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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B.VII. DEC. 11,1020.

with a town bell, a clock bell, and an, out- lying quarter bell. The clock bell is 56 in. in diameter, and bears the date 1816. The town bell is dated 1743. Of the set of 12 bells, Nos. 1, 2 and 6 were recast in 1864 ; Nos. 10, 11, and 12, in 1821. The other bells are dated 1602. They bear some Latin lines taken from a hymn in ' Les Vepres de la Vierge,' and record the names of some officials of the town in the French language. The outlying quarter bell bears : " GILLE

SAIVIEN ET SON FILS AN SAIVIEN LAN 1602.

NOVS A TOVT FAICT." The s of FILS and N of AN are broken. All the bells subsequent to 1602 appear to be of French make. Those of 1816, 1864, and 1821 bear the names of known founders. AMHERST D. TYSSEN. 59 Priory Road, N.W.6.

COL. MORDAUNT'S COCK FIGHT (12 S. vii. 392). An engraving of the above picture, with a key, is given in ' John Zoffany, R.A., his Life and Works,' by Lady Victoria Manners and Dr. G. C. Williamson (John Lane, 1920). According to this key the names of the principal persons repre- sented are :

Asaf-ud-daula.

Hasan Baza Khan.

Col. Mordaunt.

Mr. John Wombwell.

Mr. George Johnstone.

Lieut. W. Golding.

Mr. James Orr.

Mr. Ozias Humphry, E.A., or Lieut. Isaac Humphry.

Mr. J. Zoffany.

Nawab Salar Jung.

Mr. (afterwards Sir Trevor) Wheeler.

Col. A. PohVr.

Col. C. Martin.

Lieut. J. Pigot.

Mr. M. S. Taylor.

Mr. Robert Gregory.

Most of these names are also given in an account of the picture at 8 S. viii.

ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

STAFFORDSHIRE PORCELAIN (12 S. vii. 410). The letter M was used by Thomas Minton of Stoke, and is an early mark according to Chaffers ; an illustration similar to the description given by your ocrrespondent will be found on p. 719 of the thirteenth edition of 'Marks and Monograms,' pub- lished 1912. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

DR. JOHNSON AT CHESTER (12 S. vii. 351, 436). I am obliged to PROF. BENSLY'S reply and I can now add that Duppa took the note on the hypocaust from Pennant's
 * Wales,' i. 116. It may be useful to know

that an account of the hypocaust in 1771 (three years before Johnson saw it), by Dr. John Hay garth of Chester, is printed in ' Local Gleanings relating to Lancashire and Cheshire,' ii. 169 (see also p. 171) and that the subject was fully dealt with by Dr. Brushfield in vol. iii. (O.S.) Journal of the- Chester Archaeological Society, p. 72, &c. R. STEWART-BROWN. Bram borough.

DR. ALEXANDER KEITH (12 S. vii. 406). Dr. Keith wrote an account of his illness at Budapest for The Sunday at Home (1867). Extracts from this article may be found in 'A Memoir of Adolph Saphir,' by the Rev. Gavin Carlyle (1893), App. A., pp. 430-5 :

" No sooner did Miss Pardoe hear the doleful tidings [of Keith's illness], then she hasted to the bedside of the speechless stranger, and learned the name by looking for it on my portmanteau. Being herself a stranger in Pesth, she returned at once to the Archduchess, who sent immediate orders that everything possible should be done for my recovery . . . according to the law and practice there, so soon as a foreigner dies, the body is laid twenty-four hours in a church, and then buried. Two men, as I was afterwards told, were there waiting at my bedside to carry me away . . . But other and imperial orders were obeyed, and everything possible was done."

M.

REFUSING A PARDON (12 S. vii. 370). The Samuel Burt who was sentenced to - death for forgery in 1787 was respited ; he appears to have been insane and this accounts for him refusing a pardon. See the 'Newgate Calendar ' (Cainden Pelham). W. BRADBROOKE.

Bletchley.

CAPT. W. H. CRANSTOUN (12 S. vii. 251, 275). As to this unhappy man, 'see Gent. Mag., 1752. He was however never a Captain for he was made a First Lieutenant in Col. Jefferys' newly raised 10th Regiment of Marines on Jan. 24, 1740/1, and when the Marines were disbanded on Nov. 11, 1748, was placed on half-pay of that rank, for the rest of his life. W. R. WILLIAMS.

ADMIRAL BENBOW (12 S. vii. 431). A very full account of John Benbow's en- counter with the Sally Rovers is given by Campbell in his ' Lives of the Admirals,' vol. iv., 1744.

The action took place in 1686 when Benbow was in command of his own ship the Benbow frigate, and it was in con- sequence of this action that Benbow received a commission in the Royal Navy.