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AUTHOR OF ' GUY LIVINGSTONE.' I have somewhere seen G. A. Lawrence, the author of ' Guy Livingstone,' described as "Major." Did he ever hold a commission in the British Army ? In his book ' Border and Bastille,' in which he describes his futile attempt to join the Confederate forces in the Southern States of America, he is styled "Major" and " Colonel " ; but as he says, a step in rank was accorded him in each new place he entered. The ' D.N.B.' gives an account of him, but I should like to know more of his life. That he was a wide reader, a good classical scholar never at a loss for an apt quotation or an illustration from ancient or modern history, is evident from his books ; and he must also have travelled much both at home and abroad, been a keen sportsman, and mixed much in society. Though a Balliol man, he took his degree from New Inn Hall, and was called to the Bar, but seems never to have practised.

E. L. H. TEW. Upham Rectory.

REUBEN BROWNING'S LATINITY. Reuben Browning was Browning's uncle, a clerk in Rothschild's Bank in New Court. On the occasion of a Rothschild wedding, a silver inkstand with a choice Latin inscrip- tion was presented by the clerks (' Life and Letters of Robert Browning,' by Mrs. Sutherland Orr, revised by F. G. Kenyon, 1908, p. 75). This fell under the eye of Lord Beaconsfield, who declared " it was the most appropriate thing he had ever come across," and that " the selector was one of the first Latin scholars of the age." Can we have the original inscription given to us, and its source ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.

RAGNOR LODBROK'S SONS : HULDA. In a work called ' Chronique du Chateau de Gironville,' by the Due de Gironville, is a chapter descriptive of a vision by Bjorn Ironside in which his father Ragnor Lodbrok appears to Bjorn, and prophesies what will happen to him arid to his brothers. Among other things Bjorn is to marry the beautiful virgin Hulda. Is this taken from any known piece of Northern literature ? and does the name Hulda occur in early or late sagas, or elsewhere ? J. H. MOORE.

HENRY ETOUGH. (See 10 S. xii. 430; 11 S. i. 76, 193.) I should like to remind correspondents that nay query at the second reference remains unanswered. I find that my Henry Etough was landlord of " The

Bull and Mouth Inn" from 1724 to 1728. I suppose he can hardly have been a Jew. WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

SALISBURY FAMILY OP WESTMEATH. - Sir George Stanley of Crosshall in Lancashire, Knight Marshal of Ireland in the reigns of Queens Mary and Elizabeth, called " the Black Knight of Ireland " who died in 1570, and was descended from Thomas, first Earl of Derby left two daughters, Mary and Agnes. The former married Sir Thomas Hesketh of Rufford in Lancashire. The other sister, Agnes Salisbury, got special livery of her estate in 1592, as appears by a Fiant of Elizabeth, and was seised of the lands of Glaskearne in Westmeath.

Can any reader state to what branch of the Salisbury family the husband of Agnes Stanley belonged ? If there was any issue of this marriage, is the pedigree thereof on record ? P. M. K.

GRIFFIN, WILKES, AND ARNOLD FAMILIES. Can any one give me information respect- ing these families and the connexion between them ?

Sarah Ann Griffin, an orphan, and only child and heir of Thomas Griffin (of Fratton, Hants), and great-granddaughter of Richard Wilkes, was in 1771, when eleven years of age, admitted as tenant of the manor of Mengham, Hayling Island, and because of her minority the custody of the estate was granted to her uncle, William Arnold of Hoxton. Mr. Arnold, collector of Customs at Cowes, the father of Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby, was also a relation.

Another relative of Sarah Ann Griffin (who in 1787 married Capt. Walter Lock, R.N., at Fareham, Hants) was William Griffin, who lived and died at South Lambeth. In 1818 he was Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, a valuable appointment which tie held till his death. I should be glad to know whether any of his descendants are now living. CAMPBELL LOCK.

Ashknowle, Whitwell, Ventnor.

SIR JOHN FENWICK, BEHEADED IN 1697.- I have read somewhere and when I did so, forgot Capt. Cuttle's advice to make a note of it that Sir John Fenwick, Bt., who was beheaded on 28 January, 1697, and buried the same evening in the Church of St. Martin' s-in-the-Fields, left an illegiti- mate son, " who, on the death of Lady Mary Fenwick, the widow of Sir John, was taken by Sir William Blackett, and put to sea." I think I read this either in Brand's ' History of Newcastle ' or Hodgson's ' History of