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and|2,000 marks were invested for his only son, a boy of seven (' Records of Glasgow,' pp. 47, 552, 599, 643).

This is the latest example I have seen, but those having access to local records might find a later. I have heard that the law is still in existence, though in abeyance ; also that the custom was not legally abolished till 1780. It may be added that in several cases local records have furnished the name of a Parliamentary burgess when the Blue- book of 1878 was blank. A. RHODES.

LONDON'S ROYAL STATUES. I am collect- ing information about London's royal statues and memorials, past and present, and shall be grateful for any information on the sub- ject, additional to what has already appeared in ' N. & Q.' Please reply direct.

J. ARDAGH.

40, Richmond Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.

THE HARMONISTS : THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY. A double-barrelled query arises from the title-page of a small collection : " The Poetry of various Glees, Songs, &c., as performed at the Harmonists. London, printed by the Philanthropic Society, St. George's Fields, 1813." Who were the Harmonists, and what was the origin of the Philanthropic Society ? XYLOGRAPHER.

UNIACKE FAMILY. I shall be grateful if some one will give me information (other than that to be found in Burke) concerning the family of Uniacke the origin of the two mottoes, and the story of a Uniacke giving his horse to King James at the battle of the Boyne. F. M. A. MACKINNON.

WILLIAM BROMLEY, ARMIGER. Bound up with my copy of Jodocus Crull's ' Antiqui- ties of the Abbey Church of Westminster,'

London, 1711, and forming a frontispiece to it, is a relatively large folding plate of the 'North Prospect of the Conuentuall Church of Westminster,' W. Hollar fecit, 1654. In the top left-hand corner of the plate, and occupying about one-twelfth of its entire area, is an elaborate coat of arm with this inscription in a panel beneath " Contra injuriam Temporum p. Guill Bromley Ar: "

The shield has nine quarterings : (1) Quarterly per fesse indented, a lion rampant on an escutcheon of pretence. (2) Three boars, a canton ermine. (3) A chevron with 5 bezants within a bordure engrailed. (4) On a fesse 3 cross-crosslets between 6 fleurs-de- lis. ^(5) A scythe. (6) A cross engrailed ermine. (7) A chevron between 3 bulls"

heads affrontee. (8) A bend engrailed ermine between 2 garbs. (9) A chevron between 3 stags' heads. There is nothing in the engraving to indicate the tinctures.

A gentleman of this name was created K.B. at the coronation of Charles II. in 1661. In the Bromley monument erected in the* Abbey to commemorate Sir Thomas, who died in 1587, the family arms are described as those of (1), (3), and (4) above.

Sir Robert Bromley of East Stoke, Notts, is credited (1848) with having arms corre- sponding to ( 1 ), but without the inescutcheon.

I should be glad to know something of the William Bromley first named, and of his connexion with Hollar's engraving.

WM. NORMAN.

Plum stead.

SIR JAMES COLLET. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me information about Sir James Collet, citizen and Fruiterer ? He was Sheriff of London, and Master of the Fruiterers' Company, and was knighted 17 November, 1697. Was he descended from Sir Henry Colet, the father of Dean Colet, founder of St. Paul's School ?

ARTHUR W. GOTJLD.

Staverton, Briar Walk, Putney, S.W.

REV. PATRICK GORDON'S ' GEOGRAPHY.' I have already dealt with his life in the pages of 'N. & Q.' (10 S. iii. 283, 323). I should now like to get the dates of the various editions of his ' Geography Ana- tomiz'd.' The first edition appeared in 1693 ; the eighth in 1719 with a slightly different title-page, as follows :

" Geography Anatomiz'd : or the Geographical Grammar, Being a short and exact Analysis of the whole body of modern geography after a new and curious method. Comprehending,

" I. A General View of the Terraqueous Globe, being a compendious system of the true funda- mentals of geography ; digested into various definitions, problems, theorems, and paradoxes ; with a transient survey of the surface of the Earthly Ball, as it consists of land and water.

" II. A Particular View of the Terraqueous Globe, being a clear and pleasant prospect of all remarkable countries upon the face of the whole earth : shewing their situation, extent, division, subdivision, cities, chief to\vns, name, air, soil, commodities, rarities, archbishopricks, bishop- ricks, universities, manners, languages, govern- ment, arms, religion. Collected from the best authors, and illustrated with [16] divers maps.

" The eighth edition, corrected and somewhat enlarg'd. By Pat. Gordon, M.A., F.R.S. London, Fruited for J. & B. Sprint and S. Burroughs in Little Britain ; R. Knaplock & D. Midwinter in St. Paul's Church-Yard ; Andrew Bell & R. Smith in Cornhil [sic] ; and R. CruHenden in Cheap- side, 1719." Pp. xxiv, 428.