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a maker of furniture. I have searched all the best-known books on cabinet - making, and find that nothing is known of Hepple- white by the writers of these books. I am, therefore, very anxious, for biographical purposes, to know if any reader of ' N. & Q.' has any personal information on the subject.

C. SIMON. 24, Ladbroke Square, W.

MACAULAY : REFERENCES.

" One lively poet proposed that the great acts of the fair Marian's present husband should be immortalized by the pencil of his predecessor ; and that Imhoff should be employed to embellish the House of Commons with paintings of the bleeding Rohillas, of Nuncomar swinging, of Cheyte Sing letting himself down to the Ganges. Another, in an exquisitely humorous parody of Virgil's third eclogue, propounded the question what that mineral could be of which the rays had power to make the most austere of princesses the friend of a wanton." Macaulay, 'Essay on Warren Hastings.'

Can any one give me the reference to these poems? F. C. M.

" LE FURMAGER." In ancient Bristol days several of the citizens, and a certain number of Jews likewise, are found distinguished with this qualification, meaning, I apprehend, cheesemonger or cheese factor. Was Bristol ever noted for its cheese industry 1

M. D. DAVIS.

[Several persons named Le Furmager occur, 1277- 1410, in Dr. R. R. Sharpe's 'Calendar of Wills proved in the Court of Huating.']

DANDY-CART. In the 'New English Dic- tionary ' a " dandy-cart " is defined as a kind of spring- cart used by milkmen, &c., and the earliest illustration which the editor can give of the employment of the word is taken from Ramsay's ' Reminiscences,' 1861. In the north of England the "dandy-cart" was a low truck used on the old railroads and waggon ways in the days of horse-traction. On arriving at an inclined plane the horse was unhitched, and, letting the waggons which he had been drag- ging run past him, trotted behind, jumped on the low truck, and rode down the bank. The earliest reference I have to the use of the word is dated 31 August, 1831, and appears in a report to the directors of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which states that a driver named Thos. Anderson left his horse and got into the " dandy-cart " belonging to a set of waggons going up the line before him and fell asleep. Can any of your readers supply me with an earlier reference or say how the word came to be applied to this primitive horse-carriage by the old waggon- men of the North ] WM. W. TOMLINSON.

Monkseaton

FARMILOE, WHICHELOE, AND SWINHOE. Will some one inform me whence come the names Farmiloe, Whicholoe, and Swinhoe? They do not seem to be derivatives of Danish, Saxon, or Norman. A. LELAND-NOEL.

SIR WALTER SCOTT AND SIR DAVID WILKIE. Allan Cunningham, in his 'Life of Sir David Wilkie,' makes what appears to me a somewhat remarkable statement regarding the great artist's relations with Scott. Speak- ing of Wilkie's friends, the biographer says (vol. ii. p. 43) :

"Among the men of genius Walter Scott stood foremost; of his friend Wilkie he loved to talk as well as write ; the painter stands repeatedly recorded in the pages of his inimitable romances."

It is to the last observation that I refer. What is Cunningham's authority for it ? W. B.

ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL. Can any of your readers kindly tell me where the mar- riage register of the above gentleman is to be found, or furnish me with any particulars respecting him 1 ? I may add that he was* born on 1 January, 1761, and practised in the King's Bench Court from 1789 (address, 10, Staple Inn). His wife's name was Elizabeth

, and their eldest child was baptized

at Allhallows' Chuych, Lombard Street, on 23 October, 1796. ,4t is possible that the marriage may have taken place in Edinburgh.

-CLANSMAN.

JOHN OP GAUNT AT MARKEATON. I should be glad of any information regarding a state- ment that John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, slept at Markeaton, co. Derby, on the night of 9 May, 1399, the guest of Sir Robert Mundy, or possibly his son. P. M.

EARTHWORKS AT BURPHA"M. I should be glad to have some information respecting the ancient earthworks at Burpham, Sussex. They protect the river Arun, and run in a sort of detached terraced work towards a low- lying part of the Downs, where there is a very distinct raised parallelogram with circular ends, intersected by squares. There is also a sunk road on the top of the Downs of which I should like to know the history.

F. PALMER.

Burpham, Arundel.

EPISCOPAL COLLEGE OF ST. EDWARD. I have a book-plate of this college, surmounted by an episcopal hat. Can any correspondent tell me where this college stands, or stood 1 I should be grateful for the information.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

'THE HERTFORDSHIRE HISTORIANS.' John Norden, 1548-1626 ; Sir Henry Chauncy,