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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. JUXE 20, 1920.

citing from Collinson ( ' History of Somerset ') that his lady, Christabella, was wet-nurse to Charles II., and one of the most beautiful women of her time.

Mr. Fea, too, calls attention (p. 240) to Anne with Christabella Wyndham, and says that Hoskins explained that by "nurse" .zu.ust be understood rather " a sort of nursery governess. ' ' This explanation, how- ever, I cannot find in Hoskins ; and it becomes, in a subsidiary way, rather im- portant in view of what is there stated that .the " chain of rubies," given by the Duchess of Richmond at the christening to "ye milk nurse " was not given to Mrs. Wynd- Mistress Christabella Wyndham was the prince's nurse, but as to what kind of nurse
 * the mistake made by Hoskins in confusing
 * ham but to Mrs. Walton. So it appears that
 * a question may still arise, not whether
 * she was.

The mistake made as to which of these two ladies was the prince's nurse is the less excusable, because, as shown by Mr. Fea in his 'Flight of the King,' p. 118, Anne, the wife of Col. Francis Wyndham, was at the 'time when the king went to Trent for shelter after the disastrous battle of Wor- cester in September, 1651, quite a young woman ^only 19 or so).

It was this Anne Wyndham, of course, who was the author of that fascinating tract ' Claustrum Regale Reseratum,' con- taining the account of the ' King's Con- cealment at /Trent,' already referred to by me at ante, p. 151.

J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

JAMES NIVEN OR NIVTE (12 S. vi. 229). I have looked carefully through the lists of Jacobites condemned at Carlisle contained tin G. G. Mounsey's Carlisle in 1745, but have not found this name. I have also looked through the names given in The Gentleman's Magazine of that time, with no better success. DIEGO.

BARON TAYLOR (12 S. vi. 296). Baron Taylor was a Frenchman. An account of him is given under " Taylor (Isidore-Justin- Severin, baron) litterateur et artiste fran- -cais " in the 'Nouvelle Biographie Generale,' vol. 44, Paris, 1865. According to this notice he was born at Brussels, Aug. 15, 1789, his father being an Englishman by birth who was naturalised in France, his mother a member of an Irish family that had been settled in Flanders since the thirteenth century. In 1825, Taylor was appointed

" commissaire royal pres du Theatre-Fran- 9ais," and in this capacity helped the romantic school. ' Hernani ' is said to have been put on the stage through hia influence. In 1838 he became " inspecteur general des beaux-arts. ' ' He was apparently still living in 1865. His chief literary pro- duction was ' Voyages pittoresqiies et ro- mantiques de 1'ancienne France,' Paris, 1820 63, in 24 folio volumes. The writer of the article refers to E. de Mirecourt, " Le Baron Taylor " and Qu^rard, " France litteraire." EDWARD BENSLY

For the numerous and various works of Isidor Justin Severin, Baron Taylor, a well- known "litterateur et Artiste fran9ais " (born at Bruxelles in 1789, whose " Biblio- theque Dramatique " was sold in Paris but 27 years ago, in 1893) refer to Brunet's ' Manuel du Libraire ' vi. 684-685, and to Hoefer's ' Biographie Generale, tome 44, pp. 944-945 (Par. 1865) H. KREBS.

Oxford.

[MR. H. G. HARRISON refers querist to ' Men of the Time,' tenth edition ; and MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKB writes that information will be found in Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ' and in ' The New International Encyclopaedia.']

CAROLINE ROBERT HERBERT (12 S. vi. 250* 282). Dalton viii., 207, 208 gives Caroline Fred. Scott, cornet Scots Greys, Dec. 25, 1726, d. a lieutenant-colonel and chief engineer in India, 1756, and refers to a list of similar names in ' N. & Q.', which I have not seen. In one of his commissions ho was styled Carolina. Ibid. v. 57, 58, mentions Capt. Florence Kane, 21st R. Scots Fuzi- liers. 'N. & Q.' (12 S. ii. 84) has Lucy Weston, cornet in Wade's Horse, Apr. 10, 1733. The Army List gives George Hen- rietta Kyffen, lieutenant 19th Foot July 21 1760. 'Old Wales,' vol. ii. 1906, p. 61, refers to Samuel Amv Severne of Wallop Hall, Salop, ensign 12th Foot July 28, 1790. W. R. WILLIAMS.

INSCRIPTIONS IN CITY CHURCHES (12 S. vi. 294, 323). A complete record of inscriptions and armorial bearings within all the forty- nine city churches, together with St. Paul's Cathedral, Mercers' Chapel, and the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, has recently been completed for the Guildhall Library Com- mittee. The work, which was begun in the summer of 1910, was carried out by Mr. Arthur J. Jewers, who has added many extracts from the wills of persons com- memorated in the monuments. The manu-