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SAMUEL ROGERS AND DISRAELI'S BAPTISM. In the ' Maclise Portrait Gallery,' pub- lished, with memoirs, by the late William Bates, a well-known contributor to ' N. & Q.,' it is stated in the notice of Benjamin Disraeli that his precocious talents ' attracted the notice of Samuel Ropers, the poet, who was wont to visit the elder D'lsraeli at Hackney, and who, regretting to see so intelligent a youth without religious instruction, took him to Hackney Church."

Benjamin, we are told, was baptized at St. Andrew's, Holborn, at the age of 13. Where do we find mention of Rogers' s share in leading up to this important event ?

W. S R.

CATHERINE HYDE. " Secret Memoirs of tho Royal Family of France, now first published from the Journal, Letters, and Conversations of the Princess Lamballe by a Lady of Rank," London, 1826, is usually attributed to " Catherine Hyde " (i.e., Cam- bridge University Library Catalogue, and, I think, British Museum Catalogue). Can any one give me particulars of the editor, apart from those which she gives of herself in the introduction ? I should be glad of any information as to her birth and parent- age. EDGAR H. VIGERS. The Rectory, Little Stukeley, Huntingdon.

JOHN BAGNALL, who is described as " a learned and rich philosopher," was living at Donnington Castle House, Newbury, in 1784, and at Erleigh Court at the beginning of the nineteenth century. One of his daughters married Sir William Scott, after- wards Lord Stowell. Was Bagnall one of the Bagnall s of Stafford and Newry, Ireland ? If so, can any one give me fuller particulars as to his " philosophy " and connexions ? ERNEST W. DORMER.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COSTUME PLATES- Twice, on looking over collections of portraits and views of Cambridge, my attention has been arrested by handwritten inscriptions of names, on costume plates extracted from the ' History of the Uni- versity of Cambridge ' published by Rudolph Ackermann in 1815 one of them, the Doctor in Divinity in the scarlet gown, being inscribed as a portrait of Dr. Chafy, who was Master of Sidney Sussex College 1813-43, and another, the Doctor in Divinity in the ermined robe or cope, as Dr. Milner, Professor of Mathematics 1798-1820 ; so that evidently the costume plates of the histories of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Public Schools, published

between 1814 and 1816, must be portraits of prominent personages, Irving at the time these valuable works were prepared.

The undermentioned are all that I have been able to find up to the present, and I trust that some of the readers of ' N. & Q/ may be able to furnish others. The iden- tification of these plates would now be generally interesting; probably some of them representing celebrated people not commemorated by other portraits.

Cambridge University.

Doctor in Divinity in the -ermined robe or cope, Dr. Milner.

Doctor in Divinity in the scarlet gown, Dr. Chafy.

Doctor in Music, Dr. Hague.

Doctor in Law or Physic in Congregation robes, Dr. E. Clarke.

Nobleman, Lord Wevrnouth (?).

G. H. C. CRISP.

?A, St. Botolph's Lane, Cambridge.

THOMAS LEA AND CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK. In Pitt's 'History of Staffordshire,' 1817, p. 389, there is the following passage :

"Clayton gave name to a family who were seated there at a very early period ; the last of the eldest branch of the male line, Thomas Clayton, Esq., died about the eleventh of Charles II., leaving two daughters. Elizabeth, the eldest, and heiress, married Thomas Lea, Esq. This gentleman was descended in the direct male line from the antient Earls and Dukes of Suffolk, and the Earls of Lich- field."

Can any one supply me with the genea- logical table connecting Thomas Lea with Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, who married Mary, daughter of Henry VII. ?

Please reply direct. T. PAPE.

The Middle School, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

THE GRANGE, SHROPSHIRE. Pitt's ' His- tory of Staffordshire,' p. 389, says :

"Mary Clayton married William Windsor, Esq., of Rees-hall, Cheshire, and the Grange, Shropshire."

Where was "the Grange, Shropshire" ? Was it Halesowen Grange ?

Please reply direct. T. PAPE.

PHEASANT PENNY. In an old diary occurs the following :

"Mary Bains engaged from 29 Nov., 1814. To- have seven guineas a year & find her own tea and sugar, & to be at liberty on a month's wage or warning. P d her 5/6 pheasant penny." Another entry ends : " P d per 6/ Coach hire, 2/6 pheasant penny."

What is the origin of this "pheasant

penny

RAVEN.