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 12 s. vin. JAN. 29, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 89 ROBEKT CHOKE, ft. 1270. In 'Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees ' there occurs a Robert Croke who took up the cross in the last Crusade 1270. Can any of your readers say from what part of the country this Robert Croke came, or, better still, inform me to what family he belonged ? I have no evidence, but it is just possible that he may have belonged to the Lanca- shire Crooks, the senior branch of which held the manor of Crook in the township of ^yhittle-le- Woods from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. In the short skeleton pedigree given below there is a Robert who would be contemporary with the one named in the above-mentioned work : Gilbert de Whittle, living circa 1150=r (See ' Lancashire Pipe Rolls,' &c. (Farrer) Henry de Whittle. Made a grant of land in=f Whittle to the Knights Hospitallers | Hugh de Crook (also styled^r... "de Whittle"), living 1257 I Issue. Richard de Clayton=f= (or "de Crook") Issue. Roger de Crook (also styled=p. "dejWhittle") | RobertFf Issue. I should be grateful for any information sent direct to me at the address below. Eccleston Park, Preseot, Lancashire. F. CROOKS. JOHN BEAUMONT. The following query appeared at 8 S. viii. 187 : " I have an oval miniature on vellum, about three and a half inches by three inches, enclosed within a silver-gilt case with glass ; a loop, formed in the shape of a true lover's knot, for suspension. The miniature is probably by Richardson, a portrait painter of some repute early in the eighteenth century, and the portrait is dressed in a grey open coat, coloured waistcoat and frill or lace neckcloth. Who was the John Beaumont above referred to ? J. HENRY." Can any one inform me if the writer of this query is still alive, or who has possession of the eighteenth century miniature of John Beaumont to which he refers ? E. BEAUMONT. 1 Staverton Road, Oxford. PORTRAIT OF LEOPOLD I. OF BELGIUM. A fine equestrian life-size painting of King Leopold I. of Belgium was a notable feature for many years of the principal dining- room of the former De Keyser's Royal Hotel at Blackfriars. Where is this picture at present located ? J. LANDFEAR LUCAS. 101 Piccadilly, W. GOUGER. Information required as to name of Gouger believed now to be extinct. (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. STAPLETON, TUTOR TO O'CONNELL. Can any one give any record of a Brian Stapleton or Bryan Stapylton, tutor to Daniel O'Connell? (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. Wootton Cottage, Lincoln. EDWARD BOOTY. Information is sought concerning the life and remains of Edward Booty of Brighton, landscape painter, who exhibited in London between 1846 and 1848. Was he a connexion of Henry R. Booty who exhibited in 1882-3 ? F. GORDON ROE. Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W.I. KINEMA OR CINEMA ? I do not know whether the spelling and pronunciation of this word has been discused in ' N. & Q.' There is, I believe, a Cinematograph Act of Parliament ; and if so spelt in the Statute Book, it may be regarded as an authoritative ruling. G. B. M. THE MAYFLOWER : PETER BROWN. One of the passengers was a Peter Brown, carpenter, an ancestor of the renowned John Brown of Harper's Ferry. Could any one state birthplace or county of origin of Peter ? F. BROWN. 1 and 2 Whitfield Street, E.C.2. MAUNDRELL'S 'JOURNEY FROM ALEPPO TO JERUSALEM,' EASTER, 1697. This passed through many editions not only alone, and combined with the same author's * Journey ' from Aleppo to Beer on the Euphrates, and to Mesopotamia ; but bound up under one title-page with Dr. Clayton's translation of the Journal which the Prefetto of Egypt kept of the journey he took in 1722 from Cairo to Mount Sinai and back, and, in at least one instance, along with Jos. Pitts's 'Faithful Account of the Religion,' &c.,