which were sung on Tuesday, 26 May, and Saturday, 6 June, 1807 ; and of the still more magnificent obsequies of Queen Marie Josephine Louise de Savoie, consort of Louis XVIII. , King of France, which took place on Sunday, 25 November, 1810. Accounts of these ceremonies may be read in The Gentleman's Magazine.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

THE BROAD ARROW : THE KING'S MARK. An inquisition taken at Newcastle-on- Tyne in the seventh year of Richard IT. (1383) P.R.O. Miscellanea (Chancery) Bundle 72, file 4, No. 87 reports how one Richard de Welle, a deputy of the King's Butler, seized a pipe of wine for the King's use, and "in predicto celario intravit et predictam pipam vini extrai [sic] fecit, et signo Regio capiti sagitte consimili in alta via signavit." C. J.

WASHINGTON : LAWRENCE. MR. A. HILL, of 3, Duke Street, Margate, having given his name and address ('N. & Q.,' 12 Jan., 1907), and invited communications on the subject of the Washington pedigree in his possession, I think the following items may >e of some use to him and to others interested in the family, occurring as they do in localities where one would hardly expect to meet with the name of Washington.

(1) From Calendar of Wills, Som. Ho., Peculiar Court of Dean of Sarum, Register 6 p. 267: "Washington, John, of Hurst,

Yeoman, will and inventory, 6 September, 1600."

(2) From Bishops' Transcripts of Parish Registers, Dioc. Exon. : " Barnstaple, Bap- tisms, 1614, April 25, George the son of James Washington."

In view of the connexion between the- Washington and Lawrence families, it seems worth while to point out that about the middle of the seventeenth century, when Weekes' of the Honeychurch and Broadvvood Kelly line* were living in Bideford, Francis- Weekes being Recorder oi Barnstaple, and Dr. John Weekes Rector of Shirwell r near by,f a Martha Lawrence was associated with John Weekes of BidefordJ ; while the Rev. John had a daughter married to a Norfolk gentleman, Mr. Fermour Pepys,f Vicar both of Braunton and Bishops Tawton, and a nephew Richard Weekes. married to a Suffolk Catlyn,* whose mother was dau. to Lawrence, of co. Cambridge, Esq. ETHEL LEGA- WEEKES.

' THE HULL ADVERTISER,' 1796 : EX- TRACTS. Some years ago (I cannot call to mind how many) a friend lent to me a few numbers of The Hull Advertiser of 1796. I found on reading them several entries which I thought good to transcribe. A few of these I now send to ' N. & Q.,' as I am under the impression that they may interest some of its readers.

" Twelve millions of newspapers are now circulated annually through the General Post Office. Before the establishment of Mr. Palmer's plan, the circulation was confined to two millions. " 16 January, 1796.

A letter, which I regret to say I did not copy, but which was signed Edward Topham and dated Wold Cottage, 8 February, 1796, related to a stone that fell thereon 20 Decem- ber, 1795.

" The new Dutch colours differ from the old in having a white jack in the centre of the red flag, on which is depicted a virgin seated on a green bank, holding in one hand a lance surmounted by a cap of liberty, and resting the other on a fascis of arrows. At her side is a lion, who also grasps a lance, and turns his head round with an air of menace." 9 April, 1796.

" Longevity. Old Mr. Ingall, Lady Webster's butler, is still living at Battle Abbey, Sussex. He is supposed to be the oldest man in Great Britain, being in the 116th year of his age." 16 April, 1796.


 * ' Visitation of co. Devon,' Col. H. Vivian.

f MS. of Prince's ' Worthies,' at Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham.

J Dockets of King's Bench, Coram Rege, 15 Ch. IT., Trin., 209 Devon.

Add. MSS. 19122, Davy's Suffolk Coll., Catlyn Ped.