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156 the following month, the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw, son of the first Baroness Waterpark and sometime M.P. for Castle Rising. Under the name of Priscilla Parlante, she published 'Memoirs of the Countess d'Alva.'

10. Mrs. Byron. In the 'Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors,' 1816, this lady is stated to be the daughter of an attorney, and the widow of a physician of eminence at Hull.

4. Mrs. Bridget also wrote 'The Baron of Falconberg, or Child Harold in Prose,' 1815.

6. The name of the authoress of 'The Cave of Cosenza,' 1803, was Eliza Nugent Bromley.

9. Mrs. H. Butler also wrote 'Count Eugenio,' 1807.

(11 S. xii. 473).—The pleasant addition of a strawberry cream ice to a dish of strawberries and cream was a well-known luxury at Winchester in the early fifties. But my recollection is that it was then an expensive form of enjoyment. The ice alone cost sixpence, and another sixpence was involved in the purchase of strawberries and cream. The modest Wykehamical purse of those days did not always suffice for this indulgence.

(12 S. i. 110).—I may mention that I have several letters of this nobleman, all signed "The Count d'Albanie."

He was Charles Edward Stuart, and great-grandson of the Young Pretender. His likeness to his ancestor Charles I. was most striking (sec 'Beresford of Beresford,' part iii. p. 85).

He was evidently an authority on, and collector of, arms of offence, such as guns, swords, &c.

(12 S. i. 69).—According to the Blue-book of Members of Parliament, John Pigott, Esq., was M.P. for Banagher in the 1761-8 Parliament, end not earlier. In that Parliament Sir John Meade, Bart., was elected in place of John Pigott, deceased (refer to Corrigenda, p. xl). John Pigott (perhaps the same) was elected for Mary-borough in the 1727-60 Parliament in place of William Wall, deceased, but Bartholomew William Gilbert was elected in place of John Pigott, "not duly elected." The dates, other than those of the Parliaments, are not given.

The above does not prove that is mistaken, as there can be little doubt that the Returns of the Parliaments of Ireland in the Blue-book are not perfect; witness the fifteen pages of Addenda and Corrigenda.

(12 S. i. 84).—May I make a correction in the interesting article at this reference by pointing out that there is no connexion between Beoley, a village 2½ miles north-east of Redditch, and the market town of Bewdley, about 3 miles from Kidderminster? Beoley has never been known as Bewley, but Bewdley was anciently Beaulieu, and, like Beaulieu in Hants, may have been pronounced Bewley.

Beoley was the home of the once important family of Sheldon, and what is still known as the Sheldon Chapel, on the north side of the chancel of the church there, contains a number of monuments to members of the family, including that of William Sheldon, who fought for Richard III. at Bosworth Field, and the brass of Francis Sheldon, ob. 1631. The remains of many of the Sheldons lie in a vault beneath the chapel, which was restored in 1891.

It is curious to recall, in connexion with the narrative of Richard Allen, who died at Grantham in 1559, two tragedies that undoubtedly occurred. On Nov. 6, 1468., whilst John Brome was assisting at Mass in the Church of the Whitefriars, he was called out by Richard Herthill, and stabbed by him in the porch of the church.

In 1471 Nicholas Brome (the father of Constance Brome, who in 1497 became the wife of Edward Ferrers) avenged his father's death. Some time during that year he met Richard Herthill, his father's murderer, and in Longbridge field, near Warwick, he "sett upon him and in a duel slew him." For this crime—as the result of an arbitration at Coventry on March 18, 1471/2—Nicholas; Brome was directed to find a priest to say mass daily for two years in the church of Baddesley Clinton for the souls of John Brome and Richard Herthill, and to pay Herthill's widow 33s. 4d.

The impetuous character of Nicholas; Brome led him later into graver crime than that committed at Longbridge, for it is highly probable that, in a moment of passion, he murdered his chaplain in the hall at Baddesley Clinton. A royal pardon off Henry VII., dated Nov. 7, 1496, is evidence of some great crime or misdemeanour committed by him before Nov. 7, 1485. Henry