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Marriage of British Subjects at Paris. In 1 682 an English lady and gentleman of rank and station were married at Paris. Where should I be likely to find the registry of this marriage ?

L. M.

Song by Old Doctor Wild " Hallow my Fancie" Tn a late number of Household Words (May 3.) is an article entitled "Bond and Free," in which occur parts of what is called an "old song," said to be by " old Doctor Wild ; " and in which one of the characters says, that in his opinion "no other man in Trinity" knew, besides him by whom it is quoted. Is there, in reality, such an old song? The structure of the verse is exactly the same as that of a quaint and (me judice) clever piece, which I saw many years ago, entitled "Hallow my Fancie," because each stanza ends,

" Hallow my Fancie, whither wilt thou go ? " These verses begin :

" In melancholick fancie Out of myself."

Ls it known who is the author of these verses, of which, I imagine, the " old song " is an imitation ?

S. S. S.

Tradesmen's Signs. The origin of the "Bull and Bedpost, the " Angel and Cucumber," or of any equally incongruous combinations which occur in these signs, and which have hitherto puzzled the curious, will surely no longer be in- volved in obscurity if the following practice was once in vogue :

" I must, however, observe to you upon this subject, that it is usual for a young tradesman, at his first set- ting up, to add to his own sign that of the master whom he has served ; as the husband after marriage gives place 1o his mistress's arms in his own coat. This I take to have given rise to many of those absurdities which are committed over our heads." Spectator, No. 28.

Can any instances of this practice be given ?

R. W. HACKWOOD.

Rev. John Michell, B.D. was of Queen's Col- lege, Cambridge, B.A. 1748, M.A. 1752, B.D. 1761, Woodwardian Professor 17621764, F.R.S. 17. His publications range from 1750 to 1784. lie is spoken of in 1804 as having been dead many years. Further particulars respecting him will be acceptable. C. II. & THOMPSON COOPER.

Cambridge.

Charles Crawfurd was a fellow commoner of Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1771, when he headed a movement against subscription. He was expelled the college September 27, 1773. He brought an unsuccessful action against the porter of the college, to try the validity of his expulsion, and published various works from 1773 to 1810. In 1808 he assumed the title of Earl of

Crawford and Lindsay. He appears to have been living in 1816 ; when did he die ?

C. H. & THOMPSON COOPEB.

Cambridge.

Major- General Stanwix. Thomas Stanwix, created LL.D. at the royal visit to Cambridge, 1717, was made a major-general 1727. Is there any record <tf his services ? and when and where did he die ? C. H. & THOMPSON COOPER.

Cambridge.

Burke on the French Revolution. Who was the .distinguished individual in France to whom Mr. Burke addressed his Reflections on the Revolution in France f QUERIST.

CQucmS Jmtlj S

John Gather. In the year 1723, there was a little book published, called Instructions for the Whole Year, being a body of casuistical divinity upon the epistles and gospels of all the Sundays and Feasts in the year. At the end of the book is a catalogue of Mr. Gother' s Spiritual Works in sixteen volumes. Who was he? Whence did he spring ? Where did he live ? When did he die ? and for whom did he write this excellent body of divinity ? H. J, G.

[Our correspondent's Query reminds us again of the want of a good Biographical Dictionary of Neglected Authors. As we hinted in our First Series, the name of William Gurnall was not to be found in any Biographical Dictionary, and the same may be said of John Gother, a more voluminous writer, as his Spiritual Works alone fill sixteen volumes, besides being the author of seventeen controversial pieces, which elicited replies from Abp. Wake, Clagett, Abednego Seller, Woodrofie, Stratford, John Williams, and Bishop Stillingfleet. John Gother was born at Southampton, of parents who were rigid Presbyterians, and in his youthful days became a mem- ber of the Church of Rome, and by means of a relative was sent to the English College at Lisbon, where his natural abilities soon convinced his tutors that the youth would prove an ornament to their community. After he was ordained priest, he returned to England upon a mis- sion towards the end of the reign of Charles II., and was one of the leading controversial writers in defence of the Roman Church during the reign of James II. His most celebrated work is entitled, A Papist Misrepresented and Represented. Some ecclesiastical affairs requiring his pre- sence at Lisbon, lie was prevailed upon to undertake a voyage thither, but died at sea on Monday, October 2, 1704, and was buried in the English College, under St. Thomas's altar. There is a short account of him prefixed to the collected edition of his Spiritual Works, 16 vols. 12mo., printed at Newcastle ; no date, but published about 1740. See also Dodd's Church History, vol. iii. p. 483., fol., for a list of his writings.]

Historical Pamphlet. I lately met with a small quarto black letter volume of 150 pages, having this title-page :

" The Fourth Tarte of the Comentaries of the Ciuill Warres in Fruunce, and of the Lowe Countrie of Flaunders.