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THOMAS HOWABD, EARL OF ARUNDEL. Can any one give me information as to th> present whereabouts of the portrait of th< great collector (1585-1646) by Van Dyck formerly at Stafford House, but sold by th< late Duke of Sutherland in 1907 ? It i believed to have gone to America, but thi, is uncertain. 1 should also be grateful fo information concerning other portraits o the Earl of Arundel (whose Life I am writing except those well known at Arundel, in th< "National Gallery, <Src. Can any one tell m< what has become of one by Rubens (a head) owned in the eighteenth century by Lore Frederick Campbell, and subsequently by the Duke of Argyll, the track of which is now unknown ? Any other information will be welcomed.

[(Miss) MARY F. S. HERVEY. Shiplake House, Henley-on-Thames.

FULCHER'S ' LIFE OF GAINSBOROUGH.' Can any of your reader,? tell me whether any descendants of George Williams Fulcher or his son E. S. Fulcher (both of Sudbury) are living, and, if so, whether they retain the MS. letters and other materials used in the composition of the above Life ? It was in great part written by the father, and com- pleted by his son. and published in 1856 by Messrs. Longmans'. INQUIRER (2).

SIMPSONS OF ABERDEENSHIRE. Can^any of your readers give information about the family of Simpson of Udoch, near Fyvie in Aberdeenshire ? They registered at the Lyon Office, at the end of the seventeenth century, their arms as follows : Argent, on a chief vert three crescents of tho field. Crest, a falcon volant ; motto, " Alis nutrior."

In Edrnondson's ' Heraldry ' (London, 1780) these arms are said to have been used by - - Sympson of the Inner Temple, London. They are also ascribed to the family of Simson of Brunton and Piteorthie, said to have been established in Fifeshire since the fifteenth century. They have also been used by my own family, but I am unable to trace it back beyond the middle of the eighteenth century, and cannot trace a connexion with the Udoch family, whose records end fifty years earlier. Any infor- mation that would give a missing link would be very welcome. I have reason for thinking that the Simpsons in England who used these arms in the eighteenth century were not likely to have assumed arms registered as those of the Udoch family if they had not been entitled to do so. H. B. S.

SIEYES MSS. In^Sainte-Beuve's article on Sieyes in vol. v. of the ' Causeries du Lundi ' reference is made to the MSS. of Sieyes in the possession of Fortoul, the publication of which was prevented, or at least delayed, by Fortoul's death. Have any of them since been published ?

J. F. R,

" TROTTNCER." Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' throw light upon this word aa applied to " ; the man who rides behind a distiller's van and helps to load and unload " ? The question i.3 asked by a well-known writer. Its derivation as a verb, from the French, has been duly traced. But as substantive, in the sense indicated, research on my part has been baffled. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Atheneeum Club.

[' The Oxford English Dictionary,' s.v. " trouncer," says that the word is formed from the verb with the suffix er, and in the definition states that the name is specially applied to an odd man. Among the illustrative quotations is the following from The Westminster Gazette of March 26, 1896 : " Brewhouse men, cellar men, yardmen . . . .draymen, and trouncers."]

PALMERSTONIANA. -Will somebody be good enough to repeat an anecdote which hangs on a question being put to Lord Palmerston as to the age when a man might b- considered to be in full vigour ?

ST. SWITHIN.

MAUNSELL ROLL OF HONOUR. Members of the Matmsell (Mansell.. Mansel) family may be glad to know that it is intended to insert in the second volume of the history of the family (now in active preparation) an "In Memoriam " chapter, containing the names and some account of the services, &c, of hose members of the family who have given their lives in the War, and I therefore appeal to them to send particulars to me at the address below. All details in respect of the action, the circumstances in which they were ailed, letters from the front, &c., will be acceptable.

CHARLES A. MAUNSELL, Col. Junior United Service Club,

Charles Street, S.W.I.

" MR. LLOYD, FOUNDER OF LONDON EXCHANGE." Pasted inside an old patch - ox are the words : " Mr. Lloyd Banker, ic., Founder of London Exchange."

The patch-box has a portrait painted on he lid; costume, I should gather, c. 1820; lands in pocket ; a squat tall hat, standing >eside a pillar; at the foot of the portrait here is the lettering, '\Pillar of the Ex- hange."