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by Thos. H. Shepherd, the letterpress by James Elmes, 1827, Park Crescent and Park Square appear with their names. In the latter is an almost semicircular road, which, together with the inside garden, is smaller than the garden only of Park Crescent. From the north of the arc are two curved roads, which run respectively into the east and west sides of Park Square. The roads thus marked may represent merely foot- paths. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MARY SEYMOUR. Lord Thomas Seymour, created Baron Seymour of Sudeley, married Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII. . and had a daughter Mary. The mother died after the birth, and Lord Seymour of Sudeley was convicted of high treason and beheaded. The attainder was reversed by Act of Parliament of 3 Edward VI. Mary married Sir Edward Bushell of Wilt- shire, and had issue. Can any one tell me the date and place of this marriage ? I am aware that in most English histories Mary is stated to have died when quite young ; but the more correct account, corroborated by private papers of my own, is to be found in Miss Strickland's ' History of the Queens of England.' A. H. H.

[At 9 S. xi. 358 MR. A. R. BAYLEY quotes the account of Mary Seymour in the ' D.N.B.,' sub ' Thomas Seymour,' which mentions Miss Strick- land's statement, but refuses it credence.]

MAGIC LUCKY PEAR AT COLSTOUN, HAD- DINGTONSHIRE. The Broun family of Cols- toun, Haddingtonshire, are said, according to the notice in ' Debrett,' to possess a magical lucky pear, which ensures pro- sperity to the family. I have searched the General Indexes of ' N. & Q.' in vain. May I ask for references to any account of the pear ? EMERITUS.

THE ROYAL GEORGE : NAME OF DURHAM. Where may be found the fullest contem- porary account of the sinking of the Royal George, with the names, at all events, oJ the officers saved ? These are sure to have been reprinted in some magazine.

In a recent book, as an incident in the history of a particular family, I see that a midshipman of the name of Durham, who afterwards rose to high rank in the Navy, was dragged out through a port. He was said to be of the old Scotch family the Durhams of Largo, or of the Grange. There was, at the end of the eighteenth or into the nineteenth century, a Hercules Durham, R.N. a peculiar Christian name made into a lady's name in my family. R. S.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. JOHN LAWES was admitted to West- ninster School 14 June, 1779. I should 36 glad of any information concerning his oarentage and career.

2. EDWARD LEAHY, son of Edward Leahy of London, was at Westminster School in L786. Particulars of his career and the date of his death are desired.

3. PHILIP LE COQ was admitted to West- minster School 8 July, 1783. Any informa- tion concerning him would be of use.

4. WARREN HASTINGS LENDON was ad- mitted to Westminster School 22 Sept., 1823. Particulars of his parentage and

areer are wanted. G. F. R. B.

HANWELL : BREWERNE ABBEY. Can any of your readers give me the names of the lords of the manor of Han well, Oxfordshire, till the reign of Henry VII. ?

Can any reader tell me to whom Brewerne Abbey, Oxfordshire, was granted at the Dissolution ? It was granted in 1610 to Sir A. Cope. Was there any lay owner previous to Sir A. Cope ? J. H. COPE.

Finchampstead, Berks..

IRISH PARISH REGISTERS. Were dupli- cate copies sent to any Diocesan Registry under the Act, as applied in England ?

CLARIORES E TENEBRIS.

TOUCHING FOR JAUNDICE. Dr. Raymond Crawfurd in his recently published book, 'The King's Evil' (London, 1911), quotes (on p. 33) the well-known passage, " Regi- bus Hungarise arquati morbi (icterum vocant) curationem datam ferunt," from the ' De Mirabili Strumas Sanandi Vi ' (Paris, 1609, p. 31) of Andreas Lauren tius, physician to Henry IV. of France, to show that the kings of Hungary used to touch for jaundice. I have endeavoured to dis- cover the original source from which the French writer gathered his information, but so far without success. A recent German author, Eugen Hollaender, in his ' Die Medizin in der Klassischen Malerei ' (Stuttgart, 1903, pp. 261-8), quotes Cas- saneus's ' Catalogus Gloriae Mundi ' (1546), a very bulky volume without an index; and I have found the passage relating to the healing power of the kings of Spain, but not a word about the kings of Hungary. Could anybody supply chapter and verse ? It will be seen that Laurentius only writes from hearsay that the Hungarian kings are said to have cured the jaundice, and