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the volume, are unable to give me any information about the author of the poem. I shall be grateful to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who can assist me in this matter.

TERESA DEI. RIEGO. Flint Cottage, Pinkney's Green, Maidenhead.

ABIGAIL CHETWOOD. Can any one give me information about " Mrs. Abigail Chet- wood " ? She is buried in the garden at Sweeney Hall, near Oswestry, in Shropshire ; her tombstone bears this inscription :

" Here lieth M ra Abigail Chetwood, daughter to Sir Richard Chetwood, who died 1 st May, 1658."

This burial is not noted in the Parish Register of Oswestry.

There are two other tombstones in the garden, bearing dates of the same period, and I have found the history of both the graveyard and the other tombs. The burial-place is of the Commonwealth period, and the house of Sweeney was used as a meeting-place for those who dissented from the Church.

In the ' Diaries and Letters of Philip Henry,' published in 1882, there is the following reference on p. 251 :

"1672, April call'd at Okeley, Mr. Chet-

wpde's thence to Styche."

Philip Henry and the ministers contem- porary with him Vavasour Powell, Walter Craddock, and others preached at Sweeney.

The entry above quoted leads me to think that the Chetwodes of Oakley were in sympathy with the congregation at Sweeney. Is there any record that one of Sir Richard Chetwood's ten daughters married a Fenwick ?

(Miss) RACHEL LEIGHTON.

13 Sloane Gardens, S.W.

MERCHANT MARKS AND ANCIENT FINGER- RINGS. I should be extremely obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could help me to obtain information on the above subjects. I am particularly anxious to identify an old brass finger-ring engraved with what is thought to be a merchant's mark.

J. W. SWITHINBANK.

' THE CALL OF AFRICA.' I should indeed be grateful to any one who could tell me if there is such a book in print as ' The Call of Africa.' The author I do not know I have tried several booksellers, but without success. I am not sure of the title, but the following summary will give an idea of the book.

An Englishman, having spent some years in the Dark Continent, came home, but found after a short time that Africa had a certain magnetic influence over him calling him back, as it were. He tried to outlive it in England, but failed, and eventually had to make his way back to Africa.

J. DRISCOIX.

SIR LEOUNE JENKINS : REV. JOHN JEN- KINS. Can any correspondent give me an account of the descendants of Sir Leoline Jenkins, temp. Charles II. ? Was the Rev. John Jenkins, Vicar of Llowes, Radnorshire, about 1745, a descendant ? If so, in what way ? T. P. PRICE.

Marks Hall, Coggeshall, Essex.

LYDE BROWNE, THE VIRTUOSO. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' tell me when and whom Lyde Browne married ? The 'Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' vii. 52, is silent on this point. G. F. R. B.

GEORGE LOTJCH was a prominent member of the M.C.C. at the end of the eighteenth century. According to the ' History of Kent County Cricket' (1907), p. 313, he lived at Chatham, " where he had a cricket- ground of his own." I should be glad of further information about him, including particulars of his parentage and the date of his death. G. F. R. B.

SCOTCH SPURS. The following line occurs, in a passage descriptive of the sartorial eccentricities of a fashionable gallant of the reign of James I., in Henry Fitzgeffrey's ' Third Booke of Humours : Intituled Notes from Black -Fryers,' published in 1617 : His boote speakis Spanish to his Scottish spurres.

Randle Holme, writing in 1688 of heraldic spurs, says that

"a Scotch Spur is an old way of making

Spurs, Bowels not then being in fashion, as may be seen in many ancient Seals of men on Horse- back, where their Spurs were only armed with a sharp point like a Cock's Spur." ' Accademie of Armory,' p. 304, xxxiv.

From this it would appear probable that the " prick-spurs," which we know, from the numbers that have survived, to have been popular in the reigns of James I. and Charles I., were described contemporarily as Scotch or Scottish spurs.

I should be glad if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could furnish me with further instances of this phrase in seventeenth-century literature.

In 1694 William, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, afterwards Marquis of Annan- dale, registered his arms in the'Lyon Office,