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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. MAR. 26, '98.

sheet Bb and sheet Cc, containing the Elegies on Donne, unpaged. Clearly, I think, sheet Aa was originally meant to have been followed by sheet Bb, id was given the appropriate catchword. After

and was given the appropriate catchword. After Aa was printed additional matter turned up, and it was decided to put it upon sheets aa and bb, and to insert these before the Elegies. Therefore sheet bb also got the catchword To.' This scheme was carried out in my copy, but in yours the supple- mentary sheets were bound up after instead of before the Elegies."

W. F. PEIDEAUX.

THE FOUNDATION STONE OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL (8 th S. xii. 486 ; 9 th S. i. 91). On reading MR. E. H. MARSHALL'S communication I referred to ' The Three Cathedrals dedicated to St. Paul in London,' by William Longman, F.S.A. (1873). At p. 125 I found the following :

" The first stone of the new cathedral was laid at the south-east corner of the choir by Mr. Strong, the mason, and the second by Mr. Longland, on June 21, 1675.*"

T. SEYMOUR.

9, Newton Road, Oxford.

[Other replies to the same effect are acknow- ledged.]

CROMWELL'S PEDIGREE (9 th S. i. 88). There are several communications on this subject in 'N. & Q.,' 2 nd S. xi., the ultimate reference being to "Noble," that is, the Rev. Mark Noble, ' Protectoral House of Cromwell,' Lond., 1787 ; see pp. 184, 235, 277, 319, 378. In 5 th S. yi. 127 MR. HENFREY complains of the in- sufficiency of Noble, u.s. ; he mentions Sir J. Prestwich, ' Respublica,' Lond., 1787 ; W. Dur- rant Cooper, Archceologia, xxxviii. part i., 1860; R. Gough, 'Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica ' ; Clutterbuck, * History of Hert- fordshire'; Burke, 'Landed Gentry.' At p. 333 J. H. I. refers to Oliver Cromwell's ' Memoirs of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell, and of his Sons, Richard and Henry,' Lond., 1820,ch.viii. At p. 378 DR. J. WOODWARD refers to the ' Visitation of Huntingdonshire in 1613,' Cam. Soc., 1848, pp. 79, 80. It seems that most of these authorities trace back the ancestry more or less minutely, but not Burke, ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

CURIOSO will find some of the information he requires in Burke's ' Extinct Peerages ' and Burke's 'Landed Gentry.' In the Trans- actions of the Royal Historical Society, New Series, vol. iii. p. 343, he will also find a paper by the undersigned on the families of Tuuor and Cromwell. At the end of the paper

(p. 369), in the appendix, is the pedigree of tne Cromwell family, following t~

ose of the

"* Stow's 'London,' vol. i. p^ 649, and Ellis's ' Dugdale,' p. 140 (note), quoting JBateman's account of the rebuilding of St. Paul's, MSS. Lambeth."

Stuart and Tudor families. The Protector's pedigree I have only traced back as far as levan ap Morgan ap levan ; but levan ap Morgan ap levan is said to have been de- scended in a direct male line (tenth in descent) from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, King of Powys, and in the female line from Rhodri Mawr, King of Wales (ninth century).

J. FOSTER PALMER. 8, Royal Avenue, S.W.

There is a tabulated pedigree, giving descent of the Protector from the Princes of Wales, in ' Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World,' &c., by the Rev. William Betham,

1795. LEO CULLETON.

R. W. Buss, ARTIST (9 th S. i. 87). Some few years ago I had an interesting letter from the Rev. A. J. Buss, St. James's Vicarage, Curtain Road, giving his father's connexion with Dickens and the 'Pickwick Papers.' Perhaps an extract from his letter will best explain :

" I have only just found time to look up the matter of the * Pickwick Papers,' and send you the result. I have before me, and quote from, his original memoranda. In them he says (as quoted in the Victoria edition), After much time devoted to this end [i.e., the fitting himself for a style of art with which he was entirely unacquainted], I etched a plate, taking the subject of Mr. Pickwick at the review being jammed in the crowd by a soldier forcing him back with the butt-end of his musket. Here is the only impression.' It does not seem to have been issued with the text, as my father considered the one he left unique. But according to the editor of the latest edition, Mr. Buss was mistaken in this last statement, as another impression is in existence, which has been repro- duced. A facsimile of this drawing is given, and the editor says, ' It was unquestionably a better etching than either of the plates afterwards pub- lished,' a fact which shows that if the publishers would have only had patience, and allowed my father to gain some experience, he would have attained to such skill as, indeed, he showed in his after productions. I have a real original 'Pick- wick,' with two etchings of my father's, the cricket match and the love scene in the arbour, but not the review. If Mr. Tegg had this bound up in his copy it must have been put in subsequent to the issue of the part. It is a matter worthy of discussion as to how the 'other' copy was obtained. I know my father had his plates proved for him by a printer, as I have myself in my young days actea as his messenger. It is possible 'that instead of one being struck for the artist, one was also taken for the printer, and then, when the value of it was seen, copies were by some means taken from this im- pression."

Mr. Buss gives a list of his father's etchings ; but it is quite clear he only contributed the three mentioned to Dickens's works.

JAS. B. MORRIS.

Eastbourne.