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system of ja season subscription. The change of place and direction is indicated in the notice : " La Societe Dramatique Frangaise a 1'honneur d'annoncer sa Quatrieme Soiree pour Vendredi prochain, dans la Salle de Concerts du Theatre du Roi."

This suggests more performances than are represented by the programmes in the collection. Possibly there was more than one company or society providing these Soirees Fransaises. The special interest of the collection of programmes consists in their date and the remarkable size 7 in. by 4 in. probably the smallest of their kind.

In 1839, at the St. James's Theatre, French plays were produced for three months; and on Feb. 7, 1842, at the same house, Mitchells opened the first of nearly twelve successive seasons of " The French Theatre." But all this belongs to the

as yet been published), as they prove that Tony Weller, father of the immortal Sam, was not the first of the name in his profession.

In 1707 the baptism of Charles, son of John Weller, is recorded, but the exact date is not given. Burials of members of the Weller family are as follows :

March 1, 1733. John, the son of William Weller of Croydon, stage-coachman.

Aug. 24, 1737. Mary, wife of John Weller, stage-coachman and farmer.

Nov. 23, 1737. Sarah, daughter of William Weller of Croydon, master of the stage coach.?':-:

The Charity School at Bromley was established in 1716, and among the original subscriptions was one of ten shillings from John Weller. There is a monument in the churchyard (with inscription partly ob- literated) to Jane, wife of William Weller, 173-. This is given in Mr. Holworthy's

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familiar history of London theatres, for Monumental Inscriptions of Bromley, which the little volume of programmes ' whlch are mo6t useful for reference - provides, I believe, a few new data.

ALECK ABRAHAMS. 61 Kutland Park Mansions, N.W.2.

after the War.

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gl, gwITHIN. A WELSH R IVAL .-The FIRST KHAKI-CLAD FIGURES IN A STAINED- Weste Mofl of Cardiff for July 22, 1918, GLASS WINDOW. In The Illustrated London contained the following note : News for June 8 is an illustration of a stained- " Ifc is not generally known that there is a

llr^l "^Vw^ ^W?"^ ^ ^A^^l tlSreta Tefe?enc1 the parish church of Willmgale Doe to the to a weather tradition connected with a saint of a memory of Major A. T. Saulez, R.F.A., purely Celtic origin. This saint's festival is killed in action; and at the foot of the observed on July 15, and the weather on that day illustration it is stated that the window w ,*? su PP OBe d to govern the meteorological con- affords " fVip firf instant r,f a tv,al^ fi~, ditions for the next forty days. In an elegy to ,11 M ^f. 1 } 06 * * khakl fi ^ ure Morgan ab Syr Dafydd Gam the bard of Glyn m stained-glass." This is not the case unless Cothi says :

it has been erected more than eighteen Gwlad Frychan am Forgan fydd

months, for it must be about as long ago that Ail i gawod Wyl Gewydd.

I noticed in Holy Trinity Church, Kensington Cewydd, reputed to be the son of Caw, the parent Gore, a stained-glass window (in the north * a numerous family of saints, is the patron saint aisle, I think, near the door) in memory of Aberedw and Dyserth, and also of the extinct an officer fallen in this war, in which he is Church f ^angewydd near Bndgend. represented in khaki uniform, kneeling. I EDWARD S. DODGSON.

did not make a note of details, but any one .. w _, AQ T ._ OT? r> AWS oN's WIFE

who pays a visit to the church will be able to, ^l f J C?, , ' corroborate what I say and to supply them DIE u ' ~ T h ^ Ve ^^ heard tlus P ro '

verb or sa y m g' and have man y a tune

wondered how, when, and where it originated.

rT^ **$** ej> ih u e h ' The f H ^7 an d Antiquities of the Counties of West-

morland " Cumberland,' by Joseph Nicol- on, Esq., and Richard Burn, LL.D. (London,

sav nn-nf f to 1777, 2 vols. 4to), I came across its origin,

say none of them has aroused more interest BLQ ^11,-,. than that of Weller. I have before me a

batoli nf npwsnonnr ^n+ti^rra ^n +v.;o o,,v;^^j- On the 3rd pillar in the south isle of the

I newspapei cuttings on this sub ect ctxar(, h [of Ken^Y] is the following inscription:

beginning with one from N. & Q.' of ' Here lyes Frances, late wife of Jacob Dawson,

Aug. 22, 1891. Those who take a delight in Gent, who departed this life 19th June, 1700, in

' Pickwick ' will, I think, welcome the ^he 25th year of her age : Who by a free and

following extracts from the parish church che /t i : ful resignation of herself, even 'in the midst

rpcn<?fpra Tnf "RroTYilcTr TTc^^- /rrri;.v, u L of tnis world s affluence, has left us just grounds

registers of Bromley, Kent (which have not J to hope she is now happy.' This epitaph we only

WELLER FAMILY. -During the last few =