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hanged for forgery at Newgate on Nov. 30, 1824, from which it appears that he was a large collector of Grangerized or extra- illustrated works. His library was sold " by Mr. Sotheby, at his House, Wellington Street, Strand," on April 11, 1825, and the three following days. According to a con- temporary MS. note in my catalogue, the sale realized the sum of 2,7147. 14s. The most important item is thus described :

"PENNANT'S LONDON, MOST SUMPTUOUSLY AND KLEUASTLY ILLUSTRATED WITH ABOVK TWO THOU- SAND PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, embracing a brilliant assemblage of PORTRAITS of the most eminent characters, VIEWS of the most remarkable PLACES and ANCIENT BUILDINGS of London, now nearly all destroyed ; above THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY

FINELY EXECUTED DRAWINGS, of the ANCIENT

ARCHITECTURE of various parts of the metropolis, many of which have never been engraved, and consequently are highly interesting to the lovers of Topography : including also a few original auto- graphs of illustrious persons. The whole are elegantly bound in SEVEN VOLUMES ATLAS FOLIO, in rus-iia, with gilt leaves"

Another MS. note states : " This copy of Pennant's ' London ' was purchased by the late Sir John Soane and was' given to the Nation with his Museum, Library, and Curiosities." It realized 6821. 10s. at the Fauntleroy sale.

Although the newspapers of the period contain full accounts of the trial and execution of the forger, with innumerable biographical details, and the various " New- gate Calendars " also give a complete summary of the case, I have only found references to Fauntleroy in three or four contemporary memoirs. Perhaps some of the readers of ' N. & Q.' could supply a fuller bibliography. The case certainly ought to be included in the " Notable Trials Series." HORACE BLEACKLEY.

A FEW PICKWICKIANA. As a lifelong devotee of the ' Pickwick Papers,' I venture to bring briefly before the readers of ' N. & Q.' the following few points, premising that I have not myself seen mention of these points elsewhere :

1. Dickens, with the engaging passion for verisimilitude which pervades the opening of his immortal book (but which is almost at once exhausted !), informs us that the events recorded in the second chapter, up to the end of the dance, took place on May 13, 1827. Was he or was he not aware that that day was a Sunday ? It seems almost incredible that this point has not been raised before, for the ' Papers ' were published at a date sufficiently near to 1827 to set at least a few curious minds examining the times and seasons of the early part of the book.

2. Dickens had no initially clear conception., of what he wanted to make of Sam Weller I might almost say, of what Sam would,, with hardly any conscious help from Dickens,. become, in the course of the ' Papers.' On proof of this statement will be found in. recalling that, on the occasion of the fete- champetre at Mrs. Leo Hunter's, Mr. Pickwick finds his servant discussing a bottle of Madeira which he had stolen t Think, now,, of how Dickens, later on, loved his Sam (this love for Sam Weller is probably the most widely spread love in the work! for a book-character), and maintain if you can that, if he had loved him in the earlier part of the- book, he would have made him a thief, even merely of food or drink ! (My "even merely " is a concession to those not infre- quent folk who think it far more venial to steal " grub " than anything else.)

3. Certain Exeter enthusiasts have made an urgent claim that " Eatanswill " was their city, but the bottoni seems to be knocked clean out of their case by Mrs. Leo Hunter's (chap, xv.) : " At Bury St. Edmunds, not many miles from here " (" here " being, of course, Eatanswill) ; and no doubt the claims of any other towns, not in Suffolk or one of the contiguous counties, to have been the Eatanswill of the book, are disposed of" by the same sentence.

H. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX. Devon and Exeter Institution.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,. in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

GARLAND AND LESTER M.P.s. I have been puzzled in trying to solve the exr^ct relationship between the following M.P.s,.. and should be glad of particulars of them.

Joseph Garland was sheriff of Poole, 1779, and M.P. 1807 in a double return, but un- seated on petition the next year. Was he the Mr. Garland who married at Bath, Aug. 24, 1790, Miss Woodman ? And was his f on the Aid. Joseph Garland, jun., who married at Poole, Nov. 6, 1825, the widow of John Slade, and as Joseph Garland was sheriff of Poole, 1814, as was Joseph Gulston. Garland, 1827?

George Garland, M.P. Poole, April, 1801, to 1807, sheriff thereof Michaelmas, 1784, was of Poole, and of Stone, Dorset, high sheriff Feb., 1824 younger brother of Joseph Gar- land, M.P., and married before 1791 Amy