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the practice is not given ; I am therefore anxious, if possible, to verify the statement. Jonas Ha'nway, after persevering for some thirty years in spite of the jeers of the passengers and clamour of the chairman and hackney coachman, saw the practice generally adopted.

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

AUTHOR WANTED. Can any reader tell me the author of verses beginning : Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose ?

H. W.

[Cowper, 'The Report of an Adjudged Case, not to be found in any Book,' included in any edition of his ' Works.']

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. I should be much obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could inform me which are the four books that contain George Cruikshank's greatest work from the point of view of technical skill and imagination combined. Am I right in con- sidering the etching of the Elfin-Grove in Grimm's ' Tales ' his greatest achievement in the qualities I have mentioned ?

C. HORTON.

8 Hobart Terrace, Plymouth.

CAPT. MAYNE REID : SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED. In which novel of this author's do we come across the hyperbolic utterance : " The lofty peaks of the Andes pierced the skies like perforated zinc " ?

ANEURIN WPLLIAMS.

THE SIR WILLIAM PERKINS SCHOOL, CHERTSEY.

(12 S. ii. 390.)

[ APPEND a few historical notes upon Sir William Perkins and his school. In the paragraphs which appeared in the London papers in October, 1741 (infra), there will be found several interesting sidelights and clues to further research.

Sir William Perkins was born in 1665 and died at " Chertsey Abbey," Oct. 4', 1741. He was buried at St. Andrew Undershaft on Oct. 13. There is an entry in the Register, but it does not say whether th burial was in the church or the churchyard. There is no existing monu- ment in the church. Mr. F. Marcham's List, No. 2 (without date), issued from 9 Tottenham Terrace, White Hart Lane,

Tottenham, catalogued a copy of Sir William Perkins's will, as follows :

" Sir William Perkins of Chertsey. Copy of will dated Oct. 9, 1736. Brother Matthew, godson William North ; an appendix of ' a list of some inhabitants of the parish of Chertsey, in Surrey, to whome. as in my will .... I appoint ....51. each.' To be buried in St. Andrew Undershaft.

" On Monday last [October 4] died, at his Seat at Chertsey in Surrey, Sir William Perkins, formerly an eminent Merchant of jthis City : He died immensely rich, and bequeath'd the Bulk of his Estate to Henry Weston, Esq ; Purse- bearer to the late Lord Chancellor King." London Evening Post, Thursday, Oct. 8, 1741.

The above paragraph appears also in The Daily Post of Oct. 9, 1741.

" Last Night [October 13] the Corpse of Sir William Perkins, Knt., who died the Beginning of last Week at his House at ChertsearAbby in Surry, in the 86th Year of his Age, was, after having lain there in State, carried from thence, and interred with great Pomp in the Church of St. Mary- Axe ; Sit William Perkins was drank to for Sheriff by Sir Richard Brocas, Knt., Lord- Mayor of London in 1730, but afterwards paid his Fine." London Daily Post, Wednesdav, Oct. 14, 1741.

" Sir William Perkins, Knt., who died a few Days since was buried, according to his Desire, in the Church-yard of St. Mary-Axe. His Lady Dame Mary Perkins, who died September the 6th, Aged 75 Years, lies buried at Chertsea, where Sir William has resided many Years ; in his Life time, among other Charities, he erected a School there for the Education of 50 Boys and Girls, with a Sufficiency at his Death for a perpetual Maintenance of it. He is reported to have died worth 80,OOOZ. near Half of which Sum has been found in his House since his* Decease. In his Will he has, as 'tis said, bequeath'd to Henry Weston, Esq; near 60,0002." London Daily Post, Oct. 17, 1741.

I expected to find some illustrations con- nected with Sir William Perkins or his school in the magnificent extra-illustrated copy of Manning and Bray's ' Surrey ' in the B.M., but I found nothing. ' The Victoria County History ' dismisses him with a brief paragraph. In vol. xi. of the Surrey Archaeological Society's Proceedings there are some valuable papers upon the Church Plate of Surrey. On p. 254 it is stated in reference to Perkins :

" He gave in his lifetime to the parish a con- siderable sum of money for clothing and educating 25 boys and 25 girls, with two school houses for master and mistress. Mr. Henry Weston suc- ceeded to the estate, and was afterwards of West Horsley, and died in 1759."

The flagons which were given by Sir William Perkins bear the inscription :

" Given to the Parish of Chertsey in the co. Surrey by Sir William Perkins, inhabitant of said Parish, 1740."

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