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 12 s. vii. DEC. 4, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Win. Hardiman was buried at St. Mar- garet's, Westminster, July 23, 1680, and his widow obtained a grant of Administration on that day week, but she had already provided herself on the 27th, with a licence to remarry one Wm. Brawne, and such marriage took place accordingly at Rich- mond on Aug. 2.

J. CHALLONEB SMITH.

Silchester Common, Reading.

EARLIEST ENGLISH POETESS (12 S. vii. 351, 417, 438). In the preface to the Oxford University Press edition of Chaucer's works, Prof. Skeat discusses on p. xvii the works mistakenly attributed to Chaucer. Of one of these he says '"The Flower and the Leaf ' cannot be earlier than 1450, and was pro- bably written, as it purports to be, by a lady." M. H. DODDS.

Low Fell, Gateshead.

DIOCESAN CALANDABS AND GAZETTES (12 S. vi. 296; vii. 19, 118). The Rev. Edward Jas. Justinian Geo. Edwards, M.A. (born 1812), Vicar of Trentham, Staffs., from 1841 until his death in November, 1884^ appears to have originated Diocesan Calen- dars. He first published the Lichfield Diocesan Calendar in 1856, and continued to edit it from that year until the date of his death. H. G. HARBISON.

COBBY (12 S. vii. 350, 395). Henry Pery Corry was made cornet 6th Dragoons Guards, July 7, 1825, and was named Pery after Lord Glentworth, sometime Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, in which Isaac Corry (who fought a dueJ with Henry Grattan) sat for twenty-four years, till the Union, and held several offices under Govern- ment, the chief of which was Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer from 1799 to 1804.

W. R. WILLIAMS.

PABAVICINI MAWHOOD (12 S. vii. 392). There can be no mistaking a man of this unusual name, which is spelt slightly wrong at the above reference. He entered the army at a later age. than most officers, becoming cornet in the Royal Horse Guards. Oct. 12, 1751, lieutenant, 29 Oct. 1754, and captain Jan. 9, 1759, and was serving in Germany in 1761. He sold his troop in the Blues Nov. 16, 1764, when he retired from the army. I do not know whether he belonged to the Yorkshire family of this name. W. R. WILLIAMS.

CARAVAN (12 S. vii.1209, 256, 276). No- one seems to have given the origin of this name. My father has often told me that the great horse of one year was entered to ruix^ at two places so far apart that it was sup- posed he would have to abandon one. The owner, however, had a special carriage built and provided relays of swift horses. The animal was thus enabled to win both races,, and the novelty of the contrivance made such. a sensation in the sporting world that the- name of the vehicle, "caravan," was bestowed upon a horse in the following year.

With this clue it ought not to be difficult to discover the names of the famous race- horse and his ingenious owner.

OLD SABTJM.

DATE OF THE DEATH OF POPE JOHN XXIII. (12 S. vii. 405). Referring to MB. PIEBPOINT'S note in this week's issue,. I notice that Pastor in his 'History of the Popes,' and Gregorovius in his ' Rome in the Middle Ages,' both give this date correctly, viz., Dec. 22, 1419. So do such modern histories of Florence as I happen to possess ; but, curiously enough, T. A. Trollope in his- ' History of the Commonwealth of Florence,' published in 1865, gives the date as Dec.21 evidently miscalculating " xi kalendas lanuarii."

There is a fine description of the tomb of this Pope the last to be buried away from Rome in Gregorovius' ' Grabdenkmaler der Papste.' The tomb itself is one of the earliest Renaissance monuments in existence..

HUXLEY ST. JOHN BBOOKS. Baling Common.

H. HAINSSELIN (12 S. vii. 392). The following extract from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1883, p. 127 ('Report of Committee on Works of Art in Devon ') may be of help to MEE :

Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter. The rooms of this valuable Institution contain several good works of art, the majority being the productions of Devonshire Artists, viz. :

In the Library : Hainsselin, Henry, Devonport, now at Melbourne,-

Australia.

Portrait of the late Samuel Barnes, Esq. Half length, life size. Oil on canvas*. This portrait of an eminent surgeon, who was- for many years Honorary Secretary to the In- stitution, was the bequest of Mrs. Granger. The subject is seated toward the left, in ordinary black dress of the nineteenth century. The bands hold between them a sheet of paper ; tha-