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n TRADESMEN'S CARDS AND BILL-HEADS. I" should be extremely obliged if any collectors of the above will have the kindness to send me particulars of any trade cards >and bill -heads of old picture framers, picture dealers, and mirror makers, and also of ironmongers, especially of such examples (before 1850) which have engravings of frames or metal domestic utensils.

JOHN LANE. The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.I.

" EST MELIUS NUNQUAM FELICIA TEMPORA

NOSSE, &c." In Holinshed's ' Chronicles,' reprint 1807-8, vol. iii. p. 478, is the following, applied to the end of Richard III. : Est melius nunquam felicia tempora nosse, Quam post blanditias fortunes, fata maligna Nee reparanda pati infortunia sortis iniquse. 'The marginal reference is " T. Wat. in Am. Quer. 7." What is the interpretation of the reference ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.

BURNING OF FIRE -SHIP FIREBRAND AT FALMOUTH IN 1780. I shall be greatly obliged for any information (sent direct) concerning the fire-ship Firebrand, which was burnt and sank in Falmouth harbour .about the year 1780.

(Lady) CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swailowfield Park, Reading.

KING RESCUED BY HIS DOGS. In Close "Roll, 40 Henry III. :

" The King in presence of Master William the Monk of Westminster lately ordained and pro- vided at Winchester for making a picture at Westminster, in wardrobe where the King is wont to wash his head, of the King who was rescued by ,his dof/s from sedition plotted against same King by Ms subjects; concerning which picture the King has sent other letters to Edward of Westminster. And Philip Luvel the King's treasurer and the aforesaid Edward of W. are ordered to pay without delay to same Master William the expense and cost of making same picture. Winchester, 30 June."

Where did Henry of Winchester and his 1 painter-monk find the subject of this /picture ? A. R. BAYLEY.

PARKS (OR PERKS) FAMILY. I would be grateful for any information concerning the earlier history of this family, who bore for .arms : Or, three rests gules. Tradition has it that one of the family was a standard . ; bearer in the army of William the Conqueror . at Senlac and was knighted after the battle. But I have been unable to trace any pedi- gree, or other information, in Kent or -Sussex Visitations, where it is supposed to Jaave originally been settled.

H. WILBERFORCE-BELL. -.21 Park Crescent, Oxford.

AMOS RUSSEL, OF LINCOLN, married secondly at Amsterdam, in January, 1729. He was widower of Cathlene Dorey, and had by her a daughter called Hannah, aged three at the time of his second marriage. He was in the habit of using the arms of the Bedford family, and a painting of these arms of about 1750 is in the possession of his descendants in the Netherlands. They are anxious to discover whether there existed a branch of the Russell family at Lincoln at the end of the Seventeenth Century, wherein the names of Amos and Hannah occur. Amos Russel became a Roman Catholic, and was since that change known as Amos Jacobus. He is mentioned at the time of his death, in 1765, as a manufacturer of silk hosiery. Will some reader specialising on the Russell family kindly oblige my correspondent ?

W. DEL COURT. 47 Blenheim Crescent, W.ll.

STREET NAMES. On a recent sale of land at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, pro- perties were described as situate in* the Spital, in Clapgun Street, and in the Barroon. Are similar names to the two last known elsewhere ? May Clapgun be a corruption of Clapgate, and Barroon of Barony ? The names do not seem derivable from those of individuals. W. B. H.

glad to know if the poem ' In Flanders' Fields,' by Lieut. -Col. McCrae of the Canadian army, and ' America's Reply,' by R. W. Lillard, have been published in England, and if so, in what publication.
 * IN FLANDERS' FIELDS.' I would be

J. H.

HAMILTON OF LISCLOONY. David Crosbie, High Sheriff of Kerry 1683, father of Sir Maurice Crosbie, who was created Baron Brandon 1758, married Jane, daughter and co-heir of William Hamilton of Liscloony, King's Co., 1680. Who was the wife of this William Hamilton and to what branch of the Hamilton family did he belong ?

A. W. WALLIS-TAYLER.

NORTH OF ENGLAND. Can any reader definitely state which part of England is the north ? At ante, p. 246, MR. TAVARE, speaking of Philip Westcott, the portrait painter (1815-1878), says his practice was principally in the North of England, notably in Liverpool and Manchester two cities in Lancashire, and MAJOR BALDOCK in his reference to the Rev. Thomas Hugo, ante, p. 248, says he served several curacies in the North of England, but does not mention