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 12 S.X.JUNE 24, 1922.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 491 ground, and there is believed to be in existence a painting or print of this earlier house. Can anyone inform me where this may be found ? HERBERT C. ANDREWS. 21, St. Faith's Road, Dulwich, S.E.21. " O ET OLLA." In the records of Ely Abbey this entry occurs several times, always in connexion with a liberal expenditure of money, apparently pointing to a feast for friends or tenants. Olla is easy enough. But what of the O ? It has been suggested that Olla should be Alia, i.e., Alleluia ; but I think this improbable. RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon. -RISING GLASSES." In an advertise- ment of the sale of the contents of the studio of the painter Lemuel Abbott, it is said that they include, besides several portraits of distinguished persons, " a neat repository for paints, rising glasses, and numerous articles used in the profession." What are " rising glasses " ? I do not remember to have seen them mentioned in descriptions of the studio equipment of other eighteenth-century portrait painters. Can the term refer to the mirrors used by some artists when painting, in which they can see the reflection of the work on which they are engaged ? W. T. W. THE STAR CLUB. In a recent catalogue of second-hand books is the item, ' Me- morials of the Star Club, n.d. (1852).' Can any of your readers afford information regarding .it ? Years ago I found a set of the handsome gilt buttons which adorned the cliab dinner coat. They had belonged to my grandfather, and I have a faint recollection of being told that the club con- sisted of members of Parliament who belonged to the Refonn;|Party. RORY FLETCHER. GUINNESS. In her ' Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon* (2nd ed., 1845), Mrs. Abell mentions a Mr. Guinness, bandmaster on board the General Kid, lying in St. James's Harbour, during the time Napoleon was at St. Helena. A footnote states that, in 1845, Mr. Guinness was a member of the Royal Society of Musicians and the well- known leader of the orchestra at the Almack's balls. Could any reader refer me to any records of the Royal Society of Musicians or of Almack's balls, or other source where information in connexion with this Mr. Guinness could be obtained ? GERTRUDE THRIFT. 79, Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin. EARL OF CAMBRIDGE. Cooper, in his ' Annals of Camb.,' says, under 1342 : John of Hainault, uncle to Queen Philippa, was advanced to the dignity of Earl of Cambridge ; his arms were quarterly 1 and 4, or a lion rampant sa. ; 2 and 3, or a lion rampant gu. In a footnote he says : The lion in the 1st and 4th quarters ought to be without tongue or nails, for a reason which the curious reader will find recorded in Augustine Vincent's ' Discovery of Erroures,' page 92. Can anybody give what Vincent says ? I notice that in Speed's 1610 map of Cam- bridgeshire they are represented as both tongued and armed. A. G. KEALY, Chaplain, R.N. (ret.). Maltby, Yorks. ROWLAND STEPHENSON, M.P. (12 S. x. 421.) WHILE I recognize SIR ALFRED ROBBINS'S well-earned reputation as an authority on matters Cornish and matters of electoral history, I have no shadow of doubt in challenging his accuracy in the note at the above reference, both with regard to his sug- gestion of the possible identity of the M.P. for Carlisle in 1787 and the M.P. for Leominster in 1827, and in his date of the Newport election at which the fraudulent banker was a candidate. At the date of his flight from England in 1828, Rowland Stephenson, M.P. for. Leo- minster, is described in a contemporary paper (quoted by Mr. Hilton Price in his 'Handbook of London Bankers'), as being then " about 50 years " of age, which effectually disposes of the possibility of his identity with the Carlisle M.P. of 1787, who, by the way, was not returned to Parliament, as SIR ALFRED states, in November, 1786 ; he was a candidate at the election in that month, but -did not gain the seat till the determination of his petition against his successful rival in February, 1787. This Rowland Stephenson died on Nov. 30, 1807, aged 79. Rowland Stephenson (II.) was returned for Leominster at the General Election of 1826 on a double return, and gained the