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SIR FRANCIS BACON : HILLIARD'S MINIA- TURE. The frontispiece to ' The Story of the Life of Bacon,' by Hepworth Dixon (John Murray, 1862), is a portrait of Bacon at the age of 18, and stated to be drawn by E. M. Ward, R.A., after Milliard. Can any one give me information regarding the miniature by Hilliard where it is, or where it was ? R. H. B.

LADY FRANCES HASTINGS : MR. INGHAM : MR. BATTY. " The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, by a member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings," i.e., A. C. H. Seymour, was published in two volumes, 1839, and was indexed by F. A. Jackson for the Wesley Historical Society in 1906. It furnishes often the only data for research relative to eighteenth -century Dissent. On p. 84 of vol. i. is mentioned a journal of Lady Frances Hastings, and on p. 261 journals of Mr. Ingham and Mr. Batty, " of the deepest interest." Are these jovirnals still in existence, and, if so, where ?

J. C. WHITEBROOK, Lieut.

ARNOLDS, ACTORS. Can any readers give information about a family of actors called Arnold ? An actor of that name played in Rowe's tragedies as early as 1714. The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser, published at Boston, U.S.A., in its issue of Feb. 11, 1796, announced that Mrs. Arnold, an English actress just arrived from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, would make her first appearance at the Federal Street Theatre on Feb. 12. At Portland, Maine, Nov. 21, 1796, she is referred to as Mrs. Tubbs (late Mrs. Arnold), who arrived from England in January last. References to Arnolds from theatrical play- bills, histories, &c., are requested. Please reply direct. R. M. HOGG.

Irvine, Ayrshire.

THE MERMAID TAVERN, CHEAPSIDE. In the first edition of Mr. James Walter's ' Shakespeare's True Life,' illustrated by Mr. Gerald E. Moira, which was published in 1890, appears an illustration of this tavern (p. 325). It is stated that it was taken from a sketch formerly possessed by Mr. Upcott, traditional as the noted Mer- maid of Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. It follows, therefore, that the original sketch must have been in existence in 1890, when it was copied by Mr. Moira for Mr. Walter's book.

Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' inform me where this original sketch can be seen 2

1890 is not a very remote date. William Upcott left many of his prints and drawings to Mr. Charles Hampton Turner of Rooks' Nest, Godalming, Surrey. Possibly some of your readers may have seen this par- ticular sketch at this gentleman's house, or may know of its present whereabouts. Any information will be gratefully received.

ARTHUR W. GOULD. Staverton, Briar Walk, Putney Park Lane, S.W.

ELPHINSTONE : KEITH : FLAHAULT. Further details are invited concerning the Hon. Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, eldest daughter of Viscount Keith, who in 1817, at Edinburgh, married Count Flahault, one of Napoleon's aides-de-camp at the battle of Waterloo. Is anything known of the sub- sequent career of this lady ? She was de- scribed as possibly the richest heiress in England (?). J. LAND FEAR LUCAS.

Giendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

DR. JOHNSON : TURNING THE TEACUP. Was it usual for .people to turn the cups upside down in the saucer when they had had enough tea ? In his ' Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides,' under Oct. 3, 1773, Boswell, speaking of Dr. Johnson, wrote : " I remember, when he turned his cup at Aberbrothick, where we drank tea, he muttered, Claudite jam rivos, piteri."

J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

[The custom has been discussed in ' N. & Q.,' and is illustrated by a Cumberland ballad quoted by JONATHAN BOUCHIER at 7 S. xii. 273.]

WILLIAM PETYT c. 1640. Information is desired respecting the date of birth of William Petyt. Dawson's ' History of Skipton ' (p. 247), referring to his descent as passed by Dugdale in 1662, says "William (born 1637) " ; whereas the extract quoted on p. 250 from the admission book of Christ's College, Cambridge, viz., " 1660, April 26to, Gulielmus Petite. .. .annos natus 19m, ad- missxis esfc pensionarius minor sub Mr. Abney J. C.," would place his birth in 1641.

Can any one tell me if Dugdale's data of 1662 are accessible, and if the Cambridge Register of April 26, 1660, has been cor- rectly quoted ? ALFRED BIRTWHISTLE.

39 Otley Street, Skipton, Ybrks.

WALROND FAMILY. I am anxious to discover whether a member of the Walrond family of Devon intermarried with a family bearing the following arms : Ermine, a chevron (colours unknown), with a crest which might be a mallard (? a swan) upon a cross. P. D. M.