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LEIGH HUNT ON SHELLEY. Will some ^student of the literary decade 1820-30, and thereabouts, be so good as to " place " n article by Leigh Hunt on Shelley, beginning :

"One of the coadjutors in the present work was <to have been Percy Shelley, a writer with whose .-stories of learning and knowledge and beautiful prose style the public have yet to become "intimate."

It would be sought naturally in The

JLiberal, but is not there. It might be in

The Literary Pocket Book, 1819-22 ; but no

copy of this work is in the chief public

libraries. L. M. M.

60 Seymour Place, W.

Has the writer of the letters contained in this interesting little book, or the recipients, ever been identified ? H. C. B.
 * NEW BATH GUIDE ' (Anstey, 1766).

HOLMES FAMILY OF DEVONSHIRE. Could .any reader give me information concerning the pedigree and descendants of the Holmes family of Devonshire. Their arms, I believe, sare : Barry of six, argent and azure, and on a canton gules a chaplet of the first ; crest : a holly tree vert, fructed gules ; motto : Holme Semper Viret.

Information is also desired as to when
 * and to whom these arms were granted.

J. P. HOLMES. 48 Lavender Gardens, S.W.ll.

" TUBUS " : A CHRISTIAN NAME. I should be glad of particulars of the origin and use of " Tub us " as a Christian name. It -occurs im the Registers of parishes in South Devon, and runs through the Sparke family for some generations.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

REV. JAMES HEWS BRANSBY. The only scrap of information given about him in Dr. S. Austin Allibone's ' Dictionary of British and American Authors,' is 'Theo- logical Trsati^e-;,' 1806-14. He is known to .have brought out small guide-books such as the following: 'Sketch of History of Car- narvon Castle, 1829,' ' Description of "Carnarvon and the District, 12mo, Car- narvon. 1845,' ' Guide to Llanberis," ' Guide to Beddgelest.' Other productions may ihave been issued by him.

He h known to have settled in 'Carnarvon, and, during his residence in the
 * town, built, and lived in a fine stone mansion

locally known as " Bron Hendre," and bounded on one side by the extant remains of an old Roman wall. He also built and ikept a private school, familiarly known as

Bransby's School, or as vernacularly styled Ysgol Bransby.

Particulars relating to birth, his years of association and identity with Carnarvon, where he died and where buried, and any mentionable ana would oblige. Was he known or suspected to be a Unitarian ?

ANETTRIN WILLIAMS

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

SIMS. I should be glad to learn any information about the following four boys of this name, who were educated at West- minster School :

(1) Sims, who was at school in 1733.

(2) Henry Sims, who was admitted in June, 1732, aged 9.

(3) James, who was admitted in January, 1730/31, aged 9.

(4) Sims Sims, who was admitted in June, 1719, aged 13. G. F. R. B.

DORA WILBERFOSS. There is a family tradition that a lady of this name was burnt at the stake at Beverley, and that she had been a nun at Nunkeeling Priory. I can find no confirmation of the tradition in Foxe's ' Book of Martyrs,' nor have I seen the name in connexion with either the martyr- doms of the Reformation or of the Marian persecution. Is anything known of her ? She was of the family of Wilberfoss of Wilberfoss. H. WILBERFORCE-BELL.

21 Park Crescent, Oxford.

GOGIBUS. This surname occurs at Watten (Nord), in French Flanders. There are several families so named, but I have not come across it in other towns or villages in the district. What is its origin ?

F. H. C.

SWARTVAGHER. This surname occurs in the Pas-de-Calais. Is it Flemish ?

F. H. C.

KNOCK HUNDRED Row, MIDHURST. What is the origin of this place-name in the centre of this little old Sussex town ? J. LAND FEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

DREUX FAMILY. I should be glad to hear whether anything is known of the descendants of the noble French family of Dreux, Huguenot refugees, some of which family settled in Glasgow. The Comte de Dreux is mentioned in the royal lineage, kings of Scotland, in Burke' s ' Peerage,' wherein it is stated that in the year 1285 King Alexander III. married Yolande, daughter of the Count de Dreux, d.s.p.