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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. v. JU*E, 1919.

Jenner family. I came across a paper purporting to record the names, &c., of the children o ' Josiah .Tenner and Hester his wife,' the eldest being baptized in July, 1678, and the youngest in April, 1698, there being nine children in all. ] daresay you know this already, but what con- nexion there may be with my late grandmother I do not know. It would interest me to hear if you have any data as to these or any other of the Jenner family."

On April 21, 1914, Mr. Eccles very kindly sent me a copy of the list of baptisms of the children of Josiah and Hester Jenner, as follows :

Josiah, son, bapt. July, 1678.

Stephen, son, bapt. Dec. 30, 1680.

Hester, daughter, bapt. Jan. 18, 1682.

Ansell, son, bapt. March 22, 1684. [Anselme, buried July 25, 1685.]

Mary, daughter, bapt. July 16, 1686. [Buried July 18, 1686.] ""Thomas, son, bapt. Dec. 26, 1687.

Robert, son, bapt. Oct. 12, 1690.

Elizabeth, daughter, bapt. Aug. 6, 1693.

Gyles, son, bapt. April 9, 1698. [Buried Dec. 24, 1699.]

Magdalen in 1747 ? R. J. FYNMORE. Sandgate, Kent.
 * Did this Thomas become President of

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

CARLYLE ON THE CONSTELLATIONS. The Introduction to Allen's ' Star-Names and their Meanings ' has this :

"For almost all can repeat Thomas Carlyle's lament : ' Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day !'" Several other works on Pistronomy have copied the lament, but much study of Froude and other biographers fails to throw light upon this story. Under what circum- stances did the Sage of Chelsea utter these words ? THOMAS FLINT. '.

Concord, New Hampshire.

" ROMER " MONTHS. Clarendon in his p. 718) twice refers to the above : " A subsidy of four romer months " ; and later, " by the romer months." The new Oxford Dictionary does not help, neither does Sir Harris Nicolas in his ' Chronology ' ; and up to now ' N. & Q.' is silent as to the definition of "romer." Will some reader kindly supply it ? R. B.
 * History of the Rebellion ' (vol. iii. part ii.

Upton.

J. PEREY, AKTIST. Could any Gf your readers give me information ir respect to art artist known as J. Percy ? I have a wax figure about 7 in. high, framed, and set up with realistic perspective surroundings, as a picture. The date appears to me to be about 1780. GEOEGE HUBBAKD, F.R.I.B.A.

112 Fenchurch Street, E.C.3.

FORGOTTEN WRITERS. In 'Selections from the British Poets,' printed and pub- lished in two volumes in 1859 by directiort- of the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland, I find excerpts from poets whose- names I have never heard.

Perhaps some one may give me the dates of the birth and death of the following:- Frances Browne. Mary Anne Browne. James Callanan. Edward Carrington. Margaret M.. Davidson. Elizabeth Dickenson. George- Washington Doane. Mrs. Duncan, author of 'School-Room Lyrics' (London, 1846). James Hall. Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkshaw,. author of 'Poems for my Children.' John, Houseman. Edward Johnson. Jacob Jones,, author of ' The Anglo-Polish Harp ' (London^. 1836). John Mudie. Cornelius Neale. Caro- line F. Orne. Mary Patterson. T. Polwhele.: W T illiam Henry Whitworth.

Also of the following Americans : Jane- Oilman. William B. O. Peabody. Corne- ius Webbe.

Also of the Swede James Ingelgren ; and of the Germans Newffer, William Newbeck,, and Schmolek.

Please reply direct.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. .

Union Club, Trafalgar Square, S.W.I.

DATJDET'S ' JACK ' : ILLUSTRATIONS BY'

MYRBACH. I have been re-reading this old

avourite in the paper-covered edition pub-

ished by Ernest Flammarion (Paris, n.d.),.

' illustrations de Myrbach." When did

these illustrations first appear ? I find that

hey were used in an English translation

by L. Ensor (Routledge, I860). No doubt


 * hey are excellent, but are they correct in,


 * heir portraiture of the hero in his child-

lood ? The author lays stress on Jack's

' grandes boucles blondes " (p. 18 ; cp.-

pp. 25, 37, 48). As the story opens in*

1858, I took " boueles " to mean long;

ringlets ; but the artist draws the boy with*

a thick mass of hair, somewhat after the^

'ashion of Little Lord Fauntleroy (pp. 2, 3 r

30, 81, and cover). Did any little boys in..

France wear their hair in this fashion in.

L858 ? As I was not born until a later

date, I write subject to correction ; but

[ believe that in England all boys with long.