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 8 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. JAN. i, 1921 The American Historical Review, vol. ix. (Macmillan, N. Y., 1904), and which contains an account of the funeral procession. Amongst those present at the ceremony were : 8. Tho : Lovelace Esq., father of the deceased and his Lady in close Mourning. 10. Coll : ffraucis Lovelace p'sent Governo r of New Yorke and uncle to the deceased in close Mourning single. 11. Capt. : Dudley Lovelace uncle also to the deceased in like Mourning single. The ' Minutes ' of the Executive Council of New York (Albany, 1910),. state that " Thomas Lovelace, brother of the Governor, was at this time (1672) Alderman of New York City," having been so appointed Oct. 31, 1671, and was a Captain in the Foot Company of Staten Island on July 1, 1672. Again, in The Magazine of History, vol. i. (New York, 1905) there are to be found several letters reprinted from a MS. in the Congressional Library, one of which, from Governor Lovelace, refers to "my neece, Mrs. Ruth Gorsuch " (who had married William Whitby of Virginia, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 1653) with regard to the guardianship of her son William, by Thomas Todd of Virginia, husband of her sister, Anne Gorsuch. Further particulars of these families, too long to quote here, are to be seen in the above-named magazine. These records, then, establish the fact that Governor Francis Lovelace had brothers named Thomas and Dudley, and a sister married to a Mr. Gorsuch : no such persons, however, are to be found in the pedigrees of the Barons Lovelace of Hurley as issue of the first Baron Lovelace. On turning to the pedigrees of Lovelace of Woolwich, as given in Berry's 'County Genealogies' (County of Kent), and ^in Archceologia Cantiana, vol. x., &c., we find Col. Francis Lovelace with his brothers Thomas, Richard the poet, and Capt. Dudley, and a sister Anne (married to the Rev. John Gorsuch or Gorsage, Rector of Walkern, Herts, whose pedigree is to be found in 'The Visitation of London, 1633-4,' Harl. Soc., p. 327), all children of Sir William Lovelace of Woolwich. As the above quotations are mainly from American publications, which may not be readily available to readers of 'N. & Q.', it is hoped that they may serve to correct a long-standing error. C. CLABKSON SHAW, Capt. " ROMANTIQUE. " The year 1821 is gener- ally accepted as the opening of the Romantic Movement in France, and the origin of the term " Romantique " or "L'Ecole Roman- tique " seems to have puzzled many British and American writers of centenary articles and even books. J. Demogeot in his 'Histoire de la Litterature Franaise ' (Paris, Hachette, 1st ed., 1861 ; 7th ed., 1866) says : " Mme. de Stael avait la premiere, en France,, prononc^ le mot romantique. Elle d^signait ainsi la po^sie ' dont les chants des troubadours ont e'te' 1'origine, celle qui est .nee de la cbevalerie et du christianisme.' On sait que ces chants avaient eu pour premier organe les langues neo- latines qu'on appelait romanes, et les poemes Merits en ces langues et nommes pour cette raison rowans." Mme de Stael died in 1817, but her famous work on 'L'Allerr.agne ' and her novel * Corinne ' enrolled her among the prophets of 'L'Ecole Romantique.' ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36 Somerleyton Koad, Brixton, S.W. GILES CAPEL, Fellow of All Souls' College^- Oxford, 1540; Rector of Duloe, Cornwall' 1541, M.A.j 1545; Rector of How Capel Herefordshire, 1549 ; Prebendary of White Lackington in the Cathedral Church of Wells and Rector of Yeovilton, Somerset, both in 1554 ; was deprived of these two latter preferments in 1560, and went to Louvain where he was living in 1562 and 1572. On July 3, 1574, he (described as formerly a Canon of Bath and as aged about 60) was provided to a Canonry at Bruges by Pope Gregory XIII. (Archivio Vaticano,. Arm. lii. t. 31 ; Arm. xliv, t. 22 f. 206d). According to the' Concertatio Ecclesise ' he died abroad before 1588. What else is known about him ? JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. REPRESENTATIVE COUNTY LIBRARIES,. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. It would be quite a good thing for topographical scholars to know where to turn for information con- cerning a county not their own, and a list might be made of really first-class repre- sentative County Libraries by correspondents of 'N. &Q.' As far as my knowledge goes the best West Riding Library is at the Bradford Public Library (Mr. Butler Wood), the Library Committee having wisely acquired the library of the late C. A. Federer and the topographical part of that of the late J. Norton Dickon's library two noted-