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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. in. MAY 13, 1911.

Rich, Earl of Warwick, whose other daughter and coheir was called " Essex," and took that name into the Finch family.

Sir John Harrington's granddaughter Anne Barrington married Charles Shale, goldsmith to Queen Anne, and their youngest daughter and coheir, who was called " Essex," mar- ried Richard Lowndes of Winsloe, High Sheriff of Bucks in 1742.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield Park, Reading.

The name Essex was in the seventeenth century given to more than one female member of the Cornish family of Robartes. Lady Essex Robartes died in 1689, aged 20. Another Essex Robartes of the same family was buried at Chelsea on 16 January, 1693/4.

The choice of the name in this instance was probably due to the friendship of Lord Robartes, afterwards Earl of Radnor, with the Earl of Essex, the general of the Parlia- mentary forces. W. P. COURTNEY.

HANOVERIAN REGIMENT (11 S. iii. 327). At the commencement of the war in 1779 between Great Britain and Spain there were in Gibraltar three Hanoverian Regiments, which served there to the end of the great siege in 1783. They were Hardenberg's, under Lieut. -Col. Hugo ; Reden's, under Lieut. -Col. Dachenhausen ; and De la Motte's, under Lieut.-Col. Schippergill. No doubt the regiment mentioned in the query is a lineal descendant of these. See 'A History of the Siege of Gibraltar,' by John Drinkwater. G. S. PARRY.

There were mercenary troops, both Ger- man and Swiss, employed by" the Britbh in the Crimean War. Part of the Swiss Legion was encamped at Dover in 1855. I do not know if they went to the Crimea. The depot of the German Legion landed at Dover on 19 May 1856. As peace had then been declared, it is probable that the Ger- man force had been to the seat of war and were then returning. There are still in Dover two or three German families, the fathers of which were in the German Legion. JOHN BAVINGTON JONES.

Dover.

CATHERINE HYDE (11 S. iii. 268). Catherine Hyde was the Marchioness Broglio Solari. She seems to have resided for many years in Venice, and to have died about 1845. In addition to the * Secret Memoirs of the Royal Family of France,' she wrote " Venice under the Yoke of France, and of Austria. By a Lady of Rank," London,

1824, 2 vols. ; and " Private Anecdotes of Foreign Courts, by the author of ' Memoirs of the Princess de Lamballe,' " London, 1827, 2 vols. After her death appeared ' Letters of the Marchioness Broglio Solari .... con- taining a Sketch of her Life, and Recollec- tions of Celebrated Characters : with Notes/ London, 1845. S. S. W.

GALLOWS BANK : MATTHEW COCKLING (11 S. iii. 187, 316). Another version of this- story, which has been located at Pendleton, Manchester, will be found in a capital ballad by William Harrison Aihsworth. It i* entitled, ' Old Grindrod's Ghost,' &nd i* included in the volume of ' Ballads.'

WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Manchester.

BISHOP EDWARD KING (11 S. iii. 307). According to 'Alumni Oxonienses (1715- 1886),' Edward King, second son of Walker King, Archdeacon of Rochester, was born in Westminster. T. SHEPHERD.

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London : the City. By Sir Walter Besant. A. & C, Black.)

THIS is a glorified guide-book of the City of London, and contains particulars, arranged in sections, of almost every building in the City, and includes not only the old historical buildings of interest, but also the modern banks and institutions.

We do not fancy that much of the letterpress- is by the late Sir Walter Besant, whose name- the book bears, but it is a useful volume at the- present time, as it will enable our Coronation visitors to carry away a valuable souvenir of reminiscences, so far as the City of London is concerned. It contains a full note as to the City Companies and the City churches, and also special articles on the Tower and St. Paul's. It is a bulky volume for the ordinary tourist to carry about with him in investigating the City, but it will be valuable as a work of reference, and possibly a work of remembrance, to those who are keenly interested in the City of London or wish to acquire a knowledge of its- history.

It is somewhat odd that no reference is made- in the volume to the Mint or to the GuildhalL We were under the impression that the latter wa& the centre of the City of London's history.

An up-to-date map of the City accompanies the volume, which is beautifully illustrated and produced in a style worthy of its publishers.

The Burlington Magazine devotes its editorials- to ' The King Edward VII. Memorial ' and ' The Passing of Rembrandt's Mill.' The comments made are, as usual, well worth reading, combining independence of view and outspokenness with a genuine regard for art as a vital force. It is suggested once again that the high ground of Hyde-