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 230 NOTES AND QUERIES. , 12 s. ix s Era. 17, mi. record of any kind exists of any room in Malvern being suitable for plays at this early date. By 1817 the village had considerably grown, but is described as still consisting of only about fifty houses. The manager of the plays appears to be Mr. Stanley, and the principal actors were Mr. Leibenrood, Mr. Swindall, Mr. Brown, Mr. Clifford and Mr. Norton; Miss Walton, Mrs. Walton, Mrs. Norton and Mrs. Swindall. A sketch at the end of ' Bon-Ton ' is described as ' Jacob Gawkey's ramble to London, Bath and Malvern.' Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give any information about the company ? Did they take their own travelling theatre with them or not ? F. C. MORGAN, Librarian. BROTHERS OF THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME. What was the object of the custom, not infrequent, e.g., in the sixteenth century, of giving the same Christian name to two sons (or two daughters) ? Could it have had any connexion with the system of leases de terminable on lives, so that a sub- stitute of the same name might be provided in the case of the death of one of the parties ? The Christian name chosen is generally that of the father (or mother), and the children are known as (say) John the elder and John the younger. E. ST. JOHN BROOKS. PORTRAIT OP ELIZABETH HAFFEY. I am anxious to trace a portrait of my grand- mother, taken before her marriage to Major Willoughby Bean, Coldstream Guards, of which I have a good engraving. The wording below the engraving is as follows : I. Foldson, pinxt., Bobt. Laurie, fecit. Miss Haffey. London, Printed for Sayer and J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 1 May, 1777. Elizabeth Haffey was the sister of the Honourable Henry Haffey, Esq., to whom an Etruscan vase, richly embossed and gilt inside, was voted in the year 1804, by the Council and Assembly of the Island of St. Vincent, for his active exertions during the insurrection of the Caribs and in- vasion of the French, in 1795 and 1796. The value at the time was 300 guineas. The Haffey arms were : Ensign armor al argent, a lion rampant gules on chief of the first azure, two crosses patee or, of the field above the shield an helmet befitting his degree, mantled gules, doubled argent ; on a jwreath for crest a demi-lion rampant azure, armed and langued gules, grasping in his dexter paw a cross patee or. For motto, " Avise la Fin." Henry Haffey and Elizabeth Haffey were descended from an ancient and honourable family of Armagh in, the North of Ireland, and then* ancestors had for many genera- tions used the coat of arms as above de- scribed. But they (the arms) received the seal of the office of Ulster King of Arms of all Ireland on the 6th day of May, 1817, in the 57th year of the reign of King George III. The signature above the seal is : " W. Betham, Depy. Ulster King of Arms of all Ireland." Strangely enough, I know of no living member of the Haffey family. My brother, Canon Stillingfleet Bean, has the silver vase presented to Henry Haffey in his possession. I shall be grateful if you can procure for me any information concerning the family and the original portrait of Miss Haffey my grandmother. C. W. BEAN. GEORGE FARINGTON. George Farington, historical painter, the younger brother of Joseph Farington, R.A., was baptized on Nov. 10, 1752. In 1782 he went to India, where, says Edwards, he died at Murshi- dabad in 1788, aged 34. The last state- ment is obviously incorrect, since George Farington would have then been 36. In Joseph Foster's ' Lancashire Pedigrees,' however, George is said to have died in 1786, at which time he would have been 34. Can any reader assist me in clearing up this matter'? F. GORDON ROE. 18, Stanford Road, Kensington Court, W.8. WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL CLOCK To WEB. When was this erected at the Southwark end of London Bridge, and when was it removed to its present site 011 the quay at Swaiiage, in Dorsetshire ? The architect was Arthur Ashpitel, F.S.A. Waif ord ( ' Old and New London ' ) says it was erected about 1854, but the statue of Wellington it was to contain was never placed on it. A. H. S. FORD'S MSS., SUFFOLK COLLECTIONS. I should be glad to know where these are preserved. They do not appear to be at the British Museum or at the Bodleian Library. I know of Craven Ord's collec- tions for the same county. A. H. S.