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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. v. MAY is, 1912.

A seal bearing these arms, which belonged to John Church, descended to my father, who by his will bequeathed it to a younger brother of mine.

The arms borne by the Bishop and his brothers were Arg., three blackamoors' heads cooped proper, filleted gu.

There was a Rt. Rev. John Tanner, twenty- fifth Bishop of Derry, 1613, who died 14 October, 1615.

I should be grateful if any of your readers could inform me whether this prelate was an ancestor of the Rev. Thomas Tanner, father of the Bishop of St. Asaph, and, if he was, for any particulars of the intervening links they can supply.

FRANCIS H. RELTON.


 * ), Broughton Eoad, Thornton Heath, Surrey.

STEPHEN GRELLET (11 S. v. 289). This was Etienne de Grellet, afterwards Stephen Grellet (see infra), born at Limoges, 2 Novem- ber, 1773. He was the fifth child of Gabriel Marc Antoine de Grellet and of his wife Susanne de Senamand. Etienne's father was the owner of a large porcelain factory at Limoges, and proprietor of ironworks as well. He was for a time comptroller of the mint in France, and one of the household of Louis XVI. His ancestors had lived for generations at Limoges. They were Catho- lics; but, when a young man, Etienne de Grellet visited America and came under Evangelical influences. After reading Wil- liam Perm's ' No Cross, No Crown,' he joined the Quakers or Friends. It was then that he changed his name to Stephen Grellet. In 1 804 he married Rebecca Collins, daughter of Isaac and Rachel Collins of New York. He died in the autumn of 1855.

Grellet travelled very extensively, and always on religious enterprises. He visited England and Russia, Turkey, Greece, and the Scandinavian countries. One of his ambitions was to " convert Napoleon." There are two biographies of Grellet, the better being "Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen Grellet. Edited by Benjamin Seebohm [with a portrait], 2 vols. A. W. Bennett, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without," 8vo, 1860, reprinted 1861 and 1862; the other is William Guest's ' Stephen Grellet,' Hodder & Stoughton, 1880. Several articles upon Grellet's life and work have appeared in reviews and magazines. As far as I am aware, he himself published nothing from his own pen.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

Etienne de Grellet du Mabillier, born in Limoges on 2 November, 1773, belonged to a family which ranked high among the nobility of the province. At the outbreak of the Revolution he joined the Royalist army in Germany. Falling into the hands of the Republicans, he was ordered for execu- tion, but managed to escape and find a refuge in Holland. In 1793 he proceeded to Demerara, whence, in 1795. he moved to the United States. There he turned Quaker, and adopted the simplified name under which he is now generally remembered He died on 16 November, 1855, after long and arduous exertions for the evangeliza- tion of the world. His biography (' Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen Grellet,' edited by Benjamin Seebohm) was published in 1860. DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

FORLORN HOPE AT BADAJOS (11 S. v. 288). The dispatch of the Earl of Wellington of 7 April, 1812, which is set out at length in ' Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington,' vol. ix. p. 36, and in ' The Annual Register ' of that year, ' Appendix to Chronicle,' p. 207, will give Y. T. all the information he wants about the capture of the place by storm. " The names of those officers who led, or took part in, desperate assaults on the town " are, of course, given.

HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

There is an account of the storming of Badajos in Sir Richard Levinge's ' His- torical Records of the 43rd Light Infantry.' The storming party from that regiment was commanded by Capt. Fergusson, after- wards General Sir James Fergusson, G.C.B., with whom were Lieuts. Duncan Campbell and Alexander Steel. The Forlorn Hope was led by Lieut. Horatio Harvest, who was killed in the attack. Sir Richard states that six English generals Picton, Colville, Kempt, Harvey, Bowes, and Walker besides almost every officer commanding a regiment, and more than 300 others, were killed in this assault.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

In answer to the inquiry of Y. T. re the officers who were present at Badajos, I am pleased to give the name of my husband's grandfather, Capt. Thomas Milward Oliver, son of Edward Oliver of Wollescote Hall, Worcestershire, and a descendant of the Lord Walter Hungerford who accompanied King Henry V. to France, and was present at the battle of Agincourt.