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opponent " ? I conjecture this because the ' Diet, of Modern Slang,' 1859, gives the meaning of " muzzle " as "to fight or thrash " ; the word may come from asso- ciation with guns. J. JACOBS. 149, Edgware Road, W.

CHARLES CORBETT, BOOKSELLER (US. iv. 148, 197, 313). The information concerning the soi-distant Baronet's occupation, and place in Charles Corbett's family, is derived from ' The Baronetage of England ' (Lon- don : Printed for John Stockdale, Picca- dilly, 1806), p. 554 one of the authorities cited in my reply.

" Sir " Charles, the cousin of Sir Richard <?orbett, fourth and last Baronet, is said to have been descended from Waties or Waitess, the fifth son of Sir Edward Corbet or Corbett, the first Baronet. Waties Corbett, son of the afore-named Waties, had a son Thomas, whose son Charles Corbett, bookseller, was the father of the claimant Baronet. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Robbins of Barbados, by whom he had issue three sons and four daughters. His wife died in 1803. DANIEL HIP WELL.

EARL OF JERSEY : LINES ON HIS ANCES- TRESS (11 S. iv. 310). Eleanor Brandon, daughter of Mary Tudor and Charles Bran- don, Duke of Suffolk, married Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. Their only daughter and heiress, Margaret Clifford, married Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby. Their son, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of Derby, married Alice, daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp, and on his death in 1594 left three daughters and coheiresses, of whom the second, Frances, married John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater. Their great - grandson, Scroop Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and co- heiress of John Churchill, Duke of Marl- borough, had a daughter Anne, who mar- ried, first, Wriothesley Russell, Duke of Bedford, and, secondly, William Villiers, Earl of Jersey, the ancestor of the present earl. By his second wife, Rachel, daughter of Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford, and sister of his son-in-law, the Duke of Bridgewater had a daughter Louisa, who married Gran- ville Leveson-Gower, Marquis of Stafford, the ancestor of the present Duke of Suther- land,

The poem referred to by the writer in The Sketch is probably the epistle addressed by "Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, to Mary, the French Queen," which forms one of ' England's Heroical Epistles,' by

Michael Drayton. It is supposed to be written in reply to one from the queen, and without going to the length of eulogy adopted by The Sketch, it certainly contains some very fine lines. The following may be taken as a specimen :

One of thy tressed Curls then falling down,

As loath to be imprisoned in thy Crown,

I saw the soft Air sportively to take it,

And into strange and sundry forms to make it ;

Now parting it to four, to three, to twain,

Now twisting it, then it untwist again ;

Then make the threads to dally with thine Eye,

A Sunny Candle for a golden Fly.

At length from thence one little tear it got,

Which falling down as though a Star had shot,

My up-turn'd Bye pursu'd it with my Sight,

The which again redoubled all my Might.

W. F. PRIDEATJX.

Eleanor Brandon, younger daughter of Mary Tudor by her second husband, married Henry, Earl of Cumberland. Their only child, Margaret, married Henry, 4th Earl of Derby, while William, 3rd Earl of Jersey, married (1733) Anne, granddaughter of the aforesaid Henry, 4th Earl of Derby.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE. Chalet Montana.

DUMAS ON CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLES (11 S. iv. 246). To the references given add ' Egyptian Obelisks,' by Henry H. Gorringe, Lieutenant-Commander United States Navy (London, J. C. Nimmo, 1885, large 4to). The author contrived and carried out the re- moval of the obelisk, sister to that in London, from Alexandria to Central Park, New York. The book gives an account of this work (including the negotiations), as well as of the removal of the Luxor Obelisk to Paris, and of that of the other Alexandria Obelisk to London. There are fifty illustrations, many of which give the machinery used in removing and erecting the three obelisks, as well as that used for the Vatican Obelisk. The chapters about the New York Obelisk are by Gorringe ; those about the Paris, London, and Vatican obelisks are by Lieut. Seaton Schroeder, United States Navy, who was Gorringe' s assistant. There is also a chapter giving " A Record of all Egyptian Obelisks," as well as one of ' ' Notes on the Ancient Methods of Quarry- ing, Transporting, and Erecting Obelisks." Chap. viii. (the last), being an " Analysis of the Materials and Metals found with the Obelisk at Alexandria," is " arranged by Prof. Persifor Frazer."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.