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he was descended either from John, Rector of Willingham, Cambs (died 1651), or George, sons of George (whose will was proved 1646). The arms impaled on the portrait of Theo- philus are those of Durant.

A. STEPHENS DYER. 207, Kingston Road, Teddington.

THE COLONELS OF THE 24TH REGIMENT. (See ante, pp. 87, 111, 127, 149.) Sir T. F. Lyon, K.C.B., G.C.H. Colonel 24th Regt., 1829-42. Commanded a company 25th Regt., acting as marines, in Lord Howe's victory, 1 June, 1794. Served in W. Indies with 25th Regt., and with the Queen's German Regiment in Egypt. Commanded the latter as the (old) 97th Regt. in the Peninsula, 1809-10. Commanded a brigade of Hanoverian levies (distinct from German Legion) in the War of Liberation in Germany in 1813-14, and at Waterloo. Commanded the Hanoverian troops in France after Waterloo, afterwards com- manding the troops in the W. Indies. Died 1842.

ROBERT ELLICE. Colonel 24th Regt., 1842-56. Served in 9th Dragoons in S. America in 1807 ; Deputy- Adjutant-General in Canada, 1809-11. Major Inniskilling Dragoons with the Army of Occupation in France, 1816-18. Commanded the troops in Malta, 1 848-53. Died a General, and Colonel 24th Regt., 1856. Father of General Sir C. H. Ellice, G.C.B.

B. LEACH, Lieut. -Col., Commanding l/24th Regt., South Wales Borderers.

St. Lucia Barracks, Bordon, Hants.

( To be continued.)

"A FACT IS A LIE AND A HALF." In

Chambers' s Journal for February, 1914, an article, ' The Kaiser : Another View,' opens thus :

"There is an old saying to the effect that a fact is a He and a half which means, presumably, that no fact, or array of facts, can convey a true impres- sion if other facts are kept out of sight."

The " old saying " is new to me, and the explanation, however just its statement may be per se, does not seem to explain. Can any one make the thing plainer ?

ST. SWITHIN.

ANONYMOUS : ' THE STRANGER.' Who wrote ' The Stranger ; or, The New Man of Feeling,' Albion Press, London, 1806, 12mo ? It is dedicated to William Dacre and George Elliott [Scott], and an epistlee to the former is signed " J. C*********," and dated from Pentonville. It is entered

under the initial C in the British Museum Catalogue. The frontispiece a rather pretty ' View on the Banks of the Liddall ' is signed " J. Carruthers. pinxV Was Carruthers the author as well as the artist ? The number of letters following his initial corresponds with the number of asterisks given above. He was probably a Cumbrian.

C. W. S.

PURCHASS, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. In September, 1750, from Fulham, near London, a granddaughter of John Dwight (1640-1703), the father of English pottery, wrote an interesting communication to Brigadier- General Dwight, of Colonial military note, at his seat in Great Barrington, New England, two lines of which epistle are :

"And upon reading in Purchass some gallant exploits done by you "

Who and what was the "Purchass" here mentioned ?

R. HENRY W. DWIGHT. 67, Franklin Street, Boston, U.S.

CITY CHURCHES WITH ROUND TOWERS. Mr. George Worley contributes to The Antiquary for January and February an interesting and valuable paper on the Church of St. Michael, Paternoster Royal. At p. 27 a foot-note provides this illuminat- ing record :

"We are informed that during excavations for the new sewer in College Hill the foundations of an earlier tower were revealed, showing the form to be circular."

Has this discovery been authenticated ? It does not appear to have been seen by those who may be identified as the archaeo- logical patrols of the City.

Round towers to the pre -Conflagration churches were possibly less uncommon than we have supposed, but this is the first indication of their actual existence.

I have frequently discredited the seven- teenth-century Dutch artists' representa- tions of round towers to some of the churches in their contemporary pictures of London. An example was shown at the " Old London " Exhibition held at the White- chapel Art Gallery, and Mr. Worley's foot- note leads me to believe that the artist was more accurate than I then supposed.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

MRS. HUTCHINSON : A PORTRAIT BY LAWRENCE. I am the owner of a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence of a widow appa- rently of about 35 to 40 years of age. It is called the portrait of Mrs. Hutchinson. The usual widow's cap is replaced by a small