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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. ix. JUNE 13, wu.

ROLANDSAULEN (11 S. viii. 145, 273 ; ix 414). The 'Encyclopaedia Britannica article on ' Roland, Legend of,' from whic] ST. SWITHIN gives an extract, has already been referred to in an answer on p. 273 o the last volume of ' N. & Q.,' where I pointec out that the alleged mention of a " statua Rolandi "' in a Privilegium granted by the Emperor Henry V. to the town of Bremen in 1111 has been generally discredited, a Burgermeister early in the fifteenth century being probabty responsible for the forgery. ED\VARD BENSLY.

GENERAL FRANCIS COLUMBINE (11 S. ix 408). General Columbine died 16 Sept. 1746, aged 66, and is buried at Hillingdon Middlesex, where he passed the last years of his life. He does not appear to have been connected with the Norwich Huguenot family of Colombine. Some particulars regarding him will, be found in the Journal of the Ex Libris Society, iii. 12.

GEO. W. G. BARNARD.

Norwich.

' CHEVY CHACE : PARODY (US. ix. 429) The parody asked for is part of the poetry of The Anti- Jacobin (No. 19, 19 March, 1798), but the line

Duke Smithson, of Northumberland, is in the second stanza, not the first. The ballad may be found in ' Parodies and Other Burlesque Pieces by George Canning,' in the " Carisbrooke Library," edited by Henry Morley, 1890. DIEGO.

[MR. A. FRANCIS STEUART who mentions Methuen 'sedition of The Anti- Jacobin (1904) also thanked for reply.]

REBELLION OF 1715 : MR. THOMAS RAD- CLIFFE (11 S. ix. 430). In reply to the query of GENEALOGIST, the following may be of some assistance. Mr. H. T. Riley in ' N. & Q.' 25 Oct., 1856, p 336, says :

" I remember being pointed out some time since a person who bears the family name, and is generally reputed to be a descendant through an illegitimate son of the unfortunate Earl of Derwent- water. I have little doubt there are several other persons similarly connected with him to be found in the neighbourhood of North and South Shields."

I think there is some error in this state- ment, as it is well known that none of the Earls of Derwentwater had illegitimate off- spring, and probably MR. RILEY is confusing descendants of Mr. Thomas Radcliffe of Dilston. The Parish Registers of Corbridge contain many entries of baptisms, burials, and marriages of people bearing the name of Radcliffe or Ratcliff (the spelling is varied).

and it is probable that these are all descen- dants of the Thomas Radcliffe referred to. In a list of the estates of the Earl of Der- wentwater for sale in 1731, appears the name of Thomas Radcliffe paying 51. 10. per annum for his holding at Dilston. I re- member that the late Mr. James Rogerson Ratcliff, shipowner, of Sunderland, claimed to be descended from a John Radcliffe, the- father of the Thomas referred to.

PERSIEUX.

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In Cheyne Walk and Thereabout. By Reginald

Blunt, (Mills & Boon, 10s. Qd. net.) The Greatest House at Chelsey. By Randall

Davies. (John Lane, 10s. Qd. net.) OF Chelsea one never tires of reading or talking, and to stroll along its streets, full as they are of literary and artistic associations, is always a pleasure. Horace Walpole notes, " I went t'other night to look at my poor favourite Chelsea." Smollett called Lawrence Street his " second native place." Later Leigh Hunt extolled the quiet and repose of Upper Cheyne Row ; and " Henry Kingsley has imbedded his affection for Lhe place in every page of ' The Hillyars and the Burtons.' "

The two books now before us are valuable addi- .ions to Chelsea literature, as one would expect ! rom writers so well known for their knowledge of ts early history and more recent associations.

We are already under obligations to Mr. Blunt or other works on Chelsea, and now he gives us short accounts of some ingenious people and amous places by the riverside there. The very irst name, and indeed the first word, in the .ntroduction is Thomas Carlyle, who " discovered" he house in Cheyne Row in which he and his wife were to pass their lives. Heraud, for many years the theatrical critic of The Athenceum, has )ften described to us his going over the house vith the Carlyles on their first visit to it.

Mr. Blunt devotes his first chapter to Don altero's Coffee-House, which was discussed at ome length in the tenth volume of our last eries. The place was sold with all the curiosities n the 7th of January, 1799, and a copy of the ale catalogue is in the Chelsea Library Museum.

The author next tells us of the heroic Mary

stell, who, when dying of cancer, " spent her ast days entirely in prayer and the contemplation f God ; and lay in silent meditation beneath er crucifix till on May llth, 1731, death brought

merciful release to her long and ever-increasing ufferings." Mr. Blunt urges that in the old Chelsea Church, where she lies buried, but without nscription to mark her grave, a tablet should be laced to this forgotten pioneer, " who braved he obloquy and ridicule of an age when both

ere pitilessly used in fighting the battle of her ex, and devoted the best of her life towards the mancipation of her sisters."

In the next chapter Mr. Blunt takes us on a

warm September afternoon to the Physic Garden,

'here we find the foliage beginning to turn to