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of the Coast,' p. 50). I shall be deeply indebted to SIR HARRY POLAND or other correspondent who can give me the informa- tion sought. ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, U.S.

EDMUND COMBE : CHRISTIAN JARMAN' Information required of Edmund Combe of Hartley Wintney, Hants, who married 1702 Catherine, daughter of Rev. T. Pretty, Rector of Winchfield. He is mentioned as querent, in Feet of Fines, 1742, of some land at Hartley Wintney. (Left no will.)

Also, information required of the family of Christian Jarman, who married Harvey Combe, son of the above, 1752, at St. Peter's, Cornhill, and her sister Mary, who married Boyce Tree. These sisters are de- scribed as coheiresses. S. T.

BEATJVOIR, NORMANDY, AND DE BELVOIR, ENGLAND. Was the above locality in Normandy, near Ardevan and Mont St. Michel, the original source of the name in England, on the borders of Lincoln and Leicester ? At Beauvoir, in Normandy, are several remains of conventual buildings belonging to the monks of the Mount. Was the D' Albini, D' Aubigny, or D' Aubeney family anciently associated with that locality ? I believe the remains of a priory still exist near Belvoir Castle, in Lincoln.

An Act was passed concerning the erection of a bridge for the convenience of the inhabi- tants of the parishes of the Vale and St. Samson's, in Guernsey, in crossing over to St. Marie du Chateau. This Act was passed by Nicholas de Beauvoir, bailiff, Peter de la Launde, James le Marchant, and Gaultier Blondel, 4 Oct., 1204. T. W. CAREY.

" STJNG BY REYNOLDS IN 1820." In a recent newspaper paragraph I came across the following, said to have been " sung by Reynolds in 1820 " :

Go back to Brummagem ! Go back to Brum- magem !

Youth of that ancient and halfpenny town I Maul manufacturers ; rattle and rummage 'em ;

Country swelled heads may afford you renown. Here in town-rings we find Fame very fast go ;

The exquisite " light-weights " are heavv to

bruise ; For the graceful and punishing hand of Belasco

Foils and will foil all attempts on the Jews.

Who was Reynolds ? In the ' D.N.B.' I find mention of two writers of this name, Frederick Reynolds and John Hamilton Reynolds. Can any of your readers throw further light upon the somewhat cryptic meaning of this quotation as a whole ?

WlLMOT CORFIELD.

-CLEOPATRA'S PORTRAIT. In Payle St.. John's work entitled ' Village Life in Egypt' I find the following passage :

"Possibly they [alluding to ornaments] were intended as portraits of the departed, all being cast in a different mould ; but certainly the artists had disdained flattery. The wise have set down Cleopatra as no beauty, on the evidence of a portrait they pretend to have discovered ; but even if intended as a likeness, it was, most probably, a f ailure . . . . Why should they have succeeded in petrifying upon their walls the lovely Serpent of Old Nile ? "

Can any reader give me any information respecting this portrait, its discoverer, &c. ? Inquiries upon the subject have failed to give satisfaction. H. ROY DE LA HACHE.

24, Kenilworth Avenue. Wimbledon Park.

SASH WINDOWS. Britton in his ' De- scription of Lancashire,' 1807, p. 175, a volume forming part of ' The Beauties of England and Wales,' says of Wrightington Hall, near Wigan, that it is " noted for having the first sash windows of any house in the county, or in any part of the king- dom northward of the Trent." Is this true ? The chief part of the hall was erected in 1748, but there is an older black-and-white wing, probably of seventeenth - century date. When were sash windows first intro- duced into England ? F. H. C.

' DOMBEY AND SON ' : REFERENCE TO

ARABIAN STORY. Dickens says in ' Dom- bey and Son ' :

" Ideas, like ghosts, must be spoken to a little before they will explain themselves ; and Toots had long left off asking any questions of his own mind. Some mist there may have been, issuing from that leaden casket, his cranium, which, if it could have taken shape and form, would have become a genie ; but it could not ; and it only so far followed the example of the smoke in the Arabian story, as to roll out in a thick cloud, and there hang and hover."

What Arabian story is meant, and where is it to be found ? ' Miss NIPPER.'

Bonn.

[A story in the ' Arabian Nights ' of a fisherman who drew up in his net a pot sea'ed with the seal of Solomon, from which on his opening it, there issued a genie in the form of an immense cloud.]

LORD GEORGE GORDON IN ' BARNABY RUDGE.' In the last chapter of ' Barnaby Rudge ' the novelist refers to Lord George Gordon's later experiences after the riots. He is stated to have gone to Birmingham in or about 1788, where he made a public profession of the Jewish religion, and where "a beautiful Jewish girl " attached herself