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 72 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. JULY 23, 1021. BUTT WOMAN. On taking duty in a West Country church recently, I was told by the sexton that various matters were attended to by the butt woman. The term seemed unknown and unused in the place except by the sexton. I should be glad to know the meaning of the word and also whether this is a local Description. POROUS MARINUS. ANN HATHAWAY. Are any portraits of her, or of any of her family, known, and in whose possession ? And if there are, by any well-known, painter or by local Warwick- shire artists ? In the possession of a lady in. Hampshire are two half-length portraits in oil, on canvas, of girls, one in tight-fitting pink dress showing a good deal of bust, the other in looser dark blue gown, both cut low at the neck ; both the girls have darkish hair dravn back. By tradition long handed down in the lady's family these portraits are of Ann Hathaway and her sister. What foundation there is for this belief is not known. WINTON. GEORGE WATESON became Rector of Millbrook, Beds, in 1684 and was deprived in 1690. Was he one of the Non -jurors ? A Rev. George Wateson appears to have lived in Ampthill and died about 1740. Any information as to George Wateson, Rector of Millbrook, will be very welcome. HARRY P. POLLARD. Millbrook, Beds. EDWARD CORBOULD. Was he any rela- tion to Richard and Henry Corbould ? I have a water-colour depicting a highway- man standing by a chaise door holding an unconscious girl in his arms, dated 1837, and signed Edward Corbould. This would show him to have been a contemporary of both Richard and Henry. C. G. N. FLIGHT BARR AND BARR. I have two vases marked with the crown and the letters F.B.B. below, impressed without colour ; one is painted by J. Callowhill and the other by J. Rushton. Chafters (p. 796, ed. 1912) gives B.F.B. with crown above, 1807 to 1813, and Flight Barr and Barr (in italics), 1829 to 1840, and does not mention either of the painters. I should be glad of any informa- tion which would point to the date of the vases, and any particulars as to the painters. C. G. X. DE VALERA. Your reviewer of ' Memorias Antiguas Historiales del Peru' (12 S. viii. 440) mentions Bias Valera, natural son of Don Luis de Valera and an Indian woman, who was born about 1540 and became a Jesuit and a prolific author. Can the descent of our present day notorious Irish agitator be traced back to this family ? If not, can one of your readers give us the true descent of the present day Mr. de Valera ? It would in- terest many. W. DEL COURT. 47, Blenheim Crescent, W. 1 1. JAMES CHALMERS. George Chalmers, the author of * Caledonia,' left in manuscript a history of printing in Scotland which has never been published although almost ready for the printer. For his facts and book-titles he was greatly indebted to a James Chalmers, who appears to have resided in London and collected his notes from both printed sources and public records. These notes are still in existence, written in a fine hand and bound in two large quarto volumes. Where can any information be obtained about this James Chalmers ? W. J. C. WANTED : BURNET : COFFIN : COLLETON : SIR ANTHONY BARCLAY. 1. The name of the livings held by Rev. William Burnet, son of William Burnet, Goyernor of New York, and grandson of Bishop Gilbert Burnet. 2. Did Jonathan Perrie Coffin (Inner Temple, 1788, and Middle Temple, 1796) practise at the Bar in England? Date of death also wanted. 3. What was the family connexion be- tween John Colleton (Middle Temple, 1703), son and heir of James Colleton, Barbadoes, and the Colleton family in South Carolina ? 4. Date of Sir Anthony Barclay's appoint- ment as British Consul in New York and date and place of death. BIOGRAPHER. BRANDENBURGH HOUSE, FULHAM. An inscription on the back of an old oil paint- ing of the interior of a stable reads : " The Duke of Buckingham's collection of Mor- lands, June, 1832. Brandenburgh House, Fulham." I cannot trace this house on any available London map. Where is, or was, it situated ? M. B.