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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 s.vi. APRIL 17, 1920.

COUNT E AT BATH. In the volume of poems by George Monck Berkeley, published in 1797, there is reference on p. 116 to " a young gentleman since known at Bath by the name of Count E., an early friend of young Berkeley's at Eton School."

Can any reader identify Count E. for me ? J. M. Berkeley was at Eton from 1775 to 1777. R. A. A.-L.

YALE AND HOBBS. I should be glad to be informed where Yale picked Hobb s lock. The incident occurred during the keen rivalry which existed between the big lock and safe makers in the early fifties, about (I fancy) 1851 or 1852. I have made inquiries and searched at museums, &c., in vain for particulars. ROBERT EVANS.

MARIUS D'AFFIGNY. Can any reader give particulars of the life of Marius D'Affigny, who sometime between the years 1670-90 published a volume on ' Antiquity ' con- taining the following "books": (1) 'The History of the Heathen Gods ' ; (2) ' The History of the Heathen Demi-Gods ' ;

(3) ' The Honours paid to Heathen Gods ;

(4) ' A Treatise of Roman Curiosities ' ;

(5) ' The Eyptian Hieroglyphics.'

J. RICHMOND -DENNIS. St. Adrian's, Purley, Surrey.

BRADSHAW. Robert Smith Bradshaw was admitted to Westminster School in 1782, and William Smith Bradshaw in 1772. I should be glad of any information concerning their parentage and careers.

G. F. R, B.

LANCELOT BLACKBURNE, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. Where and when was he born in 1658 ? In what London parish did his father, Richard Blackburne, reside, and what was the name of his mother ? The ' D.N.B..' v. 123, does not give the required information. G. F. R. B.

"His EXCELLENCY." Will some kindly correspondent enlighten me as to the title of Excellency in application to British subjects ? I believe that with us Ambassa- dors bear this title, which is borne by all foreign Ministers and Charges d'affaires, but denied by our Foreign Office to British officials of those ranks. The Colonial Office is believed to be more generous in this respect, so that all Governors, even he of St. Helena, are entitled to it. In India the title is restricted to the Viceroy, the Governors of Presidencies, and the Com- mander-in-Chief. The Commanders-in-Chief in Presidencies formerly bore it, and there

arose the strange anomaly that, although tho Lieutenant-Go vernors of huge provinces such as the Punjab ranked above the Commander - in-Chief in India, they did not bear the title - though undoubtedly they had the consolation of bigger pay. Abroad the number of Excellencies in the hotel-lists is over- whelming, the Russians being specially liberal with this title. One does not want similar profusion in our own services, but surely His Majesty's Minister at a foreign capital should bear the title with which even the Governor of Tobago is believed to be invested. J. H. R.-C.

No MAN'S LAND. In his ' Survey of London,' writing of the Charterhouse Stow says that " Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, in the year 1348, bought a piece of ground called No Man's Land." Is it known from whom the bishop bought it. and how the vendor made out his title ? Is this the earliest use of the name ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

PETROGRAD : MONUMENT or PETER THE GREAT. In ' Russia as I Know It,' by Harry de Windt, in the account of Petrograd, is a description of the monument to Peter the Great, whereby it seems that the base of the " colossal bronze statue " is an " enormous block of granite which, weighing over 15,000 tons, was dragged from the marsh where it was unearthed, five miles away, by primitive machinery and 80,000 horses."

Can any reader tell me where to get further information concerning this amazing feat of engineering ? WESSEX.

ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND : THE BORDER LINE. Could any reader refer me to sources of information regarding the de- limitation of the boundary between England and Scotland ? What commissions were set up to do the work and when ? Did they issue reports ? Were the reports presented to Parliament ? W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. I shall be obliged if any of your readers can recommend the best books, modern or otherwise, on the following subjects :

1. Ecclesiastical Courts Prerogative, Con- sistory, Commissary, and Archdeaconry their procedure from the Reformation ; their methods re granting of probates and adminis- trations, &c. ; and the trying of cases against Ecclesiastical Law and discipline, with examples, if possible, in elucidation of the old Court Act Books.