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BURIAL IN WOOLLEN: "COLBERTEEN" (US. iv. 368, 498). The Act for burying in woollen was passed in 1678, and seems to have been much objected to : Odious ! in woollen ! 'twould a saint provoke ! (Were the last words that poor Xarcissa spoke) No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face. Pope, ' Moral Essays,' p]pist. i. 246-9, Elwin and Courthope's edit.

Swift alludes to colberteen lace also in s Baucis and Philemon ' :

Good pinners edg'd with colberteen.

Swift's ' Poems,' ed. Browning. The lace was evidently of a common descrip- tion. W. E. BROWNING.

THOMAS CROMWELL (11 S. iv. 509). The Gentleman's Magazine for 1752 is in- correct in the statement alluded to by Miss WILLIAMS.

It was William Cromwell whose wife died that year at their seat in Essex. He was a son of Henry Cromwell, whose father Henry Cromwell, Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- land, was son of the Protector. William Cromwell died in Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, on 9 July, 1772, aged 79. His wife, who was Mary, widow of Thomas Wesby of Linton, co. Cambridge, died 4 March, 1752. They left no children. The name of their seat was Booking.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield Park, Reading.

The only Thomas Cromwell mentioned in Burke' s ' Vicissitudes of Families ' was the son of Henry Cromwell, grandson of the Protector. He carried on the business of a grocer on Snow Hill, and died in Bridgwater Square, 2 Oct., 1748. He married (1) Frances Tidman, the daughter of a London tradesman, and by her was father of a daugh- ter Anne, the wife of John Field of London ; (2) Mary, daughter of Nicholas Skinner, a merchant in London, and had issue an only son, Oliver Cromwell, a solicitor's clerk at St. Thomas's Hospital, who suc- ceeded under the will of his cousins, the Protector Richard Cromwell's daughters, to an estate at Theobalds, Herts. The obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1752, possibly refers to the second wife of Thomas Crom- well, viz., Mary Skinner, who may have diec at her son's hou^e at Theobalds, Cheshunt on the borders of Herts and Essex.

G. H. W.

Miss WILLIAMS will find that Musgrave's ' Obituary ' (Harleian Society) covers th deaths announced in The Gentleman's Maga zine up to 1800, There is a General Indej

to The Gentleman's Magazine up to 1818, but it comprises every

in the different volumes.

name mentioned The Cromwells,

whether announcement be made of births, marriages, deaths, or what not, will all be found under that name. After 1818 it would be necessary to consult each half-yearly ndex.

G. W. Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide ' vill indicate where the best pedigrees of the Cromwell family may be found.

W. ROBERTS. 18, King's Avenue, Clapham Park, S.W.

PHILIP SAVAGE (11 S. iv. 509). He was he son of Valentine Savage of Dublin (who lied 20 July, 1670) and Mary, daughter of Walter Houghton of Kilthorp, Rutland, and was born in February, 1643/4. He matriculated at Trin. Coll., Dublin, 6 July, .659. In 1671 he was appointed Protho- notary and Clerk of the Crown in the King's

Bench, Ireland. He was Wexford 1692-3, 1695-9,

M.P. and

for co. 1703-14.

in 1695 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, and sworn of the Privy Council n Ireland. He died in July, 1717. The parentage of his wife I cannot throw light upon. Their only daughter and heiress, Anne Savage, m. 1715 Sir Arthur Acheson, Bart. G. D. B.

GRANDFATHER CLOCKS IN FRANCE (11 S. v. 509). In ' The Fishguard Invasion ; or, Three Days in 1797,' by M. E. James a mixture of fact and fiction the whole of hap. iii. relates to ' The Fate of the Clock.' In describing the plundering of Brestgarn (p. 47) it says :

" Suddenly one man paused in his potations ; the brass face of the old clock that stood in the corner had caught his eye, and the loud ticking of it had caught his ear. Screeching something that sounded like ' enemy,' he levelled his musket and fired straight at the clock. The bullet went through the wood with a loud sound of splitting." The incident if not in all the details is, I think, generally accepted as true. The French invaders were largely convicts from the Brest hulks, and the clock was doubtless shot at more from a spirit of destruction than from an ignorance of grandfather clocks. G. H. W.

In ' Old Clocks and Watches,' by F. J. Britten, 1911, the author, on long-case clocks, observes :

" It would be difficult to say exactly when the brass chamber clock with a wooden hood developed into the long-case variety now familiarly termed ' Grandfather,' but it was probably between 1660 and 1670. In the earliest the escapement was governed by a balance, or by a short pendulum.