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DAUBIGNY'S CLTJB. What was tins club, which is mentioned concerning the duel which took place, May 26, 1789, between the Duke of York and Col. Lenox (Lennox), both of the Coldstream Guards ? The Gentle- man's Magazine of that year, pt. i. p. 463, says :

" A dispute having lately happened between His R. H. the Duke of York and Col. Lenox, of the Coldstream Regiment, concerning some words spoken at Daubigny's club," &c.

In Col. MacKinnon's ' Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards,' 1833, vol. ii. p. 31, the club is called " the club at Daubigney's" and " Daubigney's Club," and simply " Daubigney's."

In the 'Annual Register' of 1789, under date May 27, it is called " the club at Daubigny's " and " Daubigny's."

It appears to have been a club of not many members, seeing that Col. Lenox wrote, or addressed a circular letter, to every member, asking him whether he was the person who had given expression to the offensive language, to which the Duke had taken exception.

Concerning the cause of the duel J. H. Stocqueler, in his ' Familiar History of the British Army,' 1871, p. 92, says :

" It afterwards transpired that the offensive words had been spoken at a masquerade. One masked individual addressed another under the supposition that the latter was Colonel Lennox."

Perhaps this masquerade took place at Daubigny's. Possibly Daubigny (or Dau- bigney) was later written Daubeny.

In ' Londinium Redivivum,' by James Peller Malcolm, vol. iv., 1807, pp. 316, 317, is the following about Cumberland House, Pall Mall :

"The Duke [of Cumberland] died here in 1790, soon after which time it was deserted ; and it remained a memento of death and neglect till the Union of England and Ireland was in agitation, when the gentlemen of the latter nation and many of the former resolved to establish a club in honour of the event ; which accomplished, they entered into a subscription, purchased Cumberlano-housein con- junction with Mr. Gould of Cork, (it is said for 20,000/.) fitted it for a tavern, and appointed Mr. Daubeny to keep it. This application was changed for a new Office of Ordnance, on the pulling down that at Westminster."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE SIDE-SADDLE. Could any of your readers give me the names of any books on "side-saddle" riding prior to about 1880, and also state where they may be seen ? I know the modern works, but should like to consult old books (the older the better) on this subject. EQUESTRIAN.

ENGLISH PRELATES AT THE COUNCIL OF BALE. In the first number of the Archives Heraldiques Suisses for 1916 Mr. W. R. Staehelin gives some interesting information on some of the prelates who attended the Council of Bale, including three English- men :

1. Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, died at Bale in September, 1433, buried in the Carthusian Monastery. His hatchment still hangs in the monastery church. It bears at the top the inscription : " Rds. in. xro. pr. et. dns. d. Thomas polton Epus. Wigormen. ambassator. Reg. Anglie. tpe. guol. co. vol. obiit A. 1433 " (words italicized not clear). Below the inscription is the shield of France modern quartering England, supported by two angels ; below this again the shield of the bishop (three pierced molets), surmounted by a mitre.

2. A book of arms, now in the library of the Berlin Armory, containing arms copied by a sixteenth-century visitor to the Bale Carthusians, has a shield Sable, three braced chevrons and a chief gold, with a fleur-de-lis gules on the middle chevron surmounted by a black clerical hat with white cords and tassels, copied from a stained-glass window, and attributed to " Dons Johanes Episcopus londonenss." Allowing the sable field to be a mistake for an azure one, the shield would be that of a member of the fitzHugh family. If the inscription was copied correctly, this Bishop of London must have been a partisan of the anti-Pope Felix V., never accepted at home. Mr. Staehelin writes me that the Liber Benefactorum of the Carthusians, generally very explicit in describing the gifts of benefactors, does not mention any John, Bishop of London.

3. The same book of arms attributes a shield Silver, a cross gules with a bezant in the centre with an abbot's crook behind it (also copied from a stained-glass window in the cloisters), to William, Abbot of York, who also appears in the Liber Benefactorum as donor of the sum of twelve guilders. Another hasty sketch of the shield shows the cross couped and quarter-pierced.

Can any one identify 2 and 3 ? Montreux. D - L - G-ALBREATH.

' THE SPIRIT OF NATIONS ' : ITS TRANS- LATOR. Who translated into English ' L'Esprit cles Nations ' of Frangois Ignace Espiard de la Borde ? Its English title is :

" The Spirit of Nations. Translated from the French. London : Printed for Lookyer Davis, at Lord Bacon's Head in Fleet-street ; and R. Bald- win, in Pater-Noster Row. MDCCLIII."

EDWARD S. DODGSON.