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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. V. MAY, 1919.

I 4. It has brass lattice-work at the sides.

5. It has IV, and not IIII. on the silver- plated hour circle.

6. Its dimensions are 14 by 10 by 6 in.

7. It records the day of the month. (This is seldom accurate.)

8. It has two bells for striking, and its way of striking is, I think, unique. We will call the two bells A and B. The clock strikes on A for I, and on B for V. Thus IV is struck A, B ; VII, B, A, A ; IX, A, B, B ; XII, B, B, A, A.

I should like to hear of other old clocks with IV on the dial, and with a similar method of striking.

JOHN B. WAINEWBTGHT.

JOHN WINTER, DIAL-MAKEB. In the churchyard of Crosby, Ravensworth, West- morland, is a sundial on a pedestal, bearing the inscription "John Winter. Latd. 54.35. A.D. 1724." Is anything known of this man ? J. W. F.

REV. HENRY GUY, CHAPIAIN TO KING CHARLES II. He was still living in or about 1706. Can any reader give any par- ticulars about him ? J. W. F.

WILLIAM HENRY WILLS ON DR. DODD. In ' Glances back through Seventy Years ' (1893) Henry Vizetelly says (vol. i. p. 247) that W. H. Wills

" wrote a successful play or two, one of which, on the well-known incident of Dr. Dodd's conviction for forgery, gave the author the opportunity of introducing a score or two of notable personages of the time, including George III., the Earl of Chesterfield, Dr. Johnson, with Boswell dogging his footsteps note-book in hand, Burke, Gold- smith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and even Jonathan Wild and Blueskin. The piece was played at the Surrey, and Vrfle, I remember, was great in the principal comic part."

Can I be informed in what year, and where, his apparently picturesque drama was produced, and if it was printed ? Vizetelly gives no clue to the date, but his attribution to William Henry Wills (1810-80), and not to William. Gorman Wills (1828-91), the contemporary dramatist, is clear enough.

W. B. H.

ANDREWS AND HARDY FAMILIES. I should be grateful if any one could tell me the Christian name and surname of the wife of Capt. Charles Savery Andrews, 24th Regi- ment of Foot, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Kent while in Canada. His daughter Frances Offley Andrews married as first wife Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, Keeper of H.M. Records. LEONARD C. PRICE.

Essex Lodge, Ewell.

GOOD FRIDAY PLEASURE FAIRS. Can any reader supply a reference to sources of information bearing on Good Friday other- wise than a3 a day of religious commemora- tion ? In at least three instances that have come to my notice i.e., at Marple (Cheshire), Ramsbottom (Lanes), and Llanrwst (N. Wales) it has been the custom on this day to hold a kind of pleasure fair on some neighbouring high place, which is attended by folk of the poorer (and therefore the more conservative) sort. Sometimes the magni- ficence of swingboats and " merry-go- rounds " is attained ; but at Llanrwst there is (or was) merely the setting-up of booths or stalls for the sale of sweets or " fairings," at a remote and lofty spot in the woods, by a class of folk who rarely visit such a spot at ordinary times. W. P. ELIAS.

HON. JOHN SHAKESPEAR OF JAMAICA. Can any one give me information regarding the Hon. John Shakespear, member of the Legislature of Jamaica, and proprietor of Hodges-Penn, St. Elizabeth's parish, in that island ? JOHN SHAKESPEAR.

DERBY OF 1811. WTiere can I get an account of the race ? JQHN SHAKESPEAB.

c/o Grindlay & Co.,

54 Parliament Street. S.W.I.

PULESTON OF GRESFORD AND HANTS. I

should like to trace the marriages of this family. One John Puleston married Katharine Cozens from Hants ; and Joan Puleston married Joseph Flecker, M.D. Are there any Puleston marriages, &c., in parish registers ? (Mrs.) E. E. COPE.

Finchampstead, Berks.

EXCHANGE OF SOULS IN FICTION. I shall be glad to learn the titles of works of fiction, in English, French, or Spanish, where the plot of the story rests upon an exchange of souls between two living persons, or as in the case Mrs. W. K. Clifford uses in her new novel, ' Miss Fingal.' In this case one person dies, and the soul enters the body of a friend. ARTEMISIA.

REV. DR. CLENOCK. Information as to this worthy and acknowledged' Welshman, who was the first Rector of the English Catholic College, Rome, will be esteemed. WTiere and when was he born, and when did tie die ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

[The account in the ' D.N.B.' says only that Maurice Clenocke or Clynog was " a native of Wales." He " retired about 1580 to Rouen, where he embarked on board a ship bound for Spain, and was drowned at sea."]