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A Watson appears to have married one of these refugees towards the end of the eigh- teenth century perhaps about 1790. Can any reader also tell me where I can find the pedigree of this family ? Their pedigree to the present day would interest me parti- cularly. G. D. McGBiGOB.

GORDON : A JACOBITE BANKER AT BOU- LOGNE. In March, 1723, Lord Carteret, Secretary for the South, got hold of a sus- picious letter which was to have been conveyed to M. Gordon, banker at Boulogne, by Roger Garth of Hammersmith, skipper of the sloop Dove. Garth said he knew Gordon and suspected him of being a Jacobite agent. Does any reader know who this Gordon was ? I think it was Alexander, and that he was the son of William Gordon, the Jacobite banker at Paris, who figures so largely in the ' Stuart Papers.' J. M. BULLOCH.

37 Bedford Square. W.C.I.

MBS. GORDON, NOVELIST. Between 1844 and 1857 a certain Mrs. Gordon published in London four novels, mostly about life on Scottish estates. They included ' The For- tunes of the Falconars,' ' Musgrave,' ' Kings- connell,' and ' Sir Gervase Grey.' One of, them is dedicated to " Delta " (David Macbeth Moir) whom she evidently knew. Who was she ? J. M. BULLOCH.

37 Bedford Square, W.C.I.

INSCRIPTION ON STONE. The first part of an inscribed stone xipon this house is

XIV

G III R

E. C. D. praefec Reg. C. P. I,.

and I should be glad of any information as to the meaning of the third line. The house was built in 1774, and the builder, John Chadwick, was a magistrate and officer in the Militia. He was also described upon another stone as "Armigero" and "The- saurio."

Can the line above have reference to any of his public positions ?

PvICHABD HE APE. Healey Hall, Rochdale.

" THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN." This Scriptural phrase was adopted in the year 1657 (as appears from an introductory '|To the Bookseller '), as the title of a cele- brated Christian manual which went through several editions and had a very extensive circulation for nearly two hundred years. It was translated into Welsh in 1672 by one John Langford, and again in 1718 by the

famous translator, the Rev. Edward Samuel, But the name of the author has never been put on the title-page, and we in Wales are led to believe, by our literary historians,, that the name is not known. Is this so ? Looking through an old book list the other day I came across the names of these seven; books by " the learned and pious Author of 'The Whole Duty of Man' : (1) ' The Duty of Man'; (2) ' The Causes of Decay of Christian Piety'; (3) 'The Gentleman' s- Calling ; (4) The Lady's Calling ' ; (5) ' The Government of the Tongue' ; (6) 'Art of Contentment ' ; (7) ' The Lively Oracles- given to us.' This book list was issued at Oxford in 1730, but I find practically the- same list issued by Edward Pawlett^ " Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street," in 1667. Besides the above, the two book lists referred to also have ' The Whole Duty of Man ' " put into significant Latin for the use of Schools."

Is the name of the author of all these books quite unknown and to remain so ? T. LLECHID JONES.

UNCOLLECTED KIPLING ITEMS- : ' WITH: NUMBER THBEE ' : ' SURGICAL AND MEDI- CAL.' At US. ix. 309 the following is* stated by J. R. H. :

" Among the stories of the Boer War which* appeared in 1900 in The Daily Exprr.w were two- not given by MB. YOUNG: With 'Number Three'" (four issues of the paper), ' Surgical and Medical r (two issues)."

We desire for bibliographical purpose? to locate these more exactly. The editor of The Daily Express has been unable to> trace them, and a search at the British Museum has failed. If any reader can furnish us with dates of publication we shall be obliged. B. F. STEVENS & BROWN..

4 Trafalgar Square, W.C.2.

HECTOB BOECE'S ' HISTORY or SCOT* LAND : BELLENDEN'S TRANSLATION. Drv R. W. Chambers and I have undertaken for the Scottish Text Society an edition of Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's- ' History of Scotland.'

The manuscript which will be used as the- basis of this edition is the ' Auchinleck Manuscript,' which is now in the library of University College, London, and which was formerly in the libraries of James Boswell and the library of the Earl of Kinnoull.

Six other manuscripts are known : one in the library of the Marquis of Bath at Longleat ; a second in the Advocates: Library, Edinburgh ; a third in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge ; a fourth int