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on a Sunday, 1 could not make inquiries as to their origin, or whether there were more of their kind inside, but the proprietor might possibly be able to give MR. GRAY some interesting information.

E. K. LIMOUZIN.

Fifty years ago tinsel pictures were to be seen in many cottage homes, and were highly prized. Most of them were tawdry things, the tinsel bits badly laid on. The subjects were usually Scriptural the Resurrection, angels, saints, the Crucifixion but others were pastoral. I remember a large one of ' Mary and her Little Lamb.' None that I saw had the artist's name, and for the most part they were small, about a large octavo size. If I remember aright, there was a shop near St. Alkmund's, Derby, where they were sold and also made.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

UNIDENTIFIED M.P.s (12 S. ii. 2ol). Richard Thompson, M.P., of Jamaica and Coley Park, Reading, was son of William Thompson (of Bradfield, Berks, barrister-at-

law) by his wife Elizabeth ; grandson

of Sir Samuel Thompson of Bradfield, Sheriff of London, by his wife Mary, daughter and sole heir of - - Buller, son of Sir Richard Buller; and great-grandson of Sir William Thompson, alderman, knighted at the Hague, who was the uncle of the 1st Lord Haversham (1696).

Richard Thompson, M.P., left no male issue. Two of his daughters who died unmarried are mentioned by Fanny Burney (Madame d'Arblay), living at Coley in 1760. The third daughter, Ann Thompson, married Sir Philip Jennings-Clerk.

In the parish church of Bradfield, Berks, are memorials of the Thompson family, where, no doubt, the dates required would be found. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield Park, Reading.

Henry Trail, M.P. for Weymouth, 1812-13, purchased the estate of Dairsie, in Fife, from Sir James Gibson Craig of Riccartoun, Bart., in 1806. His daughter and heir, Henrietta, married in 1814 the Right Hon. Thomas Erskine, Judge of the Common Pleas, and fourth son of Lord Chancellor Erskine.

HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

John Trevanion. The freedom of Folke- stone was conferred on him Oct. 23, 1770, for soi in- si rvice rendered. He was a candi- date for 'l )OVT in that year, but was defeated by Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Bart.

In a diary of Thomas Pattenclen of Dover it is stated that Trevanion, the popular Whig resident, who had been a great benefactor to Dover, and had contested ten elections between the years 1769 and 1806, was finally rejected, " the secret," which eventually leaked out, being that his money was all gone.

William Horsemonden Turner, " esqr. of Maidstone, of which town he was recorder, and twice represented it in Parliament. He was son of Anthony Horsemonden of .M.; id- stone, by his second wife Jane, daughter (if Sir William Turner of Richmond." Hasted's ' His- tory of Kent,' 8vo edit., vol. v. p. 450.

W. H. Turner married, 1723, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Bliss of Maidstone ; she had previously married Ambrose Warde of Yalding, who died 1674. She was the daughter of J. Kenward of Yalding, and died 1730, aged 81. W. H. Turner re-married Elizabeth Read of Lenham, and died in April, 1753, s.p. Will dated March 20, 1750.

R. J. FYNMORK. Sandgate.

NAVY LEGENDS (12 S. ii. 210).

1. " Parker hoisted the signal to ' discontinue the action.' Nelson did not obey the signal. Clapping his telescope to his blind eye, he declared that he could not see it, and his conduct has often been adduced as an instance of glorious fearless- ness. It does not detract from the real merit uf Nelson, who never sought to avoid responsibility, to learn that the performance was really a jest, and that the commander-in-chief had sent a private message that the signal should be con- sidered optional to be obeyed or not at the discretion of Nelson, who might be supposed to have a better knowledge of the circumstances than he could possibly have at a distance (Ralfe, ' Nav. Biog.,' iv. 12 ; ' Recollections of the Life of the Rev. A. J. Scott,' p. 70)." Vide Prof. J. K. Laughton in ' D.N.B.,' xl. p. 201.

2. Pennant : apparently a compromise between "pendant" and "pennon," repre- senting the usual nautical pronunciation of these words, of which it is now the most usual form. " Pennant " has been the most common non-official spelling since c. 1690.

1485. Nav. Ace. Hen. VII. :

Pendauntes of say for the Crane lyne. 1627. Drayton, ' Agincourt,' Ixvii. :

A ship most neatly that was lim'd,

In all her sailes with flags and Pennons trimM.

Probably derived from the pennon a long narrow flag or streamer, triangular and pointed, or swallow-tailed, usually attached to the head of a lance, or a helmet, formerly borne as a distinction by a knight uiu'cr the. rank of banneret, and sometimes \r,-.\ ing his cognizance upon it ; now a military ensign of