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THE MUKDEK OF SABAH STOUT AT HERT- FORD. In connexion with this tragedy there is a tract entitled

" Sarah the Quaker to Lothario [i.e., Spencer Cowper], recently deceased, on meeting him in the Shades. Printed for L. Moore. 1728."

It is believed that every procurable copy was bought up and destroyed. Can any one say where a copy can be seen ?

W. B. GERISH.

GEORGE HUBBARD, GENT. From 1795 to 1814 George Hubbard, Gent., was Master of St. John's Hospital, Northampton. He resigned in 1814, and after that I have been quite unable to trace him. He is probably the same as George Hubbard, Esq., wlho was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 6 Oct., 1804. He is there described as eldest son of John Hubbard, Esq., of South Repps, Norfolk, deceased.

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me any further information about him ? When did he die, and where ? He appears never tojiave resided in Northampton.

B. M. SERJEANTSON.

St. Peter's Rectory, Northampton.

IVORY SEAL FOUND IN NEW GUINEA. In the seventies my uncle, who was on the Morseby Government Expedition to New Guinea, picked up there an ivory seal. There are four panels, on two of which are what is apparently the heraldic unicorn rampant, and on the other two an eagle sitting on an anchor. On the flat bottom are the initials, in reversed block capitals, "P. V." Can any of your readers throw light on the matter ? H. C. D.

" HUBBERDAYN'S COFFER.'' The will of Robarte Lezes (Lees) of Ashton-under-Lyne parish, made in 1615, contains a bequest of " a thicke coffer called the Hubberdayn's Coffer." It is not mentioned in the inven- tory, but is presumably included in the item "In arkes, coffers and bedstockes 51. 5s." I shall be glad if the meaning of the word " Hubberdayn " can be explained.

G. W. WRIGLEY.

South Hackney.

ZINCK : ZINCKE. Was Jacob Giles Zinck, bachelor, aged 42, of the parish of St. Martin, Ludgate, London, who married Jane Rosingrave of the same parish, widow, by licence, at Lamb's Chapel, Monkwell Street, 27 Nov., 1717, related to Christian Friedrich Zincke, the miniature painter ? DANIEL HIPWELL.

PRISONERS TAKEN AT THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER. It is stated in a book pub- lished in 1853 ' Curiosities of London Life,' by Charles Manly Smith that in 1650 some 1,200 prisoners taken after Worcester fight were massacred at Westminster in cold blood, and their bodies covered with 130 horse-loads of clay, presumably by authority of Parlia- ment.

Where did Smith get this story ? S. R. Gardiner mentions that some thousands of the prisoners taken at Worcester were hired out to Lincolnshire and other Eastern- County farmers, for each of whom Parliament allowed 2-Jd. per day until the conclusion of the war. " CHARLES J. HILL.

Belmont Lodge, Waterford.

EPITAPH : "I WAS WELL, I WOULD BE BETTER ; I AM HERE.'' This, according to Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., in his work on 'Conservatism,' at p. 10, is " the often- quoted epitaph of an Italian tomb." Wliat is the original ? and where and whose is the Italian tomb ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

JENNER FAMILY. Gent. Mag., vol. ciii. p. 284 :

" 1833* Sep. 6. At the residence of her son-in- law Mr. Eccles, Plymouth, aged 65, the widow of the celebrated Dr. Jenner."

What Dr. Jenner is this ? Did Dr- Edward Jenner marry again after the death of his wife Catharine Kingscote ?

JENNER AND PARKHURST. In what way was Sir Robert Parkhurst, Lord Mayor 1634-5, related to the Jenner family ? A daughter of Sir Robert married a brother of Dr. Harvey. R. J. FYNMORE.

PATRON SAINTS. Why is St. Barbara the patron of coal-miners in France and Belgium ? Who is the patron of woodcutters and char- coal-burners ? Who is the patron of cooks ?

P. W. G. M.

SHIPS TORPEDOED. Will you kindly, through your valuable journal, let me know the date, name, and nationality of the first warship destroyed by a torpedo ?

C. W. T.

PROPHECY CONCERNING HAGIA SOPHIA. In recent stories of the entrance of the Turks into Hagia Sophia, 29 May, 1453, a dragp. man's embellishment of the celebrant dis- appearing with the chalice, through a door in a gallery on the right, which could not be broken into, saying he would one day return