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 12 S.H. SEPT. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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UNIDENTIFIED M.P.s. Can any one say who any of the following M.P.s were?

Theobald Taaffe, Arundel, 1747-54.

Roger Talbot, Thirsk, 1754-61.

Clement Taylor, Maidstone, 1780-96.

John Taylor, Lymington, 1814-18.

John Bladen Taylor, Hythe, 1818-19.

John Teed, Grampound, 1808, 1812-18.

Richard Thompson, Reading, 1720-2, 1727-34.

Thomas Thompson, Midhurst, 1807-18.

Thomas Tomkyns, Helston, 1714-15.

Samuel Touchet, Shaftesbury, 1761-8.

Alexander Tower, Berwick, 1806-7.

John Townson, Milborne Port, 1780-7; Oakhampton, 1790-1.

Henry Trail of Dairsie, co. Fife, Weymouth, 1812-13.

James Trail, Oxford, 1802-6.

George Treby senior, Dartmouth, 1722-7. (Kinsman, sed quaere, to Right Hon. George Treby, M.P., then Secretary at War.)

John Trevanion, Dover, 1774.

John Tuckfield, Exeter, 1747-67.

Wm. Horsemonden Turner, Maidstone, 1734-41, 1747-53.

Charles Vanbrugh, Plymouth, 1740.

David Vanderheyden/East Looe, 1807-16.

Wm. Chas. Vanhuls, Bramber, 1722-3.

Sir Charles Vernon, Kt., of Farnham, Surrey, Wycombe, 1731-4; Ripon, 1747-61.

General Charles Vernon, Tarn worth, 1768- 1774 (died Aug. 3, 1810, aged 91).

Particulars as to parentage, and dates of birth, marriage, and death, would oblige. W. R. WIIXIAMS. Talybont, Brecon.

THE FBENCH AND FROGS. I should be glad of some notes on the French custom of eating of frogs. When is this practice first referred to (1) in English, (2) in French literature? Are frogs, as a matter of fact, still and often used as food in France? And is it only the hind legs which are 'consumed?

ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.

MOSE SKINNER. I have just picked up a booklet called ' Mose Skinner's Bridal Tour.' In his prefatial remarks the author says : " The following Memoirs were written with a view of touching the hearts of my fellow creatures, at the reasonable price of ten cents a creature."

A terminal note says :

" Mose Skinner writes for the Boston True Flag, and his creditors can keep track of him by reading that paper."

Who was Mose Skinner? His humour is " just Amurrican." J. H. R.

THE SIGN* VIRGO. T am anxious to know what significance the Jews attached to this. With the other signs of the Zodiac it was engraven on the breastplate of the High Priest. I hold that the whole of the Zodiacal signs were intended by Seth to teach mankind the scheme of redemption. C. PENSWICK SMITH.

6 Regent Street, Nottingham.

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SIR WILLIAM OGLE:

SARAH STEWKELEY.

(12 S. ii. 89, 137.)

STEPNEY GREEN 's allusion to the Stew- keleys' manor of Dunster, mentioned in the will (1758) of Sarah, daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley (2nd Bart.) and widow of Ellis St. John of Farley Chamberlayne in countv Hants, raises a long - vexed question as to his connexion with the Gore and Chamberlain families. Ellis was himself fifth in direct descent from William St. John (1538-1609) and Barbara Gore, whose arms, impaled upon her husband's tomb at Farley, suggest that she was a Gore of Alderston. But since she does not figure in the pedigree of that family in the Visitation of Wiltshire, it is supposed that she belonged to the branch that early settled at Wallop in county Hants. Her son Henry St. John (06. 1621), by his marriage with Ursula, daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, Kt., of Mersh in Dunster, in the county of Somerset (by Elizabeth Chamberlain), was the direct ancestor of Ellis St. John, who married Sarah Stewkeley, fourth in descent from the said Sir Hugh, whose wife was daughter of Richard Chamberlain, Alderman of London. The latter in his will, dated in 1588, says with reference to his younger son John (born 1553, died 1627) :

"I will commend him to my very loving arid friendly cousin Thomas Gore, that he may have the bringing of him up."

This was probably Thomas Gore of Wallop, who is known to have been intimate with " John the letter- writer."* John's sister, Lady Stewkeley, baptized her daughter Ursula at Dunster on Sept. 27, 1576, and was herself buried in the Priory Church there on Sept. 14, 1598. In her will, dated Aug. 10 of that year, she gave 1,000 marks

Elizabeth by John Chamberlain are published by the Camden Society. See ' D.N.B.'
 * The "Letters" written during the reign of