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THE JENNINGS CASE. What was the last phase of the Jennings case ? How much of the property has been distributed since the time of the original administrators to the estate ? And is the " Jennings Family Association " still in existence ? If so, where ? I. B.

Miss ANNE MANNING, AUTHORESS. This well-known writer died in 1879. I shall be obliged if some one will inform me who came into possession of her papers and manuscripts. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

CURIOUS STAFF. I shall be glad to have information about a small staff. It is 6f in. long, of which 4 in. is an ebony handle*; the upper part is of silver with hall- mark of 1803 ; it has a plain ferule with a crown on the top. W. B. S.

DR. BRETTARGH is said to have been Vicar-General to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, and to have received into his Church a lady named Macauley, afterwards the foundress of the Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart. No dates or other details are known, and information is desired about this and other members of the Brettargh family of Lancashire. R. S. B.

SILVER SNUFF-BOX : SILVER BUTTONS .- DATES WANTED. (1) I should be much obliged if one of your many readers could enable me to arrive at the approximate date of a silver snuff-box belonging to a friend of mine. On the lid is an embossed portrait of King Charles I., showing the face in right profile, and the King's figure nearly down to the waist. Round the portrait runs the following inscription :

CAEOLVS. I. D. G. MAGN. BRIT. FRANC. ET. HTB. REX. ^TATIS. SUJE.

But the year of the King's age in which the box was made is not given, there being, indeed, no room for it, though under the shoulder the word NATUS is inscribed. The box contains no marks at all. I enclose a drawing showing the box in both a vertical and a horizontal position.

(2) Can any one of your readers help me to fix the date of a set of silver buttons which is in my possession ? Each button has engraved on it the figure of a running fox, the ground being shown in rather rough cross-hatching. On the reverse side the only marks are the lion passant placed below the shank, and the hall-mark " H.B." placed above. I have consulted Cripps's ' Old English Plate,' and though I have found

an "H.B." among the London goldsmiths of the late eighteenth century, the lettering of the initials fails to correspond with that of the initials punched on the button. I enclose a drawing of the button, obverse and reverse. LEWIS BETTANY.

[We shall be glad to send the drawings of these objects to any correspondent who would be thereby helped to discover the dates required.]

FINES AS CHRISTIAN NAME. In a disused Quakers' burial-ground, on the edge of the moors near Stannington, three miles N.W. of Sheffield, I find the Christian name Fines on two separate stones, probably mother (1642) and daughter (1675). I have not found the name elsewhere in this district. Is it to be found in other parts of the country, and is it a name peculiar to the Society of Friends ? T. WALTER HAIX.

Sheffield.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

1. WILLIAM BURKE, M.P., is said to have died in 1798. See ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vii. 369. I should be glad to ascertain the exact date of his death and his place of burial.

2. CHARLES FEARNE. Who was his mother ? When was he born ? When was he admitted to the Inner Temple and called to the Bar ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xviii. 274, gives no answers to these questions.

3. JOHN GIF FORD, otherwise John Richards Green, was educated at Repton according to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxi. 305, and at Westminster according to the ' Index and Epitome.' I should be glad to hear the reasons for the latter statement.

4. THE REV. THOMAS GOFFE (OR GOUGH), RECTOR or EAST CLANDON, SURREY. I should be glad to learn particulars of his parentage and the name of his wife, who is described by Anthony Wood as "a meer Xantippe, the widow of his predecessor." The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxii. 70, does not give the required information. G. F. R. B.

LORD LYTTON'S HOUSE IN GROSVENOR SQUARE. MR. W. E. D.-MILLIKEN (US. iv. 415) states that the house in Grosvenor Square which was numbered 9 prior to 1888, and has been 10 ever since, was the house of the first Lord Lytton. Now Lord Lytton moved to Grosvenor Square in 1868, and had his town residence there till his death in 1873. 'The Court Guides' from 1869 to 1873 inclusive give the number as 12 ; and as the house which is now 12 was also 12 before 1888 according to MR.