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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JAN. 27, 1917.

ISABELLA S. STEPHENSON. Information is earnestly desired regarding this lady, the writer of the simple and touching hymn of which the first verse is :

Holy Father, in Thy mercy,

Hear our anxious prayer ; Keep our loved ones, ow far absent,

'Neath Thy care.

It has become so great a favourite among our troops on the Continent as to be sung, in some cases, at every meeting for worship. Naturally, therefore, our chaplains and soldiers wish to know something more about the lady who has provided them with such a beautiful prayer-hymn. Nothing but her name is given in Julian's ' Dictionary.'

J. K Y. Edinburgh.

BISHOPS ELECT : DOMICILIARY CUSTOM. In what cathedral sees, besides (so I am told) Exeter, does an old custom obtain that the bishop may not sleep within the see-city until after his enthronement ?

E. LEGA-WEEKES.

SAYING ATTRIBUTED TO CARDINAL POLE. From a seventeenth-century Commonplace Book, under the heading ' War,' I copy the following : " Penes Reges est inferre bellum, penes autem Deum terminare. Cardinal Poole to Hen. ye 8'." Can any one trace this now trite notion to its source ? I have looked generally through the ' Pro Eccle- siasticae Unitatis Defensione,' but without success. CECIL DEEDES.

STENSON, PRINT DEALER. This well- known dealer was for many years in business at Lamb's Conduit Street, and there owned, if he did not print from, the many copper- plates of London views and portraits that had been collected by Evans of Great Queen Street. In 1864 Stenson was at 1 Woodbine Terrace, Battersea, still selling Evans's prints. I shall be obliged for any information as to the date of his death, dispersal of his stock, &c.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. x

HANS-TOWN OR CADOGAN-LAND. Can any one tell me the dates of the pulling down of Prince's Racquet Club, which occupied the site of Cadogan Square ; of the commence- ment of modern Pont Street in Chelsea ; of the commencement of modern Hans Place, Cadogan Square, Lennox Gardens, Cadogan Gardens, and Herbert Crescent ; of the pulling down of Blacklands House off Marlborough Street (now Draycott Avenue) and the Hermitage Villa in Yeoman's Row ?

B. C. S.

' THE ADVENTURES OF A POST CAPTAIN,' by " Naval Officer " and illustrated by a Mr. Williams, is presumed to have been originally published in the twenties or thirties of the last century, and reprinted in Methuen's uniform " Library of Illustrated and Coloured Books." Is it known who were the author and artist ? And are other productions to be assigned to them ?

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

PICTURES : WHERE EXHIBITED. In what galleries may any of the following pictures be seen ?

' The Appeal,' by Guido Bach (water colours).

' Father advised Me,' by Guido Bach (water colours).

' Early Footsteps,' by C. Martineau (water colours).

' Troubled Times,' by Hugh Carter (water colours).

' Suspense,' by Weatherhead (water colours).

' St. Michel's Mount,' by R. H. Carter (water colours).

' Dutch Merry - Making,' by Polsnerd (painted in oils on wood).

' The Madonna and Child,' by Pellegrino (oils). L. VENDEN.

" DERBY RAM." What is the origin and meaning of this phrase ? The following in- scription occurs on an " engraved coin " : " Shifty Doctor alias Derby Ram from Town," eighteenth century. F. P. B.

TOPPE FAMILY. I am endeavouring to connect the Toppe, Toup, or Toppais family of Lincolnshire (twelfth century) with tha Toppe family of Wiltshire (fifteenth cen- tury). The Wiltshire pedigree is only fairly clear, and is recorded at a visitation early in the seventeenth century.

I append the result of my research, chiefly derived from the Patent Rolls :

Eudo Toppais of Stratton, alive 1187.

John Toppe of La Haie, alive 1295.

John Toppe of Algarkirk, Lincolnshire, died 1329.

John Toppe of Algarkirk, died before 1406, Escheator of Lincoln.

John Toppe of Holand in Lincoln (? trus- tee of land in Coombe Bisset, Wilts, in 1400).

Thomas Toppe, son of John of Algarkirk, alive 1381.

The Visitation of Wiltshire above referred to begins with Thomas Toppe (circa 1415), and it seems reasonable to assume that he is identical with Thomas Toppe, son of John