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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii 8. v. JUNE 22, 1912

Adm. Aoiv/ Board. 2543.

Admiralty Office 11 Juue 1767 Gent"

My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having received a Petition from the Vicar, Church Wardens & Vestrymen of the Parish of S' Martins in the Fields desireing, for the reasons therein given, to be furnish'd with a Standard Flag of the dimensions of Seven Yards by Four Yards, I am commanded by their Lordships to signify their direction to you, to let them know whether it has been usual to supply so large a standard as they mention, and whether the 'Standard directed to be provided by their Lordships order of the 18 August 1766 has been deliver' d to them. I am

Gent Your most humble Servant

PH: STEPHENS.

With your Answer you will please to return the Inclosed Petition Navy Board.

E, A. FAIRBROTHER.

- WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

WILLIAM AMHERST, 1767. I have before me a letter dated Argyle Street, 9 June, 1767, signed " Wm. Amherst " ; it is not addressed, but contains instructions to have everything in order " at the Castle " the name of which is not mentioned as, the writer states : -

" I shall be down there with H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, on the 24th or 25th. of this month at farthest. I suppose that the new Bed is put up, and I should be glad if you would have the hammock put up ready in the Queen's Chamber, and another hammock in the same chamber, and I "11 beg the favor of you to order two dozen good port, and the same quantity of Madeira from Dover. I will send you notice in time when we shall be there that we may have a good dinner, and Mrs. Montravers had better get some assistance in cooking from the Tavern at Hythe. Be so good to let me hear from you by the return of Post, if the new carriages are not down in time. I doxibt whether the old ones will bear a salute, let me know this, and in what manner the Duke of Cumberland was saluted when he visited the Castle."

I assume that the Castle referred to is that of Sandgate, and possibly Col. Amherst, who was M.P. for Hythe 1766-8, may haYe been the captain there is, however, no record locally, neither is there any tradition of the above visits of royal ty. I shall be glad of any information, as to the writer ; the date of the Duke of Cumberland's visit ; also as to whether the visit of the

Duke of Gloucester took place at or about the time named in the letter.

I may mention that from the date of the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Sandgate Castle, namely 2o August. 1573, down to 1805. the term " Queen's Lodgings " and " Queen's Chamber " occurs frequently in the building accounts. B. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.

You can fool all people some time ; You can fool some people all the time ; But you cannot fool all people all the time.

Who said this ? Abraham Lincoln, or George Washington perhaps ? I have a dim recollection that I saw this saying attributed to one or the other of them.

G. KRUEGER. Berlin.

GORDON - ARCHER. Eleonore Marie Brault, Napoleon III. : s mistress, married in London, 1831, M. Gordon- Archer, and is dealt with (at considerable length) in Larousse under Gordon. " Le Petit Homme " (' Court of the Tuileries,' p. 181) says the husband was known as Gordon Archer or Archer Gordon, and that he was a colonel of the Foreign Legion, in the service of Isabella II. of Spain. Has his origin ever been cleared up ?

THEODORE =DIRCK ? Is Dirck (Dutch for Derek) a form of Theodore ? In 1758 an Otto Theodore Gordon joined the Scots Brigade in Holland, as ensign, in his father, Col. Jacob Gordon's, Regiment. In 176JJ Otto Dirck (who afterwards distinguished himself in the Pro Patria Movement) took the oath as. lieutenant in the same corps. Are they one and the same ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W.

DRYDEN PAPERS AT ROME. Elizabeth. Lady Dryden, great-grand-niece of John Dryden the poet, in a letter written to Mr. Alexander Stephens (who appears to have been engaged in writing a life of the poet), states that John Dryden, when his son was appointed Cupbearer to the Pope, " drew up his Genealogy for a certain number of years, and it is now at Rome and the only authentic one to be met with of the Dryden family."

Is anything known of this pedigree ?

In. a biography of Sir John Dryden, first baronet (husband of the above Elizabeth, Lady Dryden) it is stated that " all the Dryden papers had been unfortunately carried to Rome by one of the poet's sons.'*