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5. Azure, a chevron between three escallop shells or. Is it for Browne (Horton Kirby, Kent) ? No date.

Westlake (vol. iv. p. 177) gives the illus- tration of a shield which seems to be the same, with a crescent for difference and the .initials I. B. for John Browne (he died in 1595). The similarity between this and those in Bishopsbourne Church is striking ; they seem to be by f he same artist. PIERRE TURPIN.

Folkestone.

MRS. GRIFFITHS, AUTHOR OF ' MORALITY OP SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS.' Information about the lady is eagerly desiderated.

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

JOHN JONES, AUTHOR OF ' KINETIC UNIVERSE.' The work in question was published in Dundee. Details and personalia concerning him will oblige.

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

THE LITTLE FINGER CALLED " PINK." Several of the soldiers among the many wounded under my care have called the little finger " Pink." I have not made out whether this name is confined to any locality. Can it be an ancient name of the fifth finger, as in the old sheep-counting : " Yan, Tan, Tethera, Pethera, Pimp " =five 1

GEORGE WHERRY, Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C.T. 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge.

P. S. LAWRENCE, ARTIST AND SAILOR. In an edition (1811) of Falconer's ' Shipwreck ' in the British Museum, recently presented to the Library, are four lithographs illustrative of the poem, by P. S. Lawrence, R.N.

These drawings are quite distinct from the engravings by Pocock in the same volume. From the lettering " Sketches " being cut in two, half the word appearing on one litho- graph and the other half on another, it is evident that they were originally produced in one sheet. They show that P. S. Lawrence was a first-class artist as well as being a sailor, and to any one loving ships, the sea, and art they are a joy.

I have never seen any other drawing by P. S. Lawrence, and I should be glad if any of your readers could tell anything about him, or where any of his work can be seen.

In O'Byrne's ' Naval Biographical Dic- tionary ' there is a very short notice of Paul Sandby Lawrence, merely mentioning that he entered the Navy in 1794, the names of various ships in which he served, &c., and that he became a retired Commander in 1845.

There is no mention of him in Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters,' but I suggest that he may have been a grandson or nephew of Paul Sandby, and that from him he derived his Christian names and inherited his art.

JOHN LECKY.

Du BELLAMY : BRADSTREET. I should be glad if any reader could supply the date and place of marriage in England, about 1780, of Charles Du Bellamy, described as a player, and Agatha, daughter of Major-General John Bradstreet, an American, with notes on Du Bellamy's theatrical career.

E. ALFRED JONES. 6 Fig Tree Court, Temple, B.C.

" YORKER " : A CRICKET TERM. What is the origin of the term " yorker," applied in cricket to an overpitched ball that is short of a full pitch ? The most skilled cricket authorities of my acquaintance cannot supply the answer, though some of them are ready with the traditional reply to this question : " Why, what else would you call it ? " ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

[See 9 S. viii. 284, 370.]

THEOPHILUS GALE, THE NONCONFORMIST TUTOR. According to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xx. 377, he was the son of the Rev. Theophilus Gale, D.D., Vicar of Kings- beignton, Devon, and was born there in 1628. What was his mother's maiden name, and where did she come from ? Can the exact date of his death in 1678 be ascertained ?

G. F. R. B.

REFERENCE WANTED. " Things are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why therefore should we wish to be deceived ? " Can any one give me chapter and verse for this trite and well-worn quotation, which is popularly ascribed to Bishop Butler's ' Analogy.' I have never run it to earth in the ' Analogy ' or elsewhere. H. BIRCH SHARPE.

Conservative Club.

[" Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be ; why then should we desire to be deceived ? " Bp. Butler, Sermon VII., ' On the Character of Balaam,' last paragraph.]

W. ROBINSON, LL.D., F.S.A., 1777-1848. Intending to provide a detailed biography of this industrious historian and topographer of North- Eastern London, I am endeavouring to obtain a sight of his correspondence, and so learn more of his methods and occupations. Two unpublished histories, Hampstead and Stepney, are known to me; but I have failed to trace his collections on Camberwell, which came into the possession