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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. v. AUG., 1919.

from Hampton Court to Whitehall." The Gentleman's Magazine of October, 1768, provided a folding plate illustrating the river pageant when Christian VII. of Den- mark went from Whitehall to the Temple, Sept. 23, 1768. More uncommon is an aquatint view of the funeral procession of Nelson. This was published with The Lady's Magazine of Feb. 1, 1806. The artist, or others responsible, singularly present a lavish display of flags and bunting, but not one is at half mast and, except the barge with the catafalque, there is no sign of urning. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

A REVERIE IN OLD RATCLIFFE : THE DEATH OF CAPT. JOHN WEDDELL (12 S. v. 171). Your correspondent Me. in remark- ing that Weddell, after leaving Macao, returned to India " and so to England in 1640, before petitioning for a new com- mission " is evidently following the account in the ' Diet, Nat, Biog.' But Prof. J. K. Laughton, Weddell's biographer, gives no authority for his return, and the records at the India Office fail to substantiate his statement. After leaving China, in Decem- ber, 1637, Weddell sailed in the Dragon to Achin and thence, in February, 1638, to the West Coast of India (' Continuation of the China Voyage,' ' Marine Records,' vol. Ixiii.). He is subsequently heard of at Cochin, Bhatkal, Masulipatam, and Cannanore. The latent direct mention of him in the India Office records being on Jan. 29, 1639, at the last-named place, when he was preparing to sail for England in company with the Catherine (Foster, ' English Factories in India,' 1637-41). Neither the Dragon nor the Catherine reached their destination, and Mr. Foster (op. cit., p. 23) surmises that both vessels were wrecked in the storms of May and June, 1639.

Further confirmation of the loss of the two ships has been supplied to me by SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, whose third volume o: ' The Travels of Peter Muncly ' (Hak. Soc. h now in the press. Mundy was a member o Courteen's Association. He sailed in Wed dell's ill-fated China expedition and returnee to England in the Sun from Achin. In th notes which he added to his diary of th China voyage the following passage occurs :

"Capt. Weddell and Capt. Carter, shippes goods and company lost, supposed to bee foundrec in the Sea. Yett More Disasters. Captain Weddell in the Dragon, Admirall, with the Cheif Merchantts, Preachers, etrp, and Captaine farte in the Catherine, rere admirall, since their depar ture [blank] in [blank] were never More heard o and therefore g\\Qu for lost, supposed to bee eithe

ast away on the great and Dangerous shoalds and ands without St. Laurence, beetweene it and India, r foundred and Swallowed in the Sea, shippes, oodes with all the Soules in them. The shippes- /ere old and long outt. Questionlesse, had they ome home, they had Made a Ritch voyage as- Veil for them selves as for the Imployers."

This evidence from one of Weddell's >ersonal friends should finally settle the- uestion of the fine old sea captain's end. 'urther proof can, however, be found in a >amphlet (Tract No. 359, India Office abrary) by J. D. [John Darell], published in ; 665. It is entitled " A True and Com- endious Narrative. .. .Of the totall Plun- dering and Sinking of the Dragon and Katherine Both Ships and Men...." The- luthor endeavours to incriminate the Dutch n the loss of the two ships with their crews, le fails to carry conviction in the mind of he reader, but the depositions and inquiries hat he records show unmistakably that leither the two ships nor their commanders ,vere ever heard of after leaving India early n 1639. L. M. ANSTEY.

QUEEN ANNE : THE SOVEREIGN'S VETO r

THE ROYAL ASSENT (12 S. v. 95, 155).

There is a small error in my reply at the-

econd reference : in the last paragraph

I should have written that " Raine " (not

' Revue ") is in our days differently spelt,.

seeing that I was alluding to Queen Anne's

ime, when the word was spelt " raine."

I may, perhaps, be allowed to add to what I wrote about the Royal Assent, &c.

Erskine May in his ' Parliamentary Prac- j tice,' 12th eel., 1917, p. 394, gives the Assent o a petition demanding a right, whether mblic or private, viz. : " Soit droit fait comme il est desire." He also gives in a nodernized form the ancient pronounce- ment made by the Clerk of the Crown upon. . the reading of the Title of her Majesty's ! [Queen Elizabeth's] Pardon. Although he- refers to ' The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth,' collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, revised and published by Paul Bowes, 1682, p. 35,, he does not give an exact copy. The- following is the pronouncement as it appears on the said page of D'Ewes :

" Les Prelats, Seigneurs, & Communes, en ce- present Parliament assembles, au nom de touts vous autres subjects, remercient tres humblement vostre Majestie, & prient a Dieu, vous donner e sante bonne vie & longue."

May, though quoting D'Ewes, p. 35, gives " parlment " for " Parliament " ; " assem- bles " for " assembles " ; " sujects " for