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NOTES AND QUERIES.' [12 s. m. OCT., 1917.

In Tewin churchyard, Herts, are two tombstones with rapidly decaying inscrip- tions. One is

" In memory of | Mrs. Mary Bibright | Belect of the late | Mr. Thomas Bibright | of Tewin Glass Mills | who departed this Life | the 30th Day of June 1799 | in the 87th Year of her age."

The other is

" In memory of | Mr. Thomas Ribright | who departed this Life | the 15th Day of June 1781 | in the 69th Year of His Age | For to me to Live is CHRIST | and to die is Gain."

E. E. SQUIEES. St. Andrew's Street, Hertford.

BARBARA VILLIERS, DUCHESS OF CLEVE- LAND, 1640-1709. In the National Por- trait Gallery there is a portrait of this notorious lady, stated in the catalogue to have been " copied from Sir Peter Lely." Where is the original portrait ?

T). K. T.

FIRST COACH IN DUBLIN. I want to know the full name and date of death of my great-grandfather, who drove the first coach in Dublin. JOHN SAUNDERS.

1 Catherine Street, West Hartlepool.

LADY MARY GREY, alias KEYS : CHRIS- TOPHER CHEWTE, CHOWT, OR CHUTE. (See 8 S. vi. 301.) MR. RUTTON contributed at the above reference a copy of the will of the Lady Mary Grey, dated April 17, 1578, a few days before her death. It is stated that the copy (Lansdowne MSS. xxvii. 31, Brit. Mus.) of the will is not signed by the testatrix, and MR. RUTTON questioned the existence of the original.

The Genealogist, vol. xxxii. part ii. for October, 1915, has the following abstract from the administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (f. 158) :

" 1578. Dec. 1. Lady Mary Graye, St. Bo- tolph without Aldersgate (London), to Christopher Chewte of Hillmorton, co. Warw., gent."

Maggs Brothers' catalogue for May, 1912, had a receipt by Lady Mary, Oct. 6, 1574, for 81. 7s. 6d. for half-year's rent of Hill- morton, paid by Christopher Chowt.

In the Tower of London there is said to be cut in the south side of the east window of the Beauchamp Tower, immediately below the name " Jhon Seymor," that of " C. Chowt, 1553." According to the Acts of the Privy Council, letters to the officers of Gravesend and other towns in Kent were issued on April 26, 1573, to apprehend and send up Edward Chester and Christopher Chute, " who remaine upon that coast under pretence to have the leading of Soldiers."

May we gather from the above that the will was set aside and never proved ? But why should letters of administration be granted to C. Chowt, tenant ? Is anything more known of him ?

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

C. RYCKWAERTS. I possess a defective copy of ' Histoire des Troubles et Guerre Civile de Flandres,' 2nd edition, published by Jean Stratius at Lyons in 1584. Pencil notes by a former owner state: (1) that the first Lyons edition was published in 1583 ;

(2) that C. Ryckwaerts, " said by some to have been born at Ypres," was the author ;

(3) that the original was in Dutch ; (4) that English translations were published at Norwich in 1579 and in London in 1583 ; (5) that another French translation was published in 1582 ; (6) (hat there is an entry in the Marriage Register of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London, as follows : " 25 Maius, 1574, Karolus Rychart, ghescit Theophilus van Niewkerke met Lowyscken Carboniers van Bevere " ; and (7) that one or more of the above translations are stated to have been made by Theophilus.

I do not think that Motley in his ' Rise of the Dutch Republic ' cites this book in any form. I shall be grateful for any informa- tion about the original book, its author, and its translators.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

PENNY OF 1864. Could you or any of your readers inform me whether there is anything unusual about the 1864 penny ? I have looked out for one for some time under the impression that they were rather curiosities, but, having found three in the past three or four months, I have begun to doubt whether they are really so.

GEORGE' H. DODSON.

102 Southmoor Road, Oxford.

[These pennies have received notice in ' N. & Q.' from time to time ; see 6 S. i. 36, 282 (1880), and 7 S. ii. 48, 117 (1886). The explanation of the stories about them is that a considerably smaller number were minted that year than in former years, as shown by the table cited from the ' First Annual Beport of the Deputy Master of the Mint,' 1870.]

QUEEN OF BAVARIA : DUKES OF PARMA. I should be greatly obliged for help in finding the Stuart descent (through the house of Sardinia) of the present Queen of Bavaria, from King Charles I.'s daughter Marie Henriette, who married Philippe of Orleans, and whose daughter Anne Marie, in her turn, married Victor Amadeus II. of