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lead was ordered to be used for Army pur- poses, but a great part of it went into other channels. The stone and timber were used generally for local buildings ; and much of the fine oak panelling now to be seen in many old Ludlow houses doubtless came from the Castle.

The neglect and decay of the Castle began, liowever, much earlier, when in 1688 the Court of the Marches was dissolved, and the Castle ceased to be the residence of the Lord President of the Council of the Marches. The last Lord President, the Earl of Maccles- fleld, when he left Ludlow Castle carried away " a gold mace, a waggon load of plate, and abundance of the best furniture." His example was no doubt widely followed.

There is an inventory of the furnishings in 1708 still extant. The following list of the then contents of the Council Chamber may be taken as a specimen of the whole :

" Four table boards and frames, 3 green carpets, 4 turkey worked chairs whereof 2 are broke, 3 leather chairs whereof 1 broke, one conse, 1 cast mortar and iron pest ill, one iron fender and grate."

This speaks eloquently of the plundering which must have taken place in the twenty years which had elapsed since the dissolu- tion of the Court of the -Marches.

Panels bearing the coats of arms are still to be seen in the coffee-room of " The Bull Hotel."

The curious form of branks (Arch. Journal, xiii. 269) is probably the most notable of the Castle relics in the local museum.

HENRY THOMAS WEYMAN.

Ludlow.

CHAKLES CORBETT, BOOKSELLER (11 S. iv. 148). See G. E. C.'s 'Complete Baronetage,' vol. ii. pp. 184-5, where Charles Corbet's assumed descent from Sir Edward, first Baronet of Leighton, is given. The name is usually spelt with one t except in the case of the first Baronet. G. E. C. says that the soi-disant Baronet who died in 1808 was a clerk in a lottery office in London, and that his father, who died in 1752, was a London bookseller. ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Leamington.

The baronetcy of Corbet or Corbett of Leighton, co. Montgomery (creation of 20 June, 1642), was claimed by Charles Corbett (the third son of Charles Corbett, bookseller), a liveryman of the Stationers' Company and a clerk in Johnson's Lottery Office, 3, Pope's Head Alley, latterly in Change Alley, Cornhill, as descended from a younger son of the. first Baronet, Sir

Edward Corbett. The title became extinct, 25 September, 1774, by the death of Sir Richard Corbett, fourth Baronet, unmarried. " Sir " Charles died in very reduced cir- cumstances, 16 May, 1808, aged 74 years, leaving, with a daughter, Elizabeth Christian Robbins Corbett, two sons : Richard, in the East India Company's service, and Thomas, who died 22 May, 1808, in his 38th year, and was buried with his father in St. Anne's Churchyard, Soho. See ' Baronetage of England,' 1806, p. 554 ; Wm. Courthope, ' Synopsis of the Extinct Baronetage of England,' 1835, p. 52 ; ' Monumental Inscriptions at St. Anne's Church, Soho,' 1905, p. 25. DANIEL HIPWELL.

The baronetcy referred to seems to be that of Corbet of Leighton, co. Montgomery, created 20 June, 1642 (No. 398 in the list of baronets in Guillim's 'Display of Heraldry.') In Courthope' s ' Extinct Baronetage ' a short pedigree is given showing the descent of the title from Sir Edward Corbet, first Baronet, to Sir Richard who died unmarried in 1774, when, according to Courthope, the title became extinct. He adds, however, this note

" This baronetcy was claimed by Mr. Charles Corbet, a clerk in a lottery office in London, as descended from a younger son of the 1st bart. : he died in very reduced circumstances in May, 1808, leaving a son Richard, who \vas in the East India Company's service."

F. SYDNEY EDEN.

PRINCESS VICTORIA'S VISIT TO THE MAR- QUIS OF ANGLESEY (US. iv. 67, 113, 134). The late scholarly Vicar of Kirkham, Lancashire Canon Mason often told me with pride that the Princess Victoria, when on this visit, was entrusted for medical care to his father, a doctor practising in Car- narvon, I believe. HENRY BRIERLEY.

Wigari.

THE FIRST PERFORATED POSTAGE STAMPS (11 S. iii. 183, 251). The blue twopenny stamp was the first issued on perforated sheets, I feel certain, for I have a vivid recollection of one of my father's pupils saying that he had heard that the same plan was to be adopted in the case of penny stamps. This was in the early fifties.

E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory.

" J'Y SUIS, J'Y RESTE " (11 S. IV. 44, 94,

155). I once saw an engraving (apparently reproduced from a painting) in a French book or magazine depicting this incident at the Malakoff. It represented an English