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 12 S. VIII. MABCH 19, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 229 Red-House, Battersea ' (two views) ; ' Near Cock-Grow Heath, Surrey ' ; and ' South View of Old Chalk Farm, allowed by tradi- tion to have been a country residence of Ben Jonson.' Some of these obviously do not belong to Part II. The etchings are exceedingly well done, have open letter titles and are printed on thick paper with wide uncut margins, water- marked 1815; they are very much after the style of John Thomas Smith, and one wonders whether the artist was a relative or pupil of that celebrated London topo- grapher and draftsman. I have come across some of these plates mostly used for extra-illustrating histories of London and suburbs, but have never seen a complete set of them, and I am sure any information as to the etchings or the etcher would be very welcome to many London collectors. The wrapper I have is perfectly plain, but on the front outside leaf is written in ink, in a feminine hand, " Miss Smith's Etchings, No. 2." The plates are variously numbered, in pencil, at the right hand top corner, 30 to 38, but whether by the artist or a former owner I cannot say. None of them has any imprint or signature. E. E. NEWTON. " Hampstead," Upminster, Essex. ABNEPOS. Is there any known instance of this word being used for any less remote descendant than a grandchild's grandson ? A testator leaves all his property to his abnepos by name, and dies at the age of 68. It seems to involve four persons marrying at the age of 1 6 or thereabout. A. T. M. MONTE GRISTO. Was there an " original " of the Count of Monte Cristo who was imprisoned in the Chateau D'lf, or is the story entirely due to the imagination of Alex. Dumas, pere ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. DR. JOHNSON : PORTRAIT IN HILL'S EDI- TION OF BOSWELL. The frontispiece to the third volume of Hill's edition of Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' consists of a portrait, which is there described as a portrait of Johnson, by Reynolds ; and the list of illustrations, in the first volume of the same edition, describes the portrait in the third volume in the same way. But no one can deny that the portrait in question is very unlike Johnson, and very like Goldsmith. Is there some mistake in Hill's edition, and is the portrait really Goldsmith ? W. SCABSIE. HELLIER. Can any one tell me about Samuel Hellier of Rushock near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire. He came of age in 1757, and was son of Samuel Hellier who died in 1752. A Samuel Hellier was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1760 : was this he, and whom did he marry, and when die ? His mother was Miss Huntback of Fetherston and Woodhouses in Staffordshire. Any details about her and her family I should be glad to learn. M. WYNDHAM (Mrs. H. Wyndham). Queen's Road, Johannesburg, S. Africa. ALEXANDER STOKOE married Ann Bunyon at St. Pancras, co. Middlesex, Dec. 2, 1809. What is known of him or his family ? I have seen an eighteenth-century miniature of a lady described to me as being " Miss Stokoe, a famous beauty." F. GORDON ROE. Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W.I. GERVASE DE CORNHILL. (See 12 S. vii. 490.) Having received no answer to my query as above, may I re-state it a little more fully in the hope that even if this still does not evoke the information required, the new details may be of assistance' to future inquirers ? Dr. Round has shown that Gervase was " son of Roger nepos Huberti," and obtained Chalk in Kent on his presumed death. Roger had had a grant of it about 1120 when Eudo " Dapifer " its previous possessor died and Eudo had had it after Adam FitzHubert his brother, the Domesday holder. Query A. Was Roger grandson of Hubert de Rie," the father of Adam and Eudo, and therefore nephew of their other brother Hubert FitzHubert de Rie, Castellan of Norwich ? But Gervase was not merely " son of Roger nepos Huberti," he was closely con- nected with Hubert, King Stephen's Cham- berlain, of whom he held lands and with whom and his son Richard de Anesty he made grants (v. Cat. Ancient Deeds, Pub. Rec. Office, passim) which point to a near relationship. Now this Hubert the Cham- berlain and his heirs held the manor of Bracchinges (Bracksted) in Essex after Eudo " Dapifer," which brings him into the Hubert de Rie descendance, but from his date he was hardly Roger's uncle : he had however a father Hubert (or Herbert), Chamberlain to Henry I. Query B. Was this Hubert or Herbert the (first) Chamberlain, uncle of Roger ?