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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. v. APRIL is, 1912.

From this it will be seen that none of De Ruyter's wives was a daughter of Tromp (not van Tramp', as many even serious English historians persist in calling him, perhaps on the supposition that every Dutchman must be Van something).

As to the question whether one of De Ruyter's daughters married a certain Liebert van Hattem, I have not been able to de- cide it. In the Admiralty list of captains of the Maas who accompanied William III. to England there appears no Liebert van Hattem. The Admiralty list of the northern quarter was burnt in the great fire which destroyed the Navy Department about the middle of the last century.

F. KOCH, Jun.

Rotterdam.

ROBIN HOOD (11 S. v. 29, 94). Besides those given at the latter reference, the fol- lowing plays have the noted outlaw for their hero :

' The Death of Robert, Earl of Hunting- ton,' by Heywood, Munday, or Chettle, 1601.

' Robin Hood and his Crew of Souldiers,' n comedy acted at Nottingham, 1661 ; see Lowndes.

' Robin Hood ; or, Sherwood Forest,' by L. MacNally, London, 1784.

' Marian,' a comic opera in two acts by Frances Brooke, 1788.

There are also extravaganzas on the theme by " the terrible " Fitzball and Sir F. C. Burnand. The ' Biographia Dramatics ' should be consulted sub voce.

N. W. HILL.

New York

ENGLISH EDITION OF CASANOVA'S MEMOIRS (11 S. v. 189). Unless I am much mis- taken, the translator of Nichols's edition of 1894 was a Mr. De Rhodes. The reason the book is scarce is that, the firm of Nichols failing at the moment of its pub- lication, the police descended on the liqui- dator, and most of the edition was destroyed before it had time to reach the whole of the subscribers.

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

FOREIGNERS ACCOMPANYING WILLIAM III. (11 S. v. 70, 137). In the Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London, third number, vol. ix., 1911, appears an article by Mr. C. E. Lart on ' The Huguenot Regiments.' Many names are given. There also appears ' A List of Pensions to Huguenot Officers in 1692,' communicated by Mr. Henry Wag- ner, F.S.A. Dalton's ' English Army List '

might be well consulted. It is a matter of regret that we have apparently no list of the troopers and privates in the French Refugee Regiments. The Huguenots who enlisted in the armies of William III., served under Maryborough and Prince Eugene, and con- tributed so largely to the success of the English arms not only in the Revolution of 1688-90, but in the Low Countries, in the wonderful campaign on the Danube, and in the Spanish Peninsula have yet to attract historians like O'Connor and O'Callaghan. who told of the Irish Brigade in the service of France. WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

TOBACCONISTS' HIGHLANDERS (11 S. v. 130). I have been inquiring as to the reason why this figure should have been adopted as a sign by tobacconists, but it does not appear to be possible to discover it now. There is a life-size one still standing at the door of a shop in Westgate Streeet, Ipswich, belonging to the Messrs. Churchman, tobacco manufacturers. It is a very fine specimen, in excellent condition. Mr. W. Churchman informs me that it belonged to his grand- father, who established the business in Ipswich in 1790, and he believes it was quite " a hundred " years old at that time. The firm has also at its manufacturing works in the town a smaller figure of the same kind, which it purchased in London when taking over another old-established tobacconist firm, and this was said to be more than two hundred years old at that time. G. H.

WALTER BRISBANE (11 S. v. 168). Accord- ing to Burke's ' General Armory,' Robert Brisbane of Milton, who registered these arms, was of the Bishoptown family, who registered the same coat, without the bordure, in 1672-7 (Sir J. Balfour Paul's ' Ordinary of Scottish Arms,' p. 60). The motto " Certamine summo " is used by Brisbane of Brisbane, who, however, did not matriculate any arms at the Lyon Office until 1816 (second matriculation 1881). Burke attributes to Brisbane of Bishop- town " Dabit otia Deus."

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN. F.S. A.Scot.

Littleton Place, Walsall.

BLACK DOGS : GABRIEL HOUNDS (11 S. v. 185). In a March gale, when the wind howled amongst the tops of the trees, it used to be said in Terbyshire that the Gabble Rachet hounds were out. Their owner was said to gallop with them on a snorting black horse through the air just above the tops of the trees. They were headed by a big black dog, the eyes of which, as well as those of horse