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PETER DE WINT. Can any one direct me to collections in private hands of works of this artist ? I know of those in the South Kensington Museum and the Tate Gallery. I am particularly anxious to trace the present whereabouts of four of his drawings :

1. A view of Lancaster, exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1826.

2. A view of Morecambe Bay, exhibited in 1830.

3. 'A Salmon Leap at Lynmouth,' shown in 1844.

4. A view on the river Dart (his last picture), exhibited in 1849.

Is there any portrait of him known ? Where can the catalogue of Messrs. J. & W. Vokins's Centenary Exhibition of his Drawings in 1884 be obtained ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A, F.S.A.

Lancaster.

PEAKE AND PYKE FAMILIES OF SOUTH- WARE:. It would be interesting to discover what connexion, if any, existed between these two families.

" Richard Elliott of St. Clement Danes, citizen and blower, bachelor, about 24, and Sarah Peake of St. Olave, Southwark, spinster, about 22, her parents dead at St. Botolph, Aldgate, All Hallows, Barking, or Trinity, Minories. 31 Oct., 1666. V." C). 'London Marriage Licenses' ed. Jos. Foster London, 1887, col. 449.

"1722,3, Feb. 7. Joseph Course of St. Olave, Southwark, Surry, B., and Sarah Peck of St. Saviour, Southwark, Surry, S." Cp. ' Register of St. Bene't, Paul's Wharf,' vol. ii. Marriages, p. 250, London, 1910.

Below are two unpublished marriage licences from the Vicar-General's Office, London :

"27 August, 1755. John Pyke of the parish of St. Mary'Magdalen, Milk Street, London, a widower, and Isabella Price of the parish of St. Qlave, South- wark, in the county of Surrey, a spinster, of the age of twenty-six years. To marry in the parish church of St. Olave, Southwark."

" 28 February, 1746. William Pyke of the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in the county of Middle- sex, aged twenty-five years and a bachelor, and Sarah Day of the same parish, a widow. To marry in the parish church of St. Bennet, near Paul's Wharf, London."

This William' Pyke and Sarah his]wife were, HO doubt, identical with their namesakes mentioned in the will of James Pyke, his uncle, cited at US. ii. 44-45, q.v.

The will of Edward Pyke of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, 21 Feb., 1766, mentions " Mary Price, daughter of Mr! Price of the Poultry, surgeon's instrument maker " (proved 20 July, 1767, P. C. C., reg. Legard, fo. 278).

The \\ill of Richard Pyke, citizen and cord- wainer (dated 23 Jan., 1730, proved 26 March, 1731 ; executors, William Turner of West- minster, hackney coachman, and Richard

Williams of Leadenhall Street, goldsmith)* mentions sons Waddis Pyke and Henry Pike (P. C. C., reg. Isham, 78).

EUGENE F. McPiKE. 1, Park;Row, Chicago.

" CLERK OF THE PAPERS." What was the office so described ? It is found in MS. on the fly-leaf cf the B.M. copy of 'Nobilis Pharmacopolo,' 1693, the author- ship being given thus :

" Auctore Kingsmill De Wood Street Counter

Clerk e of * papers Anno 1693. I have forgot his Christian name. Jn Cooke, ex dono authoris."

XYLOGRAPHER.

LAWTON AND INMAN FAMILIES. I should

be glad of any information about Miss

Lawton, daughter of Law ton of Lawton

Hall, co. Chester, who married George Ray about 1790-1800. Their son John Ray married Elizabeth Sutton Inman, daughter of John Inman of Chesterfield, end inherited Heanor Hall, Derbyshire, from her aunt Mrs, Sutton- 1 want to know the name of John Inman' s wife and of his father-in-law.

Information can be forwarded direct to MRS. CHARLES RIDDEI.L. 8, Elm Park Gardens, South Kensington, S.W.

WOOLSTHORPE : ITS DERIVATION. In

Canon Streatfeild's * Lincolnshire and the Danes ' (p. 73) we are told that one of the many traces of Danish occupation in the county is the place-name of Sir Isaac Newton's birth-place Woolsthorpe, for in the word " we have the meagre remains of Ulfstanetorp," the first syllable being derived from the Danish word (Ulf ) for a wolf. He adds in a note that this is the form of the word in Domesday Book.

Now there are two villages of that name in that part of Lincolnshire, and Newton's birthplace is the smaller, being in fact only a hamlet pertaining to Colsterworth, which is about 8 miles south of Grantham. The other Woolsthorpe is 5 miles W.S.W. of Grantham, and before the modern church (which was erected in 1845-7) had an old one, which was burnt by the Parliamentary army in the Civil War whilst besieging Belvoir Castle, some part of the ruins being still left.

Are we to suppose that both these places have the same derivation, or is it certain that the one mentioned in Domesday is Newton's birthplace ? Canon Streatfeild does not mention Colsterworth in his book, or refer to any other Woolsthorpe.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.