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elate of this marriage is given in G. M. as April 20, 1737, but, according to the register of St. George's, Hanover Square, it had taken place as early as May 23, 1736.

The eldest son of Sir Nicholas and Lady Bayly succeeded in right of his mother to the barony of Paget on the death of Henry, the second and last Earl of Uxbridge of the creation of 1714 and it is noteworthy that no Peerage appears able to give any reliable data respecting the marriage or deaths of Thomas Paget's parents, although it would seem certain that, before Henry Bayly could have obtained his summons, January, 1770, to the House c,f Peers as Baron Paget, such evidence would have been indispensable.

Jacob's ' Peerage' (1767) vaguely records the brigadier as son of the Hon. Henry Paget, who " married a daughter of

Sandford of Sandford in Shropshire," and settled in Ireland. It is also curious that Henry Bayly became seized of Beau Desert and Drayton, in fact of the whole of the great Paget patrimony in 1769, if, as stated in ' D.N.B.,' the Earl of Uxbridge, who died that year, was intestate ; for Mr. Bayly was only a second cousin once removed, whilst there were certainly equally near next of kin in the Irby family . H.

(Ante, p. 403.) William Pinfold, lieutenant-colonel :

"Sir Thomas Pinfold, Kt., LL.D., King's Advo- cate, Chancellor of Peterborough, Commissary of 8t. Paul's, and official of London, purchased the manor and estate of Walton, A. D. 1690. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Suckley, and d. 1701, leaving issue two sons :

"1. Charles, LL.D., Provost of Eton.

"2. William, col, in the army, who d. unmarried" Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' 4th ed., p. 1199 (Pinfold of Walton Hall, Bucks).

(Ante, p. 404.)

German Pole, see Chandos-Pole of Rad- borne Hall co. Derby. R. J. FYNMOBE.

AUTHOR AND TITLE WANTED : BOYS' BOOKS, c. 1860 (12 S. ii. 330, 397). I would suggest that the book referred to is ' Jack Manby : Adventures by Sea and Land.' In this work a shipwrecked crew are taken prisoners by savages in Africa, and some of them are tied to ropes and then thrown over a precipice. I seem to recollect a woodcut of this, though I cannot remember the other pictures mentioned at the first reference.

Did Clark Russell begin to write his sea stories as early as 1860 ? T. F. D.

A LOST POEM BY KIPLING (12 S. ii. 409). This question was raised in The Illustrated Century Magazine of January, 1909, in an open letter from a Mr. Edmond S. Meany of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., but, so far as I am aware, it elicited no response. The letter seems of sufficient interest to quote textually, especially as it cited two additional lines to those supplied by MB. BATTEBHAM :

" A few years ago I noticed that Professor Frederick Jackson Turner, of the University of Wisconsin, prefaced his well-known essay on the influence of the frontier on history with a beautiful and apt quotation of poetry. It was credited to ' The Foreloper ' by Rudyard Kipling, and ran as follows : And he shall desire loneliness, and his desire shall

bring Hard on his heels a thousand wheels, a people, and

a king ; And he shall come back o'er his own track and by

his scarce cool camp ; There he shall meet the roaring street, the derrick,

and the stamp, For he must blaze a nation's ways, with hatchet

and with brand,

Till on his last, worn wilderness an Empire's bul- warks stand.

"Professor Turner astonished me greatly by declaring that he not only did not know the rest of the poem, but that he had been unable to find the lines in any of the works of Kipling. I wrote to Mr. Kipling at Bateman's. Burwash, Sussex, England, and in due time received this reply from his secretary : ' In answer to your letter of May 6, Mr. Kipling has asked me to say that the lines to which you refer are his, but he cannot remember when or where they were published, or what the rest of the poem is."

This is very remarkable, and it will certainly be interesting if any readers of ' N. & Q.' can go one better than the author, and succeed in running it to ground.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

MABAT : HENBY KINGSLEY (12 S. ii. 409), Henry Kingsley's mention of Marat having resided in the Stour Valley probably rests on no sounder basis than numerous other legendary incidents during his residence in this country, such, for example, as his having been a teacher of French at Warrington Academy ; a bookseller at Bristol ; .and finally his condemnation to a long term of imprisonment for a theft from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. All these fables were ruthlessly exposed in an able and exhaustive article by Prof. Morse Stephens, which ap- peared some years ago in The Pall Mall Magazine. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

COL. J. S. WILLIAMSON (12 S. ii. 429). It may interest G. F. R. B. to know that Col. Williamson's second Christian name was Sutherland. J H. LESLIE.