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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. OCT. 2,192^

Dec. 9, 1725," and one on Mrs. Thomas Foulkes : " She died of the small Pox, after she was delivered of one Child." The birth of this child, a daughter, is mentioned under Oct. 16, 1722, and the mother's death "yesterda}^ " under Dec. 6 ; "she is carried to W<?ston, by Tha,me, to be buried."

Frequent mention will also be found in Hearne's memoranda of Dr. William Foulkes of Jesus College, whom the indexer in one place confounds with Peter Foulkes.

EDWARD BENSLY.

BEACONSFIELD'S * SYBIL ' : " CARAVAN " (12 S vii. 209, 256). I must apologise for my carelessness in omitting the colt by Camel, out of Wings, foaled in 1834. This makes five horses named " Caravan "

W. A. HUTCHISON.

THE LIGHTS OF LONDON (12 S. vii. 229, 258). Your correspondent V. B. quotes a work by Henry Mackenzie entitled * ' The Man of the World.'

Presumably this work refers to the famous "Annesley case " on which Charles Read founded his novel of ' The Wandering Heir.' I should be very grateful if V. R. could give mo any information on the subject and whether the work of Henry Mackenzie is easily procurable.

GERARD TBARP, Lieut. -Col.

Wick Street House, nr. Stroud.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LEPERS IN ENGLAND (12 S.vi. 150, 195,218,259). The entry of the burial of " a leper " at Dorchester in 1604, given at the last reference, is far from the latest authoritative mention of leprosy's existence in England. At 3 S. xii. 461-2 is the text of a receipt dated Oct. 10, 1607, to Arthur Piper, Mayor of the borough of Dunheved otherwise Launceston, by " degory Band Prior of the hospitall or Lazer bowse of Saynt Leonardos als Gylmartyn with the rest of my Bretheren and Systers [for] the whole and Intire some of vii. of lawful mony of Eng- land due vnto vs at the ffeast of Saynt Michaell tharcaungle now last past being the Kings maties ffree gift to wardes the aforesaid hospitall of Saynt Leonardos als Gylmartyn."

In the Augmentation Office, Miscellaneous Books, is a similar receipt of five years earlier and, therefore, in the last year of Elizabeth given to Robert Hockyn, then mayor.

It may be said that these receipts simply

Erove the continued existence of the leper cspital and not of the actual leper ; but a much later document can be quoted in pro^f concerning the latter. In March

1648-49, the following petition was pre- sented to John Wild, the then recently appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, oix his going the Western Circuit, at the Assizes tor Cornwall, at that time held at Launceston :

" To the Right ho bl John Wilde L d Cheefe- Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of Assise for the- County of Cornwall : Humbly sheweth unto yo r honnor Henry Rawe, a sick leaper of the hospitalli of S 1 Leonarde als Gillmarten : That whereas there hath bene heretofore a pension or guifte of six pounds vr". and viii d given et bestowed in way of free & charitable almes to the sick, lepars residing in that place, payable yerely,. by equall portions at the feasts of & John Baptiste- and the Nativity of our Lord God, by the mayor- of the towne and borough of Dunheved als Lanceston, at the tymes feaste aforesaid according to the tenor of the .graunt thereof made, and the true intention of the donor in & at the- saied prfixed times, w ch hath bene really and! rightly prfourmed until now of late one Mr- Oswald Kingdon, now Mayor of Lanceston,. refuseth to paye the same, and dot! detayne the mony in his hande, against law, equity arid: conscience.

" Yo r Lo F s : petitioner humbly craveth that yo r honor will be pleased to Comend the hearing & ordering of this Cause unto Collonel Bennett <fc Nicholas Trefusis, Esquire, that suci? meanes of relief may be taken herein as to equity & justice shall apptayne, for w ch yo r poore petitoner will pray for yo 1 "hono long' and prosperous preservacon."

This document, which is quoted in R. and O. B. Peter's 'Histories of Launceston and Dunheved,' p. 48, is endorsed :

" I desyre the gent, wtbin named vppon examinacon hereoff to afford the peticoner such relieve as in justice shall be fitt. John Wylde, 12 March, 1648." [N.S. 1649.]

No record apparently exists of what was done under this instruction, but Bennett, who was a local squire and an ardent Parliamentarian, and Trefusis, who had been member for Newport, which was within the area of Launceston, may be trusted to have displayed activity in the matter.

ALFRED BOBBINS*

WILLIAM BILLYNG AND HIS DEVOTIONAL, VERSES (12 S. vii, 229). MR. J. KESTELL FLOYER in referring to William Billyng mentions that this is a Cornish name, and also alludes to Northampton. It i? certainly fcuncl in the latter county, and also in the neighbouring counties of Beds, Hunts, and Cambs. I enclose a few particulars ob- tained from the Patent and other Rolle, and as it is my mother's name (born in Camosy, I should like further information about this, family. A William. Byllinge, mentioned irv