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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 H. i. MAY 20, me. was generally nicknamed by his patrons, after delivering the "copy" entrusted to him, often adjourned to the tap-room of a tavern in one of the courts, which was provided with a piano, and entertained his patrons with a choice selection from his repertory. This included the principal tenor song of 'Dorothy,' some favourite solos of 'The Lily of Killarney,' and, when drink was plentiful, 'Let Me like a Soldier Fall.' Phil May was one of the "silver-toned tenor's" greatest admirers, and on "dark days," when none of the "liners "copy" appeared in the newspapers, often provided him with money for a night's lodging. Some of the most sensational murders and crimes of the period were first investigated by the "liners" of The Daily Chronicle corner, and the Sunday newspapers without the "liners copy would indeed have been like "fishes out of water."

OWEN BRIGSTOCKE. (See 10 S. ii. 86, 237; iii. 452.) The latter part of the in- scription on the monument in the nave of Gloucester Cathedral, mentioned by MR. G. R. BRIGSTOCKE, reads as follows :

Owenus Brigs to ck

de Llechdonny in comitatu

Caermarthen armiger prsedictae

Elizabeths nepos hoc grati animi

monumentum (executore recusante)

proprijs sumptibus erexit.

MDCLXXIX.

EDWARD S. DODGSON. Gloucester.

PEPYS'S ' DIARY ' : EDITORS. James Yeowell, first sub-editor of ' N. & Q.,' was foster-parent to many literary enterprises, as well as producing several original books of interest. In 1853 he was engaged pre- paring the 1854 edition of Pepys's ' Diary,' and noted in his diary :

" 1853, March 15. Cunningham 'informed me that Mr. Colborne paid Lord Braybrooke 3,0001. for Pepys's Diary. Mr. Cunningham received 201. per volume for his notes."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

ROWLAND HILL : MS. DIARY. In the manuscript room of the Shrewsbury Public Library there is a very interesting diary of the Rev. Rowland Hill in his own hand- writing from March, 1773, to December, 1776, giving a list of sermons he preached at ,the different towns and villages he visited.

H. T. BEDDOWS, Shrewsbury. Borough Librarian,

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

A FAMILY TRADITION : ADDISON. I am anxious to verify a tradition in one branch of the family of Addison. Lieut. James Addison was gazetted to H.M.S. Arrogant in 1780, and, after fighting in " Rodney's Victory," fell on a prize ship,. the Glorieux, in. 1782.

His father is reputed to have used an. estate in Warwickshire (?) for the equipment of a privateer, and he and the ship and all hands were lost, either in battle or storm. The estate was thrown into Chancery, and eventually divided between the Crown and Haslar Hospital.

Corroboration of this story might come from Warwickshire, or from Letters of Marque (if there is a record of these docu- ments), or from the records of Haslar Hospital. JAMES ADDISON.

' A SIMPLE STORY.' Wanted, the name- of the author, and the date and place of publication, of a story with this name as its running title. My copy has been rebound,. and lacks this important information and its title-page, but the printing suggests the early nineteenth or late eighteenth century- On the first page is the MS. date of 1854 r when my mother received it as a present from one of her sisters (both long since dead)~ The heroine is a Miss Milner, while two Jesuit priests, Dorriforth and Sandford, play- important roles in it, as do also a Lord Frederick Lawnley and a Sir Edward Ashton. The last words are printed in- large type "A Proper Education" so that this might be the sub-title of the book- There are 55 chapters and 310 pp.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

Grindelwald.

EDWARD HENRY PURCELL, grandson of Henry Purcell, the great English musician,, was organist of St. John's, Hackney, in 1761.. I should be glad to ascertain the date and place of his death, and if he left any descen- dants. G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM BROMLEY CHESTER, M.P., repre- sented Gloucestershire from May, 1776, to his death on Dec. 12, 1780. I am anxious to- obtain information concerning his parentage career, and marriage. G. F. R. B.