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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 s. iv. JUNE,

LADY FRANCES HASTINGS : MB. INGHAM : MB. BATTY (12 S. iv. 131). LIEUT. WHITE - KROOK assumes the " raember of the Houses -of Shirley and Hastings " who wrote Huntingdon,' was A. C. Hobart Seymour. If he will look at the preface again, I think he will agree with me that Hobart Seymour -only edited the book. I have vainly searched the pedigrees of Lord Huntingdon's and Lord Ferrers' s families for any one, except Selina herself, who belonged to both houses.
 * The Life and Times of Selina, Countess of

G. W. E. B.

Lady Frances was a daughter of Theo- philus, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, her younger sister, Lady Margaret, marrying Benjamin Ingham (an inhibited clergyman whose religious enthusiasm just escaped ^a madhouse) in 1741. ' The Story of Ashby-de-la-Zouch,' by W. Scott, published by George Brown, Ashby, in 1907, states :

" Lady Frances has left a journal of a tour made in company with her sister Anne and the Countess [Selina, of Huntingdon] through Wales, when, in almost every considerable town and in many villages, religious services were conducted by the

"leading Methodist ministers with extraordinary success, many sinners being brought under a ' distressing sense of their guilt, and the people

of God sensibly refreshed and comforted.' "

How far the compiler of 19C7 was in- debted for the above to the " Life and Times.... by a member of the Houses of Shirley and Hastings," 1839 (to which he has a reference at p. 395), or how far he possessed other information, I cannot tell. An earlier ' History and Description of Ashby,' published locally in 1852, mentions '" the manuscript History of the Hastings Family, in the Library at Donington Hall," s having been freely used, but has nothing relevant to the query. As is now well known, Donington Hall has ceased to belong to the family estates. I have seen nothing of journals kept by Ingham or Batty.

W. B. H.

NEW SHAKSPEBE SOCIETY (12 S. iv. 77, 143). There is a part 14 to Series I. of this Society's publications. It is a volume of Transactions dated 1887-92, part iv., pub- lished 1904, and contains five articles numbered XV. to XIX. I am glad to hear there was a No. 11 of Series VI. ; it is usually stated that Nos. 9, 10, and 11 of this series were all burnt at the fire at the .Society's printers'.

In reply to ST. SWITHIN, I may say that part of Series VI. contains four contributions of Harrison's ' Description of England,' and

they are numbered 1, 5, 8, and 10. There are two parts numbered 10 in this series, but the other is a reproduction of a platino- type bust of Shakespeare.

ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

Series I. No. 14 (Transactions, 1887-92, part iv.) was published in 1904 by Alexander Moring, De La More Press, 298 Regent Street, London, and in 1912 appeared in a remainder catalogue priced sixpence. I pub- chased a copy at that price.

B. A. SHBIMPTON,

Assistant Librarian. King's Inns Library, Dublin.

THE METBOPOLITAN CLTJB (12 S. iv. 130). Gilfillan is apparently alluding to the Metaphysical Society, which was started early in 1869 and came to an end in 1880, its last meeting being on May 11 in that year. The first meeting took place at Willlis's Booms on April 21, 1869 ; but subsequently the Grosvenor Hotel was chosen as the habitual field of encounter. See chap. xii. of the late Wilfrid Ward's ' William George Ward and the Catholic Bevival.' JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

JOHN PEPYS or SALISBURY COUBT (12 S. iii. 474 ; iv. 59). There is no question that his name was John, for William Armiger wrote to him on Nov. 23, 1631, as his " own loving Cosen Mr. John Pepys at his House in Salisbury Court, London."

FAKENHAM.

JACK PRICE OF PEPYS'S DIARY (12 S. iv. 106). So far as I know, this man has not been identified, but there would be nothing inconsistent in suggesting that he might have been the John Price (afterwards D.D.) of Eton and King's College, Cam- bridge (where he entered 1644/5, M.A. 1653), who attended General Monck as chaplain. Monck had residence at Whitehall, and of the other names mentioned with Price, both were connected with the House of Commons : Scobell was its Clerk, and Muddiman edited the " news books " for the Parliament. Pepys may have known Price at Cam- bridge. Further particulars of him will be found in the ' D.N.B.' W. H. WHITEAB.

Chiswick.

SIB WALTEB SCOTT : "As I WALKED BY MYSELF " (12 S. iv. 105). This poem (' A Colloquy with Myself ') of seventeen stanzas the first and last of eight lines each, the others of four lines is attributed to Bernard Barton in a volume of ' Beadings in Poetry ' (9th ed.) published by John W. Parker, West Strand, in 1847. C. C. B.