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POEM : ' THE BATTLE OF BRIMPTON.' During the labour riots which took place in the early part of the last century, owing to the introduction of machinery, a poem entitled ' The Battle of Brimpton ' was com- posed. It described a riot on the borders of Hants and Berks. I should be very glad if any of your readers could furnish me with the words of this, or tell me whether it is to be found in any book.

JOHN HATJTENVILLE-COPE.

BEAUCLERK FAMILY. (See 11 S. iv. 468.) According to the particulars in the burial entry at Neuenheim, Mary Beauclerk, wife of Count Francis Jenison-Walworth. and daughter of Topham Beauclerk and Lady Diana Spencer, died 23 July, 1851, aged 84 years, 11 months, and 3 days, a widow, and was buried 28 July at Heidelberg. If we reckon from her age at death, she would have been born 20 August. 1766. I should be greatly interested if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could furnish the date and place of her baptism. LEO C.

MRS. ELIZA FAY. Is anything known of the early history and parentage of this lady ? She was author of ' Original Letters from India,' published in 1817, and was the wife of Mr. Anthony Fay, a barrister, with whom she eventually quarrelled. She first came to India as a married woman in 1779, and previous to this year nothing seems to be known of her. After many vicissitudes she died in Calcutta in September, 1816.

J. C. H.

6, Belvedere Lane, Alipore, Calcutta.

" MARCHING REGIMENT." Much un- certainty exists even to-day as to what this term really meant. The novelists before Dickens and Thackeray often wrote of " the cornet of a marching regiment," implying the lowest round of the military ladder. A clergyman preaching at Woolwich said he was " bred up in a marching regiment," and amplifies this in a note by adding : " The Fifteenth (or King's) Light Dragoons (Hussars) " (Henslowe, ' Eight Sermons,' &c., pp. 57-8). The ' N.E.D.' contains an explanation from Capt. C. James's ' Military Dictionary.' A. RHODES.

POET'S ROAD, CANONBURY. What is the reason for naming this thoroughfare Poet's Road ? Edgar Allan Poe resided in Stoke Newington. I know of no other poet in the neighbourhood.

M. L. R. BRESLAR,

PIKE OF MARKET HARBOROUGH. In- formation wanted relating to a family of this name living there at the end of the eighteenth century. W. CARTER.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION W ANTED.

1. CATHROW DISNEY DISNEY, born 1 July, 1810, was admitted to Westminster School 23 Jan., 1823. I should be glad to have any information about him. He was prob- ably related to James Cathrow Disney (formerly James Cathrow), Somerset Herald.

2. ALEXANDER GARDEN, M.D., F.R.S. The ' D.N.B.,' xx. 407, says that he married in 1755. Whom did he marry ?

3. JOHN KIDD. What was his mother's Christian name ? When and whom did he marry ? The ' D.N.B.,' y-rei. 92, only says that he " married Miss Savery, daughter of the chaplain of St. Thomas's Hospital, who survived him."

4. HENRY SEYMOUR. According to the account in the ' D.N.B.,' li. 323, he is said to have died in 1805. Can any correspondent give me the exact date of his death ? When, in 1773, did he marry his second wife ?

G. F. R. B.

ROLLO GILLESPIE. Has a life of the famous Ulster soldier ever been published, or can your readers give information of his career ? Where is he buried ?

WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

Dublin.

[Buried at Meerut. A Memoir of Gillespie was published in 1816. A long account of him is in the 'D.N.B.,' where numerous authorities are supplied.]

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT : ' APPEAL TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND.' I shall be glad of information as to whether Mary Wollstone- craft wrote both ' The Rights of Woman ' and ' An Appeal to the Men of England on Behalf of Women.' I have copies of both (first editions), but the ' Appeal ' is anony- mous, while the style of writing and the pur- pose are identical in both books.

JOHN R. CLAYTON.

MISSING WORDS WANTED. Can any of your readers give me the last line of the following old distich ?

Goliath of Gath

For himself made a path

To walk in his glory alone ;

But David the lad

With a countenance glad

stone.

E. M. S.