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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

JEFFREYS'S COLLEAGUE, NORTHERN CIR- CUIT, 1684. Who was Jeffreys 's colleague as Judge on the Northern Circuit in August, 1684 ? It was the occasion on which he induced the corporations to surrender their charters. He was at Carlisle on the 6th ; on the 13th the Corporation of Kendal sur- rendered their charter, and on the next day the two judges were sworn freemen ; and on the 14th the same proceedings took place at Lancaster. JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

ARMS OF CHARLES V. I have copied at Famagusta, Cyprus, from a fine bronze cannon 3 metres long, the following inscrip- tion :

OI'VS ALIXAXDRI IOARDI K MATEVS IORERIDA. 1534

It is surmounted by a shield with a much defaced coat of arms, which I suppose to be Charles V.'s. As far as I can make out it is : I. and IV. grand quarters, obliterated; II. and III. grand quarters, first, a fesse ; second, three fleurs-de-lis ; third, obliterated; fourth, a lion rampant, charged with an escutcheon of pretence, obliterated. I should be glad of any information about* the cannon-founders, and about the coat of arms. G. E. J.

QUEEN CAROLINE TOKEN. I desire infor- mation about a small brass token, size of the present bronze halfpenny : Obverse, bust of Caroline of Brunswick in turban head-dress surmounted by a single laurel leaf; date 1820 under, and inscription round, " Caroline Queen Consort/' Reverse, the royal arms on a shield, foliated, surmounted with a regal crown ; the words " God save the Queen " on a semicircular label under the shield and extending rather more than half-way up the coin inside the edge. Doubt- less the token was issued to express popular feeling in favour of the Queen, but I do not recollect mention of the circumstance.

W. B. H.

HANS SACHS'S POEMS. Hans Sachs's Reformation Hymn in ' The Meistersingers ' is. I suppose, part of a longer poem. Where can this be found ? J. D.

OFFICER'S KIT : INVENTORY, 1775. I should be glad of some explanation of the following item which occurs in the inventory of a cadet of the East India Company of 1775 : " A Neat False Brich Brass-mounted Fuzil, Bayonet, Scabbard, Mouls and Kit case with Buff and Sling for ditto." The difficulty is " Brich." Is it a way of writing " breech " ? The word may be ' ; Brick," but this does not seem to make any sense, whereas a " fuzil " has a " breech." " Mouls," I suppose = moulds. J. PENRY LEWIS.

THE CHEVALIER JOHNSTONE. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' give me par- ticulars of the lineage of the Chevalier Johnstone, the great friend of the Pretender, or say if there is any record of his having a daughter Elizabeth, who married Oliver Duncan, a native of Scotland, who settled in co. Armagh ? WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

BYRON'S ABERDEEN TUTOR. Has Byron's second tutor in Aberdeen, a youth named Paterson, who taught him the Latin rudi- ments " son of my shoemaker "' he calls him ever been identified 3

J. CHRISTIE.

" PIMLICO ORDER."- -I find in the U.S. Congressional debates for 1864 the remark that in a certain contingency the expenses of the Government would be figured out to a copper, and " everything placed in minute, Pimlico order.'' The phrase is new to me, and no wonder, for I do not find it in the ' N.E.D.,' and the voluminous contributions in these columns under Pimlico do not seem to include it. Such a phrase, one would suppose, is of English and not American origin.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W. C.

THE LEGEND OF THE LAST LORD LOVELL. In his recent delightful book. ' A Shepherd's Life,' Mr. W. H. Hudson tells the story of the last Lord Lovell, who secreted himself from his enemies in his house at Upton Lovell, a Wiltshire village, and was never seen again :

' Centuries later, when excavations were made on the site of the ruined mansion, a secret chamber was discovered, containing a human skeleton seated in a chair at a table, on which were books and papers crumbling into dust." P. 158.

Precisely the same, or at least a very similar story, is told in the Cotswold books of a last Lord Lovell, and associated with the retired village of Minster Lovell, on the little river Windrush, in Oxfordshire. With which