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of the misfitting garments, the fashionable tailor of the day was said to have been observed reproachfully contemplating the counterfeit presentment of his handiwork, and sadly murmuring, " To think that I was the artist who designed that coat ! " When at length the offending sculpture was removed from public ken, it was said by some wag to have been packed away till such time as a human creature should be born like it.

S. T. H. PARKES.

JOHN SWINFEN (US. ix. 307, 375). As the Swinfen family emanated from Leicester- shire, perhaps the following reference may be of interest.

At Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, there died on f4 May/ 1803, Mrs. Ann Swinfen, ased 102. Her son, Edward Swinfen, surgeon, predeceased her 13 Nov., 1802, aged 59. There is a tablet to their memory on the south - aisle wall of Long Buckby Church. It is recorded thereon that Mrs. Swinfen was a native of Newbolrl, Leicester- shire. There is also a shield which once contained arms, but the tinctures have now entirely disappeared. The crest is presum- ably a boar's head erased gules.

WILDGOOSE (11 S. ix. 330, 397). On the south wall of the chancel of Daventry Church, Northamptonshire, is a tablet recording the names of John Wildgose, surgeon, ob. 13 Aug., 1831, eel. 74; Mary (his wife), ob. 12 Jan., 1828, cet. 86 ; Robert Wildgose, ob. 20 April, 1839, cet. 68, for- merly assistant surgeon 84th Regiment ; and Charles Wildgose of Staverton, ob. 18 Feb., 1855, cet. 94. It also contains the following crest : a naked man proper, girded sable, with dexter arm uplifted ; arms : Argent, on, a fesse sable, three annulets of the field. I took these notes in 1899. The tinctures were somewhat decayed, but I record them as they appeared to me at the time.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

KHO.IA HUSSEIN (US. viii. 232, 278 ; ix. 16). There may be many Khojahs named Hussein. One was the chief defendant in the " Kojah case, otherwise known as the Aga Khan case." In 1866 at the Bombay Gazette Steam Press was published ' Judg- ment by the Hon'ble Sir Joseph Arnould in the Kojah Case.' It was a case of claim to property by two religious bodies ; the chief defendant is " Mahomed Hoosein Hoosanee (otherwise called Aga Khan)," and among the plaintiffs is " Fazulbhoy Goolam Hoosanee," who may be a brother. But in

a hasty reading of the document I see no- charge of defrauding anybody ; and Ago- Khan and his party come out triumphant. E. H. BROMBY. University, Melbourne.

HUMPHREY COTES AND SAVAGE BARRELS (11 S. iii. 308). Having discovered the answer to my query, I may as well supply it. The first wife of Humphrey Cotes died 19 Jan., 1766 (Public Advertiser, 21 Jan., 1766). Savage Barren died 28 July, 1772 (Gent. Mag., xlii. 391), and on 28 Nov. of the same year his widow became the second wife of Humphrey Cotes (Public Advertiser, 1 Dec., 1772). She survived her second hus- band, who died 1 May, 1775 (Gent. Mag., xlv. 255).

Both Cotes and Barrell played a con- spicuous part in the " Wilkes and Liberty " agitation, being original members of the Bill of Rights Society, and familiar friends of the famous patriot. " HORACE BLEACKXEY.

NAPOLEON UPSIDE DOWN (US. ix. 368). MR. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS will find his query answered in an advertisement appearing in The Times of 20 April, 1814 :

" EUROPEAN MUSEUM. The infamous Tyrant Napoleon Buonaparte being now politically annihi- lated, his large Equestrian Portrait which has been suspended head downwards at the above National Gallery ever since the glorious battle of Leipsic-, is now placed Upright for the inspection of the illustrious strangers and amateurs of distinction. Hours 12-5. Admittance I/.

" J. WILSON, Manager."

It was not intended as a joke; the enter- prising Mr. Wilson had to do something to rise above the level of his competitors.

Ackermanns in the Strand were exhibiting an illuminated " transparency " depicting Napoleon, attacked by Death, falling into the arms of a demon. At Southgate Sir W. Coutts had an effigy of the Emperor in full uniform solemnly committed to an enormous bonfire. BRADSTOW.

LAST CRIMINALS BEHEADED IN GREAT BRITAIN (11 S. ix. 365). The author of the article in BlacJcwood's Magazine was in error in writing of (1820) " a form of execution never seen before or after in England hung till dead, and corpse then decapitated." The following, relating to the Derbyshire Revolution in 1817, is in ' Toone's Chrono- logical Historian,' 1828 :

" 1817, November 7. Jeremiah Brandreth, Isaac Ludlam, and William Turner were executed at Derby, and their heads severed from their bodies, &c., pursuant to their sentences for high treason."

Those curious for details may find them in ' Derby from Age to Age,' by John Ward ,