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terecl ? I am all the more curious (laudably so, I trust) to draw forth replies to these queries as I have hazy recollections that a similar fund raised in England for Crimean veterans never benefited them and still drags on an inglorious existence. If wrong on this point someone will perhaps set me right. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M,., Manchester.

. TEMPLE, H.M. 65TH REGT. (12 S. -VI. 336). Robert Temple, musician in H.M.'s 65th Regt. was married to Hannah Abbots, spin&ter, at Bombay on Sept. 5, 1813. He diect, aged 37, at Bombay and was buried there on Sept 8, 1818 (' Bombay Marriages and Burials').

In the India Office Library (A.L.R. 20.) is a collection of water-colour drawings entitled ' Bombay Views and CDsftume, 1810/11.', by R. Temple, private, one of the Band of HlM. 65th Regt. There seem to have been originally 92 drawings, but Nos. 1, 20, 22, 70 are missing and there are three unnumbered. They were acquired by the Library on Aug. 11, 1910. The drawings are on cards in a half -bound morocco case.

L. M. ANSTEY.

CAPT. WILLIAM HENRY CRANSTOUN (12 S. vii. 251). Capt. the Hon. Williaia Henry 'Cranstoun was one of the twelve children of the fifth Lord Cranstoun of Crailing, and his mother was a daughter of the Marquis of Lothian. He was born in 1714 and married in 1744 Anne, sister of Sir David Murray, Bart., of Stanhope, by whom he had. -a daughter born in 1745.

In 1746 this miscreant when he was recruiting in Oxfordshire courted and pro- posed marriage to Miss Mary Blandy of Henley and ultimately induced this girl to poison her father who had refused to aocept lum as a son-in-law. Miss Blandy was con- victed and hung, but Capt. Cranstoun who foad sent her the poison, managed to hide himself in Scotland for six months. He then went to Boulogne and changed, his name to Dunbar ; from there he moved to Ostend and afterwards settled at Furnes in Flanders, where he lived in a miserable condition till December, 1752, when he died, aged 39. He expired, it is said, in the most agonising torments, showing all the symptoms of poison, and some said raving mad. Shortly before his death he became a Roman solemnity in the Cathedral Church at Purnes, the whole corporation attending the
 * Catholic, and he was buried with great

funeral, and a grand mass was said over his body.

Miss Blandy's infatuation was the more remarkable from the fact that Capt. Crans- stoun was singularly ill-favoured of diminu- tive stature, disfigured by smallpox, blear- eyed and of mean appearance whareas she was good-looking, highly educated, and heir to a considerable amount of money.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

ANSTIS : LE NEVE : ARDERNE (12 S vii. 189,234). Since sending my communication in re the motto of the Black Prince, I am told on undoubted authority that Dr. Meyrick is incorrect in stating that German was the language of the Court of Hainault and that it was French.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

Swallowfield, Reading.

PETER, JOHN AND WILLIAM FOULKE s (12 S. vii. 249). There are several entries about Peter Foulkes in Thomas Hearne's 'Diary.' On Nov. 8, 1705, he give? a short account oi "a very handsome Speech to ye Honor of Sr. Tho. Bodley, &c.," made at the annual Visitation of the Bodleian Library by Mr. Fouks of " Christ Church ye Junior Proctor," identified by C. E. Doble with Peter Foulkes, M.A., 1701. See vol. i. oi the Oxford Hist. Soc. edition of Hearne's ' Remarks and Collections. ' Under Feb. 23, 1707, Hearne notes that Dr. William Jane, Canon of Christ Church, Dean of Gloucester, &c., "died very rich, which [sic] he has left to Mr. Peter Foulke, Student of Christ Church, his Relation." A few days later we read that "Dr. Code of All Souls who was as nearly related to Dr. Jane as Mr. Foulkes," being disappointed of a legacy "is fully persuaded that this last will of Dr. Jane was made at the Instigation of Mr. Foulkes, and by the contrivance of Brookes the Attorney, when Dr., Jane hardly knew what he did." On Sept. 4, 1721 (op. tit., vol. vii.) Hearne records that "Mr. Tho, Foulke?, A.M., Student of Xt. Ch., and one of the Pro-Proctors of the Univ. for this year, is newly married to Mrs. Clarke, eldest Daughter living (there being two more) of the late Captain Clarke, of Weston, near Thame." We learn of this Thomas Foulkes that "He is Brother to Dr. Peter Foulkes .... There is another Brother, viz., Mr. Richd. Foulkes, A.M., and Student of Xt. Ch., who is 2d Brother of the Doctor, Tho. being the 3d." Hearne has a note on Richard: "He is since dead, as I hear,