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 12 s. ix. DEC. 24, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 519 copy of the Commons Enclosure Act, with a schedule of lands in Culcheth enclosed thereunder. This may be of assistance in tracing Cob Font. A. WHITTENBURY FAMILY (12 S. ix. 354). Queen Hoo Hall is still in existence and well kept. Until about ten years ago it was occu- pied by two or three labourers' families as cottages, but has since reverted to its former use as a single residence. It stands in Tewin parish to the left of the road from Bramfield to Datchworth, a few miles outside Hertford. Good accounts of the house and its owners, with illustrations, appear in ' The Victoria County History : Herts,' vol. iii., pp. 482-4 ; in the Transactions of the East Herts Archaeological Society, vol. ii., pp. 178-183 ; and in the Commission on Historical Monuments : Inventory Herts, pp. 23, 217. Clibborn's Post stood on the left bank of the same road as it rises from Nancy Bury Bottom, close by the turning to Queen Hoo Hall. Unfortunately the late war brought about the downfall of this, as of many other interesting relics. A passing military motor lorry came to grief in the roadside ditch and the post was torn down to assist in righting it. An account of the death of Clibborn was published as a small pamphlet at Hertford in 1881, and is still, I believe, on sale in the town. Another account is found in the E.H.A.S. Transactions mentioned above, vol. ii., pp. 97-98. The gun with which Clibborn was shot is now 1 in the Hertford Museum. HERBERT C. ANDREWS. Victoria and Albert Museum. PINCHBECK (12 S. ix. 370, 413). A trade card of Christopher Pinchbeck, senior, is, I believe, to be seen in the Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, Vic- toria and Albert Museum, South Kensington. It has been reproduced, with an article on Pinchbeck Ware, by Martin Hardie, which appeared in vol. iii. of The Collector (pp. 344-348), edited by Ethel Deane, 1907. Mr. Hardie's article contains much informa- tion about the Pinchbeck family. HERBERT C. ANDREWS. Victoria and Albert Museum. MULBERRIES (12 S. ix. 308, 337, 377). MR. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS, in a recent letter to the Press, writes : Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Dawson, State Chamberlain, has just favoured me with a letter in which he makes the interesting statement that in. the garden of Buckingham Palace there is a venerable mulberry tree which bears a label to the effect that it was " planted in 1609, when the old Mulberry Garden was formed by James I." Mr. Lucas also mentions how this monarch, "anxious to promote silk produc- tion in the metropolis, planted many young mulberry trees from abroad over an area of nearly five acres where the Palace now stands." These are certainly facts of interest. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. R. D'OYLY CARTE (12 S. ix. 469). It may help MR. J. M. BULLOCH in his query to mention that the firm of music publishers, Rudall, Rose, Carte and Co., flourished in Hanover Square many years ago. Mr. R. D'Oyly Carte lived for some time in a pic- turesque cottage at the foot of West Hill, Highgate, facing Swains Lane. Possibly the late Mr. John H. Lloyd's exhaustive ' His- tory of Highgate ' furnishes information as to Mr, Carte's family relationship. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. ROBERT HENRY NEWELL AND ADAH MENKEN'S HUSBANDS (12 S. ix. 273, 313, 374, 477). In the last reference MR. FORREST MORGAN alludes to Menken as the first husband of Adelaide McCord, better known as Adah Isaacs Menken of " Mazep- pa " fame. I doubt the accuracy of this statement. In a biographical notice of this remarkable woman in ' Infelicia,' published by Chatto and Windus in 1888, the writer states : Before she was seventeen she had married a nobody, whose very name seems to have been forgotten, who treated her cruelly and who finally abandoned her. It was not until April, 1856, when she was 21, that she married Alexander Isaac Menken, a musician of the Jewish cult. Her other husbands were Heenan, Newell and Barclay, five in all. It would be interesting to know the name of this mysterious first husband. Perhaps some American reader may be able to enlighten us. In an official copy of Jier burial certificate in my possession her surname is given as Teurtos and her prenom as Dolores. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ix. 470). 1. " My enemy came nigh And I Stared fiercely in his face," &c. These lines are by the Irish poet, James Stephens. They are included in Sir A. Quiller- Couch's ' Anthology of Victorian Verse.' C. C. B.