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A TRAVELLED GOAT (9 th S. x. 25). The distich as quoted at the above reference begins with the word Perpetui, but in Dr. G. Birkbeck Hill's edition of Bos well's ' Life of Johnson ' (I am unable to consult the earliest editions of Boswell) it is Perpetua. Either word would make sense, but Perpetua is sup-

gDrted by the translation "by a friend " which oswell gives in a note : In fame scarce second to the nurse of Jove, This goat, who twice the world had ^aversed round, Deserving both her master's care and love, Ease and perpetual pasture now has found.

An editor with an itch for emendation might suggest masters 1 for master's.

EDWARD BENSLY. The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

B. K. HAYDON (9 th S. x. 207, 249). ! can from personal knowledge confirm your correspondent's statement, adduced on the authority of Tom Taylor's ' Life of Haydon,' that the colossal canvas on which was de- picted ' The Raising of Lazarus '- was for many years exhibited at the Pantheon (then a bazaar) in Oxford Street. As a boy 1 saw it there repeatedly, and can remember how awestruck I was as at every visit it faced me as I ascended the main staircase. This would be in the early and middle forties. What has become of the same artist's other gigantic canvas, on which was represented the old classical legend of M. Curtius leaping into the gulf 1 ? The bold foreshortening of the horse was the great feature of the picture. The last time I saw this work it was hanging conspicuously in the long dining - hall of Messrs. Gatti's restaurant, Villiers Street, Strand. Is it there now ? GNOMON.

Temple.

[The Curtius is still at Messrs. Gatti's.]

KNIGHTLEY CHARLETON (9 th S. x. 189, 231). I think MR. RADCLIFFE has fallen into the error against which I endeavoured to warn M.D. He very truly writes of the difficulty of producing a trustworthy pedigree of the early Charletons. The first Sir Alan Charleton was not the son, but the uncle of John Charleton II., Lord Powys (died 1360). The pedigree given by Ey ton in ' The Antiquities of Shropshire ' is at cross-purposes with the pedigrees of the Charletons given in the ' Visitation of Shropshire,' and these again are at cross-purposes with one another. Still, I think the truth is contained in these par- ticulars, and it may, with a little diligence and common sense, be discovered. MR. RAD- CLIFFE suggests, though with very proper misgivings, that the John Charleton, Lord Powys, who died in 1360, was the husband of

Joan, daughter of Ralph, first Earl of Stafford, and father of the first Sir Alan Charleton, of Apley (died 1362). The statement as to the marriage occurs in the return of the pedigree of the Charletons, Lords of Powys (vol. xxviii. Harl. Society's publications), in the Visitation of 1623 ; and the statement as to the parentage of Sir Alan is found in the return of the pedigree of the Charletons of Apley Castle. Eyton, on the other hand, does not venture to say whom this' John Charleton married, but says positively that it was his son John Charleton III., Lord Powys (died 1374), who married the Lady Joan, daughter of the Earl of Stafford. The pedigree of the Charletons of Apley is in agreement with Eyton upon this point, but goes further and says that John Charleton II. married Maud, daughter, of Roger Mortimer, first Earl of March. Prof. T. F. Tout, in his articles in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' on ' John Charleton, First Lord Charleton of Powys,' and ' Roger Mortimer, Eighth Baron of Wigmore and First Earl of March,',also mentions this mar- riage of John Charlefco'n II. with Maud Morti- mer (vol. x. p. 127, and vol. xxxix. p. 143). He says, " Some writers confuse John II. and John III., but it is quite clear they were different persons."

Passing on to the ancestry found for Sir Alan Charleton by his descendants in 1623, one sees how fearfully and wonderfully made were some of the pedigrees which passed muster with the Heralds in 1623. The Charle- tons of Apley return Sir Alan, the founder of their branch, as a son of the third Lord Charle- ton of Powys instead of the brother of the first. It was natural that they should like to imagine themselves descended, through the marriage with, the Princess of Powys, from the ancient rulers of Wales, and had they been content with this the deception might in course of time have defied the strictest investigation ; but when they strove to get the descent from the royal line of England through the Stafford marriage, they went too far, and set up a claim the fictitious character of which could not fail to be discovered on the first sign of a serious search. As to the descent from the first Sir Alan Charleton (died 1362) to Robert Charleton, Sheriff of Salop in 1472, it appears to be correctly stated by MR. RADCLIFFE in his reply.

A. H. FEWTRELL.

Bury.

My researches years ago gave me the Charleton pedigree thus : Sir John de Cherleton, of Apley Castle, had three sons : 1. Thomas, Bishop of Hereford. 2. John, Baron Cherleton de Powys, born 1268 ;