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the very material changes, or did they come from the author as an afterthought or revision ? This is what I am hoping to learn from ' N. & Q.' The answer, if forthcoming, will doubtless interest many, since the hymn is, with the exception of his Latin rendering of ' Rock of Ages ' and his Italian version of ' Hark ! Hark ! my Soul,' Mr. Gladstone's solitary effort and a remarkably successful one at hymn- writing. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

HARDING : PORTRAIT OF MASTER R. HALES. I have a small water-colour paint- ing in the style of a miniature, inscribed " Master R. Hales, son of Captain Hales. G. P. Harding fecit, 1819 London." I shall be glad of any information which will dis- cover the identity of the original. P. D. M.

" THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE." At a banquet at Canterbury to celebrate Princess Victoria's birthday, 1837, in connexion with the toast of the "Navy and Army," the song " Three cheers for the red and the blue " was rendered. Is this the same as " Three cheers for the red, white, and blue," or was it specially applicable to the .Army (red) and Navy (blue) ?

R. J. FYNMORE.

STRANGE FINDS OF LOVE-LETTERS. An article in The Standard for 5 Sept., 1912, entitled ' Rare Manuscripts by the Ton.' concluded with this paragraph :

" A packet of love-letters a hundred years old was discovered in a niche at Westminster, and only a few years ago a similar epistle, several centuries old, was casually lighted upon between the pillars of a Paris church, which was, in all probability, used as a post office by a pair of mediaeval lovers."

I should be very glad to obtain authentic particulars of these finds, or of others like them. L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

BRETTARGH. I do not find this place (pronounced " Bretter "), which is situated in Little Woolton, co. Lancaster, in Wyld and Hurst's ' Place-Names of Lancashire.' It occurs in the twelfth and thirteenth cen- turies as Bretharu^, Bretharch, and Bret- targh. Similar forms occur for Goosnargh and Grimsargh (vide op. cit.). The suffix of these two is explained as haerg, a temple, grove, hill, place of worship, or an idol, and so they may mean Gosa's hill or temple and Grimm's temple or grove. What, then, does Brettargh mean ? If the first syllable represents a personal name, should we not

expect Bretsargh ? It never occurs, nor the form Brattargh, so the element brad = " open, broad," ha dly seems likely ; but I confess myself entirely a novice in these matters. From the fifteenth century the place is called Brettargh -holt, being the residence of the Brettargh family, whose descendants survive. Holt has various meanings, such as a stronghold, a refuge, or simply an abode ; also, a wood or copse, or a wooded hill. Doubtle s it was not till long after the resident family assumed the territorial surname that holt was appended, and then only in the sense of the residence, or abode, of the Brettarghs.

R. S. B.

REV. DAVID GEORGE GOYDER, F.E.S. I should be glad to have information con- cerning his parentage and ancestry. He was a commentator and pamphleteer Educated at Westminster, he became a minister among the Swedenborgians, exer- cising his calling at Accrington (c. 1829) and at Glasgow (in 1835).

GREGORY GRUSELIER.

WILLIAM REES, SHERIFF OF MONMOUTH 1733. William Rees, E q., of St. Bride's, Mon., was appointed Sheriff 14 Dec., 1732, and his son was appointed Sheriff of Mon- mouthshire 7 Feb., 1785. To what family did these men belong ? They were not, it seems, of Monmouth stock.

AP THOMAS.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. ARTHUR ST. LEGER, son of John St. Leger of Athy, co. Kildare, became a King's Scholar at Westminster School in 1741. Further particulars of his parentage and career are desired.

2. JAMES SHIEL was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 8 Oct., 1741, and subsequently became a Commissioner of Appeals and a Master of Chancery in Ireland. When was he called to the Irish Bar, and when was he appointed a Master in Chancery ? I should also be glad to obtain the date of his death.

3. ANTHONY SLEEP was appointed Rector of Great Wratting, Suffolk, in 1618. When did he serve as Deputy Public Orator at Cambridge ? When did he die ?

4. RICHARD STONEHEWER, the friend of Thomas Gray. Who was his mother, and what was the date of her marriage ? The ' D.N.B.,' liv. 416, gives no assistance.

5. GEORGE DIOPS STOUGHTON was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1711. When did he die ? G. F, R. B.