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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. DEO. 23, 1911.

STRAW UNDER BRIDGES. Why are bundles of straw hung up under bridges which are being repaired ? Why straw ?

H. K. H.

LORD TILNEY OR TYLNEY. John Child, 2nd Earl Tylney, died at Naples, " where he had resided many years," on 17 Sept., 1784 (Gent Mag., liv. pt. ii. 797; Burke's ' Extinct Peerage,' 1883 ed., p. 118). From the references to this nobleman in the letters of Horace Walpole and in Henry Swinburne's ' Courts of Europe ' one would conclude that he was an inoffensive, good-natured individual, but Wilkes (mirdbile dictu) calls him " a disgrace to his country." Was Lord Tylney guilty of any misdeed that would justify this assertion ?

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

BISHOPS ADDRESSED AS " MY LORD."-

Is a Suffragan Bishop, or any Bishop except a peer of Parliament, correctly addressed as " My Lord " ? The Duke of Buckingham, who was very' exact in such matters, when Governor of Madras would not address the Metropolitan Bishop of Calcutta even as "My Lord," holding that only peers of Parliament are entitled to the distinction. There is at this moment a case in point, and I should be glad to have the subject ventilated. OUTIS.

WHITE : WARREN : MILBURN. Informa- tion is desired concerning the ancestry of Richard White of London, b. 1779, d. Phila- delphia, 1843 ; mar. 1805, Elizabeth Hallam, of Leicestershire. He was a leather merchant son. of Richard White, born about 1750,

and Mary, born in Carmarthen, Wales,

1754.

Information is also desired of ancestry of Thomas Milburn, b. London about 1802, leather merchant. He married Phoebe White, daughter of Richard White, 1825. Had cousins named Warren ; an uncle William Warren ; uncles Richard - - and George - ; and aunt Martha -. He and his family came to America about 1840, and descendants are living.

Kindly communicate direct.

JOSEPH M. BEATTY, Jun.

Box 165, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

" THE BEST or ALL GOOD COMPANY " (JOHN BRIGHT). A series of small books with the above title was started in 1878 by Messrs. Houlston & Wright. Each number was devoted to some well-known author or public man, and contained a short biography, with selections from his writings

or speeches, together with a facsimile of his writing. No. 1 dealt with Dickens, and No. 3 with Lord Lytton. At the end of the latter book is a list of forthcoming numbers, amongst which occur the name& of Cobden, Macaulay, Anthony Trollope r and John Bright. Can any one tell me how many parts were published, and especi- ally if the one on John Bright saw the light of day ? JOHN PATCHINQ.

ELIZA WESLEY. Can any one give me name and address of any surviving relative of the late Miss Eliza Wesley, daughter of Samuel Wesley, who was organist of two- City churches ? (Rev.) S. SLADEN.

63, Ridgmount Gardens, W.C.

COL. GORDON. I have a steel engraving, evidently torn from a book, of " CoL Gordon," engraved by Hopwood from a- sketch by Rowlandson, and published by J. Stratford, 112, Holborn Hill, 4 August, 1809. I have a suspicion that he may be Sir James Willoughby Gordon (1773-1851),. and that the picture may have illustrated a pamphlet against the Duke of York, to- whom he was military secretary. Can any reader identify him ? J. M. BULLOCH.

118, Pall Mail, S.W.

" UNITED STATES SECURITY." In * A Christmas Carol ' what does Dickens ex- actly mean by this phrase ? Was it usual to underrate the financial security of the United States ? The way in which the words are used makes it appear to be so. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

PEPLOE FAMILY GRANT or ARMS IN 1753. As possibly an exception to the truth of the statements officially made by heralds in their grants of arms, it may be useful to adduce the grant made 23 Feb., 1753, to the Rev. Samuel Peploe, B.D., Chancellor of Chester, &c., as recorded in the Heralds' College. It recites :

" That his father, the late Right Reverend Doctor Samuel Peploe, Lord Bishop of Chester, did bear and use for his Arms : ' Azure, a chevron counter-embattled between three bugle horns Or ' j and for the Crest : ' Out of a ducal coronet Or, a reindeer's head Gules, antler'd Or,' as his ances- tors heretofore had done, but being desirous to have some additional bearing thereunto to per- petuate the singular loyalty of his father to His late most Sacred Majesty King George the First at the battle of Preston in Lancashire in the year 1715, and also his advancement in the Church on that account, did therefore request," &c.

With regard to the heraldic portion of this statement, I have before me a Latin document on vellum, being the Letters of