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I was a lad my head master used to tell us that the possession of an income of 300. per annum entitled its holder to the dignity of esquire at law. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

[See 1 st S. iii. 242, &c. Consult also Blackstone's ' Commentaries.']

WINE IN PUBLIC CONDUITS. "All the streets were richly adorned with tapestry, the conduits flowing with the richest wines" (Gumble's ' Life of Monk ') on the return of the king. Elsewhere we read of this flow of wine. How was it managed 1 Are there any illustrations of it 1 ? When did the custom cease 1 R. S.

ENGLISH FAMILIES IN KuRL^D AND Liv- LAND. Information is desired of date of settlement of the following families : Loewis of Menar, Balfour of Balfour, Von Holtey. The last two are baronial families of Kur- land. Are there any English representatives at the present day of the Von Holtey family ? Loewis of Menar is evidently Welsh, but where or what is Menar ?

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

British Vice-Consulate, Libau, Russia.

GLISSON. The famous Dr. Francis Glisson, President of the Royal College of Physicians in the reign of Charles II., had, with five other brothers, Paul, Israel, and James. I should like to know what became of them. Israel, of Holborn, gentleman, bachelor, cet. forty, 1647, had licence to marry Rose Cole, spinster. A Mr. Glisson, of Yeovil, executed at Sherborne in Dorset, was one of the victims of Judge Jeffreys, 1685.

A. S. ELLIS.

ANCIENT CONFECTIONERY. Magister Mosse, who lived in Milk Street, City, and gave a divorce to the millionaire Jew, David of Oxford, in 1242, speaks of a species of confectionery eaten in his days, called " tur- nures." Is there any record extant referring to this luxury ? M. D. DAVIS.

DRYDEN'S BROTHERS. Wanted, any infor- mation with reference to James Dryden and Henry Dryden, brothers of the poet. Henry Dryden is said to have died in Jamaica, leaving a son Richard living, 1708. James Dryden, " widower, aged thirty-two," in 1680 married, secondly, Mary Dunch (Bishop of London's Registry). P. M.

CAPT. THOMAS MORRIS, FLORUIT 1806. In the account in the 'D.N.B.' (xxxix. 92) of Capt. Thomas Morris there is a small error, due to the fact that Mr. Kirby (' Winchester Scholars,' p. 244) confused this Wykehamist

with a namesake of Jesus College, Oxford, who came from Ruthin, co. Denbigh, in February, 1748/9, and took the degree of B.A. in 1753 (see Dr. Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses ') Capt. Thomas Morris was never either a graduate or an undergraduate of Oxford University. He left Winchester College in 1747, and then, after spending some months in London,

" he obtained a pair of colours by purchase in what might at that period be termed the family regiment [the 17th Foot], at the age of sixteen, and he joined it in Ireland, on its return from Minorca, in the year 1748."' Public Characters of 1806,' p. 326.

I should be grateful for information (which the 'D.N.B.' does not give) as to the date and place of the captain's death or burial.

H. C.

BRANSTILL CASTLE. Can any reader tell me in what parish of Herefordshire Branstill Castle was situated ?. I have an excellent engraving (Buck, 1731) of this castle. The inscription states it was at the foot of the west side of Malvern Hills, and that Thomas Rede, Esq., was its then proprietor. Does any trace of it remain 1 W. H. QUARRELL.

[Bartholomew's ' Gazetteer' gives BransiV Castle, near Ledbury.]

GRATTAN'S PORTRAIT. Can you or any reader guide me to* the best portrait of Grattan, the Irish patriot? AN EDITOR.

[See Chaloner Smith's ' British Mezzotinto Por- traits,' ii. 556, and vol. iv., additions and correc- tions (to p. 632). See also ' D.N.B.,' vol. xxii. p. 424, under ' Grattan, Henry.']

" BUT AH ! MAECENAS." But ah ! Maecenas is yclad in claye And great Augustus long ygoe is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead That matter made for poets or to playe.

Who is the author of the above? It forms the heading to chap. xii. of ' Marius the Epicurean,' by Walter Pater. M. EASON.

"AFTER WEARISOME TOIL." Who is the author of the following lines ?

After wearisome toil and much sorrow

How quietly sleep they at last ! Neither dreading nor fearing tho morrow,

Nor vainly bemoaning the past.

JOHN T. PAGE.

BURIAL-PLACES OF PEERS. I shall be much obliged if any reader of 'N. & Q.' will inform me where any of the under-mentioned peers are buried :

Edward Montagu, Earl Beaulieu, who is said to have died on 26 November, 1802, and to have been buried on 2 December, 1802, in the family vault at Beaulieu, Bucks.

George Darner, Earl of Dorchester, who is