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 12 s. vm. APRIL 9, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 293 ST. LEGEB PHILPOTS AND GOLDSMITH. I trust some help may be given to me by readers of ' N. & Q.' in discovering the parentage of Mary St. Leger Philpots, an Irish heiress who married the Rev. Henry South, M.A., Rector of Much Dewchurch, co. Hereford, son of Henry South of Bos- sington, Hants, by Maria, dau. and sole surviving issue of John Braddyll of Car- shalton. She had two children : a son killed in the Peninsula and a dau., Maria Beata, married in 1816 to Rev. Luke Yarker of Leyburn Hall, N. R., Yorks, and Vicar of Chillingham. Mrs. South (nee Philpots) married secondly a Dr. Goldsmith, who was, it is stated in a local guide of the year 1866, on board the Victory at Trafalgar, and with Nelson when he died. Southey does not mention him in his ' Life of Nelson.' He names only a Surgeon Beatty, and it is of interest to know if this local report had any foundation of fact. F. P. LEYBURN-YARKER. 20 St. Andrews Street, Cambridge. 1*. A. AND T. FAWCET, Printers in London occur in or about 1640. Is anything known of them ? I. F. CHRISTOPHER GEORGE BARLOW, D.D., late Bishop of North Queensland. Can any reader give me, or say where I can find, a biography of this prelate ? , I. F. PETER TILLEMANS, ARTIST, 1684-1734. An engraving exists from a picttire by him shewing the Duke of Kingston exercising young pointers, 1725. It is 17 in. by 11 in., engraved by Prit chard and lettered " His Grace and Attendants going a-setting." Has any of your readers got a copy? I am anxious to get details if possible. E. E. LEGGATT. 62 Cheapside, E.C.2. INCOME TAX EXEMPTION : BRIGHTON. From the heavy Income tax levied by Henry VIII. at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey in 1523 the township of Bright- helmstone (Brighton) in Sussex is especially exempted, but no reason appears why the Act was not extended to Brighton. Some of the Northern counties were privileged to escape the heavy impost on account of expenses incurred by them in the Scottish wars. Chester and Brighton were the only two places in England fortunate in escaping the tax. Why this indulgence ? R. B. Upton. THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS. Can you place me in position to secure a history of the Royal Horse Guards of London, part of the Household Brigade, or some pamphlet which will give a brief outline of the history,, together with a description of the uniforms worn ? The reason for this query is that t he- Governor's Horse Guards of Hartford, Con- necticut, organized in 1778, were modelled to a large degree on the Royal Horse Guards^ The Governor's Horse Guards have had a continuous organization since the date above mentioned to the present time, and I am interested in writing a history which will include the organization as it served in France in the recent war, the Commander of which I had the honour to be. J. L. HOWARD, Formerly Lt.-Col., American Expeditionary Forces. Hartford, Connecticut. HUNGER STRIKE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. Cecilia de Ridgeway, accused of" having murdered her husband and com- mitted to prison at Nottingham, refused all food. She was pardoned bv the King (Edward II.). Can any of your readers direct me to the- record of this event ? At present my only knowledge is the bare statement above, culled from a notice in the Bulletin de la Societe Francaise cT Histoire de la Medicine that L. Landray has written upon the case of Cecilia de Ridgeway in Gazette Medicale du Centre, November, 1920 a copy of" which I am trying to obtain. RORY FLETCHER. LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY'S T)E VERITATE.' I shall be grateful if any of your readers can point me to an existing copy of the 1624 Paris edition of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's ' De Veritate.' All the bibliographical manuals mention this edition, as do Remusat, Guttler, Sir Sidney Lee, and other commentators upon or biographers of Herbert of Cherbury. So- far as I have hitherto been able to discover no copy of the 1624 edition is to be found in English public libraries, or in private collections. Inquiries in Paris have not brought to light a copy. Neither the Bibliotheque Nationale nor the Biblio- theque de 1'Arsenal possesses anything earlier than the 1633 London edition. Herbert left his Latin and Greek bookie to Jesus College, Oxford ; but the Meyrick