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young King Henry VI. Many of the arms on the screen of this beautiful tomb are now illegible ; but Robsert and Bourchier can still be traced, and Dart believes that among them he found the arms attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer. H. I. HALL.

22, Hyde Park Gate, S. W.

THOMAS PRETTY, VICAR OF HTJRSLEY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help me as to the identity and university and place of burial of the Rev. Thomas Pretty ? He succeeded to the Vicarage of Hursley, Hampshire, on the death of Robert Maunder in 1673, by the presentation of Oliver St. John, Esq., of Farley Chamberlayne in the same county, who is said to have " purchased this turn " from Dorothy, widow of Richard Cromwell (the Protector), who held the manor of Hursley in her own right.

The Rev. Thomas Pretty and Ursula (or Martha ?) his wife had a son Thomas, baptized at Hursley on 13 April, 1678. He either resigned or died in 1684. Possibly he was related to the Rev. John Pretty, the much-respected Rector of Farley Cham- berlayne (the adjoining parish) from 1679 to 1729, where he was buried on 9 June in that year. His personality is also illusive. Any record of him would be very much esteemed. F. H. SUCKLING.

Highwood, Romsey.

DEDICATION OF NONCONFORMIST CHAPELS. In the little town of Bishops Waltham the Primitive Methodists have dedicated their chapel to St. Paul. I believe that the late Newman Hall's place of worship was called Christ Church ; with this exception, I never heard of any other instances of such dedication by Nonconformist bodies. If there be, I should be glad to know them. E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory, Hants.

COL. LOWTHER, 1739. In Cannon's ' Re- cord of the Marine Corps ' it is stated, at p. 22, that Col. Andrew Lowther, of the. 2nd Foot Guards, was appointed Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of Marines when it was raised in 1739 ; but at p. 51 his name is given as Anthony Lowther. Can some reader kindly say which name is correct ? W. S.

H.M. BARQUE ENDEAVOUR. What en- gravings or pictures are known of the above, Capt. Cook's ship during his first voyage ? There were four artists on board ; what happened to their pictures, some of which must have depicted the ship they sailed in ? X. Y. Z.

NAME OF BOOK WANTED. When I was at school thirty years ago our old master read out an account of the effect that the fear of the end of the world, which was pro- phesied for the year 1000 A.D., had upon the liberation of slaves in Great Britain. I have never been able to trace the book. Perhaps some of your readers will recollect it, and if so, I shall be glad of the name. S. C.

LORD RAGLAN'S ARM. In the ' Story of Two Noble Lives,' vol. i. p. 377, Lady Canning writes :

"Paris, Oct. 27 : 1854 They [the Emperor and

Empress of the French] said a great deal about Sevastopol and the anecdote of Lord Raglan's saying about his arm, which they told with great delight ; but I don't the least believe he said it, it sounds so much more like a Frenchman. 1 '

What was this anecdote ? Lady Canning was the wife of Lord Canning, afterwards Viceroy of India. J. R.

THUNDER CROSS AND MEDAL. In a will of 1802 of a Roman Catholic lady she leaves " my Thunder Cross and Medal " to her daughter. What were these ?

R. S. B.

JAMES BROOKE. (11 S. v. 269.)

I AM not able to corroborate the statement that James Brooke was a relation of Henry Brooke, best known as the author of ' The Fool of Quality.' If such were the case, their ages differed by many years. Henry Brooke was born about 1703, James Brooke about 1728.

James Brooke was a man of prominence in London life. He was apprenticed as an engraver, and practised that art for some years. From the circumstance that he was an " intimate and early friend " of the father of John Taylor (of The Sun newspaper) we are acquainted with most of the particulars of his life. After ceasing to engrave, he took to literature, and in early life wrote pamphlets on politics, prologues and epi- logues for the theatre, and songs for Vauxhall Gardens, which were never collected to- gether. Through the first connexion he was engaged to conduct The North Briton after Wilkes, and he continued to edit it until its death. As a convivial companion, full of anecdote (familiarly known as