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fame, and of that of Sir Matthew Hale. Kerslake's methods of cataloguing were eccentric, and at the time of publishing the two catalogues which I have he was suffering from an acute attack of " news- paperitis," and added a " foot-note " of ten columns to one of the entries. * N. & Q.,' inter alia, came in for a bit of Mr. Kerslake's mind. All this, however, is by the way. But I feel sure the Milton Bible will be found in one of his catalogues, for Kerslake was not the man to hide a find of this kind.

I may mention that an article on Milton's Bibles appeared in The Times of 13 December, 1907. See also ' Book-Prices Current,' 1901, No. 2838. W. ROBERTS.

18, King's Avenue, Clapham Park, S.W.

Your correspondent has confused a mother and daughter in the paragraph beginning " Mrs. Foster, daughter of Deborah," &c. It was Deborah Milton, the poet's youngest surviving daughter, who married Abraham Clarke, and her only surviving daughter Elizabeth Clarke, who married Thomas Foster. Deborah Clarke died in 1727, and Elizabeth Foster in 1754, while the latter 's husband survived until 1761. For a note on Elizabeth Foster that escaped Masson's attention see 2 S. iii. 265. PERCEVAL LUCAS.

It was Milton's granddaughter, the daughter of Deborah, who married Thomas Foster. Deborah married Abraham Clarke, and her daughter Elizabeth married Thomas Foster, and for her benefit 'The Mask of Comus ' was performed at Drury Lane Theatre in 1750. She died on 9 May, 1754, and was buried at Islington.

In Sir Bernard Burke's ' Rise of Great Families : Extinction of Families of Illus- trious Men,' these particulars are found.

R. C. BOSTOCK.

See 7 S. vi. 253.

JOHN T. PAGE.

SOPHIE DAWES, BARONNE DE FEUCHERES (11 S. iii. 27). There is at least one portrait at Chantilly. S. D.

A sketch of this adventuress in Chambers' s ' Biographical Dictionary,' 1897, p. 284, is derived apparently from private informa tion, or perhaps from French crimina records. Mr. T. H. Ward has an accoun of her in ' Men of the Reign,' 1885, pp. 317- 318. SCOTUS.

Miss WYKEHAM, BARONESS WENMAN 11 S. iii. 27). Lord Folkestone to Thomas Oeevey, 23 February, 1818 :

" Clarence has been near dying ; has been efused by the Princess of Denmark, and is going, } is thought, to marry Miss Wykeham." >eevey's ' Letters,' vol. i. p. 272.

" But the maddest thing of all is what appeared a the Gazette of Tuesday the peerage conferred

n. She is a disreputable half -mad woman.

He perhaps thought it fair to give her this com- >ensation for not being Queen, for he wanted to tiarry her, and would have done so if the late ing would have consented." ' Greville Me- noirs,' vol. ii. p. 84.

At a sale of curios some years ago at ing Street, Covent Garden, Mr. J. C. Stevens, according to a newspaper cutting, ffered

a historic flag, which sold for eight guineas. This flag is of linen, and hand-painted with the rown, rose, shamrock, and thistle, and the words King and Constitution.' It was used at the time f the Coronation of George IV. and William IV., nd originally belonged to Miss Wykeham, after- wards the Baroness Wenman, a descendant of William of Wykeham. She was a Court beauty md a friend of Queen Adelaide."

R. J. FYNMORE.

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LADY CONYNGHAM (11 S. ii. 508 ; iii. 37). W. S. S. confuses the lady's husband with ler son, the latter being the bearer to Queen Victoria of the news of her succession. The irst Marquis Conyngham died 28 December, 1832, according to Burke's ' Peerage.' H.

' YOUNG FOLKS' (11 S. ii. 450, 511 ; iii. 34). Besides ' Treasure Island,' Stevenson's Kidnapped ' and ' The Black Arrow ' were originally published as serials in this Deriodical. * Kidnapped ' ran from 1 May 31 July, 1886, in fourteen instalments, and was published in book-form during the same year. ' The Black Arrow ' ran through seventeen numbers of Young Folks, from 30 June to 20 October, 1883 ; but though it preceded ' Kidnapped ' in point of date, it was not published as a book till July, 1888. Both 'Treasure Island' and 'The Black Arrow ' purported to be written by " Captain George North," a pseudonym which was dropped when the stories were republished.

The history of ' Treasure Island ' formed the subject of an interesting correspondence between Mr. Robert Leighton, Dr. Alex. H. Japp, and Mr. James Henderson in The Academy, for 3, 10, and 17 March, 1900. Although ' Treasure Island ' was begun in August, 1881, at The Cottage, Castleton of Braemar, it was not completed until Steven- son had arrived at Davos in October for the winter. W. F. PRIDEAUX.