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THE SIGN OF THE DBIPPING - PAN. This occurs as the sign of a house or shop in Whitechapel in a lease dated 14 March, 1663, the reference reading

" heretofore called or knowne by the name or signe of the Coopers Arras and now of the Sithe [sic] and Dripping Panne."

The trade of the occupiers is not given, but, unless the association of signs is accidental, it suggests a market gardener's cook-shop. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

" DUKE " AND " DUCHESS " AS CHRISTIAN NAMES. Duke Gordon (1739-1800), assis- tant librarian at Edinburgh University, is dealt with in the ' D.N.B.' But " Duchess " is rarer. I find that " Dutchess Stewart," Scarborough, Tobago, got 527. compensation for two slaves on 2 May, 1836 (P.R.O.. T.71, 1572, claim 143). The T. *71 series, made available to the public at the Record Office on 17 March, 1913, are of absorbing interest. J. M. BUI/LOCH.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" TOWN-PLANNING." This designation has been much in the newspapers since 1907, and has even given rise to a verb to town- plan, a participial adjective town-planned, and an agent-noun town-planner. We should he glad to have early examples of any of these. It has been stated or suggested that these expressions are renderings of corresponding German or Swedish terms. Is this so ? and what are the terms after -which town-planning was formed ? Do any arly articles introduce the term as of Ger- man origin ? J. A. H. MURRAY.

Oxford.

WRECK OF THE JANE, DUCHESS OF GORDON, &c. In February, 1809, the Jane, Duchess of Gordon, the Lady Jane Dundas, and the William Pitt, ships belonging to the East India Company, convoyed by H.M S. Belliqueux, were in Colombo Roads, on the voyage home. Major-General Hay Mac- dowall, who had lost Kandy in 1803 while in command of the troops in Ceylon, and who had since 1804 been on the staff of the Madras Army, seems to have arrived at Colombo by this fleet on his way to England, to have remained for some days at Colombo visiting old friends, and to have left with the fleet in the middle or towards the end

of February, possibly on 1 March. With him left Major-General Charles Baillie, formerly of the 51st Foot, who had served under him in the Kandyan War in command of " the line of the Army," and since the war, and until his departure, as colonel commanding the " Caff re Corps," alias the " 3rd Ceylon Regiment," alia* " Baillie's Regiment " The Rev. William Hamlyn Heywood, Chap- lain of Brigade to the Forces in Ceylon, also left by the Jane, Duchess of Gordon; and several other Ceylon passengers went by this fleet. Off the Cape it encountered a storm "which destroyed nearly a whole squadron" ('List of Madras Inscriptions,' by J. J. Cotton, M.C.S., p. 43). It is known that the Jane. Duchess of Gordon, was lost, and with it the Rev. W. PL Heywood and the Register of Marriages of the Fort Church, Colombo, which he was taking home with him " in order to have it entered in the Registry of the Bishop of London."

Mr. William Hope, merchant of Madras, his wife, and four children, as well as four children of another Madras merchant, Mr. Richard Griffiths, were also lost in the same vessel, the date of the wreck being given on the memorial tablet of the Hope family as "on or about the 16th of March, 1809." What I want to know is whether the two generals were also passengers by the Jane, Duchess of Gordon ; whether they were lost in that vessel, or in one of the other vessels ; and whether the two other vessels named, or either of them, were wrecked in this storm. Both General Macdowall and General Charles Baillie appear to have been defunct by 1810. Where can one find an account of this catastrophe ?

Major- General Hay Macdowall wrote in 1800 that he had served his king "for 27 years, fifteen years in India." He went on an embassy to Kandy in 1800, made a hash of the first Kandyan War (though perhaps it was hardly his fault) and of discipline in the Madras Army (though here, again, it is only right to state that Sydney Smith thought him more sinned against than sinning), and had apparently been deprived of his command by the Governor of Madras. Sir George Barlow, when he arrived by this ill-fated fleet at Colombo. He was an accomplished botanist, and left behind in his garden at Colombo " a valuable collection of exotics," and at Tanjore a similar garden, with specimens of some of the more valuable of his Colombo trees and shrubs transplanted to it. He introduced into Ceylon the mangosteen and the punkah,