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NOTES AND QQERIES.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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C N T E N T S. No. 70.

NOTES : The Chimney Sweeper's Climbing Boys, 347 Richard Edwards'* Correspondence. 349 First Edition of Cocker's 'Arithmetic,' 352 English Army List of 1740, 354 Trewman's 'Flying Post' Bank of England Sir Gilbert Heathcote. 356 Submarines Chelsea Supersti- tionSir John Barnard, 356.

QUERIES : " Blood is thicker than water " : Commodore Tattnall, 356 " A Leicester Plover." 357 Carr : Douglas of Carr "Malbrook s'en v-t-en guerre" William Jones, Author of ' Finger-Ring Lore 'Jane Austen : ' Pride and Prejudice 'Jane Austen: a Continuation- West: De Morgan: Bannerman : Turing Wilkinson of Thorpe Mrs. May Drummond : Portrait Col. Dun- combe Roger Goad of King's College, Cambridge. 358 'Ireland in Fiction' E. Serrano Wheble's 'Lady's Magazine' Topographical Information for Research Work Edgar Mortara James Whiting, 359 John Hamilton Reynolds : Tom Hood : Longmore Kingsman Family Wood-Sorrel Banbury Toad at the Heart ' Society in London ' " Death's Part " " Church Drops " Authors of Quotations Wanted, 360.

REPLI ES : Route of Charles I. from Newcastle to HoJmby, 361 Gray's Books and MSS. Letters from H.M.S. Bacchante in 1812-13, 363 English Travellers in the Netherlands "Talbot Gwynne" The Gorvin Hunt Americanisms, 364 -Jacob, the Wonder- Working French Zouave The MacBains of Scotland, 365 Coventry Churchwardens' Accounts ' Conquest of Canterbury Court,' by Quartermain ' Flatland 'Members of the Long Parliament Bird: Villiets, 366 Col. William Byrd Eglinton Tournament Maw. a Game of Cards Gloves at Weddings, 367 36th Regiment of Foot-Charles Lamb, Westwood, and Stackhouse's 'History of the Bible' First Steamer to America: T. D. Davenport, 368 -Alphabet in the Christian Church, 369 Colloquial Similes Fieldingiana Old Inns Heart Burial, 370 Michael Smith, D.D. Uvedale, Cary, and Price Families ' Johnny Newcome in the Navy ' Two Charades, 371 Arms of St. Wilfrid Fire putting out Fire ' Tales of my Landlord, 1 New Series -Indian Mounds, U.S.A. Folk- Lore : the Angelica Authors Wanted, 372.

NOTES ON BOOKS :' Original Records of Early Non- conformity under Persecution and Indulgence.' Booksellers' Catalogues. OBITUARY : William Douglas. Notices to Correspondents.

THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S CLIMBING BOYS.

FEW, if any, of the rising generation have ever heard of these poor boys, who are the subject of the subjoined letter, though to many, no doubt, the name of their benefactor, Jonas Hanway (1712 Sept. 5, 1786), the great traveller and philanthropist, is not unknown, as he was the first man who ventured to walk the streets of London using an umbrella, and did so for nearly thirty years before he saw umbrellas come into general use.

On April 22, 1788, the petition of David Porter of Little Welbeck Street, master