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 208 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 s.x. MAR. 18,1022: the institution was finished, with accom- modation for 161 beds and patients. Me. CUMULATIVE STORIES (see ante, p. 148). Since the appearance of my note as above, I have come across a few lines, which were probably written intentionally after the manner of a cumulative story : But that which most deserves to be noted in it, is the reason of its Name and Foundation. It is because here is the Earth, that nourished the Boot, that bore the Tree, that yielded the Timber that made the Cross. (* A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem At Easter, A.D. 1697,' by Hen. Maundrell, M.A. late Fellow of Exeter Coll. and Chaplain to the Factory at Aleppo, Fourth edit. 1721 and Seventh edit. 1749, p. 94, under date April 2.) The above concerns the " convent of the Greeks, taking its Name from the holy Cross." This convent or monastery is about 1 miles west of Jerusalem. That Maundrell intended to be sarcastic or jocose may be inferred from what follows the above : Under the high Altar you are shewn a hole in the ground where the stump of the Tree stood, and it meets with not a few Visitants so much veryer stocks than itself, as to fall down and worship it. ROBERT PIERPOINT. uertes. 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. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. In the Navy List for January, 1828, ap- pears the following : " The Naval Officer commanding in the Mediterranean is, pro tempore, a Knight Grand Cross of this Order." The Order of St. Michael and St. George was established in 1818 to commem- orate the placing of the Ionian Islands under British protection, and was at first limited to natives of those islands and of Malta. The C.-in-C. in the Mediterranean evidently came in under the clause " and to such other subjects of His Majesty as may hold high and confidential situations in the Mediter- ranean." The July, 1832, Navy List is the last in which the regulation concerning the C.-in.-C. appears, possibly due to the -alterations made that year in the statutes of the Order. Did the military G.O.C. or the Governor of Malta receive the same honour ? Has any other Order ever con- ferred such a " temporary rating ? " A. G. KEALY, Maltby, Yorks. Chaplain, R.N., retd, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ETONIANS. Any later information about the following Etonians would be welcome : Acton, Edward Cecil, son of Edward and Susan Acton ; bapt. at Ashtead, Surrey, March 5, 1728 ; matric. at Oxford from Magdalen College, Oct. 11, 1748 ; B.D. 1762. Adams, John ; born at Donhead, Wilts ; admitted sizar at Clare College, Cambridge, March 26, 1716. Aldrich, George Oakley, son of Thomas and Grace Aldrich of Great Kirby Street,. Holborn ; matric. at Oxford from Merton College, March 26, 1739 ; M.D. 1755. Apperley, James, son of Thomas and. Elizabeth Apperley ; bapt. Nov. 4, 1706, at St. Peter's-, Hereford ; matric. at Oxford from Jesus College, March 11, 1724/5; M.B. 1734. Armstrong, Charles, son of Augustin and Mary Armstrong of Covent Garden ; bapt. Nov. 11, 1709, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; matric. at Oxford from Balliol College, June 7, 1729. Ashenhurst, George, son of James Ashen - hurst of Park Hall, Co. Stafford ; admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, Jan. 13, 1742/3, aged 17. R. A. A.-L. [This Ashenhurst is entered as " James " in ' Alumni Cantabrigienses.'] A PORTRAIT OF MME. CORNELYS. Does any portrait exist of Theresa Imer, Mme. Cornelys, of Carlisle House, Soho Square ? A caricature of her, entitled ' Lady Fashion's Secretary's Office,' is mentioned in her biography in the ' D.N.B.,' but I do not know of any serious portrait of her. HORACE BLEACKLEY. A GUNPOWDER PLOT IN 1615. Jon Olafsson, Icelandic traveller, who was in England in 1615, gives the following cir- cumstantial account of a plot against the life of King James I. : One evening near sunset in October [1615], as King James was coming down from Gravesend in one of the boats called " King's boats " (of which there are eighteen, all ten-oared or twelve- oared), and about 200 men with him, gunpowder mines had been laid on the quay, where the King's boat was to be steered to the shore, and where he usually landed. But a woman who sold