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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vn. DEC. 11,1920.

9. There is an account of Dr. Nicholas 'D.N.B.' He lost his sight from small-pox in infancy.
 * Saunderson, F.R.S. (1682-1739), in the

11. George Granville Francis Egerton, v born June 15, 1823, was known by the courtesy title of Viscount Brackley, end became the 2nd Earl of Ellesmere on the death of his father, Feb. 18, 1857.

JOHN B. WAINSWRIGHT.

8. Emerson made a slight mistake when he described Landor as saying that Words- worth never praised anybody. The follow- ing remark occurs in an imaginary conversa- tion first printed in 1842, Porson being the speaker: "It is reported of him [Words- worth] that he never was heard to commend -the poetry of any living author " (Landor's

4 Works,' iv. 79). This, no doubt, is what Emerson had in his mind, but he forgot that Wordsworth was only accused of neglecting to praise living poets. Emerson may also have read Landor's ' Satire on Satirists,' where Landor, speaking in his own person, says :

Why every author on thy hearthstone burn ? Why every neighbour twitcht and shov'd in turn ?

STEPHEN WHEELER. Oriental Club, Hanover Square.

9. "A blind savant, like. .. .Sanderson." This was Nicholas Sanderson, born 1682, at Thurlston, in Yorks ; deprived by small-pox, when only a year old, not only of his sight, but actually of his eyeballs yet in spite of this he became an eminent mathematician. Pied Apr. 19, 1739; buried at Boxworth. ( J. Cbaloner Smith, ' British Mezzotinto Portraits,' vol. i. p. 420, No. 316.) There

.are engraved portraits of him by T. Faber, jun., after Vanderbank, by F. Kyte (in the 'Worthies of Britain' series), and by G. White after Vanderbank all three in mezzo- tint, after the portrait in the University Library at Cambridge. There are also -some small line engravings after the same picture. He was Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge. J. C.

MABCELLA FRENCH (12"S. vii. 29, 157). I do not think Jeffry French, M.P. for Tavistock, had any sister named Marcella. 'There is a list of the brothers and sisters in an Irish Chancery Bill of Dec. 17, 1734, Arthur French v. Arthur French. The children of Arthur French of Tyrone and 'Cloonyquin were, by his first wife, Mary .Kirwan, Christopher of Tyrone, John an4

Julian (married Simon Kirwan and d.s.p.) ; and, by his second wife, Sarah Burke (widow of Irieil Farrell), Arthur of Cloonyquin, Patrick, Jeffry, Edmund, Simon, Sara, Jeane and Hellen. In 1734 Sara was wife of Arthur Plunkett, Jeane was widow of Richard Murphy, and Hellen was wife of Richard O ' Farrell ; but in 1729 Hellen is named in her brother Arthur's will as Hellen Proby, so she must have been at least twice married. It seems likely that Jeane married Andrew Blake after the death of Richard Murphy ; but it is quite possible that some of Jeffry's "nephews" were* his grand- nephews of the half blood, for his eldest half-brother, Christopher of Tyrone, had six daughters, only one of whom I know to have been married. None of them was named Marcella.

I read Jeffry French's will many years ago, and my notes are very brief. I have "nephew Patrick Blake, an infant," but no mention of "Chr.," nor of their father, Andrew Blake. It is remarkable that Burke (ed. 1899) mentions only Patrick, though he cites Jeffry's will.

A. M. B. IRWIN.

47 Ailesbury Road, Dublin.

WILL PROVED BEFORE BURIAL OF TESTA- TOR (12 S. vii. 391, 439, 452). I should have been more explicit. The will of the testatrix in question was dated Apr. 22, 1752, was proved May 5 following, and she was buried in a London church, according to the Parish Register, on the 16th (f that month. If probate was granted on the 8th day, the body must have remained unburied for at least 19 days. The month was May, and there is no mention of embalmment ; tut is there any other possible explanation ? GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

SILVER WINE CISTERNS (12 S. vii. 250, 294, 433). There is a reference to Henry Jernigan's silver cistern in Smith's 'Nolle- kens and his Times,' vol. i. p. 289, a new edition of which has just been edited and copiously annotated by Mr. Wilfred Whitten :

"Walking with Mr. Nollekens to see Mr. Grignon's pictures, consigned to him from Rome by his brother Charles, just as we were going un to his door, No. 10, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, Mr. Nollekens regretted that he had left home without putting the Jernigan medal into his pocket, as Mr. Grignon had promised to give him some account of it.

" What information Mr. Nollekens obtained I know not ; but I find in one of Mr. Grignon's interesting letters to me, upon my Covent Garden