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 42 NOTES AND QUERIES. [-i* & la, m. 16. Cobden Club. Very many Essays, Pamphlets, Books, Leaf- lets. &c. Vide Catalogue of the Guildhall Library, 1889. p. 203. 17. The Cocked Hat Club. The Magna Charta of the Cocked Hat Club. Text pp. 5-iO. Published about 1875. This is an inner coterie of the Society of Antiquaries. 18. The St. George's Club. Notes and Jottings on Hanover Square and the St. George's Club. 4to. 12 pp. only. No title. Frontispiece on cover. 19. Grillon's Club. Grillon's Club from its Origin in 1812 to its Fiftieth Anniversary. By P. G. E. London: privately printed, 1880. Small 4to. pp. vi.-x. and 1-126. 20. The Garrick Club. The Garrick Club. Notices of One Hundred and Thirty-five of its Former Members. By the Rev. R. H. Barham. Privately printed, 1896. 21. The Garrick Club. By Percy Fitzgerald, F.S.A. London, 1904. 4to, Red Cloth, lettered, pp. ix.-xviii. and 2-252. 22. The Henpecked Club. Some Account of that Ancient and Honourable Society vulgarly denominated the Henpecked Club. To which is prefixed a Dedication to a Reigning Monarch. By a Member of the Society. Workington, 1820. 23. Nobody's Friends. List of the Members of the Club of Nobody's Friends since its Foundation, 21 June, 1850, to 30 September, 1885. 8vo. pp. viii.-xiii. and 1-254. 24. The Club of Nobody's Friends. Pro Ecclesia et Rege. Record for 1887. 25. The Oriental Club. The Oriental Club and Hanover Square. By Alexander F. Baillie, F.R.G.S. With Photo- gravure Portraits and other Illustrations. Long- mans, Green and Co., 1891. 4to. pp. 2-290. 26. The O.P. Club. The O.P. Club : Its History and Future. Pamphlet, 8vo. Text pp. 1-8. 27. The Playgoers' Club. The Playgoers' Club, 1884 to 1905 : Its History and Memories. By B. W. Findon. London, 1905. pp. 1-72. 28. The Royal Society Club. Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Society Club. London, 1860. 4to. pp. 6-84. With " An Additional Word on the Pristine Establishment of the Royal Society Club." 1861. 29. The Temple Club. List of Members, &c. 1874. This is only a skeleton list ; the omissions are numerous. For example, works by Mr. Louis Fagan on the Reform Club, &c., are omitted as being architectural, and not relating to the club itself. Of White's, the club in Gerrard Street, and the Savage Club, mention would have been made but the volumes are not at hand. I also omit the several MS. histories of clubs that are frequently scurrilous and aim more at deriding members or the committee than at recording the history of the club itself. Some printed histories have a purpose other than being merely histories. For instance, the many pamphlets on the Calves' Head Club are political and anti-Whig. Of the insignificant minor clubs much could be recorded ; Renton Nicholson founded nearly a score of these. So much remains to be recorded that this preliminary note is intended to be merely provocative. ALECK ABRAHAMS. THE MYSTERY OF RICHARD PARKER OF THE NORE. (See 12 S. ix. 8.) THE sentence of death on Richard Parker was carried out aboard the Sandwich, the flagship at the Nore, on June 30, 1797, three days after the five -days' trial by court martial. Richard Parker, the admitted leader and organizer of the Nore Mutiny, it should be held in mind, had formerly served as midshipman and had been de- graded by court martial for insubordination, and had been discharged as " unfit for service " in 1794. It was only as " super- numerary able seaman " a term which marks the Admiralty stresses of the time that Parker was rated on the flagship of the squadrons off the Thames Estuary. By the same verdict several other of Parker's active co-adjutors were condemned to ignominious death and executed ; many were " flogged round the Fleet " ; a full score of the " Delegates " escaped to France, pro- bably, as tradition has it, by Port of London aid ; and 180 were detained in prison. But to these severities there is a not uncoiisoling historical sequel. On Oct. 11 of the same year, the Dutch Fleet under Admiral Winter was on its way to cooperate with the French in a landing on Ireland. It was intercepted by Admiral Duncan (and his sullen crews of sixteen line- of -battle ships), who at once gave battle, broke through the Dutch array of about the same strength, and in the general action which followed captured eight ships, in- cluding the flagship,' the Vrijheid, and the Hollander Admiral. The British, so very lately mutinous and sullen, lost 1,040 lulled