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 us. VIL APRIL 12, 1913.] NOTP:S AND QUERIES.

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WE must request corresp9ndents desiring in- 'ormation on family matters of only private interest x> affix their names and addresses to their queries, n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" ESQUIRE " BY CHARTER. In the year !877 your columns had many paragraphs >n the right to the use of the title ' Esquire," and MR. J. LLEWELYN CURTIS >f several royal societies have the title of Esquire conferred on them by royal charter,"
 * hen wrote (5 S. viii. 157) : " The members

This statement was not contradicted at he time, nor, so far as a reference to later ommunications on the same subject in N. & Q.' shows, was it even alluded to.

But is it correct ? And, if so, what are he societies in question ?

FRED. C. FROST. Teignrr.outh.

WORKS OF THEQDORE WINTHROP. May ask your readers if they will be so kind as o send me any information they can procure rom volumes in their own private libraries oncerning the dates, publishers, titles, and tated edition-number of any of the following ooks by Theodore Winthrop ?

John Brent.

Cecil Dreeme.

Kdwin Brothertoft.

The Canoe and the Saddle.

Life in the Open Air.

I have exhausted the possibilities of the niblic libraries, and so far have been able o determine definitely only a few of the ditions, and any assistance, especially as

the dates and stated edition-numbers of ny of the Ticknor & Fields imprints, will >e very welcome, and will assist a great deal

1 making my bibliography exhaustive. It 'ould be an additional kindness if the articulars Were separately recorded upon mall slips of paper.

R. C. E., Spectator. Columbia University, New York City.

CASTLE STRANGE, COUNTY MIDDLESEX. -This would appear, from the description i the ' Peerage,' to have been the residence f Sir John Hort when created a baronet i 1767. Perhaps some of your readers ould tell where it was situated, for the ame is not to be found in the usual works f reference, and the present holder of the tie, though resident in Middlesex, cannot nlighten mo. THOS. U. SADLEIR.

Dublin.

SMITH : RICHARDSON. I am anxious to identify the pedigree (i) of the Smiths of Wroughton, Wilts. Arms : Argent, a uni- corn's head, couped gules ; on a chief azure, three lozenges or. The heiress married Price, 1706; (ii) of the Richardsons of Smalley, co. Derby. Arms : Or, on a chief azure, three lions' heads couped. Sarah Richardson, coheiress, married Price in 1739.

(Mrs.) FORTESCUE. Grove House, Winchester.

HENRY MORRIS, D. 1653 : CHAS. LODGE, BAPTIST MINISTER. I should be glad of any details possible concerning the life of Henry Morris up to 1640, when he was appointed incumbent of Burnley Parish Church, acting also for a period as parish clerk.

What were his family, birthplace, training for the ministry, and appointments previous to 1640 ? Whom did he marry (it is sup- posed his wife's name was Abdy, of York- shire) ? He died at Burnley, 1653.

What is known of the Rev. Chas. Lodge, who conducted an adult baptism in the river at Lockwood, Huddersfield, c. 1819 ? Where can I find any account of this ? To whom would C. Lodge's private papers go ? and who is his representative at the present day ? CHARLOTTE SIMPSON.

" FOUR SQUARE HUMOURS." On a dia- mond - shaped window - pane in Whitton Court, Shropshire, is scratched the following, here copied verbatim et lineatim :

William Barnebrooks

succeeded Margaret

Morgan and possessed

this Messuage and garden

the 7 th of March

whom God long

preserved in the premisses

1690

and from the four

square humors

Vale.

Nearly twenty years ago I invited the readers of ' N. & Q.' to give me some explana- tion of the Word " square " in this context, and I have made inquiries elsewhere ; but no one hitherto has accepted my invitation. I now venture a second appeal.

ARTHUR GAYE. United University Club, Pall Mall East, S.W.

T. ANDREWS, PORTRAIT AND MINIATURE PAINTER. Can any one give me any informa- tion concerning this painter, who Was work- ing at the beginning of last century ?

H. L,