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 12 s. vii. JULY 17, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 53 of trees and birds, the manuscript of which was sold with Sir Thomas Phillipps's collec- tion on 21 June, 1893." EDWARD BENSLY. The book referred to by Gilbert Cannan is undoubtedly ' Heraldry of Fish,' by Thomas Moule (London, John Van Voorst, 1842). It used to be priced at about 4s. 6d. by second-hand dealers. ST. SWITHIN. [Several other correspondents thanked for replies to the same effect. J A STOLEN (dele SECRET) TIDE (12 S. vii. 38). I am annoyed at my blunder and apologize to all whom it may concern. "Stolen" was Jean Ingelow's word, and that was the term that puzzled me. Why I wrote " secret " is a thing I cannot under- stand. My thanks to C. L. S. for the courteous correction. ST. SWITHIN. PORTRAITS BY COTES (12 S. vii. 8). Maria, Lady Coventry died in September, 1760, and was very ill from consumption for some time before that date, so it does not seem likely that she sat for her portrait that year, but of course Cotes may after her death, have been employed by the family to do a replica of a former one. I have several pastelle portraits of her, her sisters, father and brother, many of them signed and dated by Cotes, and I have also six mezzotints from different portraits of Maria. The late Duke of Hamilton was no rela- tive of the Duke who married Elizabeth Gunning, Maria's sister. Elizabeth was the mother of two consecutive Dukes of Hamil- ton, but neither of them left male issue. I have heard that no catalogue of Cotes's portraits exists. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. COURTENAY RIOTS (12 S. vii. 29). MR. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS will find the best description of the Courtenay Riots in 'The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Sir William Courtenay alias John Nichols Tom,' by Canterburiensis, published at Canterbury by James Hunt, 1838 ; also in the local paper, The Kentish Gazette, June 5, 1838. W. J. M. MR. LANDFEAR LUCAS will find a very full account of this affair, which occurred at Boughton near Canterbury on May 31, 1838, in the Annual Register for that year at p. 84 of the ' Chronicle. ' There is also a short account under the head of " Thomites " in Haydn's 'Dictionary of Dates.' A Cornish crank named Thorn, who assumed the name of Sir W. Courtenay, Knight of Malta and King of Jerusalem, stirred up the rabble against the Poor Law Act. When the military were called out he killed the commanding officer, Lieut. Bennett with a pistol shot, but one of the soldiers shot Thorn who fell dead beside the body of the lieu- tenant. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. There is some account of the above in Canon G. W. Horsley's ' I Remember ' (1911). A. R. BAYLEY. See Sir William Courtenay at 11 S. v. 428 ; vi. 18, 50 ; vii. 297. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. A LITERARY HOAX (12 S. vii. 8). In The Sibyl, edited by members of Rugby School, No. 16, April 1. 1893, a most admirable, poem, called ' The Miniature,' and signed " R. Browning," appeared, beginning " One dull day in the bright Touraine," and con- sisting of seventeen four-line stanzas. It was " believed to have been written by Mr. Browning in the album of a Virginian lady," and completely took in Dr. Furnivall, who reprinted it in 1904 as genuine. But it was not. It was written by a Mrs. Watts lories. The Kipling poem referred to was ' The Old Volunteer,' printed in The Times of May 27, 1918, and repudiated in the next issue. FAMA. WILD DARRELL (12 S. vii. 30). The same- question appeared in ' N. & Q. ' as far back as 1855, and at intermittent intervals be- tween there has been considerable correspon- dence respecting the Littlecote Hall legend of the Elizabethan period. I do not think any detailed record of " Will " Darrell's trial exists, but it would seem to have been held at Salisbury before Chief Justice Popham about the year 1577. It is recorded that Darrell promised Popham the reversion of Littlecote on condition that he let him go unpunished, and that the judge ordered Darrell to be brought up as the first prisoner at the trial when, by virtue of his right as a- maiden judge so to treat the first prisoner brought before him, he acquitted Darrell who was killed in a hunting accident some months afterwards, and Littlecote Halt passed to the Popham family. Perhaps the best and fullest account of the whole affair is to be found in vol. ii. of Chambers' ' Book of Days,' p. 554, which succinctly sum- marises practically all that is known about it. For the benefit however of Mr. White^