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ROBERT (?) BALL. He was Mayor of a Devonshire town, probably Bideford or Barnstaple, in the early part of last century. Information as to place and date of the

mayoralty of the above Ball, his

parentage and career, would be welcomed.

F. PAUL.

61, Marmion Road, Southsea.

PRISONER AT PLUMPTON. In an article in a newspaper on Sussex I read as follows :

"The old house at Plump ton .... remained to tell the tale of the prisoner who spent his years in weary repentance, hearing the droning fly upon the casement and the cry of water-fowl in the moat."

With reference to the above, can any of your readers tell me the history of the afore- mentioned prisoner ? BLACK CAP.

LUCK CUPS. Can any one tell me who are the possessors of historical luck cups ? and is there any pamphlet on the subject ? I know of the " luck cups " of Edenhall and of the Bacon family in the Isle of Man, and am told there is a third. RAVEN.

[Much information will be found at 8 S. iii. 125, 176. At the second reference the late MR. SIDNEY HARTLAND mentions that he has discussed such drinking cups in the sixth chapter of his ' Science of Fairy Tales.']

BURRELL FAMILY. Can any one give me particulars of ancestors, contemporary rela- tions, and some descendants of John Burrell of Cornforth (or Carnforth), who had seven children, and who was born between 1725 and 1740 ? I shall be much obliged for any information. Please reply direct.

JAMES BOWEN BURRELL.

19, Fulwood Park, Liverpool.

DOREHILL FAMILY. Is anything known of the family or descendants of Mr. W. A. Dorehill, who was living in 1835-6 at Chalk, in Kent ? Please reply direct.

C. VAN NOORDEN.

35, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.

EARLY ARMS OF FRANCE. Is the state- ment in Fabyan's ' Chronicle ' that before the days of Clovis " all Frenche kynges vsed to bere in theyr armes iii todys " accepted by heralds as an undoubted historic fact, or is it nothing more than a picturesque sixteenth-century legend ?

BENJ. WALKER.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

'THE PROGRESS OF ERROR.' Can any correspondent furnish me with the name of the author of ' The Progress of Error,' a poem ? W. B. H.

WILLIAM ALABASTER. According to the 'D.N.B.,' vol. i. p. 211, he "was made a Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, and received the living of Tharfield [? Therfield] in Hertfordshire." Neither Le Neve nor Hennessy appears to give him as a Pre- bendary. When was he installed at St. Paul's ? Can any one give me the dates of his M.A., B.D., and D.D. degrees at Cam- bridge ? G. F. R. B.

ROBERT ANSTRUTHER, M.P. for Anstruther Easter in 1793-4. Who was he ? When was he born, and when did he die ?

G. F. R. B.

CAMBRIDGE CORMELL was admitted to Westminster School in 1725, aged 13. Par- ticulars of his parentage and career are desired. G. F. R. B.

COCKERELL COVERT was admitted to Westminster School in 1722, aged 13. Any information concerning him would be ac- ceptable. G. F. R. B.

HARE FAMILY. Can any reader say where is to be found a complete pedigree of the Hares Lords Coleraine who resided at or near Tottenham, Middlesex, in the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries ? What, if any, relationship was there between this family and the Hares of Enfield and Wormley, Hertfordshire ?

C. F. HILTON. Exeter.

PEDESTALS OF STATUES. Many of the modern statues in cities are set up on pedestals so high that they are rarely looked it. What was the average height of the pedestals of a few of the best statues in the Forum at Rome ? JOHN MILNE.

WALTERS : HALLEY : WARD : WRIGHT. At 11 S. i. 66, under the heading of ' Ward, Wright, and Day Families,' was given an extract from the will of Francis Halley, sen. dated 1698), in which he mentioned his sister Mary, wife of John Ward.

volume of the marriage register of St. James's, Duke's Place, this entry :
 * Mr. R. J. Beevor now finds in the third

" April 1, 1694. John Ward, b., and Mary Walters, s. Francis Halley."

This indicates that Francis Halley's mother, Anne, had thrice married : first, a Walters ; second, William Halley (obit circa 1673-5) ; and third, a George Coney, as shown by some unpublished Chancery Proceedings also examined by Mr. Beevor. It would be interesting to discover her maiden surname. Was it Pyke ? I have