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WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY QUERIES. 1. Where might one look for the private papers, books, and MSS. of Sir Robert Moray, ob. 1673, Secretary of State for Scotland also for his will? The two experts who know most about him have been consulted ; so have the archives of the Royal Society (of which he was first President, before incorporation), the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, and other likely persons and places. ' N. & Q.' is always a court of final appeal.

2. I should very much like to find a printed list of all English Catholic colleges on the Continent, able to confer degrees, between 1645 and 1660, but do not know of any book containing such addresses. In particular, colleges controlled by the Jesuits are intended.

3. Does any gatherer of obscure data know the year of death of Sir Marmaduke Lloyd, once a famous judge on the South Wales circuit 1 He was taken prisoner at the siege of Hereford, 1645, and was again among the Royalists captured at the battle of St. Fagan's, 1648. Nothing further is known of him. Harvey's translation of Mantuan, 1656, is dedicated to him ; but, of course, that does not prove that he was actually living when the book came out, as much time commonly intervened in the troubled seventeenth century between the dedication-date and publication-date of the same book. No menology or biographical collection, not even WilKams's l Welsh Judges,' gives the date of Sir Marmaduke Lloyd's decease.

4. To what family in Shropshire do the records, 1640-50, of the Court of the Marches of Wales belong? These records were sold in the old careless days now happily past, and the tradition, vaguely provoking, seems to be that they passed into possession of some one of the gentlemen seated in North Shrop- shire. The Hist. MSS. Commission Reports give no light.

5. A person who died at Albury, Oxford- shire, in 1666, having made a will, would have that will probated in what court?

6 A certain person, who was a devout Churchman in lifelong good repute, married his deceased wife's sister, circa 1655. It would seem as if he must have had some special licence or dispensation. Whence would this have been issued to him from his own diocesan, or from the Archiepiscopal Court ?

The entries in the books of the Faculty Office are unfortunately missing for 1655-6.

7. What old poet (temp. James I., at a guess), writing nis compliments to another, congratulates the latter on having established a monopoly over a certain class of literary subjects, and ends thus :

And who make thither else, rob or invade?

G.

57, St. John's Road, Oxford.

IRISH AND SCOTCH OLD HOUSES. Being interested in old houses, I am seeking the owners and any striking detail in the history of the following : Luggala Castle, co. Wicklow ; Kylemore Castle and Clifden Castle, co. Gal- way (is the last the seat of Lord Clifden ?) ; Rowallan Castle and Craufordland Castle, both near Kilmarnock ; Gulzean Castle and Kilkerran House, co. Ayr. I am familiar with the details given in the usual ' Peerages. 1

H. B. R.

CARRODUS FAMILY. I shall be grateful for any information relating to the above family, especially during the eighteenth century, in respect of one Jeremiah Carrodus. I have a note of his marriage in 1766 to Elizabeth Moorby, of Empsay, but wish to trace a probable earlier marriage.

ARTHUR GROVES.

11, Parkhurst Road, New Southgate, N.

SAMUEL CLARKE, D.D. Can your readers give me any information with regard to Dr. Samuel Clarke, who was rector of St. Peter's, Northampton, from 1608 to 1640, when he disappears ? He was employed in conjunc- tion with Dr. Sybthorpe in carrying out the Laudian reforms in Northamptonshire, and several of his letters are preserved in the Public Record Office. He can scarcely, there- fore, be identical with Dr. Samuel Clarke, the "eminent Puritan," referred to in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.' He was married 13 September, 1635, in Canterbury Cathedral. R. M. SERJEANTSON.

St. Sepulchre's, Northampton.

. DE TRAFFORD ESTATES. Where could I obtain an account of the trials with regard to the inheritance of the De Trafford estates in 1779 and 1824? Any information on this point will be gladly received. R. NADIN.

Burton-on-Trent.

ROUBILIAC'S BUST OF POPE. Could any of your readers kindly inform me where is the bust of Pope by Roubiliac ?

GEORGE G. NAPIER.

"On ! THE PILGRIMS OF ZiON." I shall be very grateful if any reader can tell me where