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NELSON FONT. Do any readers of ' N. & Q.' possess any books previous to 1840 with a print of the font in Burnham Thorpe Church ? I am much interested in the subject, and contributed to The Lynn Advertiser of Nov. 1, 1918, sundry notes on the font included in the sale of the effects of the late Mr. W. L. Porritt at Burnham Overy. W. ROWLAND.

Burnham Market.

DARELL FAMILY OF RICHMOND, SURREY. I should be grateful if any one could tell me the name of a small 8vo volume relating to some parishes lound London in which the following statement occurs :

" Ancaster House, Richmond, was given to Sir Lionel Darell by the King, who staked out the ground himself. Miss Darell, Sir Lionel's daughter, lived in the house for nearly sixty years after her father's death. She kept Sir Lionel's room closed, and when it was opened, everything was found, just as the old baronet had left it. There on the table was his cocked hat and a copy of The Times newspaper for 1804, ready, for his perusal."

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

COTJNTESS HANSKA'S LETTERS TO BALZAC. Balzac's letters to the Countess were issued in 1899, but, as M. Brunetiere observes in his little volume ' Honore de Balzac,'

" pour deux cent quarante-huit lettres de Balzac, nous n'en avons pas une de Madame Hanska. On aimerait cependant les connaitre. Ou sont- elles ? et qui nous les donnera ? "

Have her letters been unearthed and printed since Brunetiere wrote the above words ? J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

HENRY GUST'S ' NON NOBIS.' A beautiful poem of the late Henry Gust's with the title given above appears in Sir Arthur Quiller- Couch's anthology, ' The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse,' and also in his earlier compilation, ' The Oxford Book of English Verse,' where, however, the author's name is not given. In both books the fourth line of the second stanza reads

The insufferable sufficiency of breath, which is somewhat puzzling. But in Mrs. Tyrian-Hinkson's book ' The Middle Years,' where the poem is also quoted in full, and accompanied by a good many details about the author, the line is printed

The insufferable insufficiency of breath. This seems right. Can any one say how Cust actually wrote it ? C. C. B.

H.B.B. CLUB. Amongst recent additions to the British Museum is a copy of " Fugitive Pieces | In Prose and Verse | by'the members of the H.B.B. Club. | Printed for Private Circulation. | Guildford, 1876." I shall be glad to be enlightened as to whether the members of the above club published any other works, and who the members were.

J. W. SCOTT.

Leeds.

JOHN CROSSE, RECTOR OF ST. NICHOLAS- IN-THE-FLESH-SHAMBLES. I shall be glad of any information about the above, and also about another John Crosse, Rector of Roding Alba, Essex ; Mulsoe, Bucks ; and West Horndon, Essex. The identities of the two have been confused, and although what I state below clears the air, I do not feel satisfied with the results.

In 1502 John Crosse of Wigan, Chorley, and Liverpool, and mayor of the last place on several occasions, died, and Master John Crosse, clerk, was his executor. I be- lieve he was a younger son, and the same as John Crosse, clerk, Rector of St. Nicholas- in - the - Flesh - Shambles, London, who in 1507 made an assignment of his property upon the trusts Of his will. The deed mentions John, son of Richard Crosse, who was, I think, the other rector, but then probably a young man, who appears in 1509 as John Crosse, chaplain, brother of Roger Crosse, the eldest son of Richard above. A John Crosse who was at Lincoln College, Oxford, B.A. 1511, M.A. 1514, is supposed by Foster to have been the rector of Roding Alba and West Horndon. A John Crosse, not the elder rector, appears in 1512 as rector of All Saints', Turvey, Beds. I do not know when he became rector there, and the ' Victoria History ' gives no rectors. Popsibly he was presented by one of the Mordaunt family of Turvey.

The will of the elder John Crosse, as rector of St. Nicholas, &c., is printed in ' Liverpool Vestry Books,' vol. i. 450, and was dated May, 1515. He must have died three or four years before 1526-7, when there was a lawsuit over his will, by which he founded a grammar school in Liverpool and a chantry in the chapel of St. Nicholas there (' Duchy Pleadings,' Record Soc. of Lanes and Ches., i. 156).

A difficulty arises here. According to Lipscomb's 'Hist, of co. Bucks' (1847), iv. 254, John Crosse was instituter 1 rector of Mulsoe, Bucks, on Nov. 15, 1518, on the presentation of John Mordaunt, Esq., and