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It has been traced to Pascal's ' Pensees,'
 * 73 (of autograph MS.) :

"Mien, tien: *Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants ; c'est la ma place au soldi.' Voila le commencement et 1'image de 1'usurpation de toute la terre."

And Littre quotes from B6ranger : D'un globe e"troit divisez mieux 1'espace ; Chacun de vous aura place au soleil.

C. T. ONIONS. Oxford.

A STEWART RING. A ring has just come into my possession bearing the inscription, " Honble A. J. Stewart. Ob. 14th Nov. 1800. JEtt. 18." It is evidently a memorial ring, gold, with a circular band of white enamel, within two black lines. The lettering of the inscription is in gold upon the enamel. I have been searching, but hitherto in vain, for the identity of this person. Will some contributor in possession of any " Stewart " records kindly help me here ?

KATHLEEN WARD.

Beechwood, Killiney, co. Dublin.

CROMWELL : ST. JOHN. In the ' House of Cromwell,' by James Waylen, at p. 22, it is stated that (in 1638)

stoppage at Otes, where his cousin, Mrs. St. John, happened also to be paying a visit."
 * ' Cromwell [Oliver! had been making a brief

On which side was the relationship ? And who was Mrs. St. John's husband, and what children did she have ? H. B.

FRANCIS GREGORY. When was he appointed head master of the Grammar School at Woodstock, and how long did he hold that post ? Was he head master of Witney School until his death in 1707 ? The 'D.N.B.,' xxiii. 96, does not give the required information. G. F. R. B.

RICHARD DUKE, poet and divine, is described in 'D.N.B./ xvi. 144, as "the son of an eminent citizen " of London. I should be glad to learn further particulars of his parentage, and the date of his birth. Was he ever married ? G. F. R. B.

REV. MEREDITH HANMER, D.D. Dr. Alli- bone's ' Dictionary of British and American Authors ' states that he was author of ' Chronicles of Ireland,' ' Chronographie,' &c. A ^second folio copy of the ' Chrono- graphie,' 1585, has an inserted memorandum mentioning that he was son of Thomas Hanmer, Pentrepant, Oswestry. Are the Hanmers of Bettisfield, Flintshire, of the same family ? Facts about parentage or descent will oblige. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

JOACHIM IBARRA. Is there any life or sketch in Spanish or in English of Joachim Ibarra, the eminent Spanish printer of the eighteenth century ? He was born in Sara- gossa in 1725, and died in Madrid hi 1785, doing his best work under the patronage of Carlos III. I am able to find no account of him outside of brief notices in French and Spanish biographical dictionaries. Is there any contemporary or modern notice of him, and if so, where is it to be found ?

D. B. U.

MACKENZIE FAMILY. Was there any relationship or family connexion between the Mackenzies of Langwell, parish of Loch- broom, Ross-shire, Scotland, and the family or house of Cromarty ? If so, I should be glad of particulars. Probably the connexion was established in the eighteenth or nine- teenth century. R. MACKENZIE.

Portland, Oregon.

GENEALOGY OF SHELLEY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' help as to the identity of a Shelley who married Mrs. Frances St. Barbe before 1599 ? Frances was widow of Edward St. Barbe of Ashington, Somerset, and ad- ministered to the effects of her son Francis St. Barbe in 1599 as Shelley. " Edward Shelley, Justice of the Common Pleas," was the trustee in 1547, under the will of Richard Covert of Slaugham (Sussex), for 300 marks bequeathed to the latter's granddaughter, Jane Covert, who before 1557 was the wife of Sir Francis Fleming, Kt., of Broadlands, Hants.

Sir Francis (by a former marriage) was father of William Fleming, whose daughter Frances aforesaid married Edward St. Barbe before 1576. Any information as to her

second husband " Shelley " will be

very welcome to SLAUGHAM.

" WlTH CHILD TO SEE ANY STRANGE

THING." Pepys says, May 14, 1660, " I sent my boy, who, like myself, is with child to see any strange thing." He uses the same expression again once or twice, but I have never seen it anywhere else, nor does the ' Century Dictionary ' give any examples of its use in the meaning of curiosity. I shall be glad to know if any other writer uses it in this way. G. A. ANDERSON.

[This figurative sense of the phrase had been current for many years before Pepys made use of it. The earliest instance noted in the Oxford Dictionary, s.v. 'Child,' 17, is from Udall's trans- lation (1548) of Erasmus's paraphrase of Luke xxiii. 8 : " The man had of long tyme been with chylde to haue a sight of lesus. Other examples are cited from Spenser and Carew.]