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170 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vh. mar. 1, mm. —Can any of your readers give me information respecting the Thatched House Tavern Club, said to have been the most exclusive club of its day? It flourished at the latter end of the eighteenth and in the early decades of the nineteenth centuries, and is believed to have met at the Thatched House Tavern in St. James's Street, which occupied a site next to that of the present Thatched House Club. If the Club's constitution, rules, and list of members are in existence, I should like to know where they can be inspected.

—The Rev. Thomas Perkins, in his 'Cathedral Church of St. Albans,' 1903, writing of the pedestal of St. Alban's shrine, says:—

Is this statement provable, or is it merely their conjectural purpose?

—What, and where, were these places, mentioned in a letter of Jane Austen's in April, 1811?

—Is it known at what school the great sculptor was educated? In 'The Correspondence of Sarah, Lady Lyttelton,' p. 203, it is stated that he was a Rugbeian. This is not in accordance with the records of that school, and Chantrey's only known connexion with it was his execution of the monument to Dr. Thomas James, Head Master 1778-94.

—There is at Lyons an abbey church of Ainay, said to stand on the site of the ancient "Athenæum" founded by Augustus Caesar. "Ainay" is said to be a corruption of "Athenæum." Is this the true derivation of the word "Ainay"? H. K. H.

—Who were Dr. Simpson and Dr. Locock in 'Pendennis,' chap. lii.:—

—Who was he? when did he live? and what constituency did he represent? Apparently he was of a family whose estates passed to the Stewarts of Alltyrodyn, Llandyssil, South Wales. Was he an antiquary or collector of MSS.? He became possessed of the papers of the Moore family of Bankhall, co. Lanc, in some way, probably by purchase, and they were sold in 1901 by Messrs. Sotheby, most of the Lancashire and Cheshire documents being acquired by the Liverpool Public Library.

, Turkey merchant, and Sheriff of London in 1718, who died on 4 April, 1742 (Gent. Mag., 1742, p. 218), married Elizabeth (died December, 1738), daughter of Richard Turner, whose wife was Elizabeth Goldsburgh of Ongar, in Essex. Their son was Richard Bull, born in 1721, and married, in 1747, to Mary, daughter of Benjamin Ash of Ongar, and widow of Bennet Alexander (who assumed, in 1742, the surname and arms of Bennet, and died on 20 Dec, 1745). By her first husband she had issue Richard Henry Alexander (Bennet) and Levina, who married, on 16 Jan., 1762. John Luther of Essex (Gent. Mag., 1762, p. 45; 'Anecdotes of the Life of Bishop Watson,' 1818, i. 43-5). This R. H. A. Bennet and his son of the same names were the subject of some articles in the first volume of the present Series of 'N. & Q.'

Richard Bull was returned as M.P. for the Cornish borough of Newport at a by-election on 26 June, 1756. and was re-elected at the three subsequent general elections of 1761, 1768, 1774, sitting until the dissolution of 1780 (A. F. Robbins, 'Launceston,' pp. 265-70). But he did not take an active