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as Paynel, it is also possible that the family may be a younger branch of the Paganels of Dudley Castle.

Perhaps some one may be able to discover (4) from whom Nicholas Ingepenne (c. 1200) and Rohais his wife, and (5) Emeline of Husborne, Hants, the wife of Sir Roger de Inkpenn, were derived. A. R. I.

MEW FAMILY, It appears from the registers of St. Margaret Moses, Friday Street, lately published by the Harleian Society, that Ellis (Elizeus) Mew(e), salter, had two sons : Elizeus, baptized 10 Jan., 1612, and buried 31 Aug., 1614; and Nathaniel, baptized 15 May, 1614, and buried 18 June, 1615. Can any one supply any further information about him ?

Dr. Peter Mew(s), Bishop of Bath and Wells and of Winchester, born at Caundle Purse, Dorset, 25 March, 1618/19, was the son of one Ellis Mew(s).

G. O. BELLEWES. 13, Cheyne Row, S.W.

BRIGADIER- GENERAL JOSEPH WANTON MORRISON, 89m REGT. I have searched for years in vain for the representatives of this gallant officer. He died at sea, 15 Feb., 1826, on board the Cara Brea Castle. He married 25 April, 1809, Elizabeth Hester, daughter of Randolph Marriott, Esq., of the College Green, Worcester, but left no issue.

Would some of your readers kindly aid me ? My reasons for desiring information are historical.

DAVID Ross McCoRD, K.C. Temple Grove, Montreal.

DICKENS : PLACES MENTIONED IN ' THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.' Can any one give me particulars (1) of a "churchyard between Gracechurch Street and the Tower," mentioned by Dickens in ' The City of the Absent,' one of the essays in * The Uncom- mercial Traveller ' ; and (2) of St. George's Gallery, Hyde Park Corner, mentioned in same book ? J. ARDAGH.
 * The Noble Savage,' another essay in the

HANDEL'S ' MESSIAH.' It is stated that this oratorio was first produced in Dublin, 1742. Would the words of the oratorio be in public print at this date ?

I have an eight-paged pamphlet entitled " Messiah. An Oratorio. Composed by Mr. Handel," and in fairly good calligraphy appears," Sett to musick by him." Imprint ; " Dublin : printed by James Hoey, 1745." Would this copy be about the first printed ? If not, when was the earliest copy of the words printed ? ALFRED CHAS. JONAS.

LORD WELLESLEY'S ISSUE. What i had the first Marquess Wellesley ? He married in 1794 Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland. Burke says they " had no legitimate issue." ' The Annual Register,' 1842, says that " they had had several children, but sepa- rated very soon after marriage, and were not afterwards reconciled." The famous Duchess of Gordon, writing to Mornington, as Wellesley then was, from Gordon Castle, 23 Oct., 1799, says : " Lady Mornington was so good as let your lovely boys come and see me when in town " (Add. 'MS. 37282, f. 123). J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W.

THE SANCTITY OF ROYALTY. It is related (in the Chronicle of the Cistercian Abbey of Waverley, if my memory does not mislead me : I have lost my notes of the matter) that Henry III., with Queen Eleanor and the child Prince Edward, came, in the summer of 1246, to Beaulieu for the feast of the dedication of the church. Prince Edward, after the feast, fell ill, and stayed on for three weeks at the monastery, his mother staying with him. At the next visitation the Prior and the Cellarer were deprived of their office, because they had acted contrary to the Cistercian rule in allowing a woman to remain in the house so long.

Talking this matter over with a religious, I was told that this punishment was matter of some surprise, seeing that queens were consecrated personages, and ordinary rules were not usually held to apply to them. They might go anywhere, and stay as long as they chose in a monastery.

Can any reader inform me whether queens really enjoyed this privilege ? and, if so, whether equally at the hands of all religious orders ; and whether from definite prescription in the rule, or merely from relaxation ? Are any other incidents ot this kind recorded ? PEREGRINTJS.

HOSIER LANE, WEST SMITHFIELD. Henry Morley in his ' Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair ' writes of the year 1614 : " Hosier Lane and Chick Lane had newly become permanent resorts of trade."

In making alterations some years ago to my business place in Hosier Lane, the builder came across a beam of oak dated 1583. The building is still substantial, and the beam still does its duty. This seems to point to the street having perma- nent buildings some considerable time before 1614. I shall be glad to hear details.

W. B. S.