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NOTES AND QUERIES. m s. iv. SEPT. so, 1911.

LEWIS LANOE, son of James Lanoe of Jersey, was admitted a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1701. I should be glad to obtain further information of his career, and the date of his death.

G. F. R. B.

PHILIP LEIGH was elected from West- minster to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1620. Particulars of his parentage and career are desired. .G. F. B. B.

ROBERT LODGE was elected from West- minster to Ch. Ch., Oxford, in 1659. His name does not appear in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.' Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me information about him ?

G, F. R, B.

RICHARD LYNDON, son of Sir John Lyndon, Kt., was admitted a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1694. Who was his mother ? What was his career ? When did he die ? G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM THACKER. Can any of your readers tell me when William Thacker died, and anything about his family ? In Pater- son's 'Roads,' 1824 and 1831 editions, I find : " Near Over Penn, Wolverhampton, at Michall Hall, William Thacker, Esq."

JOHN W. THACKERAY.

Bromley House Library, Nottingham.

THACKERAY ON THE MARQUIS DE SOUBISE'S COOK. Speaking of Sterne's sentimental outbursts over the dead donkey, Thackeray says (' English Humourists ') : " Like M. de Soubise's cook on the campaign, Sterne dresses it and serves it up quite tender and with a very piquante sauce." To what does this allude ? C. B. W.

POPE'S DESCRIPTION OF SWIFT. In the ' English Humourists ' Thackeray also quotes Pope as saying of Swift : " His eyes are as

azure as the heavens, and have a charming archness in them." Can any one give me the reference for this ? C. B. W.

FULANI, A NIGERIAN TRIBE.

" By far the most interesting people, to my mind, are the Fulanis. They are supposed to have originally come over from Egypt, hundreds of years ago ; they certainly have the Egyptian type of 'face; both men and women are very handsome, there being no trace of negro blood in them. They are a wandering race of farmers, having no towns but continually moving about the country with their cattle, making a camp of grass huts whenever they halt. Ihey are a very quiet and honest people, but very shy, so that it is almost impossible for a white man to get a Fulani to talk to him."

The above extract from the letter of a young officer in the North Nigerian Regi-

ment may interest many readers of ' N. & Q.' besides myself. I hope that some one may be able to tell me more about this ancient tribe. Who has written anything about them ? A. E. P. RAYMUND DOWLING.

Oxford and Cambridge Club.

[The article on the Fula in the new edition of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica ' says that they were originally herdsmen in the western and central Sudan, and adds: "The question of the ethnic affinities of the Fula has given rise to an enormous amount of speculation, but the most reasonable theory is that they are a mixture of Berber and Negro. This is now the most generally accepted theory. Certainly there is no reason to connect them with the ancient Egyptians." Among the authorities cited at the end of the article is Sir F. Lugard's paper on ' Northern Nigeria ' in The Geo- graphical Journal for July, 1904. ]

" GRECIAN " IN 1615. In the St. Columb (Cornwall) parish accounts I find under 1615 " Pd Wm. Wills laid out for the grecian and the sercher for pirattes," the following entry being 16dL spent on the beacon. What was " the grecian " ? YGREC.

EPICURUS AT HERCULANEUM. Can any correspondent inform me what work con- tains the most exhaustive account of the fragments of Epicurus discovered at Her- culaneum ? Has anything of importance been published since the ' Hercul. Voll. Collectio Altera,' published at Naples in 1866 ? VERUS.

Carlton Lodge, Cheltenham.

HUNYADI JANOS. The famous Hun- garian general Janos or John Hunyady was born in 1389, at the village of Hunyad in Transylvania, being, as is supposed, a natural son of King Sigismund of Hungary and a woman of humble birth.

The spring whence is obtained the bitter cathartic mineral water, Hunyadi Janos, is situated, it appears, in the vicinity of Budapest. Does Hunyadi signify Huns' Town, and can the name of the natural water be rendered " Hungarian John " ? At Spa, Belgium, one of the mineral springs is called Prince of Conde, after the French general, I presume. Will some corre- spondent of ' N. & Q.' explain how the Hungarian water received its singular appel- lation ? N. W. HILL.

New York.

PEARE FAMILY. Can any one help me to the coat of arms of a family named Peare, who were living in the Isle of Wight in the seventeenth century ? Richard Peare of the Inner Temple was Recorder of Romsey from 1638 to about 1650. F. H. S.