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THE REVOLUTION SOCIETY, BILL or RIGHTS SOCIETY, &c.

" Occasional Stanzas Written at the request of the Revolution Society, and Recited on their Anniversary, November 4th, 1788. To which is added Queen Mary to King William during his Campaign in Ireland, 1690. A Poetical Epistle. By William Hay ley, Esq.,"

was published for " T. Cadell, in the Strand, MDCCLXxxvm." Information will be wel- comed in reference to this body ; also con- cerning the " Bill of Rights Society " (11 S. iv. 388), the " Civil Society " (once existing in the North of England), the " Old Revo- lution Club " in Scotland, the " Boyne Society " and " Brunswick Club " in Ire- land, and the organization from the Revo- lution of 1688 which existed in the 4th Foot Regiment, of which I have seen a roll of members. WILLIAM MACARTHTJR.

BEAZANT FAMILY. Having relatives of this name, I have been interested in dis- covering that it appears to be the name of six or seven different families. I have invariably found that they regard it to be of French or Flemish origin. I also have heard the tradition that they are descended from one of the Counts of Flanders, but have been unable to verify it. My inform- ant, a naval officer, tells me he saw a picture of this person and his arms (a dolphin) in an illustrated book but he cannot remember where ; it was possibly in a history of battles. There was, it appears, a Sheriff of London of this name in 1194.

As each of these families seem to think they are all of one stock, I should be glad to learn how that could be established.

F. DODGE.

CROWNED BY A POPE. Henriette Jose- phine Stuart de Bourbon Bonaparte, Duchesse de Beri, Comtesse de St. Leu, is said to have been crowned by a Pope. Who was she ? and of what country was she queen ? I have searched in vain every book I thought likely to give me the infor- mation. H. A. ST. J. M.

[The lady was inquired after by W. B. C. at 11 S. iv. 368.]

BRODBIBB OF SOMERSET. The late Sir Henry Irving's father was John, Brodribb, born at Keinton in Somerset. Has any investigation been made into Sir Henry's paternal collaterals and direct ancestry ? Were the Brodribbs originally of Somerset, and have any of them attained to local eminence ? Is there any pedigree of the

family extant ? Five Broderips have been held to be worthy of mention in the ' D.N.B.' Are the Brodribbs and Broderips members of one stock ? J. H. R.

ST. LALTJWY. Menheniot Church in Cornwall was formerly dedicated to this saint. Is anything known concerning his (or her) life and works ? Was there any other church dedicated to him ? Is Laluwy equatable with Llanlwch in Carmarthen- shire, or with Lanlouch in Landunvez, in Brittany ? No name similar to it appears in ' Les Noms des Saints Bretons,' par J. Loth (1910). GREGORY GRUSELIER.

REV. SAMUEL GREATHEED.

(11. S. iv. 347.)

THE career of Samuel Greatheed is of interest, and a memoir of him should have been inserted in the ' D.N.B.'

A similarity of unusual names would lead to the supposition that he was a rela- tion of Samuel Greatheed, the Whig M.P. for the city of Coventry from 1747 to 1761, but there is no definite information as to liis parentage. He served in the corps of mili- tary engineers, and while in Canada was converted from a riotous life by a " brother officer named Mackelcan," presumably John Mackelcan, a second lieutenant in that body on 27 May, 1779, and a captain on 12 May, 1782. He thereupon abandoned his pros- pects in the Army, and became one of the pupils of the Rev. William Bull, in his academy at Newport Pagnell for the train- ing of members of the Independent Church. He was afterwards ordained into the ministry of that body, in 1786 was ap- pointed assistant in that establishment, and became in 1789 the pastor of the Indepen- dent congregation which had been formed at Woburn in Bedfordshire. There he re- mained for three or four years, when he returned to Newport Pagnell.

Greatheed married in that town on 3 Sept., 1788, Ann, the only daughter of Sarah and John Hamilton, " a considerable dealer in lace." She was born on 27 March, 1758, became a member of the Independent church there on 7 March, 1784, and died "of erysipelous fever" on 28 Aug., 1807, being buried in the burial-ground of that body on 3 Sept., " on the same day and hour in which nineteen years before she had been married" (tablet "in Independent church;