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' MEMOIRS ' OF JEAN LANDRIEUX. (See under ' Lady Hamilton as Messalina of the Sea,' 12 S. vii. 427.) Your correspondent, MR. ANDREW DE TERNANT, states that the two volumes of Jean Landrieux's ' Memoirs ' were published in 1893. I have the first volume, but repeated efforts failed to obtain the second, and I was told that it had never appeared. Can your correspon- dent tell me where it is to be found ? I know the MS. is at the National Library, but have not had an opportunity of examining it. The subject would be, largely, the opera- tions on the Lake of Garda and especially at my home, Salo ; and I always hoped to find in it a more coherent account of the siege of the Palazzo Martinengo than can be found in the references to it by Napoleon and by Thiers. In the room dedicated to French k ' Battles and Victories ' ' in the Museum of Versailles there is a picture of the arrival of the reinforcements sent by Napoleon and of the Palazzo in which the French force was at its last extremity. The strong walls were riddled by the Austrian bombardment from the lake, but did not fall as they must have done before modern engines of war, had the same thing happened in the last war as most people thought that it would; but the Italian defence of the mountains and look-out on the lake deterred our late enemies from making the experi- ment : all that happened by the water-way was the report that a submarine had got through the iron net placed near the (then) frontier, but nothing came of it except the placing of machine guns along the garden walls. So the years passed with the con- tinual thunder of cannon east, west and north, and many an aeroplane passing over, but the house and fountains and statues which excited so much enthusiasm in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu suffered no damage, and the orphans we harboured there, could sing their songs and play their games un- afraid all the while.

EVELYN MARTINENGO-CESARESCO. Penzance.

EARLY MUSTER ROLLS OF THE SCOTS GUARDS. The late Mr. James Grant, the? novelist, in his novel, 'The Constable of France ' published by Routledge in 1866 has an article on ' The Scots Fusilier Guards.' In this he refers to many of the muster roll& of the original companies of the regiment as- being then in his possession. He enumerates- at least eleven. The Earl of Linlithgow'* company, three rolls ; and one each for the- companies commanded by Lord Livingstone,. Col. William Borthwick, Capt. Carnegie,. Lord Ross, the Earl of Keltic, William Innes, James Maitland, and James Murray^

The dates are not later than 1680. Inquiries have failed to elicit the whereabout* of these particular muster rolls. Can any correspondent give any information about them ? CHARLES ,B. BALFOUR. I

Newton Don, Kelso.

ANGELUS. The Byzantine Empero^ Alexius III. (1195-1203) had by his wife Euphrosyne Ducaina, daughter of Gregory^ Kamtera, three daughters : Anna, who mj the Emperor Theodore I. Las'caris (1204 1222) ; Eudocia, who m. the Emperor^ Alexius V. (1204), and Irene, who m. the Despot Alexius Palseologus, and was grand- mother of the Emperor Michael VIII. (1259^ 1282), who recaptured Constantinople from, the Latins in 1261. Who was the mother of Euphrosyne, and when and where did s die ? Was the (Ecumenical Patriarch* John X. Kamtera (1199-1206) her brother ?:

ME DINE ws.

THOMAS ALLSOP, " the famous disciple of Samuel Taylor Coleridge," left his auto- biography and diary with George Jacob- Holyoake. Is it possible for some reader i of 'N. & Q.' to inform me of its present I owner ? I can find no notice that it hapl ever been published. Any information about | ( the life of Allsop will be gratefully received. I

WARREN E. TIBBE. | Columbia University.

[Our correspondent doubtless knows the bio-i graphy of Thomas Allsop from the pen of George- Jacob Holyoake, in the 'D.N.B.'J

ST. OSWALD. Can any reader inform m^l as to whether in mediaeval times in England ( any altar existed with a joint dedication to-jj Saints Oswald and Edmund (kings and martyrs) ? A connexion appears to have-i existed between St. Oswald and St. Nbthi-1 burg, at least they appear together on I fifteenth-century " Schrotblatt print." What!