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NOTES AND QUERIES. L ii s. vi. DEC. u, 1912.

Lady Day, by Gainsborough (a picture which was sold about seventeen years ago for 10,OOOZ. ). She died at an advanced age in April or May, 1848 ; her will was executed 11 Aug., 1847, and was proved 7 June, 1848 ; and in this will she describes herself as the widow and relict of Peter, Baron de Noiial de la Loigrie, and desires

" to be buried in the same vault under the parish church of Kensington where the remains of my said late husband were deposited."

Her principal executor was her niece's husband, Robert Keate, of Albemarle Street, the celebrated surgeon.

But it is a curious fact that the burial registers of St. Mary Abbotts, the parish church of, and in 1835 the only church in, Kensington, contain no record of the burial of either.

Can any one give any information respect- ing the ancestry and antecedents of Peter, Baron de Noiial de la Loigrie ?

F. DE H. L.

[Some particulars of the Misses Ramus will be found at 9 S. iii. 348, 458.]

BURKE QUOTATION. Where does Burke insist on the necessity of a member of Parlia- ment having a competence, however modest, so as to escape being a slave to faction ? I do not find the sentiment in the best books of English quotations, but believe it is Burke's. HIPPOCLIDES.

CAMPDEN HOUSE. I am told that the grounds of Campden House, Kensington, once extended to the High Street, where there was an entrance. Will any of your readers tell me where I can find confirma- tion of the statement, where the entrance was. and at what date it disappeared ?

R. JAMES.

Brockley, S.B.

' THE LETTER H TO HIS LITTLE BROTHER VOWELS.' Where can I procure this booklet ? It must, I think, be out of print. Forty years ago, by means of it, I cured a Eurasian servant in India of cockney " murdering the Queen's English," and I wish to effect another cure.

C. L. GILBERT-COOPER.

PAGET FAMILY. Can any of your readers oblige me with particulars of the births and deaths of the Hon. Henry Paget (second son of William, fifth Baron Paget), who is vaguely stated to have settled in Ireland ; of his wife. Mary Sandford ; of their son Thomas, Groom of H.M. Bedchamber, 1727 ; of his wife, Mary Whitcombe of Great Bfaxted, said to have died 15 Feb., 1741 ;

and of their daughter Caroline, who married in April, 1737, Nicholas Bayly, eldest son of Sir Edward Bayly of Plas Newydd, Anglesey ?

All these dates must have been proved before Henry, son of the last-named Nicholas and Caroline Bayly, was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Paget, after the death of Henry, second Earl of Uxbridge and eighth Baron Paget, in 1769. H.

AUTHOR WANTED. Who is the author of " Recollections of a Service of Three Years during the War of Extermination in the Re- publics of Venezuela and Columbia, by an Officer of the Columbian Navy. London, 1828, 2 vols." ?

JOHN T. LOOMIS. 1726, Corcoran Street, Washington, D.C.

DIED IN HIS COFFIN. Is there any founda- tion for the statement in Henry Schroeder's ' Annals of Yorkshire,' ii. 335, that

" Dr. Bentley [the critic] died in his coffin on July 17, 1742."

If the ' Annals ' had been dictated to an amanuensis, one would have suspected the intended meaning as " in his coughing," i.e., from bronchitis or pneumonia. The italics in the quotation are not in the original.

"DANDER." "To get one's dander up" is a familiar expression ; but what is the supposed derivation of " dander " ?

R. B.

Upton.

COMPLETION OF POEM SOUGHT. The fol- lowing lines were published in an American legal magazine about 1896. I should be glad to be told where I may find the rest.

And now my vacation is over, Oh ! why did I wander to where

I lived not in peace nor in clover,

And obtained not a smile from the fair ?

There is larceny winking at trover, And fraud arm in arm with trustee ;

While the legal estate is brought over, And drinks with the third mortgagee.

G. S. B.

HOLYWOOD PREMONSTRATENSIAN CHAK- TULARY. The Premonstratensian house o/ Holywood, some 2J miles north-west of Dumfries, was founded about 1220. Is there any chartulary of this monastery m existence ? It might throw light on ihe question a? to whether John de S*cro Bosco, the famous mathematician of the thirteenth century, was a native of Holy- wood or not. (See 5 S. vi. 147, 225 ; vii. 77, 112, 139.) J. H..