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h6rse trotting), after B. E. Duppa ; ' Mrs. Lyon ' (a centenarian) ; 'A Bull's Head '; 'James Chambers,' the itinerant poet, frontispiece to his ' Life ' (1820) ; 'A Butch Officer,' after Rembrandt ; and an orna- mental invitation-card to ' A Dinner given to 12,000 Persons on Parker's Piece, Cam- bridge, June 28, 1838.' Additions to this list, or any references to Robert Roe's ancestry and career will be gratefully received. F. GORDON ROE.

Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W.I.

CORRY. Charles O'Neill Corry matricu" lated at Oxford from Worcester College' June 13, 1821, and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 22, 1825, aged 20. He is described in the Lincoln's Inn Admission Register as "the second son of the late Hon. Isaac Corry, of Newry, Co. Antrim." Henry Pery Corry matriculated at Dublin Univer- sity, Apr. 5, 1813, aged 16, and is described in the Matriculatio-t .) o^ister as the "son of the Right Hon. Tsaa : Corry." I should be glad to obtain further information about their parentage and careers.

G. F. R. B.

THE TALBOT INN, ASHBOURNE, where Piscator and Viator drink Derbyshire ale in the first chapter of the second part of ' The Complete Angler.' Where in Ashbourne was the Talbot situated, and when did it cease to be an Inn ? G. F. K. B.

DR. BADAMS : DATE or DEATH. Can any one give me the date on which Carlyle's friend, Dr. Badams, died ?

On Aug. 22, 1831, Carlyle writes of him as being in a very bad way (Carlyle's ' Early Life,' ii. 179) ; and in a foot-note on p. 180, it is said that Badams " died miserably soon after." Yet we find Lamb writing to Mrs. Badams on Aug. 20, 1833 : " I long for a hard fought game [of whist] with Badams." If there was a notice of his death in The Gentleman's Magazine, I shall be very much obliged for the reference.

G. A. ANDERSON. Woldingham.

CHEVAL OR CHEVALL. The undersigned would welcome any and all information regarding this family who lived in Hertford- shire and Buckinghamshire from tempo Edward the Confessor. The original name was Sissevernes taken from the house they lived in, at Codicote, Herts, and was changed to Cheval after the Conqueror, owing

presumably to the position of horse-keeper to the king held under that and subse- quent monarchs. Arms : Azure 3 horse's heads couped argent bridled gules. The manor of Sissevernes held for many genera- tions passed from the family in c. 1548 by the marriage of Lucy, daughter and heiress of Edmund Cheval to John Penne. There were, however, many other Chevals at this date (cousins, &c.). What lands went with them ? A. H. CHOVIL.

Maison, Russell Road, Moseley, Birmingham.

RICHARD ELWELL, WINCHESTER SCHOLAR. According to Kirby's 'Winchester Scholars,' p. 278, he was born Mar. 24, 1775, in the parish of St. James, Westminster, entered the College in 1786, and was "removed for rebellion, April, 1793." He kept a school at Hammersmith, and among his pupils were : John Medley (1804-1892), first bishop of Fredericton, New Brunswick ; Henry Alford (1810-1871), Dean of Canter- bury ; Henry Venn Elliott (1792-1865); and William Jowett (1787-1855) (all ? of whom have biographies in the 'D.N.B.'); and the three younger sons of Zachary Macaulay. My note gives as the authority for this The Standard of Dec. 30, 1902, .at p. 3. Has any more easily accessible account of Richard Elwell been published ? If not, any particulars about him would be welcome. JOHN B. WAINEWRIQHT.

IVORY IN AFRICA. I believe that it was stated in a book of early travels that in some part of Africa ivory was so abundant that elephants' tusks were found in use to form a palisade round the house of a native chief. I shall be obliged for a reference to this statement. EMERITUS.

POULTRY AND FRUIT. A belief is current in Warwickshire that if hens are permitted to eat fruit they immediately cease to lay eggs. Is this true, or merely superstition ? W. JAGGARD, Capt.

Memorial Library, Stratford-on-Avon.

THE DUKE or SUSSEX, 1773-1843. A speech made by the Duke in the House of Lords in April, 1812, supporting a motion for a committee to inquire into the disabilities of Roman Catholics with a view to relief was published in quarto by James Asperne, then of the Bible, Crown, and Constitution, Cornhill. I have seen a print of the same speech, in octavo size, and in the Portuguese language, the title-page reading " Londres :