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liberal use of preceding authors, such as Stow, Howel, Camden, &c. A copy befor me and two others that I have seen have in a contemporary hand " Compiled by Adams.' This may be worthless, but it is singular tha John Worrall ( ' Bibliotheca Topographica Anglicana,' 1736, p. 39) and Gough do no follow Rawlinson's identification of it compiler, but enter the work as anonymous Is there any other origin or support for the Edward Hatton attribution ? The book already recognised as eminently useful, wil in time be accepted as the best of its kinc in the post-Stow pre-nineteenth-century period. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

51 Rutland Park Mansions, N.W.2.

BRONZE OF SHAKESPEARE. I have a finely executed bronze of William Shakespeare which bears the inscription " Droits Reserves J. KALMAR." I should be glad to know its date, and anything regarding the sculptor.

P.jT-X MUNDY.

NOUCHETTE. One off the popular writers of fiction recently was Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey. The middle name being an unusua one some one perhaps may be able to say whether it is a Christian name or a secondary family name ? R. B.

Upton.

ZEUS AND CHI. Davenport Adams in 'Famous Caves and Catacombs,' speaking of the Cave of Trophonius, says :

" The majority of travellers, however, seem to agree with Pouqueville that at the entrance of the genuine and veritable prophetic grotto is engraved on the rock the password Chibolet (XIBOABT, or, according to others, ZETS BOTAAIO2, Jove the Counsellor) a fragment of an inscription of which the remainder is illegible."

Are there any inscriptions or references in Greek literature to Zeus in the form of Chi ? HAROLD BAYLEY.

Over-bye, Church Cobham, Surrey.

WHITELOCKE : PRYSE : SCAWEN. I should be much obliged if some one could give me information regarding Hester Whitelocke, daughter of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, and her descendants. She was baptized on Aug. 13, 1642, and married Carbery Pryse of Gogerddan, and gave birth to Sir Carbery Pryse, bart., of Gogerddan, who died in 1694. After the death of her first husband she married a Scawen of Wales, and there is information to the effect that, on her application, Sir Carbery 's will, which was proved in January, 1694-95, was "revoked and administration granted on Aug. 8th,

1696, to his mother Hester Scawen alias Pryse."

When did Hester Whitelocke marry Carbery Pryse and Scawen ? When and where did she die ? Who was Scawen, and when did he die ? What happened to his children by Hester Whitelocke and whom did they marry and when, and where did they live ? M. H. PRYCE.

8 Brandon Road, Sout.hsea.

ETONIANS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. If any reader can furnish a clue which will help me to identify the following surnames that are to be found in the MS. Eton School Lists, I shall be greatly obliged :

Cousens 1783-84 Dennis 1768-74

Coventry 1767-69 Dennis 1776-77

Cowan 1788-90 Denton,

Cox, John William 1763

Saville 1760-65 Derring 1787-90

Cracraft 1778-SO Dillon 1753-54

Cunningham, Donaldson,

Anthony 1759-63 John 1761-62

Curtis, John 1760-64 Douglas,

Curtis, Michael William 1758-60

Atkins 1760-64 Douglas 1780-83

Dalling 1781-82 Downes 1777-80

Dalling 1787-90 Downing 1766-68

Darby, Drake,

William 1763-66 Richard 1764-65

Dash wood 1783-88 Drake, Roger 1764-65

Davenport 1779 Draper 1775-78

Dawes 17*7-53 Drew 1759-62

Dean 1790 Dun bar 1786-87

Oeare 1782-85 Durell 1777-79

Deare 1785-86 Earle, Charles 1762-66

R, A. A.-L.

CISTERCIAN ABBESS. Did these wear as insignia of office a golden cross of any special pattern ? E. E. COPE.

Finchampstead.

JOHN MURDOCH, BURNS'S SCHOOLMASTER. Can any reader give information as to where Murdoch is buried, the name of his wife, whether he has any descendants living, his connexion with Tallyrand, and if any portrait of him exists ? R. M. HOGG.

Irvine, Ayrshire.

MAFFEY FAMILY (ITALIAN EXTRACTION). L am trying to collect notes relating to this 'amily. I am acquainted with at least three tranches, all of whom, independently of each other, hold the tradition that they are the descendants of an Italian refugee, Count Maffei, who landed in Hampshire about the year 1700. I can actually trace them to a period forty or fifty years later. There were Vlaffeys at Dinton* Wilts, in 1746, and qthers at Idmiston, also Wilts, in 1740. These branches still exist, and are not acquaints