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Canon Stephen, died July 28, 1884. Canon Ahvood, died Oct. 27, 1891.

11. Upper window of chancel. In memory of "Thomas Hobbes Scott, M.A., first Archdeacon of New South Wales, 1824-1832 ; died Jan. 1, 1860.

Can any Australian reader of ' N. & Q.' bring the list of inscriptions on the north wall of Sydney Cathedral up to date ? I know that several have been added since I copied them in 1895. They include all the bishops of the Church of England in Australasia, and all the canons of St$ Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.

Consett, co. Durham. J " W '

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

PRIESTLEY'S PORTRAIT BY J. SHARPLES. Dr. Joseph Priestley resided in Penn- sylvania for the last ten years of his life, and his portrait was painted in Philadelphia by Joseph Sharpies. I shall be pleased to learn the present whereabouts of this picture. The National Portrait Gallery possesses a pastel likeness of Priestley by Mrs. Sharpies. E. BASIL LUPTON.

10 Humboldt Street, Cambridge, Mass.

GOLDSWORTHY FAMILY OF DEVONSHIRE. I desire information about the ancestry and birthplace of General Goldsworthy, shown in the painting of ' George III. reviewing the 10th,' by Sir W. Beechey, a picture which, I am advised by H.M. Office of Works, Hampton Court Palace, is now believed to be at Kensington Palace. I shall be pleased to reply to any correspondent. JOHN GOLDSWORTHY ADAMS.

49 Fort Greene Place, Brooklyn, New York.

JOHNSON'S PENANCE AT UTTOXETER. Sir Leslie Stephen in his " English Men of Letters " Life of Johnson has it :

years afterwards .... Johnson was stay- ing at Lichfield. . . . he was missed one morning at breakfast, and did not return till supper-time. Then he told how his time had been passed ____ ' To do away with the ski of this disobedience I this day went in a post-chaise to Uttoxeter, and, going into the market at the time of high business, uncovered my head and stood with it bare an hour .... exposed to the sneers of the standers-by and the inclemency of the weather,' " &c.

Now the greater part of this passage not only does not occur in Boswell, but the incident is reported there as having occurred years before the last visit to Lichfield, and is related to " Mr. Henry White, a young

clergyman with whom he formed an in- timacy " :

" Once," said he, " I was disobedient. . . .A PEW YEARS AGO I desired to atone for the fault ; I went to Uttoxeter in very bad weather, and stood for a considerable time bare-headed in the rain," &c.

I should be glad to know what is Leslie Stephen's authority for the speech and the date of the penance, as in both particulars he differs widely from Boswell. The passage will be found in Boswell under date 1784, just before the account of Johnson's death.

J. P.

" JOHN ROBERTSON," A PSEUDONYMOUS NINETEENTH - CENTURY POET. Archbishop Trench's well-known ' Household Book of English Poetry' (4th ed., 1884) includes a poem in blank verse of seventy-three lines, entitled ' The Prince of Orange in 1672,' and signed " John Robertson." In a note at the end of his book Trench writes :

" P. 364, No. 286. This poem is drawn from a small volume with the title ' David and Samuel, with other Poems,' published in the year L859. Much in the volume can claim no exemption from the doom which before very long awaits all verse except the very best. Yet one or two poems have caught excellently well the tone, half serious, half ironical, of Goethe's lighter pieces ; while more than one of the more uniformly serious, this above all, seem to me to have remark- able merit. It finds its motive, as I need hardly s#y, in the resolution of the Dutch, when their struggle with the overwhelming might of Louis XIV. and his satellite Charles II. seemed hopeless, to leave in mass their old home, and to found another Holland among their possessions in the Eastern world. I believe that I break no con- fidence in mentioning that Robertson is here the nom de plume of one who has since in prose awakened an interest and achieved a reputation which it was not given to his verse to do." I cannot trace " John Robertson " in Halkett and Laing's ' Dictionary of Anony- mous and Pseudonymous Literature ' or in Gushing' s work on pseudonyms. I should be glad to learn who he was.

CHARLES LLEWELYW DAVIES.

10 Lupus Street, Pimlico, S.W.I.

TOLERATION ACT, 1689. Can any one say whether records have been preserved of applications under the Toleration Act, 1689, and whether they can be inspected, and, if so, where and how ?

That Act provides that the old penal statutes shall not apply to any person who shall take certain specified oaths, and make and subscribe a certain declaration, and adds (sec. 1) :

" Which oaths and declaration the justices of the peace, at the general sessions of the peace to