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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. vn. MAY 10, 1913.

' THE GIGANTICK HISTORY.' I have a little book thus entitled, being " volume the second, which completes the History of Guildhall, London, with other curious matters. Printed for Tho. Boreman. Book- seller, near the two giants in Guildhall, London, 1740. Price 4rf." Eighteen pages of an Introduction are missing, but a list of subscribers' names as far as " M " shows that it was intended for children. " Giant Corineus " takes 100 copies (books) and " Giant Gogmagog " 100 books. Book III. deals with the four figures on the outside of the Guildhall, and Book IV. with " my Lord Mayor's Show." The complete book has 128 pages, and the Introduction should have xxiv, including subscribers. Is there any history attached to its production ?

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

ST. JAMES'S, E.G. : EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WILLS. Can any of your readers inform me where I can find wills of twelve people who died in the parish of St. James's, E.G., between 1770 and 1800 ? I possess a literary ticket from Somerset House, and have searched all the Calendars, including Courts Commissary, Consistory, Hustings, Arches, Lambeth, &c., also letters of administration, but in vain. As the people were paying land tax, and one of them had a lease of three houses for forty years, I am persuaded some will must have been left. I have been told that small amounts in those days could have been proved at local police courts, but can find no confirmation of this at Somerset House. P. JONAS.

REV. A. HEDLEY. The Rev. Anthony Hedley, a vicar in Northumberland, is said to have been a great friend of Sir Walter Scott. I can find no reference to him in Lockhart. What is known of him ?

J. M. BULLOCH.

ENGLISH CHANTEYS. Can any of your readers supply me with references to collec tions of English chanteys and books o: articles about them ? R. DODDS.

Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.

BURIAL-PLACE OF MARGARET (PEGGY SHIPPEN, WIFE OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. No record appears to exist of the burial place of either Arnold or his wife. A membe of the Shippen family in America has an idea that Mrs. Arnold was buried on som estate or farm she owned near London I have myself an impression that I one saw in some book or print a reference to th

of these two. Can any reader give me any help in this matter ?

A. T. STORY. Cranleigh.

[Benedict Arnold was buried at Brompton on 1 June, 1801, The Gentleman's Magazine for July ontaining an account of his funeral. His grave, owever, cannot now be identified. See 9 S. iii. 69, 52, 271.]

" DOWLER." I shall be glad to know the ccupation of an employer whom this word s used to describe in a seventeenth-century ipprenticeship indenture. A. C. C.

FITZGERALD AND OMAR KHAYYAM. I lave seen it stated that the famous poem, he ' Rubaiyat ' of Omar Khayyam, is argely coloured in thought by the trans- ator, Edward FitzGerald. Is this so ?

A. H. HUDSON.

[See 9 S. iii. 326, 395. At 10 S. vi. 453 MR. R. L. AORETON referred to Mr Thomas Wright's * Life if Edward FitzGerald,' vol. ii. p. 12, for an account f the difference between the original and the ranslation.]

BARNARD FAMILY. (US. vii. 308.)

" DR. BARNARD, preacher at Greys Inn " in 1652, is, apparently, Nicholas Bernard, D.D. (d. 1661), whose life and list of works, hiefly pamphlets, fill a page and more in the ' D.N.B.' He is there said to have been appointed Preacher of Gray's Inn in 1651.

Some further particulars about him are to be found in two of the letters published at the end of E. S. Shuckburgh's ' Two Biographies of William Bedell,' Camb., 1902, viz., XLIII., Bishop Bedell to Dr, Sam. Ward (Tanner MS. Ixxi., f. 57), and L., Bishop Bedell to Archbishop Laud (State Papers Ireland, September, 1637). Barnard, as his name is spelt in these letters, had, when Dean of Dromore, vexed the good Bishop by his high standard of non-resident pluralism :

" vicar of the parishes of Kilmore and

Ballintemple and Kildrofarten, Rector of Kedy ; all of the Bishops collation. He was resident upon none of them all. But since my Lord Deputyes comming, takeing a new title of the Deanery from the King, without mention of the rest, he hath obtained a parrish Church in Drogheda called St. Peters to be united to it propter tenuitatem. And yet his former livings are better worth then 300^. per annum. "--Bedell to Laud.

EDWARD BENSLY.