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Count d'Albanie was Charles Edward Stuart, great-grandson of the Young Pretender," in face of the mass of evidence quoted by MB. PENGELLY proving that he was nothing of the kind, it is pretty certain that other pretenders will emerge from time to time, and be heartily welcomed by enthusiasts.

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MB. PENGELLY'S interesting reply does not mention Mr. Hugh Beveridge's * The Sobieski Stuarts ' (Inverness, 1909, pp. viii, 122, with four portraits), which gives, perhaps, the fullest account hitherto published of the mysterious brothers.

According to Mr. Beveridge, the only possible solution seems to be either that the brothers

"were the illegitimate grandsons of Prine Charlie nv som Austrian lady (it will be noticed that they were very fond of Austria) ; or that in some way Admiral Allen was connected with the Royal House of Stuart."

MB. PENGELLY gives 1843 as the date of +he earliest reference to their claims, but Mr. Beveridge notes several earlier references. Is it the case that the father, Lieut. Thomas Allen, " passed as the second son of Admiral Carter Allen " ? In the obituary notice of his only brother John, appea.ring in The Gentlemoris Magazine for September, 1853, p. 310, he is called " the youngest son of Admiral J. C. Allen."

Mr. Beveridge does not attribute to Charles the authorship of a volume : " Poems. By Chnrles Edward Stuart. London : Thomas Bosworth, 1869," pp. viii, 198 ; and I observe that it is not assigned to him in the British Museum Catalogue, but the internal evidence seems indisputable. Both the brothers had literary gifts of no mean order. P. J. ANDERSON.

The University Library, Aberdeen.

CANON LAW (12 S. i. 209). The following is a select list of the best books on Canon Law : Blunt, J. H. Rook of Church Law. Revised by

Sir W. R. Phillimore. 1905. 8s. net. Cripps, H. W. Law relating to Church and Clergy.

1886. 28*

Lanlots, D. J. Canon Law. 6*. Maitland. F. W. Roman Canon Law in the Church

of England. 1898. 7*. 6rf. Ogle, A. The Canon Law in Mediaeval England.

6-s. net. Phillimore, Sir R. Ecclesiastical Law of the

Church of England. 1895. 30s. Phillimore, Sir R Principal Ecclesiastical Judg- ments delivered in Court of Arches. 1876. 12*. Reichel, O. J. Manual of Canon Law. 2 vols.

1895-6. 24.s-.net.

Gives the law, with references to authorities for every statement.

Smith, S. B. Elements of Ecclesiastical Law.-

3 vols. New York. 1893-4. 31*. 6d.net. Smith, T. E. Summary of Law and Practice of

Ecclesiastical Courts. 1902. 8v. Taunton, E. The Law of the Church. 1906. 25$; net.

A cyclopaedia of Canon Law for English- speaking countries.

Whitehead, B. Church Law : a Concise Dictionary .. 1899. 10s. 6d.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

MACK SURNAME (12 S. i. 165). " Mack " is certainly not an exclusively Scots name. There used to be a restaurateur in Lisle Street, Soho, named Mack, who was a Frenchman. J. M. BTJLLOCH.

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CAPT. KANE WILLIAM HORNECK (12 S. i.. 209). G. F. R. B. will find an account of the Horneck family in The Connoisseur, vol. xxviii. . 3 (No. 109, September, 1910), by Mr. H. P. K. Skipton, which may be of use to him. The Captain was the son of William Horneck (1684-1746), who became Director-General of the Engineers and served under Marlborough, and grandson of Anthony Horneck (1641- 1696), a Canon of Westminster. Both were buried in the Abbey. The date of Capt.. K. W. Horneck's birth is not given, but he was a Captain in the Engineers and married about 1749 Hannah Mangles (1727-1803), known in her day as " the Plymouth beauty," a youthful friend of Sir Joshua Reynolds in his native Devonshire. The latter painted a portrait of Capt. Horneck in 1748 (engraved by S. W. Reynolds), and a year or two later one of his wife, the original of which is, or was, at Barton Hall, the seat of Sir H. Bunbury, near Bury St. Edmunds. Capt. Horneck went to Antigua on duty in 1751, leaving his wife and children in England ; by December of the same year he had resigned the service, and one authority asserts that he died in. 1752. It is certain, however, that he re- appeared later as " Lt. -Colonel in the Army i of Sicily," and as certain that he died later- j probably about 1755. The date 1792 men<- tioned in the query is obviously a mistake.

His widow and' her two daughters, Mary i Mrs. Bunbiiry respectively ), were famous beauties, and are frequently referred to in the annals of the time as intimate friends of Sir Joshua and his circle. Several portraits of these ladies by Sir Joshua and other artists are well known ; and it is stated that in 1767, when engaged on the portrait of Miss Mary Horneck in Turkish costume* Sir Joshua became so enamoured of his subject.
 * and Catherine (afterwards Mrs. Gwyn and