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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. NOV. n, 1911.

I should be exceedingly glad if any of your readers could throw any light upon the date of his death and the place of his burial. JNO. EAGLETON.

Haberdashers' Hall, Gresham Street, E.G.

PRINTING : AN UNPUBLISHED MS. Can any of your readers assist me to trace the present whereabouts of the following item in the Libri sale of April-May, 1861 ?

"4112. Le Brun (M.) Anecdotes Typographiques ou Ton vpit la Description des Coutumes, Mceurs et Usages singuliers des Compagnons Imprimeurs.

"Unpublished Manuscript, dated l r 7 bre 1762, folio, Brux., 1762.

" A very curious work, entirely prepared for the press, formerly in the ' Bibliotheque Publique de PAcademie Roy-ale des Sciences de Bordeaux.' The author calls himself 'Ancien Prote. Graveur et Auteur.'"

R. A. PEDDIE.

St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.G.

BILL OF RIGHTS SOCIETY. The " Society for supporting the Bill of Rights " was founded in 1769 by Home Tooke and others, and used to meet at " The London Tavern." Does its minute-book still exist ?

HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

PRECEDENCE. Does the wife of a Privy Councillor take precedence according to the rank of her husband, as does, for instance, the wife of a knight of an Order, whose rank, even that of a Grand Cross, is below the rank of a member of the Privy Council ? or is she, like the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, ignored in the list ? If so, such omissions appear to be senseless. A man who has received the honour of the Privy Council, recognized as much higher than knighthood or a baronetcy, and who has precedence above these, should, like these others, be able to secure recognition of his wife also on the list. It is presumed that although the wife of an archbishop or bishop has no place on the list, still that, by courtesy, precedence is accorded to her in general society. But is precedence given her at Court ? OUTIS.

AUTHOR OP SONNET WANTED. Will any of your readers kindly tell me if they have ever seen in print, or if they know who wrote before 1869 a sonnet beginning : Runs thus forever Time's untarrying river, Glide ever thus the sands within his glass ; Life is but fleeting to the longest liver, Days like a flash and years like moments pass. Joys wing the hours ....

I have it in the handwriting of a relative who has died ; I believe it to be his own composition, but as it is unsigned I cannot

print it as his without making every effort to discover that it is not. I shall be very grateful to any one who will help me through your columns.

G. E. MEREDITH.

NEWSPAPER " EDITIONS." (See 10 S. HL 287 ; viii. 117.) I am still awaiting a reply to my query of over six years since, " What is a newspaper edition ? " and I should be the more glad to have it because the practice of labelling newspapers on the title-page with the name of a particular " edition " has spread very largely from the evening journals, to which it was long confined, to- their morning contemporaries. For ex- ample, The Daily News now has a label,. " Late London Edition " ; The Daily Chro* nicle, " Late Extra Edition " ; and The Daily Mail, " Greater London Edition,' f to distinguish a particular section of the issue from that earlier printed. A. F. R.

' THE NOON GAZETTE AND DAILY SPY.' - This interesting daily summary, published at 12 o'clock, had, I believe, a very short career. Is the date of its first and last issue known ? Fox Bourne (i. 237) says that for republishing in an aggravated form a paragraph giving offence to the Russian Ambassador, the printer was condemned to prison for eighteen months arid fined 200Z. This occurred in 1781, and probably caused the discontinuance of the paper.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

HAGGATT FAMILY. Can any of your readers give me information respecting the family of Nathaniel Haggatt of the Middle Temple, who married Frances Beckford, 17 December, 1677, daughter of Richard Beckford, Alderman of the City of London ? I shall be glad to know dates and particulars of marriage. A Nathaniel Haggatt was a planter in Barbados about 1740. The Rev. George Haggatt was for forty-two years Rector of All Saints', Ruston, Northants. H. C. BARNARD.

Bury Orchard, Wells, Somerset.

LOWTHER FAMILY. Who holds the baronetcy conferred upon John Lowther (of Lowther ?) circa 1638 ? He married Mary Fletcher as his first wife, and was grandfather to John, 2nd Baronet and 1st Viscount Lonsdale. What became of his sons Christopher and Hugh, who were mer- chants in London, and of his great-grand- children the issue of Christopher Lowther of Wressle ? H. FANSHAWE.

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