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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 28, WIG.

EDWARD HAYES, DUBLIN, AND HIS

SITTERS. I have a series of axitotype photo- graphs of portrait studies, done in 1848-51, by Edward Hayes, 4 Salem Place, Dublin. Can any reader give me information about either artist or sitters ? The portraits are spirited sketches of " dashing blades " of the period. Their autographs are appended to the sketches :

J. D. Brett, 17th Lancers, June, 1848.

Win. R. A. Campbell, 9th Lancers, March, 1851.

Castlemaine, Nov., 1849.

Conyngham, March, 1850.

Lieut. Gust, June, 1848.

J. Farrer, 1st Life Guards, March, 1851.

Wm. Fitzgerald, Jan., 1848.

Matthew Fortescue, May, 1848.

J. F. Wittel Lyon. Greys, May, 1850.

J. B. Macdonald, Nov., 1849.

J. S. Mansergh (?), Queen's Bays, Oct., 18oO.

Charlie B. Molyneux, 4th Light Dragoons, Feb., 1848.

George Paget.

Wm. St. (?) Sandes, llth Hussars, Aug., 1849.

J. Goosey Williams, Scots Greys, March, 1851.

The patronymic of the last named is suggestive of the style and social appearance of the lot, as they sport " side-galleries " and are garbed in the latest fashion of their period. DUN SCOTUS.

" NEWS-COLLECTOR." In The Times Liter- ary Supplement of April 27, 1916, appeared a letter from Mr. Robert S. Mylne, B.C.L., F.S.A., giving an account of some interesting documents with particulars relating to St. Paul's Cathedral from 1760 to 1810. Among these is this strange document, un- signed :

"Sir Davis the plasterer in Blackfriars says you are confederate with the two fellows that attempted to murder the Banker's Clerk in Water Lane. John Swan newscollector to the London Evening Post declares that Davis told him so. 8 Aug.. 1780."

A " news-collector " to a daily journal thus seems to have been a recognized calling at that period. Is there any other illus- tration of it ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

GILLRAY. An undescribed caricature by him and dated 1810 is lettered ' The Dandy.' It is not mentioned by Wright and Evans. Who was this ? I have seen one impression with " Mr. Lloyd " written upon it in pencil. XYLOGRAPHER.

" FAUGH-A-BALLAGH." I should be obliged if some reader of ' N. & Q.' would give the origin of the motto of the old 87th Regiment (now the Royal Irish Fusiliers), " Faugh-a-Ballagh " (clear the way). H. S.

Dublin.

EYES PERMANENTLY CHANGED IN C'OLOrR

BY FRIGHT. When Princess Clementina Sobieska was on her adventurous journey from Innsbruck to her bridegroom,

" the roads had become better, but the new postilion was worse, and nearly upset them [the lady and her rescuers] over a precipice. OToole's blue eyes turned permanently green with fright, and he would have killed the man had not the drawn berline blinds saved the Princess from knowing her danger." 'The King over the Water,' by A. Shield and Andrew Lang. 1907, p. 327.

. re other instances of such modification of the colouring matter of the eyes known ? How does such a change come about ?

B. L. R. C.

LOVELACE : VANNECK. Can any one give me any information concerning the family of Lovelace, two members of which married into the Vanneck family ?

The Hon. Maria Vanneck, daughter of the 1st Lord Huntingfield, married, May 1, 1817, Charles Lovelace ; and her brother, Hon. Gerrard Vanneck, married, Dec. 29, 1810, Charlotte Lovelace, daughter of Robert Lovelace, who died April 9, 1875, surviving her husband about forty-six years.


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JOHN BRADSHAW THE REGICIDE. 1. Can any one tell me which house in Marple was his birthplace ? Earwaker, in his ' History of East Cheshire,' gives it as " Wibbersley Hall, nr. Marple." Local tradition says he was born at the farmhouse opposite the Jolly Sailor Hotel, Stockport Road, Marple.

2. He left 700Z. to be expended in pur- chasing an annuity for maintaining a free school in Marple, Cheshire. Can any one say what became of this sum ? There is no such school in the village of Marple at this day. ARTHUR HULME.

Marple.

HARDING or SOMERSET. Can any one tell me where John Harding, Sheriff of Somerset in 1752, was born and lived ? I should also be glad of any information con- cerning the Harding family of Cranmore, Som., before 1780. R. D. R.

EXCHEQUER BOND, 1710. I have one of these for 51., dated Sept. 29, 1710. Can any one tell me whose is the portrait on it ? J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.

4 Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, N.W.

" FELON." Would any Welsh scholar say whether jelen or velen could be the ancestor or relative of this word, which has never been satisfactorily derived ? H. C N.