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Can any one of these be identified as a son of Lady Tregonwell ? Who was her first husband, and what was her parentage ? When did she die ?

Her son Thomas Tregonwell of Milton Abbas, Dorset, married an Anna Martyn of Devonshire, who was probably a relative of her first husband, though the printed pedi- grees do not show in what degree.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

DATE OF PUBLICATION WANTED. What was the date of the following ?

" The New Wonderful Magazine, Consisting of a Carefully Selected Collection of Remarkable Trials, Biographies of Wonderful or Extraordinary Characters, etc. In 2 volumes. London : G. H. Davidson, Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons, on the South Side of St. Paul's."

MARY A. FELL, Librarian. Philadelphia City Institute Free Library.

FIELDING'S PARSON THWACKUM. The Rev. Richard Hele, Canon of Salisbury and Master of the Choir School, is said by Hoare (who gives a brief biography of him in the Addenda to ' Modern Wiltshire ') to have been the original of the pedagogue Thwackum in Fielding's ' Tom Jones.' I should be much obliged for any further references about him or his brother Henry, a doctor in Salisbury (whose only daughter married Thomas Phipps of Westbury), especially as to their parentage or family. Have any of the other characters in ' Tom Jones ' been similarly identified ? L. E. T.

THE CINNABAR MOTH AND RAGWORT. Information is desired of the various plants, other than ragwort and coltsfoot, on which the cinnabar moth feeds.

Does it feed on the flower or leaf, or both, of the plants it selects for food ? Is the moth ever known to be a pest, destroying cultivated plants ? If it be desired to introduce the moth as an immigrant into a locality where ragwort is thriving, how could the pupae be obtained for the purpose ? M. ELLEN POOLE.

Alsager, Cheshire.

" MAULTH WAY." In the second edition of Murray's ' Guide to Hampshire,' 1865, p. 192, is this statement :

" An ancient road passes near Crondale in the direction of Bagshot, worth notice on account of its name, which curiously perpetuates an old British word. It is known as ' the Maulth Way,' i.e. the sheep way, 'mollt' being the Celtic equivalent which the Saxons banished, and which the Normans, acquiring it from their Gallicised neighbours, brought back to us in t he- word ' mutton." The road in question is likely

to have been used as a drift way, and a litt li- south of Crondale connects at Well with the Harrow Way a very ancient road. Another interesting point in connection with the Maulth Way is that it passes close to the spot on Crookham Common where a hoard of Merovingian gold coins was found in 1828."

I should be glad to know if any other Maulth Ways are known. J. H. G.

THE GARDNER PRINTS AND DRAWINGS OF OLD LONDON. I shall be glad to learn the date and place of exhibition of a selection of these valuable topographical illustrations. A printed Catalogue before me gives a list of 349 prints and drawings, exhibited pre- sumably by some antiquarian society, and on the title-page it is announced that they have been selected " by the kind permission

of John E. Gardner, Esq from his

valuable and highly interesting collection, and kindly lent by him for exhibition." Although this copy of the Catalogue was formerly in their owner's library, I am un- certain if it is complete. It is without covers or pagination, A to N, small quarto ; A! title, A.2 blank, A3 to N4 detailed list of the exhibits, classified by locality and under street- and place-names. Any information on this exhibition and Catalogue will be of the greatest interest to me.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

33, Shcrriff Road, N.W.

" ESSEX BATH," STRAND LANE. Charles Knight in his 'London' (1851), after describing the Roman Bath which is still to be seen in Strand Lane, says of it :

" The proprietors, we are happy to say, rightly estimate its value, and have long ago caused another bath to be built and supplied from it ; and it is in the latter alone that persons are allowed to bathe."

The other bath here alluded to must be the Essex Bath. Edward Walford, however, in ' Old and New London ; ' iii. 79, after quoting from Knight's description of the Roman Bath, says : " There is another bath-room on the right of the passage by which we entered, which is used as a plunging bath, and is open all the year round. This new bath, the proprietor tells us, ' was built by the Earl of Essex in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1588.'" This bath was demo- lished in 1893 at the building, or rather re- building, of the Norfolk Hotel. There is, therefore, no doubt whatever that, up to 1893, there were two baths; but so far I have been unable to find any mention of the so-called Essex Bath in the best -known histories of London. I am hoping that by inserting these memoranda in N. &. Sfr