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of his decease (circa 1740). This may catch the eye of a member of the Navy Records Society or some other reader who may be able to suggest a. possible source of informa- tion.

Neither do we find any data concerning the ancestry of his wife, who, as Mrs. Sybilla Freeman, widow, of Greenwich, aged 40 years, married him in 1738 (cf. 11 S. iv. 164). Facts relating to the Freeman family of Greenwich, Deptford, and vicinity (1700- 1800) would also be gratefully received by the writer. EUGENE F. McPiKE.

135, Park Row, Chicago.

' THE BRIDES OF MAVIS ENDERBY.' Can any of your readers help me to find an old English tune called ' The Brides of Mavis Enderby ' ? It is referred .to by Jean Ingelow in her beautiful poem ' High Tide on the Coast of Lincoln, 1571,' as being played on the bells of Boston Church to warn the people of coming danger from pirates, &c. F. L. MEARS.

YORKSHIRE WHITEHEADS. The baptismal register is wanted of William Whitehead, born in 1760. He was a native of some place on the borders of Yorks and Lanes, where the family had been settled as yeomen for a long period. H. M.

WALTER BISSET. Wanted information (date of birth, &c.) about above, for a genealogical chart. He was M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, about 1860-65, and his father was Andrew Bisset, an author,

HORATITJS BONAR.

3, St. Margaret's Road, Edinburgh.

LOCWELLA ABBEY. In the ' Victoria History of Hampshire,' vol. ii., under the description of the Cistercian Abbey of Quarr in the Isle of Wight, it is stated that a colony of monks from Quarr went to found another house at " Locwella." Where was this latter house, and what is the modern name of Locwella ? J. H. C.

Finchampstead, near Wokingham, Berks.

DE RUYTER : VAN TROMP. I shall be glad if any one will inform me whether the Dutch admiral De Ruyter married a daughter of the great admiral Van Tromp. 1 have been told by a descendant of his that this was so, but can find no confirmation of it in De Ruyter's ' Life ' by Grinnell-Mylne. In that memoir the names of De Ruyter's three wives are given, viz., first, Marie Velters of Grijpskerk, m. 16 March, 1631. She died ten months afterwards no issue.

Second, Cornelie Engels of Flushing, m. 1636. She died 25 Sept., 1650 several children, of whom were Engel De Ruyter, Dutch navy, and Alida, who married Rev. Thomas Potts of Flushing. Third, Anne van Gelder, widow of Jan Pauluszoon, m. 1652 two daughters, one of whom, Margareta, married Rev. Bernardus Somer of Amsterdam ; the other, Anne, a child of 11, died in 1666. If one of these three wives was really a daughter of Van Tromp, it can only have been the third one, widow of Jan Pauluszoon ; but what proof is there of it ?

In Lipscomb's ' Buckinghamshire ' Lie- bert van Hattem, a captain in the Dutch navy, who came over to England with William III., is said to have married a daughter of De Ruyter. I want the pro ( of of this, and should be pleased if any con- tributor to ' N. & Q.' could help me in the matter. John van Hattem, son of the above Liebert, settled in England, and being myself a descendant of his, I should like to know whether I can also claim descent from De Ruyter and Van Tromp. E. J.

TOASTS AND GOOD STORIES. What is the history of the toast in honour of whom a health is drunk ? are there instances on record in history ? And is the humorous good story an outcome of n.odern wit, or are there instances in the literature of bygone days ? T. S. H.

[For the origin of the "toast" see the article ' Health ' in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica.' The anecdote, of which the "good story " is a form, is an ancient element in literature. To take the most easily accessible of early examples, we would suggest to T. S. H. a search in Herodotus and Plutarch.]

ANTONIO D'ARAUJO. Information is solicited as to the above, a (I believe) Portu- guese grandee and State Councillor, pro- bably resident in England about 1812, who was on friendly terms with one of the " Royal Dukes," sons of George III. W. B. H.

THOMAS TANNER, BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH. I should be glad of any information about the four brothers Joseph, William, Ben- jamin, and John of Dr. Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. Asaph, the learned author of the ' Notitia Monastcia.' Whom did they marry, and did they have any descendants ? It would seem that they were connected with a well-known Salisbury family in the latter part of the eighteenth century who bore the same arms. Two brothers of this family, with the same names Joseph and John, married about 1780 two of the Phipps