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 16 NOTES AND QUERIES. Bernard le Danois qui etait parent du chef Normand Rollo, et qui recut de lui la terre xl'Harcourt en recompense des services qu'il lui avait rendus dans ses guerres centre les Anglais et les Neustriens (876). Bernard died 955. He married Sprothe or Sprota, a daughter of Hubert, Comte de married another daughter. Rollo is the hero in Wace's ' Roman, de Rou.' William the Conqueror was aware of the Norwegian origin of his family, and this is ^alluded to in Houard's ' Traite sur les Coutumes anglo-normandes ' (tome L). CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading.' THOMAS EDWARDS, LL.D. (12S. ix. 511). (1883), mentions two persons of this name to whom memorials are erected : 1. Thomas Edwards, d. May 4, 1824, aged 32, and two children ; in St. John's churchyard. 2. Thomas Edwards, late of Llanfyllion, Montgomeryshire, d. Oct. 22, 1881, aged 78; in the cemetery, on the Nonconformist burial- ground. Lempriere's ' Biographical Dictionary ' (1808) gives three Thomas Edwards, all of them writers. Probably the one of whom information is sought is Thomas Edwards, poet and critic cf eminence, b. 1699, d. Jan. 3, 1757. He purchased Turrick ( ? Terrick) in Bucks, where he usually resided. His poetry, specimens of which will be found in Dodsley's and Nichols's collections, is said to be simple, elegant and pathetic ; his criticisms exact, acute and temperate. His ' Canons of Criticism ' were first printed in 1747 under the title of " A Supplement to Dr. Warburton's Shakspeare ' and did him great credit both as a critic and scholar. He died on a visit to his friend Richardson, at Parsons Green, on th3 date before mentioned. L. H. CHAMBERS. Bedford. [A pleasant essay on Thomas Edwards, the critic, will be found in Austin Dobson's last book, 'Later Essays,' reviewed at 12 S. viii. 199.] MOSES GRIFFITH, COPPERPLATE EN- GRAVER (12 S. i. 287, 417). The original drawings by Moses Griffith for Plates vi., viii. s,nd xxi. of ' Flora Scotica ' (Light- foot, 1777) are now in the Botanical Library, British Museum (Natural History). The last- mentioned one is on vellum, was not reversed as weie the others, and differs slightly from the engraving. J. ARDAGH, THE CHIMNEY-SWEEPER'S CLIMBING BOYS (12S.iii. 347,462; iv. 28, 143).The follow- ing appeared in The Daily Chronicle, Dec. 16, 1921 : George Panter, who has just died at Leighton Buzzard, carried to his grave the scars of burns received as a chimney-boy. He was apprenticed to chimney sweeping when nine years old, and had a strict master who drove him up hot chimneys with a stick. " Oliver Twist " nearly became a " climb- ing boy." J. ARDAGH. BOMBERS IN CHARLES II.'s NAVY (12 S. vi. 271 ; vii. 18 ; ix. 293). Perhaps some further particulars may be added respecting Admiral Duquesne, by far the greatest name in French naval history, whose achievements are but little known to Englishmen, even Clowes dismissing him as " an able and experienced seaman, but a quarrelsome man." Charnock, however, does full justice to his honesty and talents. I can remember a life-size statue cast of him in full uniform which stood formerly in the central nave of the Crystal Palace among the celebrities of different epochs. The formation of a first-class Navy by Louis XIV. and the construction of the arsenal at Toulon in 1680 took place about the date of Duquesne' s three battles with the Dutch. On Jan. 8, 1676, he worsted, off the Li pari Isles, De Ruyter,*the commander who had proved himself so formidable an adversary of the English general -admirals, Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Monck, Sandwich, Spragge even Blake began ser- vice in the Army, though he of course belongs to the Commonwealth period and though the issue was indecisive, it enabled Duquesne to enter Messina, which was then block ded by a Spanish force. After refitting, he sailed out and convoyed a squadron of supply ships to the be- leaguered city, and then on April 22 fought a closely contested battle with De Ruyter off Etna, in which the latter was so severely wounded that he died the following week. On June 2 following, Duquesne signally defeated the Dutch and Spanish fleets off Palermo ; but for these invaluable services all that he received from Louis XIV. was the empty title of Marquis and a sword of honour, a marshal's baton being refused him because he would not abjure the the Dutch " the " (German derj ; the admiral's patronymic, therefore, signified '" The Freebooter," or " The Bid( r."
 * }-2 S. X. .IAX. 7, 1922.
 * Senlis ; and William, the son of Rollo,
 * Croydon in the Past,' by Jessie W. Ward
 * The De of this name is not French " of," but