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235 2 538 2 233 1 -254 1 .62 1 277 2 -289 1 312 2 314 2 Index. CORRECTIONS. Voice of Truth. Commenced Clitliproe, Jnru, 1830 Published ai Koltuii, Feb., 1831, to Dec, 1833. Bolton Chronicle. Commenced Oct. 9, 1824. Ceased publication, Dec. 22, 1917. Bolton Advertiser July, 1848 t<> -Inly, 1900 Was known as Mackie s Advertiser until Angus'-, 1851. British Temperance Advocate. Com- menced Bolton. July, 1849. Winterburju'H Advertiser. Commenced January I. !854. and ceased pnnie year. Bowtun Luminary. 1852 to 862. Bolton Kveiiig Nevs. AJarch ]9, 1867- In progress. Frti-nwortli Observer, 18RO 1o !873- Con- tinued as Farn worth Weekly Journal and Observer, 187'^. In progress. Bolt.on Daily Cnronic^-. C>ramenced Sept. 8, 1SG8. Ceased publication Dec. 22, 1917. Football FieH. Ceased public ition 1015. Bolton Express Full tille. Bol.ron Express and County Kifcctive A^vertisei. Bolton Star, jNo.'l to 5G June 5, 1891 to June 2,>. : 1"92. Bolton (:J:-iznite. Ceased publication after a few numbers. Farnwnrtli Chronicle. Ceased publication D-c, 1917. Bol'-on Catholic lit- raid. No. 1 issued 1894. Bolton Citizeri. Index states page 320; should be p. -me 322. ARCHIBALD SPASKB. ROYAL BRITISH BANK (12 S. viii. ISO). was founded in 1840 and suspended pay- ment in September, 1856. The chief pro- jector and original Governor of the bank was John McGregor, 31. P. for Glasgow, who died soon after the closing of the b&nk and so escaped prosecution. The directors (ex- cept McGregor and another who had fiecl the country to avoid arrest) were tried for conspiracy to defraud and convicted in February, 1858, together with the manager, Hugh Innes Cameron. They were sentenced to various terms of impr; .uong them were Humphry Brown, M.P. for "Tewkesbury, Richard Hartley Kennedy, Alderman of London, and Henry Dunning Macleod, author of a vork on the ' Theory and Practice of Banking ' and of a text -book of Political Economy, and also of ., ' History of Banking in Great Britain.' There is R.TI article on Mr.oleod in the second supple- ment of the 'D.N.B.' in which, no reference ...is ma.de to his connexion with !]' I British Bank. Ih v-;;s son-in-law of (' von. McGregor, who was a vry strong Free 'Trader, (as were Brown and Macleod) luvl "been one of the two Permanent Secretaries to the Board of Trade and had much to do with the preparation of Sir Robert Peel's measure for the repeal of the Corn Laws. I believe he was the " Popkins "of " Pop- kins' Plan " on which Disraeli poured ridicule in his speech on the third reading of the bill. A full account of the trial of the directors will be found in Morier Evans' ' Facts, Failures, and Frauds,' pp. 268-390. ALFRED B. BE A VEX. Leamington. The Royal British Bank failed on Sept. 3, 1856 ; some directors brought to trial, Feb. 27, 1858. See 'Annals of 'our Trials,' by J. Irving, under these dates. E. C. A.-L. Sm ROBERT BELL OF BEATPRE (12 S. vi. 39 ; vii. 178, 414, 475). I am grateful to MR. BEDWELL for asking my authority for my statement regarding " Robert Bell of the Temple " in 12 S. vii. 414. As a result of further- scrutiny of some papers I find that the records of the College of Arms and of the Temple do not quite tally with regard to the Robert Bell referred to. From the records in the former which was - the principal authority for my statement it appears that the arms " Sa., on a chevron between three church bells ar. as many lion's heads couped gu." were granted by oatent in 1560 to "Robert Bell, of the Temple, London, son of William Bell of co. York." These were not the arms borne by Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre, which were "Sa., a fesse erm. between three church bells ar." There were thus two Robert Bells of the Temple about that time. MR. BEDWELL asserts that this was not the case, and I think the solution lies partly in the fact that " Robert Bell, late of Lyons Inn, Gent.," was admitted a member of the Inner Temple, on July 13, 1571. Lvon's Inn was one of the Inns absorbed by the Inner Temple. Sir Robert Bell, Cliief Baron of the Exchequer, was a member of the Middle Temple. But even now the question is not solved for in the patent of arms granted to Robert Bell in 1560 he is described as "of liic Temple," whereas the Robert Bell, formerly of Lvon's Inn, was not admitted to the Inner Temple until 1571. It would, appear, therefore, either that one Robert Bell has been lost sight of in the Temple records ; or that Sir Robert Bell had two grants of arms. Doubtless the College of Arms could throw light on this point. I regret that I wrote "Hertfordshire" where