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DEODATUS AND THOMAS THRELKELD. Deodatus Threlkeld of Newcastle, watch- maker, who died in 1733, aged 75, gave his property at Tritlington, in Northumberland, to his youngest son Thomas, at that time an apprentice in Newcastle. In the year 1 784 Thomas Threlkeld, then residing at Popham, in the county of Southampton, with the consent of his son James Matthew William Threlkeld. sold Tritlington. In the con- veyance Thomas Threlkeld is described as '' esquire/' I shall be grateful for the epitaph or epitaphs of these men, and for any other particulars about them or their descendants. J. C. HODGSON.

Alnwick.

JOHN WARREN, EARL OF SURREY. The ' D.N.B.' tells us that this nobleman left England for Aquitaine on 2 March, 1325. Is this correct ? and can any one kindly give the exact date of his return month as well as year ?

C. SWYNNERTON.

NATURAL ORIENTATION. To quote from a critique of ' The Parrot-Faced Man,' its author states that when his hero rushed " out of his office in a state of great agitation ' he did not even notice that his feet had turned eastward as the feet of all preoccupied people who walk mechanically invariably do.' "

Do they ? ST. SWITHIN.

' THE REAL SHILOCK.' I have just come across a caricature portrait published by Thomas McClean, 26, Haymarket, 6 Sept., 1830, entitled THE REAL SHILOCK KNAVE OF H E ARTS (sic). I should very much like to know who this is. Was any one named Hart connected with shady financial trans- actions about 1830 ? ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

SIR WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN : THE PRINCE IN WALES. It was stated in an address presented by all the Welsh Non- conformist Sunday schools in the parish of Ruabon to the sixth baronet on his coming of age in 1841, that William IV., when Duke of York, had designated his father the fifth baronet as " the Prince in Wales." Can any of your readers inform me when and why this occurred ? D. M. R.

BURIAL-PLACE OF MARY DE BOHUN. Where was Mary de Bohun buried ? and is there any monument or inscription to her at her place of burial ? She married, as his first wife, Henry, Earl of Derby, after- wards King Henry IV.

J. HAUTENYILLE COPE.

Finchampstead, near Wokingham, Berks.

WORDSWORTH'S FRIEND JONES. (11 S. v. 430; vi. 55.)

As a friend from youth to old age of Words- worth, the Rev. Robert Jones deserves a fuller notice of his life.

He was the son of Edward Jones of Plas- yn-Llan, near Ruthin, in Denbighshire, and was admitted at St. John's College, Cambridge, as pensioner on 8 June, 1787 He graduated B.A. 1791, M.A. 1794, and B.D. 1802, and held a Fellowship on Gwyne's foundation from April, 1791, to April, 1808 (Thomas Baker, ' History of St. John's,' ed. Mayor, i. 310-12). He was Lector Matutinus 1802, Lector Mathematicus 1805, University Proctor 1800-1.

On 13 July, 1790, " on the very eve of that great federal day " of France, Jones and Wordsworth, " undergraduates to- gether " of that college, landed at Calais from Dover, and stayed abroad until October. Their wanderings across France, in Switzerland, and by the Italian lakes are described in the sixth book of the ' Prelude.' Wordsworth's thin volume of ' Descriptive Sketches ' was dedicated to Jones as one of " two travellers plodding slowly along the road side by side, each with his little knap- sack of necessaries upon his shoulders"; and the third sonnet in his collection of ' Poems dedicated to National Independ- ence and Liberty,' beginning with the words, Jones ! as from Calais southward you and I Went pacing side by side,

which he " composed near Calais, on the road leading to Ardres, 7 August, 1802," records the displays of joy at " new-born Liberty " which they encountered in their walk in 1790 (Knight's ' Life of Wordsworth,' i. 16-17, 44-7, 58, 86-8 ; iii. 102-5, 207).

Next year (May, 1791) Wordsworth visited Jones at his residence " in the vale of Clwydd, North Wales, and along with him made a pedestrian tour through North Wales." Their ascent of Snowdon and the prospect which awaited them are de- scribed in the fourteenth book of the ' Pre- lude ' ; and the

" sea-sunsets, which give such splendour to the vale of Clwydd, Snowdon, the chair of Idris, the quiet village of Bethgelert, Menai and her Druids, the Alpine steeps of the Conway, and the still more interesting windings of the wizard stream of the Dee,"

delighted the poet, and are thus briefly chronicled in the dedication to Jones of the ' Descriptive Sketches.' Most of the autumn