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ALEXANDER FAMILY : SCOTCH AND IRISH. Can any one teU me the connecting link between the Alexanders of Menstrie and John Alexander who settled in Donegal in 1610 or 1613 ? I have consulted various Scotch peerages, and judge from the dates that he must have been a younger brother of Alexander Alexander of Menstrie, the father of the first Earl of Stirling. I should be glad of any assistance in establishing the connexion. TRIN. COLL. CAMB.

" JIMMY " GORDON : " HEMSMAN." In the petition (see ante, p. 227) Henry Go don asks for a patent for a " Hemsman's " place. What is a Hemsman ? Even the Senior Bursar of Trinity College does not know, and suggests that a Bedesman is meant. H. A. ST. J. M.

JONATHAN ROGERS, M.D., Physician to the Emperors Paul and Alexander of Russia, died 3 June, 1811, aged 71. Can any reader give me any personal details concerning him, and say to what family he belonged, and whether he has any descendants living ?

JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

VICARS OF BUCKFASTLEIGH. Information is sought respecting any of the following : (1) John Huxham (1777-8); (2) Chris- topher Davenport (1778-88) ; (3) John Jackson Manley (1858-60). Please reply direct. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

78, Church Street, Lancaster.

TRANSLATIONS FROM POLISH POETS. I

should like to know if any Polish writers, besides Mickiewicz and Sienkiewicz, have been translated into English or French. I am looking especially for translations from the poetical works of Slowacki and Krasinski. V. CHATTOPADHYAYA.

5, Avenue Carnot, Paris.

"DIED UNMARRIED." In the case of Munro v. Harrison & Sons, reported in the daily press of 29 and 30 March last, the fo.lowing definitions of " died unmarried " are recorded, viz. :

(1) Mr. Justice Coleridge : " What does ' died unmarried mean ? "

Mr. Hohler (plaintiff's leading counsel) : "It means that you are without legitimate issue."

(2) Mr. Donald (plaintiff's junior counsel)- ' Is it true that your father was unmarried at

the date of his death ? "

His Lordship : " ' Unmarried at the date of his death.' That is strictly and literally true. If one survives his wife, and does not marry again' one dies unmarried."

It would be exceedingly interesting, and very important, to genealogists to know whether Burke and other authorities on family pedigrees, in recording the death of a person, male or female, as " died un- married," use the term in the common acceptation of the words ; in the interpreta- tion of them proffered by Mr. Hohler ; or in the sense of the (legal ?) definition pro- pounded by Mr. Justice Coleridge.

FRANCIS H. RELTON.

9, Broughton Road, Thornton Heath.

BLAKESLEY : BUCHANAN : WALTER. Can any one give any information concerning George Blakesley of the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, who married at Crayford, Kent, 19 December, 1801, Elizabeth Walter, dau. of the Rev. Philip Walter, Rector of Crayford (1758-1806), and concerning Robert Buchanan of Brooke's Place, Kennington, Surrey, who married Mary Walter, the eldest daughter of the said vicar ?

F. DE H. L.

LATIN GUIDE TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Can any reader help me to discover the date, &c., of a pamphlet I possess, which contains a brief account in Latin of the founding of Westminster Abbey (2 pp.), followed by the inscriptions Greek, Latin, and English on the tombs in all the chapels and the cloisters ? The latest tombs noted are Sir Richard Bingham's, 1598, and Spenser the poet's died same year. The introduc- tion concludes with a reference to Dr. Gabriel Goodman, dean, " qui huic Ecclesiae Collegiatae jam annos 39 summa cum laude praefuit." The title-page is missing.

According to the ' Deanery Guide to the Abbey,' Dr. Goodman died in 1601, having- been dean for forty years. Does this indicate the date of the work ? It is un- paged, but the collation is A, 2, 3, 4; B, 1-4 ; C, 1-4 ; and so on to K, 1-4, with a final page of errata. WYCKHAM.

COATS OF ARMS GRANTED AFTER IVRY. In ' Sea Drift,' by Rear- Admiral Hercules Robinson (1858), on p. 147 occurs :

" Le 28me Comte s'est distingud dans la bataille d'lvri, et a cause de sa conduite, avait des armoiries nouvelles conferees par sa Majest& Henri IV."

Is it an historical fact that after the battle of Ivry fresh coats of arms were granted to those who supported the king ? If so,, where may a list of the same be seen ?

LIBRARIAN.

Wandsworth.