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DUFFUS FAMILY OF KINGSTON, JAMAICA. What were the Arms and Crest of the i-bove family, one of whom Laura Duffus narried about 1836 Konstantin Alois Ducki 'rince de Lubecki of Poland, and her sister Charlotte Price Duffus married about the ame time Lucien Stanilas, Count Plater de Srollis of Poland. Were they related to Sutherland, Lord Duffus ? Any informa- ion will be gratefully received.

LEONARD C. PRICE.

F. LE HARDY OF LONDON, MINIATURE J AINTER. I should be grateful if any one ould tell me who was his father and to what Branch of the Le Hardy family he belonged. . Bertrand Payne in his ' Armorial of ersey ' gives a pedigree of the family, but

am unable to place him from that. He xhibitecl four miniatures at the Society of irtists and twenty -one at the Royal Aca- emy between 1790 and 1802.

LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell.

SHAKESPEARE SIGNATURES. At 10 S. . 332 (1904) Miss L. TOULMIN SMITH said hat photographs were taken of the Shake- peare signatures in his (so-called) Prayer Jook, copies of which were sent to the tratford Museum. These are not now to e found there. Can any of your readers 9!! me where I can procure a facsimile of hese signatures ? Perhaps Miss TOULMIN MITH is still alive and would help me in this latter. Also where is the Prayer Book ow ? C. R. HAINES.

Meadowleigh, Petersfield.

MIND, MEMORY, &c. I notice that, in robate cases where the sanity of a testator ? in dispute, the defendant pleads that the sstator w T as not of sound " mind, memory, nd understanding." Must these three acuities combine, each in a sound state, to roduce a legally sane person ?

I notice, too, that journalists often use lie expression " defective intellect," and, ometimes, " defective intelligence." Do liese expressions mean the same thing as

not of sound mind, memory, and under -
 * anding " ? BARRULE.

Woodbourne Place, Douglas, Isle of Man.

DIVORCE CASES : LIST WANTED. Can ny correspondent supply me with a list of ivorce cases which were tried between 1755 nd 1765, including the names of the co- sspondents ? Please reply direct.

WM. JACKSON PIGOTT. Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.

CHARLES RUSSELL, OR RUSSEL, WIN- CHESTER SCHOLAR (Kirby, p. 254). was a grandson of William Russell of Wimborne, and a son of the Rev. William Russell, M.A., of Hart Hall, Oxford, and of Wimborne Minster, Rector of Hinton Parva (who died April 10, 1748, aged 49), and Mary his wife. His elder brother William died Jan. 4, 1770, aged 35. Charles Russell, who was bap- tized Dec. 12, 1741, entered Winchester College from Wimborne in 1757, and sub- sequently became Fellow of New College, Oxford, taking his B.A. degree in January, 1761. He is said to have been for sixty- five years Rector of Lydeard St. Lawrence, Thurlbeare, and Thurloxton, Somersetshire, when he died at his house in Bath, Jan. 10, 1833.

Was he related in any way to any branch of the family of Russell of Beaminster and Powerstock, of which Thomas Russell, the poet, Winchester Scholar of 1777 (Kirby, p. 270), was a member ? (As to Thomas Russell see ' D.N.B.').

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" BAMBINO." My family have in their possession one of the replicas of the famous Roman " Bambino," which were given at one time vo favoured Roman Catholic families after being blessed by the Pope. This one was brought to England by a French refugee of good family, at the time of the first French Revolution, and given by him to my great-grandfather, as the greatest treasure he possessed. It has been stated that a few years ago a paper ap- peared in one of the magazines dealing with the subject of these wax figures, but we cannot trace the date of its appearance.

If any of your readers could give in- formation on the subject, and state whether there are likely to be any similar figures preserved as relics, we should be very grateful. (Miss) BERTHA F. H. PAUL.

Plynlimmon, Malvern.

JOHN WILLIAMS, c. 1671. Can any reader supply brief particulars about this Roman Catholic, who wrote ' Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet,' 1671, 8vo ?

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

REV. THOMAS HUGO. I have a volume of The Hive, 1812, with cuts by Bewick, &c., and purporting to be part of the collection formed by the said Mr. Hugo. Gleaned particulars concerning this collector of Bewickiana will be esteemed.

ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.