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was raised to a Duche 1355 by K. Jean II (captured at Poitiers) whose dau. Marie Robert had md After him the line con tinues through a younger son, Henri, killec with his brother Philippe at Nicopolis Sept. 28, 1396, having married Marie dau and hs. of Enguerrand (vii) of Gouci by his wife Isabel dau. of K. Edward III. (Thi Enguerrand was he who, being in thi -country as one of the sureties for K. Jean obtained the Earldom of Bedford and even tually died a prisoner among the Turks aftei ^Nicopolis). Edouard (iii) and his son Jean were both killed at Agincourt Oct. 25 1415 and the succession went to Henri's son Robert (ii). His dau. and hs. Jeanne md her 1st cousin Louis of Luxembourg 0. o: St. Pol, beheaded Dec. 19, 1475.

The Family takes its origin from Frederic or Ferri (son of Wigeric, Count of the Palace to Charles the Simple, who was in possession of the Comte of Bar in 951, given him by th Emperor Otto I. whose niece Beatrice (sister of Hugh Capet) he had md.

Seven generations bring us to Henri (ii who was with Philip Augustus at Bouvines July 27, 1214 and very nearly took the Emperor Otto prisoner on that memorable day.

Henri's dau. and hs. Marguerite by mg. Henri (iii) of Luxembourg-Limburg began the second line of Bar. She was the great- grandmother of ' Philippa of Hainault ' and 'grandmo. of Henri (iii) above.

Through Duke Robert (i)'s dau. Yolande and through Duke Robert (ii)'s dau. Jeanne lines may be traced to Marie of Guise, mo. of Mary Queen of Scots.

I think it will not be found that a legitimate connexion exists with the Barrs of Barrhead. if there be such a family. I am away from books of reference and regret to have for- gotten the blason of the arms of Bar.

E. B. DE COLEPEPER.

SANTA CRUZ C12 S. vii. 90, sub Author of Quotation Wanted). There are two places of this name in the Canaries, but neither of them is "an island," as stated at ante, p. 90. One is the capital of the Island of Palma, and the other which was the scene of Blake's action is in the Island of Tenerife, and is the capital of the Canary Isles.

Although Blake had distinguished himself as a soldier he had not had any naval education or experience of the sea, when in 1649, at the age of fifty he was put in com- mand of the English fleet. For the next <eoght years in. this capacity he performed

prodigies of valour and made many rich captures. After he had subdued the Turks of Tunis and Algiers, he determined, though he was practically dying of scurvy and dropsy, to do one mere service to his country, and sailed with twenty-five ships to Tenerife having heard that a Spanish fleet laden with silver was about to go there. When he arrived he found that the Spaniards were already in the bay of Santa Cruz and had made every preparation for defence. Their sixteen ships disposed in a circular form were strongly barricaded and pro- tected by a castle and seven forts furnished with large cannon. Blake steered boldly into the bay and after a resistance of four hours beat the enemy from all their defences and finding it impossible to take the treasure galleons set fire to them and destroyed them entirely.

Clarendon says :

" The whole action was so miraculous that all men who knew the place wondered that any sober men with what courage soever endued would ever have undertaken itr whilst the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief that they were devils and not men who had destroyed them, and it can hardly be imagined how small loss the English sustained in this unparalleled action, no ship being left behind."

Blake sailed for England immediately after and expired as the fleet was entering Plymouth Sound, Aug. 17, 1657, in the 59th year of his age.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Beading.

GEORGE BUCHANAN (12 S. vii. 89).- The picture represents the famous humanist George Buchanan (1506-1582), a man of a very different stamp from Coryat. There s an article on his portraits by Mr. J. Maitland Anderson in the Memorial volume published on the occasion of the Buchanan quater-centenary at St. Andrews in 1906. It is the older of the two Edinburgh Uni- versity portraits, " sometimes looking one

ay, sometimes another, which has been associated with the cover and title-page of Blackwood's Magazine since its commence- ment in 1817." EDWARD BENSLY.

Much Hadham, Herts.

THE STATURE OF PEPYS (12 S. vi. 110,

216). A descendant of the diarist asserts

hat when his coffin was opened to see what

e was like " they found the body of a little nan which quickly crumbled to dust. ' ' I have ailed to discover in Pepysiana or in various

epys biographies any mention of Pepys' body