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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. DEC. 2,

DE LA PORTE FAMILY. The following extract relates to the de la Porte family pedi- gree from La Chenaye des Bois, from 1602 up to 1760 :

Charles de la Porte. Marquis, puis Due de la Meilleraye, Pairie et Marechal=r= (?)

de'France, b. 1602, d.8 Feb., 1664. The Seigneury of the Meilleraye was erected into a Duche-Pairie in his favour by King Louis XIV., Dec., 1663.

Amand Charles, second Due de la Meilleraye, &c., and tirst=f=28 Feb., 1661, Hortense Mancini, niece

Duke of Rethel-Mazarin et Mayence, for himself and his descendants male and female in the order of primogeniture, took the additional name of Mazarin on his marriage.

and heiress of Cardinal Mazarin, b. Rom e 6 June, 1646, d. Chelsey(Chelsea> en Angleterre 16 July, 1697-

Paul Jules de la Porte-Mazarin, third and second Duke,=f= (?)

b. 1666, d. 1731.

dau.

Guy Paul Jules, fourth and third Duke, last male of his family^?)

dau.

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Charlotte Antoinette, fourth Duchess of Rethel-Mazarin=r=l June, 1733, Emmanuel de Durfort,

Duke of Duras.

Louise Jeanne, fifth Duchess=r2 June, 1707, Louis Marie Guy d'Aumont, Marquis of Villequier and

sixth Duke of Aumont, and^'wre uxoris Duke of Rethel-Mazarin.

Sixth Duchess Louise, 2 Oct., 1759. I should be glad to have further particulars both ascending and descending.

DEBHAM or DOLPHINHOLME. In The Bolton Daily Chronicle of Nov. 16, 1897, it is said that " Mr. Robert Derham and Mr. James Derham were wool-staplers and brokers in Leeds and in Dolphinholme, near Lancaster." It was Robert Derham who, in 1784, established at Dolphinholme the first wool-spinning mill worked by water- power ; in fact, it was to the Derhams that Dolphinholme owed both its name and its existence. What had the site been called before ? What is the origin of the word Dolphinholme ? And what may be taken to be the Derhams' reason for choosing this name ? B. HAMILTON.

Canute House, Old Fishbourne, Chichester.

"? STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA. I should be glad of particulars of the statue of Queen Victoria in the Medical Examination Hall, Strand. J. ARDAGH.

WILLIAM B. PARNELL, A LONDON ARCHI- TECT. He designed a number of important buildings in London and the provincial towns, amongst them being the Tyne Theatre at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1867. ^Believed to have held the position of president in one of the Architectural Associations. Biographical information is desired. LONDONER.

WILLIAM MORRIS : ' SIGURD THE VOX- SUNG.' In this poem, of over 9820 lines in riming couplets, there is one line lacking its fellow. It is in Book II. (Regin), 1. 1365,. ending with the words " God alone " (edi- tion Ellis & White, 1880, p. 133). Is this an oversight of the author's, or an accident of the printer's ? The former seems to me- most unlikely : perhaps some one could re- store the missing line from MS. or other source. H. K. ST. J. S.

THE " OLD BRITISH DOLLAR." The British agent at Trengganu, one of the Unfederated Malay States, in his recently published Annual Report for 1915, states that the Trengganu Government undertook to redeem all the "old British dollars" brought to the Treasury between May 15 and Aug. 11 last year, on which date the British dollar ceased to be legal tender ; and 67,582 such dollars had been redeemed, some at 66 cents, others at 70 cents. These were all shipped to Singapore and disposed of at market rates, in addition to which local traders shipped large quantities of them to Siam and China. Let me explain that there is a dollar currency in Malaya, but the dollar is only worth 2s. 4d., hence the "old"