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mistaken idea of some one being in the bedroom. The verdict was suicide " while labouring under temporary insanity." It is hardly likely that he was murdered by his servant, as the bedroom door was locked, with the key on the inside, when the landlord and the servant broke it open in the morning. He was buried at Christ Church, Carlisle. DIEGO.

CARDINAL ALPHONSE DE RICHELIEU (11 S. vi. 7). He was the elder brother of the more celebrated Cardinal Armand de Riche- lieu, being born three years earlier (in 1582), and dying in 1653. He was made Bishop of Lucon in Poitou in 1600, but resigned that see to his brother in 1 605 in order to become a Carthusian monk at the Grande Chartreuse (1606). From this retreat he was torn by his famous brother in order to be made Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence (1626), being raised to the archbishopric of Lyons in 1628. and holding it till his death in 1653. He was created cardinal in 1629. Armand became cardinal in 1622, and died in 1642.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE. Grindehvakl.

COFFEE : CHOCOLATE : FIRST ADVERTISE- MENT (11 S. v. 406). Sampson ('History of Advertising,' 1875. p. 68) quotes an earlier advertisement of coffee from a handbill " preserved in the British Museum " (no other reference), of which the date is 1652. He also gives the advertisement of chocolate quoted by your correspondent as from The Publick Adviser, No. 4, for 9-16 June, 1657, but names as its source The Publick Adver- tiser of 16-22 June, 1657. C. C. B.

WILLIAM STAMPE, D.D. (11 S. vi. 30). See 'D.N.B.,' liii. 469. He was the first presented by his College (Pembroke, Oxon) to the Rectory of St. Aldate's (1637); was made chaplain to the Prince of Wales (1643), with 'whom he left the country; and also acted as chaplain to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia. A. R. BAYLEY.

" William Stamp, divine, chaplain to the

Queen of Bohemia (died 1653).'" ' Eminent

Natives of Oxfordshire/ Samuel Tymms's

Family Topographer,' 1834, vol. iv. p. 164.

R. J. FYNMORE.

SYVETARE: SYVEKAR (11 S. v. 390). This means a " sifter,'' and is derived from A.-S. sife, a sieve, which in M.E. appears as s y. N. W. HILL.

Honolulu, Hawaii.

SIR JOHN ARUNDEL OF CLERKENWELL. (11 S. iii. 367, 415, 491; iv. 32, 97, 217). Sir John de Arundel X., Lord of Lanherne- (b. 1474, d. 1545. a descendant of William de- Arnndel I., Earl of Arundel, Pincerna Regis r d. 1156, by his wife, Queen Adeliza of England), was the father of Sir John de- Arundel XL, Lord of Lanherne (b. 1500),. and of Sir Thomas Arundel, who bought Wardour Castle, and was beheaded 20 Feb.,. 1552. Sir Matthew Arundel (d. 24 Dec. r 1599), son of this Sir Thomas, succeeded to Wardour Castle, and it was Thomas, the son of Sir Matthew, who was created Lord Arundell of Wardour in 1595, and died in 1630, aged 79. In after years the estates of Lanherne became united to those of W T ar- dour by the marriage, 27 Jan., 1738. of Henry, 7th Lord Arundell of Wardour, with Mary Bellings, sole heiress of Lan- herne and great-granddaughter of Sir John Arundel XV., Lord of Lanherne.

RONALD DIXON.

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MOSES CHARAS, PHARMACOPCEUS REGIUS; (11 S. vi. 10). Moiise Charas (b. 1618, d. 1698) was a French Protestant and a physician. L T pon the Revocation of the- Edict of Nantes he visited England and Holland. Later he abjured the reformed religion, and became Apothecary Royal to Louis XIV. He was the author of many works, several of which are in the Brit. Mus. Library. Some of his noisome ointment* for alluring fish attained a certain popularity among English anglers. See Thomas Best's. ' Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling/ 1804. A short account of Charas is given in ' Nouvelle Biographic Generale,' Paris. 1855, tome ix. col. 712. A. T. W.

Moses Charas. born 1618, was a French pharmacist of European repute, his chief work, a pharmacopoeia, having been trans- lated into many languages. Driven from France as a Protestant by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he came to England, and for some time practised as a doctor. Afterwards he went to Holland, and being called from there into Spain to attend the king in a serious illness he settled at Toledo T where eventually he got into trouble with the Inquisition. After a short imprisonment he abjured Protestantism, and returning to France was kindly received by Louis XIV., and became a member of the Academy of Sciences. I take these particulars from Wootton's ' Chronicles of Pharmacy.'

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