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standing in or coming out of a square aper- ture in a long stove or range. It seems to represent the appearance of Samuel at the invocation of the witch of Endor ; at least, I know of no incident in sacred or profane history, except that, to which it corresponds. The introduction of the stove would seem to be an original idea, nothing like it being found (I believe) in the numerous Bible pictures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

WE must request correspondents desiring .in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

LEAKE (LAKE) : FARINGTON OF WORD EN. Among the documents preserved at the Probate Registry of Chester is the will of William Farington of Worden, co. Lan- caster, esquire, dated 20 Feb., 25 Charles II., and proved in the Consistory Court on 7 April, 1673, by which he left, with other legacies, to " son in law William Anderton gent. 40s." ; "to Mary Anderton my daughter 51." ; "to Farrington Lake my grandson 601. when he is fitt to be bound an apprentice to an Attorney at Law," &c., and " 40Z. more when 22 "; to " my two grandsons Hugh and William Anderton 31. 6s. 8d." The testator's daughter Mary was baptized on 30 Jan., 1639/40 ; as " M ris Mary Leake of Worden " she was married on 6 July, 1670, to a neighbour, "M r William Anderton of Euxton," and (having died on 26 Feb.) was buried as the latter's wife on 1 March, 1 702/3 : ' Ley- land Register ' (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.. xxi.), 13, 136, 271. Can any of your readers identify her first .husband,, who is omitted in all the pedigrees, printed or MS., of the Farington family that I have seen ?

David Leake the younger of Wavertree, son of Edward, was made an out-burgess of Preston in 1662 at the instance of William Farington, Esq. ; and Richard Leke, Esq., was among the out -burgesses enrolled at the gild merchant of 1682 : ' Preston Guild Rolls' (same Society, ix.), 248, 291. The Lancashire freeholders of 1600 included H'igh Leike of Childwall, gent. ; and Robert Laie of Wavertree and William Lake occur at Wavertree as early as 1499 and 1505 : ' Miscellanies,' i. (same Society, xii. ), 240 ; ' Victoria Hist, of Lanes..' iii. 112a. Is this the family ? H. INCE ANDERTON.

28, Via Gino Capponi, Florence.

A WRESTLING MATCH IN FICTION. The following incidents occur in some novel ; what is the novel ?

The hero is a yeoman farmer in the West Country. He is a very powerful man in the prime of life and an experienced wrestler. He meets in London, on business, an influ- ential nobleman, who, in view of his magni- ficent proportions, his evident health and fitness, induces him to enter for the public contest for the national championship belt for wrestling in the " catch-as-catch-can " style, and backs him to win. The noble- man's rival and enemy bets that he will bring a man to beat the hero ; he also, it is implied, suborns the referees. The hero returns to his farm, and trains. He reduces his drink from five gallons of ale per diem to one ; he eats chiefly huge quantities of red meat and crusts of bread. He carries the big four-poster bed on his back to the top of the hill behind the farm. He harnesses himself into a plough, and at the turn of .the furrow smashes the tackle and gains for himself the nickname of " Break-the-plough- harness." He then goes to London for the fight. He downs his man twice gently, but fairly and fully. The judges, however, in each case decide against the hero, and give them both "no fall." The hero then whispers to his opponent that there is nothing for it but to use " Abraham's Staylace," his famous grip and throw, though he knows it will hurt and may per- manently disable. His opponent agrees, as he knows he has already been fairly beaten. He struggles gamely, but is thrown fair and square on his back, and is carried out crippled. The hero expresses his sorrow and pity, but says he could not but do his best to win the belt for his backers and his sweetheart, though he would not have used the " Abraham's Staylace " if he alone had been concerned.

L. HAINES, Lieut. -Col. (late Royal Artillery).

1, Alexandra Road, Clifton.

BARON DE NorAz, DE LA LOIGRIE. The Gentleman's Magazine for 1835 records that

" the Baron de Xoiial died at Barnes Green October 26, and was buried at Kensington, where he had resided many years." He lived in Upper Phillimore Place, and his wife was Elizabeth Ram us (daughter of Nicholas Ramus, so long connected with the household of King George III.), who was celebrated as having been painted with her sister, Benedetta Ramus, afterwards