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THOMAS POSTLETHWAITE, M.P. (12 S- iv. 133). Nichols's ' History and An- tiquities of Leicestershire,' vol. ii. p. 876 (1798), says of Fleckney (not Heckney),

" The principal inhabitant is Postle-

thwait, esq., who married a daughter of the late Mr. Henry Hubbard " ; and gives an inscription on an oval tomb in the chapel yard on the south side :

" To the memory of Henry and Hannah Hubbard his wife. . . .he died Nov. 17, 1780, aged 07 years. Also near this place is one of his sons, who died in his infancy."

W. B. H.

WEEKES (12 S. iv. 73, 145). Some details are given as to Abraham Weekes in vol. vi. of J. R. Bloxam's ' Register of Magdalen College, Oxford,' p. 131. He matriculated (aged 17) in 1696 at Magdalen Hall, and was a Probationer Fellow of Magdalen College, 1706-7. He wrote several poems. At the same reference is an extract from Hearne's Diary for 1723, pp. 112 and 117 of vol. viii. (1907) of the Oxford Historical Society's edition, about the death of A. W.'s daughter by his wife, the widow of Mr. Walker of the King's Head Tavern, Oxford. Abraham W. was dead by 1723. W. A. E. C.

TONKS SURNAME (12 S. iii. 476; iv. 114). By way of addition to the replies already given, reference may be made to a more recent authority than those quoted. Mr. Ernest Weekley has reason to suggest that by " assimilation " Tom kins " tends to become Tonkins, whence Tonks," and that Tomkins is filius Thomse (see ' The Romance of Names,' 1914, pp. 24, 35).

C. A. COOK.

HEEALDIC : A SHIELD SABLE (12 S. iv. 106). The arms blazoned are those of Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford 1674, London 1675-1713 ; Compton, Marquis and Earl of Northampton, Earl Compton of Compton, and Baron Wilmington of Wilmington ; Compton of Carham Hall, Northumberland ; and Sir Henry Compton, Lord Compton. See Papworth's ' Ordinary of British Ar- morials,' p. 132, for somewhat similar coats.

S. A. GBUNDY-NEWMAN Walsall.

See Guillim, 4th ed. Lend., 1660, p. 343 : " He beareth, Diamond [sable], a Lyon passant, gardant, Topaz [or], between three Helmets, Pearle [argent]. This is the Coat of the Noble Family of Compttm, of which an eminent Orna- ment is the right honourable James Earle of Northamp ton . ' '

GEOEOB NEWAXL.

ELPHINSTONE : KEITH : FLAHAULT (12 S.. iv. 131). Madame de Flahault was the daughter and coheir of George Keith,. Viscount Keith, and succeeded on the death of her father in 1823 to the two baronies of Keith, and in 1837 became Baroness Nairne. She married in 1817 Count de Flahault de la Billarderie, sometime aide-de-camp to Bonaparte, but subsequently French Ambassador to Vienna and to London. He died September, 1870, at the Palace of the Legion of Honour, Paris, aged 85. His wife had died at the game place in 1867 in her 80th year, when the two baronies of Keith became extinct. Madame de Fla- hault for many years held a very prominent place in political and social circles, first in London, and afterwards in Paris. Greville mentions that in January, 1837, he " went to Madame de Flahault' s beautiful house, where was all the fashion of France of the Liberal and Royal faction."

J. E. LATTON PICKERING.

Inner Templt Library.

The Comtesse was with her husband at, the Courts of Vienna, Berlin, and London (1860) when he was appointed ambassador to those cities. They appear to have lost favour at one time in the eyes of the French Court, and the report of this reached London,, to return with increased force by the pen of the Duchesse de Dino, who wrote from there in December, 1835 :

" J'ai appris de toutea les bouches que M. de Flahault etait insupportable a tout le monde par son arrogance, son humeur, son aigreur, et son ignorance ; il deviendra bientot aussi impopular que sa femme."

Madame de Flahault had five daughters^ one of whom, Emilie, was the mother of the present Lord Lansdowne.

W. A. HUTCHISON.

32 Hotham Koad, Putney, S.W.15.

[S. 8. refers MR. LUCAS to Burke's ' Peerage,' s.v. Lansdowne. The ' D.N.B.' in its notice of Comtesse de Flahault, s.v. Elphinstone, Margaret* states that " she had two children, daughters. . . - ( the younger, Mile, de Flahault, was unmarried.' Burke, s.r. ' Barony of Nairne,' an appendix to the Lansdowne article, shows that the ' D.N.B. is in error, and that MR. HUTCHISON'S statement is correct.]

CARCASSONNE (12 S. iv. 77, 118). MB.. T. F. DWIGHT stated at 11 S. vi. 57 that Gustave Nadaud's poem had been translated by Mr. J. R. Thompson of Virginia.^ Could he, or any other reader, indicate where that,, or another, translation can be found ?

DE V. PAYFN-PAYNE.