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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. m. Fm. 17, 1917.

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.

ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL : EDWARD NELTHORPE AND THOMAS TRENCHFIELD. Under the heading ' St. George the Martyr, Queen's Square ' (12 S.ii. 271), appear these two names in succession as trustees of St. George's Chapel 1716. In R. B. Gardiner's ' Registers of St. Paul's School,' p. 64, one Edward Nelthorpe appears as having been, as an Old Pauline, one of the stewards of the St. Paul's School Feast in 1699, a year when Samuel Bradford, an Old Pauline, who was afterwards Master of Benet, Bishop of Car- lisle, and subsequently of Rochester, was preacher at the Feast.

I know nothing more concerning Edward Nelthorpe, but one Charles Nelthorpe, who may possibly have been his son, went up to Cambridge with a Pauline Exhibition in 1708, and took his B.A. degree from Jesus College in 1712.

On p. 77 of Gardiner's ' Registers of St. Paul's School ' appears the name of Thomas Trenchfield, who was steward of the School Feast in 1712. In this year the Old Pauline preacher was John Leng, who later became Bishop of Norwich. The juxtaposition of these two names in a list of trustees of a Bloomsbury chapel is curious in view of the fact that two persons of the same names were at the close of the seventeenth century educated at the same public school in London. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me any further information concerning either ? MICHAEL F. J. MCDONNELL. Bathurst, Gambia, British West Africa.

THE REV. THOMAS ORFEUR, son of William Orfeur of Plumland, Cumberland ; May 16, 1689, age 17, matriculated Queen's College, Oxford ; Nov. 23, 1693, deacon, licensed as Curate of Appleby ; January, 1694, priest, licensed as Curate of Appleby ; Nov. 22, 1693, ordained ; July 10, 1695, Rector of Harrington, to which he was presented by Henry Curwen ; June 11, 1721, buried at Harrington.

COL. CAVENAGH sends following note :

" In the Record Office in Dublin I came across the petition of Mrs. Anne Orfeur [sic], widow to Rev. Thomas Orfeus [sic],' late chaplain to the Regiment of Foot of the Hon. Brigadier Jasper Clayton, asking for relief out of the Concordation grant. After giving her husband's services, states he died from the effects of colds he got in North

Britain when out against the rebels in 1715, he- being the only Episcopal clergyman under the- Duke of Argyle. Before going to Scotland he had spent many years in Ireland."

This almost certainly relates to the same- Thomas Orfeur, who is stated to have been, a pluralist. If he was an army chaplain, it accounts for the fact that he apparently never lived at Harrington, where the work was done by a curate. There are no entries as to his marriage or children in the Harring- ton register.

Information required : (1) whether he held any other living or any appointments ; (2) where he lived ; (3) records of marriage- and children. R. T. O.

WAGNER : HEMANS. According to the- ' Dictionary of National Biography,' the- maternal grandfather of Mrs. Hemans was Benedict Park Wagner, of North Hall, near Wigan. On the other hand, I find that Jabez and Peter Marsden- Wagner, according to a baptismal certificate, were the sons of Benedict Paul Wagner, merchant of Liver- pool. Can any reader inform me if the- ' Dictionary of National Biography ' is mistaken, i.e., if Benedict Park Wagner should not be Benedict Paul Wagner ? or were they two different people ?

R. A. A.-L.

REV. JOHN BISSET AND THE DUKE or CUMBERLAND. The late Mr. William Watt in his ' History of Aberdeen and Banff ' (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 303, says :

"The testimony of [Rev. John] Bisset may be- cited in support of the view that the conduct or the Jacobite soldiers while in the city [of Aberdeen in- 1746] was better than that of the English army."

Where did Mr. Watt find this testimony ? It is not in Bisset's ' Diary,' printed in the Spalding Club Miscellany, vol. i. (Aberdeen,. 1841), or in any of his published sermons that I have seen ; but there is a curious confirmation of the story in John Daniell's ' Progress with Prince Charles Edward in 1745-6,' printed for the first time by Dr.. W. B. Blaikie in his ' Origins of the Forty- five ' (Edinburgh, 1916), p. 189. Dr. Blaikie- knew of Mr. Watt's statement, but is unable^ to explain it. P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

WILLIAM OUGHTRED. William Oughtred, the mathematician, had a son in the Custom House. Can any one tell me if there is a register or book' dealing with the officers of the Custom House, or what procedure- should be adopted to trace any one employed thus ? A. E. OUGHTRED.

Castle Eden.