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trace the authority given by Smith for the primary statement. Speaking from me- mory, it is " Rothe," and this name is not in the General Catalogue, British Museum. I may, of course, have missed him.

W. HANNA, Col. United Service Club, S.W.

PYOTT. There is a tradition I have read of, and which several persons, I understand, consider well founded, that in the time of the ascendancy of the Montrose family in Scotland, about 1600-50, a burgher of Mont- rose, who was called Graham, was out in a wood not far from the town. Here he accidentally encountered an opponent of Grahams, and, being called upon to give his name, feared to give the true one, and, seeing a magpie on a tree, called out " Pyott." Later, it is said, the family reverted to the old name of Graham, and one branch settled in England. It is said Sir John Graham, sometime Lieutenant-Governor of Georgia (in North America), was descended from this family. His daughter Frances married Sir Edward Knatchbull in 1785. Can any of your readers give any reference where an authentic account of the tradition can be found ? HORATIUS BONAB.

3, St. Margaret's Road, Edinburgh.

PRINTED FORM FOR PARISH REGISTER, 1593. In Arber's 'Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers,' ii. 269, under the date 26 Feb., 1592/3, is the follow- ing entry :

" Thomas Purfoote thelder, and Thomas Pur- foote the yonger. Entred for theire Copie under thande of master Stirrop. The Register Booke, or Applicacon of the blanck Almanack to the true and orderlie keepinge of the Register booke of wed- dinges, Christeninges, and Burialles, accordinge to the Queene's Iniunctyons vjd."

This seems to have been an early attempt to introduce registration in its familiar modern form. Can any one tell me whether any parish register kept on this " printed form " of 1593 is known to exist ?

J. F. WILLIAMS. Ashmansworth, Newbury.

CATALOGUE OF THE POET THOMSON'S LIBRARY. In ' N. & Q.' (3 S. v. 163) I find an article dealing with the " House and Cellar" of the poet James Thomson (1700- 1748), which refers to a Catalogue of the effects of Thomson, including his library.

I should be much obliged if any reader would give me particulars as to where I could purchase this Catalogue, or at least obtain a copy of the titles, &c., of the books belonging to the poet's library. If

any one should be able to send me this Catalogue, and allow me to copy it, I am willing to furnish any security desired, and to meet any expense incurred.

It is of material importance to me to obtain these particulars, as I require them for a work I have in hand dealing with Thomson. P. THIEFES.

Englisches Seminar der Universitat Berlin.

CAMP ANA DE CAVELLI : ' LES DERNLERS STUARTS.' Who was or, I hope, is la Marquise Campana de Cavelli, who wrote Laye,' Paris, Librairie Academique, Didier & Cie., Londres et fidimbourg, Williams & Norgate, 1871 ? The book, in two volumes, imp. 8vo, was printed at Geneva by the Imprimerie Veresoff & Garrigues.
 * Les Derniers Stuarts a Saint-Germain en

In answer to an inquiry, Messrs. Williams & Norgate reply that they cannot give me any information about the Marquise, adding that

" the arrangements for the publication of the book were made through a house abroad, and not direct with the author."

In Hare's ' Walks in Rome,' 15th ed., 1900, ii. 68, mention is made of the Villa Campana " improved away " in 1889 in the Via San Giovanni,

" the favourite residence of the well-known Mar- chese Campana, the learned archaeologist of Etruria, and the chief benefactor of the Etruscan museum at the Vatican, cruelly imprisoned and exiled by the Papal Government in 1858."

Was the Marquise his wife ? Was, or is, she Italian, French, or English ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

ROBERT SHORT, Purser of H.M.S. Prince of Orange, 1759. I should be obliged if some correspondent could kindly place me in communication with the representatives of the above gentleman.

DAVID Ross McCoRD, M.A., K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

HERALDIC. Can any one inform me to what family the following crest belongs ? Two swans' necks coming out of a mural crown, surmounting a beehive.

CHRISTOPHER W. BAYNES.

27, Lowndes Square, S.W.

CLERK, co. TIPPER ARY. This family of London merchants, mentioned in Gwyllim's ' Heraldry,' were interested in land in co. Tipperary during the Cromwellian period. Does it appear in any family history that they left representatives as settlers there ? R. S. CLARKE, Major.

Bishop's Hull, Taunton.