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ST. SEPULCHRE'S REGISTERS. I should be obliged for information as to the dates o the parish registers of St. Sepulchre's in th( City of London births, marriages, anc deaths. Have these registers been printed and, if so, where ? JAMES DALLAS.

15, Walton Well Road, Oxford.

' RULE, BRITANNIA ' : ITS CHORUS. In 4 A Collection. of Loyal Songs for the Use of the Revolution Club,' printed in Edinburgh by Hamilton, Balfour & Neill 1752, marked third edition, which I possess I observe that the song now called ' Rule Britannia ' (given in this book as ' Britannia '). has the chorus :

Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves ; Britons never shall be slaves.

In an earlier edition, probably printec in 1748, which I also have, the song is given with the chorus as :

Hail, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves.

Was the original rendering " Hail, Bri- tannia," or " Rule, Britannia " ?

WTLT.TAM MACARTHTTR.

LIEUT. -GENERAL CHARLES CHURCHILL, D. 1745, (See ante, p. 210.) In the second edition of ' Letters of Horace Walpole, Ear] of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann,' under the sketch of his life, I notice, on p. xxi, that in speaking of Mary Walpole, the natural daughter of Sir Robert Walpole, it says she married

" Colonel Charles Churchill, the natural son of General Churchill, who was himself a natural aon of an elder brother of the great Duke of Marl- borough."

I think I have also seen the latter statement in some other work, but is it not an error ? General (Charles) Churchill was himself, if I am not mistaken, the brother of the first Duke of Marlborough.

E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G. 13, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.

WHORLOW. Can any one say what is the origin or meaning of this surname ? It is, I believe, a Suffolk name. G. H. W.

ROTHSCHILD AND BUXTON. Emerson re- lates a conversation between one of the Rothschilds and one of the Buxtons, of which the following is the finale :

" Stick to one business, young man. Stick to your brewery, and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette."

I do not know what the practice is to-day, but thirty years ago most brewers were

bankers to their customers, and found the arrangement very profitable. Truman, Hanbury & Buxton are very large brewers, but not the foremost in London. Who was the Rothschild, and which of the Buxtons was it ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

SHEPHERDS' RINGS. Having one in my possession, I should be glad to have some information about the history, &c.. of these.

H. T. BARKER.

Ludlow, Salop.

" COMTE DE BABKTIN." According to Temple's ' Thanage of Fermartyn ' (p. 516), Robert Gordon, the great - grandfather of Adam Lindsay Gordon, married as his first wife " a French lady, Madeline, daughter of Comte de Babktin," and had a daughter "Mary Anne Madeline Rabutina Clementina (Mrs. John Stevenson)." Who was this count ? " Babktin " and " Rabutina " look suspiciously like one another to those who know Temple's ways. But neither may be correct. J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W.

MRS. HENRY WOOD'S NOVELS. In which of Mrs. Henry Wood's shorter stories does the character of Susan Chance or Chace occur ? G. B. M.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

1. JOHN BARTLETT was admitted to Trin. Coll., Camb., 10 June, 1815, aged 18. I should be glad to obtain any particulars of his career and the date of his death.

2. THOMAS BARTON was admitted to Westminster School 23 Sept., 1807. Who were his parents ? What profession did he adopt ? When did he die ?

3. BATE. James Bate was admitted to Westminster School 13 Feb., 1786, and Nathaniel Bate 24 Jan., 1820. The former is described as a son of Richard Bate of the East Indies. Information concerning them is desired.

4. CHARLES PRYOR BATEMAN was admitted to Westminster School 7 June, 1784. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' furnish me with particulars of his parentage and

areer? G. F. R. B.

" BURIAL PORCH." For many years the meaning of this has been, if it is not still, a moot question with transcribers of ancient, f not more recent, church records. In the Sussex Archaeological Society's Collections 1873) the query appears, " What is a porch n connexion with the 'burial of the dead ' ? "