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never yet been discovered. Is anything known of Thomas Purcell, a draper of Lon- don, 1646 ? Musicus.

MACAULAY ON LORD PETERBOROUGH. Macaulay, in his essay' on ' Lord Mahon's War of the Succession in Spain,' sums up the character of Lord Peterborough "in the lines in which the author of that clever little poem 'Monks and Giants' has described Sir Tristram." I should be obliged if you would favour me with the name of this author, and tell me where the clever little poem is to be found. JAMES WATSON.

[' Monks and Giants ' is by John Hookham Frere.]

GARRICK'S STATUE OF SHAKESPEARE. The following paragraph appeared in the Daily Mail of 14 August :

" Mrs. Grove, the owner of Garrick's Villa, has presented Sir Charles Wyndham with the life-size statue of Shakespeare which has stood in the Garden Temple since the days of David Garrick."

Turning to 'Greater London' (i. 140), I find this statue thus referred to :

"The original statue of Shakespeare in the octagonal temple in the garden was of marble ; a duplicate of it, worked in less ambitious stone, still occupies the same post of honour."

I presume it is this replica which has recently been presented to Sir Charles Wyndhatn. If so, what became of the original statue ?

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

HUMOROUS FRENCH POETRY. Can any reader tell me of good humorous and satirical poetry in French? Who are the French counterparts, for instance, of W. S. Gilbert, Tom Hood, "Ingoldsby," or Lowell 1

C. C.

[Nearly all the great modern French poets have written such. Much of it is, however, unedifying, and only to be found in such publications as ' Le Parnasse Moderne Satyrique.'J

FORSHAW STREET. A street of this name is located at Barrow-in-Furness. Why, or after whom, is it so called ?

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

NICHOLAS AND JOHN BRISTOW. In the 'Plumpton Correspondence,' p. 21 (Camden Society publications, 4), in a letter written 1469 from Kinalton, Notts, mention is made of a Nichole Bristow. Is anything known con- cerning him ? Was he ancestor to Nicholas Bristow (Clerk to the Jewels of Henry VIII Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth), who died 1584, aged ninety, and was buried at Ayot bt. Lawrence? Are the birthplace and parentage of the latter known? Burke's Gentry ' (1851) states that he was descended

from the De Burstows of Surrey, whilst Chauncy's 'Herts' gives him a Bourstal ancestry. As he was born in 1494, is it not likely that he was connected with the above Nichole of 1469, especially as the two names are similar ?

I should also be glad of any information as to the ancestry of John Bristow, mentioned in the 'Kentish Companion,' 1780, as an assistant deputy at Ramsgate. G. H. W.

CLOSE, OFFICER OF THE VICTORY. Is there any list in existence of the officers who served on board the Victory at Trafalgar? I am anxious to fix the identity of an officer named Close. E. G. YOUNGER, M.D.

ETCHINGS AND ENGRAVINGS. I enclose a description of some coloured etchings and uncoloured engravings now in my possession, also a number of questions in reference to them. The series contains forty semi-carica- ture portraits somewhat in the style of those published in Vanity Fair of well- known celebrities living between the years 1814 and 1824, or thereabouts. They are in- scribed as " Drawn Etch " by Richard Digh- ton, published by T. McLean, Haymarket. The persons represented are : Col. Cook ( Kangkook '), Capt. Horace Seymour, Sir Francis Burdett, Marquis of Worcester, Lord Fife ('A Discharged Fifer'), Lord London- derry, Mr. Alsppe (' The Mirror of the Times '), Mr. Liston (in 'Love, Law, and Physic'), Lord Hill, Sir Robert Wilson, Prince Ester- hazy, Lord Harrowby, Mr. Hobhouse, Col. Jolliffe ('The Hero of the Chase'), an un- named picture (probably the Duke of Glou- cester), the Persian Ambassador, Lord Burg- hersh, Duke of Argyle, Lord Gwydyr, Col. Lygon (' A Thin Piece of Parliament'), ' Mr. [Edmund] Kean as Lucius Junius in Brutus,' Mr. Hughes Ball ('The Golden Ball '), Col. Upton, Lord Sefton ('A Good Whip'\ Mr. Lindsey, Mr. W. Farren as Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. C.* Kemble as Charles Surface, Lord Westmoreland ('An Impression of the Privy Seal'), Lord Manners ('Elegant Manners'), Lord Alvanly, Sir Murray Maxwell, K.C.B., Dr. Keate, Marquis of Hertford ('A View of Yarmouth'), Duke of Gloucester ('A View of Gloucester'), the Hon. George Lamb, Lord Lake, General Bolton, Lord Nugent, the Duke of Devonshire, and the Duke of Wellington ('The Master General of the Ordnance'). The plates are 10 in. by 8 in., though some are rather larger. All are coloured by hand. Bound with them are thirteen portraits of pugilists, engravings of high character. All are marked as drawn by J. R. Cruikshank, engraved by P. Roberts, and published