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GEOFFREY BLYTHE : ENGLISH AMBASSA- DOR TO HUNGARY, 1502. MR. MANWARING has kindly pointed out to me that Reumont has derived his information about Chris- topher Urswick (see ante p. 54) from Rawdon Brown's ' Four Years at the Court of Henry VIII.' (London, 1854). No re- ference is given, I am told, but in vol. i. of the ' Calendar of Venetian State Papers ' there are two entries (Nos. 827, 828) about an English ambassador, who had been to Hungary in 1502, and had arrived back in Venice on Dec. 5 of that year on his way home. This was no other than the diplomat about whom I inquired more or less a quarter of a century ago, but whom I was unable to identify (8*S iii. 101). According to Marino Sanuto, he was a doctor and priest; and " Pierre Cheque dit Bretagne," the herald of the Queen of France, giving his name as " Messire Gauffray Bleist " (sic), described him as " le doyen de Salzbery," and men- tioned that he had with him " pour officier d'armes Somb reset, herault," when they attended together the wedding of the King of Hungary (Vladislaus II.) with Anne de Candalle (Kendall) at Buda, the Hungarian capital, on Sept. 29, 1502. MR. MANWARING has now identified him as Geoffrey Blythe, then Dean of York, also a well-known diplomat (see ' D.N.B.'), who had been collated to the Archdeaconry of Sarum in August, 1499, and on his return from Hungary was rewarded with the bishopric of Lichfield and Coventry. His credentials as special ambassador to the King of Hungary and Bohemia are printed in Rymer's ' Fo3- dera ' (vol. xiii. pp. 4 and 5 of the 1712 edition, ' De Liga cum Ladislao . . . . Rege contra Mahumetanos '), and are dated May 27, 1502. L. L. K.

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.

" BENEDICT," THE DELLA CRUSCAN. In the year 1785, Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi were residing in Florence, and with Robert Merry, Bertie Greatheed, and others, were members of a literary- circle known as the Delia Cruscans. On returning to England some of them, together with other writers, con- tributed verses to a daily newspaper called The World, between the years 1787 and 1791. Their productions were known as Delia Cruscan poetry, and were subsequently

satirized by William Gifford in the ' Baviad.' One of the group who used the pen-name " Benedict " contributed eleven sonnets in 1787 and 1788, which are reprinted in the ' Poetry of the World ' (1788), vol. ii. pp. 122-32. Sheridan and " Perdita " Robinson were also associated with The World.

It is desired for a literary purpose to identify the versifier " Benedict."

E. BASIL LUPTOMT.

37 Langdon Street, Cambridge, Mass., U.8.A.

THE KING'S GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS IN THE ROYAL NAVY IN 1692. A squire, apply- ing to an influential friend in January, 1691/2, on behalf of one of his sons, desires the friend

" to provide for him as one of y Hinges Gentle- men Volunteers on board y e Admiral, or with such other good Comm(an)der as you shall judge fittest for him, where he may have his Dyet with y* Captain & such pay as is allowed unto other Volunteers."

I should be glad to have further informa- tion as to the way in which at this time youths were admitted into the Navy, with a view to becoming commissioned officers. JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

" YE OLDE FULHAM BRIDGE TAVERN." What is the explanation of Ye Olde Fulham Bridge Tavern in the Brompton Road and Fulham Bridge Yard, approached from Brompton Road by Tullett Place ? Neither of these is near Fulham. Was the land ever assigned for the maintenance of Putney (or Fulham) Bridge ? B. C. S.

DEMOSTHENES : REFERENCE WANTED. Can any of your readers inform me where in Demosthenes there is a phrase similar to that made use of by Disraeli in his reference to Gladstone as being " inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity" ?

A. GWYTHEH.

Windham Club, St. James's Square, S.W.

A " JUDY." In the Glamorgan coal dis- trict a woman is frequently referred to by young fellows as a Judy. To me it seems an odious word in this context, and it is no doubt an importation from over the border. Is the word so used in any part of England, and if so, where ? ARTHUR MEE.

Cardiff.

MICHAEL SMITH, D.D. I should like to see a biographical sketch of Michael Smith, D.D., clerk in Holy Orders, who was living at Freckenham in Suffolk in 1762.

J. W. F.