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NOTES AND QUERIES. tns.v. FEB. 17,1912.

STEWART FAMILY, SCOTLAND AND IRE- LAND. Did Andrew Stewart of Bonny- toun, Ayr (1620), second son of Robert Stewart of West Braes and Haltoun de .Loncardie, Perth, son of Andrew, second Lord Ochiltree, whose daughter married John Knox, or any grandson of this Robert Stewart whose name was Andrew Stewart, migrate from Scotland and settle at Gortigal, in the county Tyrone, about 1627 ? Or can any of your readers state the parentage of Capt. Andrew Stewart (a native of Scotland), who settled at Gortigal in 1627, and was the ancestor of the family of Stewart, Bart., of Athenry, Ireland ? Had Robert Stewart of Roberton, Scotland, who had a grant of land in Ulster in 1609, any sons or grandsons who migrated to Tyrone at this period ? or had Sir James Stewart of Bonny toun, 1608 ? If so, what were their names, and who were the fathers of Robert Stewart of Roberton, and Sir James Stewart ? HERBERT A. CARTER.

JANE AND ROBERT PORTER. 1. Jane Porter died 1850, authoress of ' Scottish Chiefs,' ' Thaddaeus of Warsaw,' &c. In several old books, also in ' A Happy Half- Century,' by Agnes Repplier, ' Jane Porter's Diary ' is alluded to. Can any one tell me where it is to be seen, and if it was pub- lished, or is only in MS. ?

2. Sir Robert Ker Porter is described in ' D.N.B.' as being descended from Sir Endymion Porter, Gentleman of the Bed- chamber to King Charles I. Who stated this as a fact ? What foundation is there for such a statement ? Can any reader throw light on the subject ? The College of Heralds, Queen Victoria Street, have no record of his arms or pedigree, as I have inquired there. HELEN VIOLET PORTER.

Donnycaraey House, Dublin.

TOBACCONISTS' HIGHLANDERS. Reference is made at p. 64 to the Highlander of Totten- ham Court Road. This was lent to the Old London Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gal- lery, last December.

Mr. A. M. Broadley, in his ' Nicotine and its Rariora,' gives the card, dated 1765, ol " William Kebb, at ye Highlander ye corner of Pall Mall, facing St. James's, Haymarket,' and he says the Highlander was a favourite tobacconists' sign for 200 years.

When and where did these Highlander signs originate, and had they any connexion with meetings of Jacobites in this country ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

GJendora, Hindhead. [See 10 S. vii. 47, 92, 115, 137, 457 ; xi. 305, 307, 396.

JANE AUSTEN AND THE WORD " MANOR."- ji ' Persuasion,' chap, iii., Mr. Shepherd, the awyer, describes Admiral Croft as a desirable tenant of Kellynch, the seat of Sir Walter Elliot. The Admiral

' knew what rent a ready-furnished house of jeen surprised if Sir Walter had asked more lad enquired about the manor would be glad of the deputation, certainly, but made no great joint of it said he sometimes took out a gun, jut never killed quite the gentleman."
 * hat consequence might fetch should not have

In ' Pride and Prejudice,' chap, iv., it is said of Mr. Bingley, the tenant of Nether- aeld, that "as he was now provided with a jood house and the liberty of a manor," he might probably be content to remain there as a tenant, " and leave the next generation to purchase."

What, precisely, was meant by " the liberty of a manor "100 years ago ? Surely not mere sporting rights, which would belong to all landowners, whether lords of manors or not. Yet what other manorial rights would be " deputed " or transferred to a tenant ? B. B.

"BARTHOLOMEW WARE." In one of James Howell's epistles (1594-1666) I read " your Latin epistolizers go freighted with mere Bartholomew ware." What was this ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

THOMAS WYMONDESOLD OF LAMBETH, 1693. Particulars required of the above, who in that year gave the chimes to South- well Minster. No clue is to be found in the book on the Surrey bell-founders, nor in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.'

Were the bells also from Surrey ? If so, whose ? JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

' LONDON CHRONICLE ' : ' MONTHLY RE- VIEW.' Can any one inform me of the history of these two periodicals, which were both printed by William Strahan in the eighteenth century ? R. A. A. L.

THE LUMBER TROOPERS. I shall be obliged for any particulars concerning this society, which nourished circa 1770.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

REGISTER TRANSCRIBERS OF 1602. Is there any reason to believe that when the earliest parish registers were transcribed on to parchment, about the year 1602, pro- fessional scriveners found employment by travelling from parish to parish and perform- ing the work of transcription, as ordained by the Act regulating parish registers passed towards the close of Elizabeth's reign ?