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It would be interesting to know if these papers are still extant, and of what they consist. Among them might be letters or manuscripts of John Dryden the poet ; of Spenser, who is said to have frequently visited at Canons Ashby, the seat of the familv ; and of Swift, who was related to the poet. P. D. M.

ABERCKOMBY FAMILV. In Burke's ' Peerage. and Baronetage ' for 1877, under ' Abercromby of Birkenbog,' mention is made of " Dr. Patrick Abercromby, author of ' The Martial Achievements of the Scottish Nation,' and who also wrote the ' Memoirs of the Family of Abercromby.' ' Was the latter work ever printed ? And if so, where can a copy be seen ? It does not appear to be in the British Museum, Bodleian, or Advocates' Library. JAMES DALLAS.

TURKISH SPY IN PARIS IN THE SEVEN- TEENTH CENTURY. In ' N. & Q. ; 1 S. iv. the authenticity of a description of the person of Our Saviour, given in a letter of Publius Lentulus, President of Judaea, to the Senate of Rome, is discussed, and several places are named in which that letter is found. I have just come upon a translation of it in " Letters writ by a Turkish Spy, who lived Five and Forty Years, Undis- covered." at Paris. This work, of which I have seen only the second volume, pro- fesses to give an account of the most remark- able transactions of Europe from 1642 to 1682.

The author says that he met with this description of Our Lord in the King's Library.

If the question has not been previously asked in ' !NT. & Q.,' I should be glad to have some information about this " Turkish spy."

E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory, Hants.

" THE FIRST DAY OF WINTER." I shall be obliged to any one who can tell me what date to understand by " the first day of Winter/' The phrase occurs in old records ; among others, The Ancient Laws of Wales.

E. D. C.

[Surely the Winter Solstice : vide current almanacs for example, Pettitt's Diaries, sub. Dec. 22.]

KENDALL. Can any one give me informa- tion about the marriage of Henry Edward Kendall, an architect of some eminence of Brighton, with Anna Maria Lyon ? This is said to have been a runaway match, and took place some time between 1795 and 1810.

I have no clue to the locality. The father and mother of H. E. Kendall were buried at St. Martin's, Coney Street, York, and he was baptized at Aberford in Yorkshire. Any reply may be sent to me direct.

WM. CLEMENT KENDALL. 86, Coulston Road, Lancaster.

BENGEWOHTH. Will some reader kindly give me the meaning of " Benge " in the above ? Bengeworth is one of the com- ponent parishes of Evesham, as at present administered the home of my boyhood. The prefix occurs also in Benge-Hill (com- monly pronounced Bench-Hill in my young days) in the neighbourhood.

WILLIAM GODDEN.

Willesden.

LEIGHTON'S ' BRITISH CRESTS.' (See 10 S. v. 308, 436.) May I, after a lapse of six years, again ask MR. LEIGHTON, through your valuable intermedium, if his contem- plated ' Ordinary of British Crests ' has yet been published, as if so, it has hitherto by some mischance escaped my observation ? CROSS-CROSSLET.

WHELPLEY : RINGWOOD. I should be grateful for receiving information regarding the following :

1. The parish of Hampshire or Wiltshire in which are situated the Manor of Whelpley and lands appertaining to it. or the village of Credelstone. The latter is supposed to be near Southampton. They belonged to the family of Ringwood in 1589 A.D.

2. The family of Ringwood in Hampshire and Wiltshire, circa 1580-1650 A.D.

I should also be glad to know of any one interested in genealogical research in Hamp- shire and Wiltshire, especially residents in Southampton or neighbourhood.

R. FREDERIC RINGWOOD.

Ervillagh, Foxrock, co. Dublin.

" HERE I LAY OUTSIDE THE DOOR." > Can any reader of ' X. & Q.' throw light on. the whereabouts of the following epitaph ? It is stated that Henry Gunning, for sixty- five years Esquire Bedell in the University of Cambridge, saw it at Ely at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but it cannot now be traced there :

Here I lay outside the door. Here I lay because I 'm poor. The farther in the more to pay ; Here I lay as warm as they.

A. T. BARTHOLOMEW. [5 S. iii. 100, 152; 8 S. xii. 175 ; 9 S. xi. 136.]