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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. JAN. 3,

It appears that Dame Dorothy Wadharn, who founded Wadham College and died about 1610, left her furniture and effects to a servingman named Arnold. Now, on evidence of a persistent family tradition, a certain robe handed down in the Hawkins family is attributed to her original posses- sion ? Is there any point of contact between this Arnold's kin and descendants, and the Hawkinses or any they married ? The said robe is now in the possession of Wadham. College. W. E. L.

New Zealand.

THE FOURTH EARL OF TANKERVILLE. Can any of your readers kindly inform me where a portrait of this nobleman (1743- 1822) may be seen ? There is not one in the possession of the family nor in the Print-Room at the British Museum.

F. S. ASHLEY-COOPER. South View, Gomshall, Surrey.

HERALDIC. To what city do the following arms refer ? A one-masted ship with two men on board, one holding a banner charged with three saltires on a fesse, the other with a shield on which are four lions rampant, two and two, respectant; at the stern a banner as before. ' * Sigillum Civitatis ' ' the rest has been cut off. J. G. BRADFORD.

Lough ton.

JEFFREYS FAMILY. In Burke's ' Armory ' there is an entry under Jeffreys (co. Dorset) ; arms, C4ules, three pillars argent, garnished or. I shall be glad to have some information about this family and the coat of arms.

MUSICAL CONGRESSES. Is there a list of these to be found in any work of reference giving the town and date of Congress? I particularly wish to know if one ever took place at Malines (Mechlin), Belgium.

Louis A. DUKE.

Hornsey.

' TALES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL. ' (See 10 S. ii. 188, 231, 355.) Can any one tell me where I can get a copy of this ?

JOHN LANGLEY.

19, The Beacon, Exmouth. " " .1

"E HACKER WAY." In the sixteenth century an outlying suburb of Sheffield was connected with a neighbouring village by a road known as " Ye Racker Way," which is mentioned, and the site identified, in Harri- son's Survey of the Manor of Sheffield, 1637.' At the Sheffield end of this road the Sheffield Church Burgesses owned, in 1555 a close called " Rakkar Close," through

which the road presumably passed. It seems probable that the name " Racker y " meant nothing more than " Bridle rload "from the word racker or racking horse, i.e., a horse that ambles, both legs on each side moving together. V. ' Oxford Dictionary.' What still remains of the old track bears indication, both in width and gradient, that it was not a cart road. I am anxious to know if the same or a similar name is to be found in other parts of the country, and shall be grateful for informa- tion on the subject.

T. WALTER HALL. 11, George Street, Sheffield.

PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON III. I have a pencil portrait of Napoleon III. (oval, 8 in. by 6 in. ). The signature appears to be:

F. de Fournier d'Ajaccio a Paris Mars 1853.

The last two lines are quite legible, but I am not sure of the artist's name. Can any reader kindly inform me if I have read it correctly, and if this was a well-known man ? The drawing was bought by my grandfather from a Frenchman in London in the fifties or sixties of the last century.

G. H. WHITE. St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

' DOROTHY ' : ' QUEEN OF MY HEART.' Will some one be good enough to forward me direct the words of this famous song ? I believe it was published apart from the comic opera. I should like to know the name of the publisher.

M. L. R. BBESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney, N.E.

GLEGG. I should be much indebted to any one through whom I could find the representatives of Major-General John B. Glegg. In 1812 he was major in the 49th Regiment, and was also employed on the Staff. DAVID Ross McCoRD, K.C.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

PALJEOGRAPHIC CONTRACTIONS. Would these differ in Spanish from Latin ?

E. E. COPE.

WILLIAM HENRY DALLY, CHARTIST LEADER OF BRISTOL. I desire information on this personage, who was presented with a Bible by the Mayor and Corporation of Bristol in 1827. Was presentation of Bibles by this corporation frequent ?

\ WILLIAM MACARTHUR.

Dublin.