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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vi. MARCH, 192(7.

St. Maclou, and St. Machutus (the last is preserved in the English Prayer Book Calendar) as one and the sa-me person, and concur in identifying him (or them) with a Welsh priest who in the sixth century escaped from his own country to avoid being made a bishop. He found safety at Aleth, and apparently overcame his scruples, and subsequently took the lead in national affairs and when elected bishop, claimed temporal as well as spiritual jurisdiction. L. G. R.

EARLIEST CLERICAL DIRECTORY. Can any one tell me the title and date of the first Clerical Directory or General Clergy List.

I. F.

MICHAEL DRUM took the degree of B.A. at Cambridge in 1524/5, and subsequently joined Cardinal Wolsey's College at Oxford, where he became B.A. in 1527, M. A. in 1530/1, and B.D. in 1540, in which year he suffered imprisonment at Oxford as a Lutheran. He was one of the Six Preachers in Canter- bury Cathedral in 1541 and 1543, and is said to have died a Catholic. (Strype, ' Mem.' i. 1, 569 ; ' Cranmer,' iv. 153, 154, 158, 159 ; ' Parker ' i. 10 ; also Wood, ' Fasti ' (ed. Bliss), i. 72, 84, 85, 112; Cooper, ' Ath. Cantab.,' i. 83 ; Foster, ' Al. Ox.,' i. 426.)

Is anything further known about him ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

' THE CHESS-BOARD OF LIFE.' Who was " Quis," author of this humorous and entertaining little book, 8vo, 159 pp., bound blue cloth boards, and published by James Blackwood, Paternoster Row, in 1858 ?

"To H. C. K. [he says] these pages are inscribed as a memorial of the friendship and regard entertained for him by the author." " Quis " gives the initials " D.E." at the foot of his preface ; but who was he ? I have tried most, if not all, of the usual indexes and catalogues, but can get no information of this amusing " Quis."

JAMES C. RICHARDSON. 2AliwalRoad,S.W.lI.

THE SIXTH FOOT (WARWICKSHIRE REGI- MENT). Where was this regiment serving under Harrison in the early summer of 1710 ? Was it one which marched into Douai on the surrender of that town to the Allies or not ? Many military books have been searched in vain for a definite answer to this simple question. The Sixth was reorganised in 1710 after its hard times in Spain. Douai and Foot Scarpe surrendered June 27 of that year to Marlborough and Prince Eugene.

Lediard, in his Life of the former, says only that one Saxon and five Dutch battalions entered the town as soon as the French were gone : that is, on June 29. The next day the two Commanders-in-chief and the Deputies of the States were received in Douai, and were welcomed by the University, Is it ascertainable whether an English regi- ment escorted them ? and whether that- regiment was the Sixth Foot ?

LK. I. GUINEY..

SILVER PUNCH LADLE. I have in my possession a silver punch ladle. It un- questionably belonged to my maternal/ great grandfather, Capt. Gibson, who com- manded the Fox, a small frigate or gun boat which was lost in Nelson's attack on Santa. Cruz.

The ladle which bears no marks is in- scribed " Success to the Tartar," and has set in the bottom of it a Spanish dollar of the year 1773. Family tradition alleges that the dollar formed part of a treasure which: Capt. Gibson recovered for the British Government by running a blockade.

But it was rarely in those days that a British ship ran a blockade, the boot was usually on the other foot.

Tradition of this sort usually has some- foundation in fact, but is apt to be incorrect as to details.

If any naval historian among your readers knows anything of the incident I should be^ greatly obliged. CHARLES R, HILES.

15 John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.

METHAM. Who were the parents of Anne- Metham, b. 1716, d. Aug. 6, 1751, bur. at Kneveton, co. Notts, wife of John Story of East Stoke, co. Notts, High Sheriff of that county, who d. Oct. 19, 1768. Her sort Philip, bapt. at East Stoke, Mar. 25, 1747,. was M.A. (1773) of Jesus College, Camb.,. and Rector of Walton on the Wolds, co_ Leics, from 1776. He d. May 25 and waa bur. June 1, 1819, at Lockingto-n, co. Leics, having m. Oct. 6, 1778, Martha, dau. of the Rev. Richard Stevens (M.A. 1749, St. John's College, Camb), Rector of Bottesford, co.. Leics, 1752-71. H. PIRIE-GORDON.

R s CONINGSBY OF SALOP. The Coningsbys are a well-known family in Hereford, but the above gentleman writes himself as of " Salopius." The Christian' name begins with an R and ends with an " s," and the three intermediate letters look- like " ion," buu they do not seem to fit any name I can g^ess at. The signature is on the title-page of an old black-letter edition^