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School. Mundy's incised slab of alabaster was found in the floor of the church when it was repewed in 1829, whereon he was represented with his two wives ('Ancient Monument in the Parish Church of Ashby- de-la-Zouch,' by the late Rev. John Marma- 'duke Gresley, M.A.). A. J. M.

SEM, CABICATURIST (12 S. ii. 49). I know of only one " Sem," the well-known French caricaturist, who is still very much alive. His full name is Marie Joseph Georges Goursat, and he is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He was bom in 1863, so cannot be the " Sem " who, MR. JOHN LANE says, was doing caricatures as far back as 1850. Possibly that may have been his father. There was a long article about " Sem " in The World of June 7, 1910, in which year he -drew sundry cartoons for that paper.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

CALVERLEY'S CHARADES (12 S. ii. 128, 178). The answers to the complete set are as follows : i. pierglass ; ii. target ; iii. outlaw ; iv. drugget ; v. marrowbones ; vi. coal-scuttle. I have often wondered why Sir Walter Sendall did not give them in his collection -of Calverley's ' Complete Works,' published in 1901. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

fMR. BRIEN COKAYNE, G. W. E. R., and a Godal- imng correspondent thanked for similar replies.]

A STEWART RING : THE HON. ALEXANDER JOHN STEWART (12 S. ii. 171). The follow- ing will serve as a first identification :

" Mr. Stewart mi. Alexander John, Lieut. R.N. : 'brother of late Marquis of Londonderry, d. 1800." 'The Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850,' by H. E. C. Stapylton, 2nd edit., 1864, p. 9.

This is in the List of 1791. The said Stewart appears in the " First Form." His name does not occur in the next given List, viz., 1793. On reference to Debrett's ' Pierage ' of 1820 I find that he was born Feb. 28, 1783, and died Nov. 14, 1800.

Taking into account his age, 8 years, when the 1791 List was made up, he was in his right place at Eton, i.e., in the lowest form.

In the same List his " major " (elder brother), Charles William, afterwards third Marquis of Londonderry, appears (p. 5) in the Fourth Form, and (p. 12) in the 1793 List in the Fifth Form, Upper Division.

It will be seen that Mr. Stewart minor was at Eton for a very short time. Midshipmen in those days began very young. I need scarcely say that in the Eton School Lists il Mr." means " The Honourable."

The first Marquis of Londonderry married twice. He was succeeded by his son by his

first marriage, Viscount Castlereagh. By the second marriage with Frances, first daughter of Charles (Pratt), 1st Earl Camden, there were, with other children, Charles William, eventually 3rd Marquis, and, secondly, Alexander John. See Debrett's ' Peerage ' of 1820, and G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage.' When Alexander John died his father was Earl of Londonderry.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

The Hon. Alexander John Stewart, who was born Feb. 28, 1783, and died Nov. 14, 1800, was the second son of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Londonderry, subsequently (Jan. 13, 1816) created Marquis of London- derry, by his second wife, Lady Frances Pratt, and consequently was half-brother to the renowned Viscount Castlereagh.

F. DE H. L.

[G. W. E. R. and W. R. W. thanked for replies.]

' THE ORDER OF A CAMPE ' : HARL. MS (12 S. ii. 110). There is an ' Order of the Campe,' by Sir Robert Constable, Knight, in Harl. MS. 847. The date of the " Order " is 1578. L. L. K.

MRS. ANNE DUTTON (12 S. ii. 147, 197). Mrs. Anne Dutton resided successively at Northampton, London, Warwick, Welling- boro', and Whittlesea.

Mrs. Dutton was born at Northampton " somewhat about the year 1695 " ; she removed to London about 1717. In her memoir she states :

" The next providence I shall give some hints of, relates to the Lord's removing my habitation from Northampton bo London ; which was occasioned by my entering into the marriage state when I was twenty -tim years of age."

Mr. J. A. Jones says, in 1S:L'{, p. xiii : " She was married to Mr. Benjamin Dutton, who, after living some time in London, removed to Emr- xhall in Northamptonshire, and from thence in 1733 to Great Gransden in Huntingdonshire";

and at p. xxvi :

" Thus this truly eminent, godly woman finished her course at Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, on Monday, the 17th of November, 1765, aged about 70 years."

Another author, the late Rev. A. J. Edmonds, Vicar of Great Gransden, states: " Mr. Benjamin Dutton came here from Eversholt, and commenced his ministry in June, 1732." Mr. Dutton in 1743 crossed the Atlantic on a visit to the Baptist- churches in America, where he stayed several years, but the poor minister was fated never to see Gransden again, being drowned on the voyage home, at the age of 56, in 1748.