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PADDINGTON POLLAKY (12 S. iii. 509 ; iv. 31, 88). In The Figaro (London) of Jan. 28, 1874, is a coloured portrait of Pollaky. It is by way of being a caricature a large head on a small body but the face is evidently a portrait, not at all a caricature. He is listening at a door, notebook in hand ; below is a shadow of the head and shoulders of a policeman. The signature of the artist is Faustin (? F. Austin). This portrait is one of a series called ' Figaro's London Sketch-Book of Celebrities.' It is not included in the letterpress, but is pasted on the front page. The editor of The Figaro was James Mor- timer, who also " conducted " a monthly magazine called The London Sketch-Book.

In the said number of The Figaro is a short article eulogizing Pollaky as "a very distinguished detective."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (12 S. iv. 217). Manchester had a Literary and Philosophical Society in 1781 ; New- castle, 1793 ; Liverpool, 1812 ; Leeds, 1820 ; Sheffield, 1822 ; Hull, 1822 ; Halifax, 1830 ; Nottingham, 1864 ; Warrington, 1870 ; Bolton, 1871 ; and Bath, 1875. Many others existed, and included the words Natural History or Scientific in their titles. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

ICKE FAMILY (12 S. iv. 106, 226). Is MR. HILL correct in stating that " Icke, Hick (Higg), Hickie, Hicks, Hickson, Dick, Dickie, &c.," were all derived from Richard ? According to Bardsley, we get, it is true, our Hitchin and Hitchcock from Richard, but our Hicks, Higgs, and Hickson from Isaac. "Ike" is the common familiar, of Isaac to this day, and I fancy that " Ikey Mo " would be rather surprised to be told that his parents had forenamed him Richard. But it is not impossible that there may be a place called Icke, or something very like it. Then we have " Iccles " or " Eccles," one of the many dialectal names for the green woodpecker, whose naming head it was that doubtless gave a descriptive name to red-headed individuals before the days of the red carrot. DOUGLAS OWEN.

PINNOCK (12 S. iv. 243). James Pinnock of Jamaica (b. July 6, 1660, d. 1733), by his 2nd wife Mary Seaward, had two sons : I. James, of Pembroke Coll., Oxf., matricu- lated Oct. 10, 1730, aged 18 (Foster), and d.s.p. June 20, 1736, aged 22, M.I. in the church of St. Andrew, Jamaica (Lawrence- Archer, 239). II. Thomas (b. March 26,

1714, d. April, 1759), who by Mary Lawrence 1 his wife left, with other issue, a son James (b. 1740), barr.-at-law, Advocate-General of the said island ; d. in Devonshire Place, April 6, 1811 (Gent. Mag., 494) ; will proved P.C.C. (189 Crickitt) ; leaving a widow Eliz. (nee Dehany) and three daus. and coh. His diary and account book are in the British Museum Add. MSS. 33316 and 33317.

James Pinnock sen., by his 3rd wife Eliz, Truxton, had (III.) Philip (b. Oct. 20, 1720), Chief Justice of his native island 1754, .who married Grace Dakins and left two eons and two daus. V. L. OLIVER.

8unninghill.

There was living in 1816 the Rev. James Pinnock, A.M., described as Rector of Lasham, Hants, and formerly morning" preacher at the Foundling Hospital, who may be the entrant of 1750 at Westminster.. A sermon he preached at the " Foundling ". on May 2, 1813, -was printed. W. B. H.

GEORGE BORROW (12 S. iv. 242). The places mentioned in ' Lavengro ' are shewn- on p. 141 of ' A Literary and Historical Atlas of Europe ' (" Everyman's Library ").

J. J. FREEMAN,

Sh epper ton-on -Tham es.

The best authority for these identifications is Sorrow's ' Life ' by Mr. Herbert Jenkins (Murray, 1912), which supplements that by Knapp (Murray, 1899). Both go as far as is humanly possible even for the " veiled years" (1825-32). Mr. John Sampson's Introduction to ' The Romany Rye ' (in Methuen's " Little Library "), and the edition of ' The Bible in Spain ' by the late Ulick Burke (2 vols., Murray, 1896), are valuable in this connexion.

GEORGE MARSHALL,

21 Parkfield Road, Liverpool.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S DAUGHTER : AGNES SURRIAGE (12 S. iv. 102, 193). The allusion, to Agnes Surriage in LADY RUSSELL'S reply another correspondent refers to her as " Agnes Brown " prompts me to send the following extract from Hildegarde Haw- thorne's ' Old Seaport Towns of New England' (New York, 1916), in which her romantic story finds a place in the chapter on Marblehead :

" Another famous spot in this part of town [the Barnegat section] is now the site of Fountain Park. Here of old was the Fountain Inn, where Agnes Surriage worked, orphan daughter of a sailor lost at sea. Hither came the handsome and gallant Sir Harry Frankland, Collector of the Port for Boston, to tarry for dinner and a bowl