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KING'S BENCH PRISON, SOUTHWARK. I should be obliged for any references to de- scriptions of a debtor's life in the King's Bench Prison at Southwark about the middle of the eighteenth century.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

JOHN ADDENBROOKE, son of John Adden- brooke of Newport, Salop, was appointed Rector of Sutton, near Shrewsbury, in 1724, and of Upper Sapey, co. Hereford, in 1725. Was he any relation to the founder of Adden- brooke Hospital at Cambridge ? When did he die ? G. F. R. B.

F. T. EGERTON, of Roche Court, Salisbury, signed the protest against the abolition of the annual play in the College Dormitory at Westminster in 1847. I should be glad to obtain an Tr information about him.

G. F. R, B.

HENRY FENTON JADIS was admitted to Westminster School in 1814. I have reason for believing that he was the Henry Jadis, clerk of the Home Department in the India Board, whose name is given in 'The Royal Kalendar' for 1837. Can any correspondent give me particulars of his parentage and the date of his death ? G. F. R. B.

" FENT " : TRADE TERM. This is used by a certain class of Manchester warehouse- men or "job buyers," who deal in remnants of cloth, calicoes, muslins, &c. I should like to know the origin and etymology of the term, which is confined, I believe, to the Lancashire district. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

AMBROSE GWINETT AND ' THE LONDON GAZETTE.' There are strong reasons for believing that the ' Adventures of Ambrose Gwinett ' are mere fiction, and Gwinett himself a myth. The various editions and versions are full of discrepancies, errors, and contradictions. Can any one say whether Gwinett' s advertisement in The London Gazette has ever been traced ? His narrative (published 1768) says :

"For some time past my father, my master, ana my relatives were inclined to think me innocent and in compliance with my earnest request an advertisement was published in The London Gazette representing my deplorable circumstances, anc offering a reward to any person who could give tidings of Air. Richard Collins (the name of the man I was supposed to have murdered), either alive or dead.

Can any one having access to The London Gazette of 1709 or 1710 (when Gwinett's adventures began) say whether such an advertisement is to be found in that Gazette ,

G. H. W.

'PETER PINDAR," DR. WOLCOTi

(11 S. iv. 329.)

A SHORT account of Dr. Wolcot will be found Abraham Hawkins's ' Kingsbridge and Salcombe,' 1819, pp. 54-7, 174. This book was dedicated to Wolcot, and I have my possession the dedication copy, Beautifully bound in old red morocco, which was presented to him, with an appropriate nscription, by Mr. Hawkins. Dr. Wolcot was born in " a smart little mansion with a white front, on a gentle, verdant declivity, extending to the water's edge at the flow of the tide," and situated within the parish of Dodbrooke, which adjoins Kingsbridge. This house was his property, and he en- trusted the sale of it to my great-grandfather Mr. George Prideaux, solicitor, of Kings- bridge. The following urgent letter is still among my family papers : Broad Street, No. 37,

Golden Square, London, DEAR SIR, Nov : 25. 84.

Hath any Person, or is any Person, about taking my House in Dodbrooke ? I wish to know before I visit it, which will be in about three w"eeks or a month. My good Friend, do return me an Answer by Return of Post, with as many other Particulars as you please.

Poor Lyd hath been ill. Matrimony would have put all her Complaints to Flight.

I am truly yours, J. "YVoLCOT.

Mr. G. Prideaux, Kingsbridge. The house was eventually sold to the Rev. Nathaniel Wells, \vho rechristened it " Pindar Lodge," and put on a new front. After his death, his widow, Mrs. Juliana Wells, continued to occupy the premises, and was living in them when Hawkins published his book.* Subsequently the old house, with its lawn, which had two or three handsome chestnut trees growing on it, came succes- sively into the possession of Capt. Crozier and Mrs. Pell. About the year 1834, the pro- perty was purchased by Mr. John Foale Annis, builder, who divided it, and sold the house with that part of the lawn immediately in front of it, and a part of the walled garden, which stood on the other side of the road, behind the house, to Mr. Joseph Adams,

tions,' i. 201, relates that on one occasion he went to Dodbrooke in company with Turner to see the house in which Dr. Wolcot was born, and that the artist took a sketch of it. Redding gives no dates, but he was in South Devon in 1811. What has become of the sketch ?
 * Cyrus Redding, in his ' Fifty Years' Recollec-