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man." It was at Reading he died, March 18, 1842, aged 58 years. His mother was Apparently a Welsh lady, of the name of Miss Roberts before she married, of Ha warden in North Wales, where she had known the celebrated Lady Hamilton as a poor bare- footed girl. T. LLECHID JONES. Lllysfaen Rectory, Colwyn Bay.

William Burt, the miniature painter, worked up to about 1830 ; he practised his art at Bath, Chester, and Nantwich, accord- ing to the lists. W. H. QUARBELL. Burlington Fine Arts Club, W.I.

Two OLD SONGS : ' THE RATCATCHEB'S DAUGHTER' (12 S. iv. 75). < The Rat- catcher's Daughter' is given in 'Modern Street Ballads,' by John Ashton (Chatto & Windus, 1888). It consists of seven eight-line verses. If it is inaccessible, I will furnish a copy. APVTHUR BOWES.

Newton-le-Willows, Lanes.

Further particulars of this song, and a reproduction of the illustration on the title- page of the music, will be found in The Dickensian of April, 1913.

T. W. TYBREU..

[MB. A. MASSON writes that he heard Sam Oovvell sing the song in the fifties.]

' TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS ' : LITER ABY ERROR (12 S iv. 8). In this connexion it may be of interest to record that Thomas Hughes lived, I am almost sure, at the time he wrote ' Tom Brown,' at 33 Park Street, W., the back of which bordered the garden of Grosvenor House. I often visited this charming residence when occupied by a subsequent tenant. The house was razed about twenty years ago, when the small block of which No. 33 was one became part of the Duke of Westminster's grounds, a handsome wall being built on the site.

CECIL CLABKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

LReply later from PROF. E. BENSLY.]

BISHOP JOHN BUCKERIDGE OB BUOKRIDGE {12 S. iv. 74). The ' D.N.B.' ha.-; a pretty full life of John Buckeridge or Buckridge, President of St. John's College, Oxford, 1605-11, Bishop of Rochester 1611, and of Ely 1628. See also Canon W. H. Button's ' History of St. John Baptist College, Oxford,' especially chap, vii., ' Buckeridge, Laud, and Juxon.' The interesting sugges- tion is there made that, as the Cromwell family had sent many members to this College, " the family association may well have led the great" Oliver to St. Giles's,

Cripplegate [Buckeridge' s living], where on Aug 22, 1620, he married Elizabeth Bourchier." .As her father, however, Sir James Bourchier, was in Carlyle's words " a civic gentleman," there may be a simpler explanation of the wedding having taken place at St. Giles's. Bishop Buekeridge died on May 23, 1631, and was buried in the parish church of Bromley, Kent. According to Francis Godwin, ' De Prsesulibus Angling,' p. 275 in W. Richardson's edition, " nullum extat Epitaphion."

EDWARD BENSLY.

Bishop Buckeridge' s burial is thus recorded in the church register of Bromley, Kent : " 1631. The last of May. The right Reverend Father in god John Buckeridge. the Lord BV of Ely, sometime BP of Rochester." He left 201. for the benefit of the poor of Bromley parish. Dr. W. T. Beeby, in his account of Bromley Church, 1872, says that a monument to him wa there, but I have failed to find any other record or it. PHILIP NORMAN.

45 Evelyn Gardens, S.W.

[REV. A. B. BEAVEN, W. A. B. C., MR. L. H.

CHAMBERS, and MR. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN also thanked for replies.]

MAW, A GAME OF CARDS : ROMESTECQ (12 S. iii. 299, 367, 426). There is a smal error in SIR DAVID HUNTER-BLAIR'S reply at the second reference. A piquet pack consists of 32 (not 36) cards ; see any book on card games. The error may have come from the ' New English Dictionary,' in which no definition of " maw " is given only a misleading quotation from Halliwell, which says that maw was played " with a piquet pack of thirty -six cards." The said Dictionary, s.v. " Piquet," gives the correct number of a piquet pack. It is obvious that, four cards being added to 32, the 36 cards do not make a piquet pack.

In ' May Day,' in ' Old Plays : being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection,' 1816, vol. iv. pp. 107-8, about the middle of Act V., we read :

Lodovico. Methought Lucretia and I were at ma we, a game, uncle, that you can well skill of.

Lorenzo. Well, sir, I can so.

Lod. The game stood, methought, upon my last two tricks, when I made sure of the set, and yet lost it, having the varlet [i.e., knave] and the five finger to make two tricks ....

Lod She had in her hand the ace of

hearts, methought, and a coat-card [i.e., court- card], she led the board with her coat, I play'd the varlot, and took up her coat, and meaning to lay my five finger upon her ace of hearts, up start a quite contrary card,