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From support already received, I venture to hope that the collection of illustrations with descriptive notes will prove interesting, representative, and successful.

A. O. WOLFE-AYLWARD.

Quebec House, Westerham, Kent.

DE LA POLE : POOLE. Can any one give information concerning the direct descent of Capt. Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass., from Sir William de la Pole, Baron of the Exchequer, knighted in 1296, and died about 1329 ? Through which one of the three sons of William has the American branch descended, and where may I obtain the complete English genealogy ?

BERTHA L. SHAW.

University Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

QUEEN CHARLOTTE. George III.'s consort was often lampooned as mean. Was she ever accused of insobriety ? The type of an engraved medallic-token in my cabinet sug- gests that this was so. F. P. B.

XORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. Can one of your correspondents please furnish me with the Indian for " the Morning Star" ? It is, I believe, a hvphened word beginning Wabun. C. R. I.

RIME ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY. Have any of your readers come on anything parallel or similar to the following ?

Than Thomas' Day,

All men must say, There 's no day that is shorter.

When that is past,

Slow first quick last, The days do what they oughter.

C. H. S.

WILL OF XATHANIEL KINDERLEY. Pro- longed and diligent search has failed to find the will of JSTathaniel Kinderley, the Engi- neer of the Fens, who died at Saltholm, between Stockton and Durham, in 1742. A Probate Registry official suggests that the will never was proved, but ranked as a title deed, and that it is now in some muni- ment box, the owner of which is unaware of the inquiries that have been made. Are there examples known of wills of that period being unproved ? E. F. W.

CALDERON. In ' El Magico Prodigioso ' (' The Wonder-working Magician'), Cyprian seizes a figure in a cloak, thinking he has Justina, but on removing the cloak he dis- covers that he has a skeleton in his arms. This device is, I believe, used by Calderon twice elsewhere. Can any reader indicate the plays in which it occurs ? GWENT.

SOUTHEY. I am preparing for publicat ion a work entitled ' The Early Life of Robert Southey (1774-1803).' I should be grateful to any of your readers who might supply me with new information concerning Southey, or help me to locate any unpublished letters or other documents touching him that may remain in the hands of private persons.

WILLIAM HAULER. Columbia University, New York.

EDWIN W T AUGH ILLUSTRATIONS. I shall be grateful for information regarding the ownership of the original sketches by Calde- cott, Houghton Hague, Partington, and Morton, illustrating Waugh's works pub- lished by John Hey wood, Manchester. R. J. GORDON,

Rochdale. Librarian and Curator.

JOB HEATH'S POSSET CUP. (See 10 S. iii. 468.) Having recently discovered this posset cup in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, I find new curiosity stimulated concerning the family of the Heaths. It was acquired by the authorities of the Museum in 1893 on the death of Prof. J. O. Westwood, who at that tune was the owner of it. On Nov. 4, 1880, he delivered an address to the Royal Archaeo- logical Institute on the subject. (Cf. Jour- nal of the Royal Archaeological Institute, vol. xxxviii p. 100, where a picture of it is given, with full description of its colourings and technical decorations, &c.) Its uniqueness appears to lie in the inscription round the upper portion of the vessel, which reads "Job Heath 1702." The letters and figures are about 1 in. to 1^ in. in height ; the cup itself is 4f in. high, and 6 J in. in diameter. Connoisseurs in ceramics will perhaps be able to tell us whether lettering of this size extending all round the cup denotes the name of the maker or that of the recipient. The learned Professor appears to have assumed it was that of the former, and added that " it bears the hitherto unrecorded name of the ancestor of some of the most celebrated manufacturers of ceramic articles in England." He ac- knowledges himself indebted to Llewellynn Jewitt's ' Ceramic Art of Great Britain ' for many of the details relating to the cup. I am informed there is mention made of it also in ' Early English Pottery,' by T. E. Hodgkin, p. 25.

What I am primarily seeking is an explanation of the late Professor's remark touching the descendants of this Job Heath and their connexion with ceramic art, and this with a view to supply some gaps in my incomplete genealogical tree of a family