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 454 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.IX.DH*. 3,1921. would state where the old burial registers now are. R. S. P. The chapsl and hospital were purchased by the Dock Company in 1825 for 125,000, and the present chapel and buildings were erected in Regent's Park. Some of the tombs, the pulpit and other fragments were pre- served, but the walls are entirely modern. At the close of the eighteenth century Dr. Ducarel published a History, and in 1824 J. B. Nichols, F.S.A., wrote an account of the foundation, in which will be found a list of monuments and inscriptions to persons buried at St. Katharine's. Possibly the pre- sent Master has charge of the registers as he has a number of interesting relics at his house. WALTER E. GAWTHOBP. 16, Long Acre, London. "STANDARDS" (12 S. ix. 388). Martha Whately, the widow of William Whately, vicar of Banbury, by will dated Dec. 2, 1641, disposed of many articles specifically, some being in her own house and some in the house of her mother-in-law, both houses being settled on her son George, on the respective deaths of herself and her mother-in-law. In her will she says : " Item, my will is that there be left for standards in both houses . . ." Then follows a long list of furniture and household things ending with the words, " with such things else that be usually left in freeholds that the houses be not defaced. Also my meaning is that my son George take any of the things left him in the houses to dispose of as he thinks best for his use." A. D. T. BROTHERS OF THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (12 S. ix. 230, 273, 312, 336, 376, 415, 436). The famous Thomas Lynacre, 1460-1524, who was rector of Wigan, had a brother of the same name, as is seen by his will quoted in Bridgeman's ' History of Wigan,' pp. 90-92. The excerpt is as follows : " Item, I bequeth to Thomas Lynacre, my brother, xls " ; concerning which Canon Bridgeman comments : " It is remark- able that his brother should have borne the same Christian name as himself, but this was not very unusual." A. J. H. WIGAN. DR. BIRD, AMERICAN NOVELIST (12 S. ix. 408). Robert Montgomery Bird was born at Newcastle, Delaware, Feb. 6, .1805, and died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22, 1854. After taking a medical degree at Philadelphia he practised for one year only, and then became a contributor to The Monthly Magazine of Philadelphia and wrote three tragedies, ' The Gladiator,* ' Oraloosa ' and ' The Broker of Bogota.* These were popular in their time, and the principal character of the first was one of the favourite personations of Edward For- rest. His first novel, ' Calavar, the Knight of the Conquest,' appeared in 1834, and his second, ' The Infidel ; or the Fall of Mexico,' was published in Philadelphia in 1835. As the scene of both of these is laid in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, it is impossible to say which of them is the one that C. L. S. wants. These two novels were followed in rapid succession by ' The Hawks of Hawk Hollow,' ' Sheppard Lee,' 'Nick of the Woods' (1837), the scene of which is laid in Kentucky about the close of the Revolution, ' Peter Pil- grim ' (1838), a collection of tales and sketches, and ' The Adventures of Robin Day' (1839). In 1839 Dr. Bird returned to his native village,where he took to farming on an extensive scale, but for a few years be- fore his death he edited The North American Gazette at Philadelphia, of which he became a joint proprietor. The above account is taken from ' Apple- ton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography,' and ' Beeton's Dictionary of Universal Biography.' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. [MB. ARCHIBALD SPABKE also thanked fop reply. He mentions that of these books only ' Nick of the Woods ' is now in print (Nicholson, London, 2s. 6d.). This is published without the author's name.] PHARAOH AS A SURNAME (12 S. ix. 407). This name is given by Bardsley in his well- known work, and is, he thinks, a corruption of some local or other surname on Biblical lines. He suggests that it may be " Farrow," but has nothing on the latter under F. Is it not extremely likely to be a scriptural spelling of Faroe, signifying " the man from Faroe, " or the Faroe Islander I C. J. TOTTENHAM. Diocesan Library, Liverpool. The poll-book of the noted Yorkshire County Election of May- June, 1807, gives the name of a voter resident at Whitby as " Pharoah, George, Shipwright." W. B. H. GLASS-PAINTERS or YORK (12 S. ix. 364). " Hagemoor " coals must refer clearly to Haigh Moor, in the West Riding of York- shire, 5J miles north-west of Wakefield, still well known for its coal. H. W. DICKINSON.