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 12 s. vii. AUG. 21, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 149 permit the unauthorised use of a regimenta badge as part of a personal device ? Perhaps these questions have suggestec themselves to such of your readers as sa the advertisement in question. I should b glad to hear their views on the subjec Possibly a little publicity will go a long wa to remedy an abuse which may be due t ignorance. C. WILFRID GILES. The Union Society, Cambridge. " WALDO - LYNNATUS." At Hodgson sale-rooms in Chancery Lane on July 1 las there was sold a little book thus catalogued 220. [Scott (T.)] Certaine Pieces of this Ag Paraboliz'd [including the Description of Monsieu Pandorsus Waldo-lynnatus, that merrie America Philosopher] small engravings .... 12mo.." " J. Legat, 1615." This does not seem to be in the Britis Museum. Can anyone kindly give th reference to any book on " Americana " tha describes the book arid tells us who " W T aldo Lynnatus " was ? S. EDWARDS. Royal Colonial Institute, W,C. 2. EXTED. I shall be glad of any informa tion regarding an artist named Exted who flourished towards the close of the eighteenth century. A painting by him represents the looting and burning of Dr. Priestley's Birmingham residence in July 1791. The work has been engraved, and has been repro- duced in Thorpe's Memoir of Priestley. The style of the painting is reminiscent Hogarth. E. BASIL LUPTON. Cambridge, Mass. ARTHUR WILLIAM DEVIS (1763-1822). This artist's wife's Christian name was Isabella, who two years after her husband's death married Samuel Wilson of St. Mary at Hill, member of the Drapers' Company and Deputy of the Billingsgate W r ard. I desire to know (1) Isabella's maiden name, (2) the date of her marriage to Devis, and (3^ where the ceremony was solemnized. W. J. MERCER. 4 Price's Avenue, Margate. PARR'S BANK. I should be very grateful to any reader of ' N. & Q.', who can give any information relating to the founder of Parr's Bank and a detailed account of the opening of the first bank, which was at Warrington. The family of Parr lived at Grappenhall, Warrington, and 1 should be glad of a few notes relating to the family. RONALD D. WHITTENBTJRY-KAYE. Newchurch, Culchetb, nr. Warrington. CHARLES MARSHALL. Wanted informa- tion as to parentage arid ancestry of Charles Marshall the artist and scene-painter, 1806- 90 (' D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 235). Said to have been son of Nathan Marshall (? William) by his wife Mary Randall of Devonshire. These Marshalls were said to be a cadet branch of the Redlands Court family near Bristol (Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, i. 74, article by William Marshall Rouge-Croix). C.M. and his brother and sisters were all born within sounc 1 of Bow Bells. JOHN WARDELL. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Are the North American Indians increasing or decreasing in number ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. EARLY ENGLISH TOURISTS AT CHAMONLX. In ' Southey's Commonplace Book,' 4th Series at p. 356 is this paragraph : " When the Sunderlins were on Mont Anver (?), passing the day at Blairs Tower (?) to see the Mer de Glace, up came Lord Paget, the Marquis of Worcester, and his brother Lord C. Somerset, in dresses made for the excursion. They looked at curious," turned on their heels, and walked down again." Who were the Sunderlins ? What is the date of this excursion ? Blairs Tower on the Montenvers was, to quote Murray's Switzerland, k the regularly built cabin (which lasted from 779-1812) called Chateau Blair, from the Englishmen who erected it." JOHN B. WAINWRIGHT. MACLAY OR MACLEAY. Francis and William Maclay were admitted to West- minster School in April 1748, aged 8 and 10 espectively. Another William Maclay was admitted in September 1728, aged 13. I hould be glad to obtain any information bout them. G. F. R. B. NANCY PARSONS (LADY MAYNARD). Can ny reader supply the date of Gainsborough's portrait of the above, and say whether it vas full length or three-quarter size, like David Garrick's ? The 'D.N.B.' gives many of the dates of ainsborough's portraits of his numerou? lients, but does not refer to Nancy Parsons' Dortrait at all. Does Bryan's * Dictionary,' which I am unable unfortunately to consult) upply any information on the subject ? ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' says ainsborough haunted the Green Rooms of D almer's Theatre, and painted gratuitously he portraits of many of the actors. Was
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