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NOTES AND QUERIES.

s. x. DEC. 13, 1902.

Lowen in einen lebenden Felsen, welchen Konig Ludwig von Bayern als Denkmal der in Griechen- land gebliebenen Bayern bestimmt hatte. Auch in Athen fiihrte Siegel enige Werke aus." Nagler, ' Kiinstler Lexicon,' 1846, p. 358.

This is all the information given by Nagler, and what is given is in part inaccurate. Siegel was born, not at Hamburg, as stated, but at Wandsbek, a town of Prussia in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, three miles north-east of Hamburg. Siegel appears to have settled permanently in Athens, and in addition to the colossal lion executed for Louis, King of Bavaria, referred to by Nagel, made a design for the restoration of the colossal lion of Cheronea, near Athens, which is engraved in the 'Annali della Corri- spondenza Archeologica di Roma' for 1856, but was not carried out.

Siegel appears to have been alive in 1856, but I have not been able to ascertain the place or the date of his death, and should be glad of any assistance on these points.

JOHN HEBB.

DAME MARY PAGE. The other day, after an absence of twenty-three years, I once more happened to visit the highly interesting old Bunnill Fields Burial - Ground. It is situated in the City Road, just opposite the house where John Wesley lived and died, and contains, among other memorable tombs, the graves of John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, and Isaac Watts ; but there is one monument upon which is inscribed so curious an epitaph that I cannot refrain from quoting it :

South Side.

Here lyes Dame Mary Page, Relict of Sir Gregory Page, Bart., She departed this life March 11, 1728, In the 56 year of her age.

North Side.

In 67 months she was tap'd 66 times, Had taken away 240 gallons of water, Without ever repining at her case, Or ever fearing the operation.

ALGERNON ASHTON.

MALTESE LANGUAGE AND HISTORY. The following extract may be of use to some of your readers. It is from the Malta Colonial Report for 1901 viz., 'No. 358, Malta' (Cd. 788-28, His Majesty's Stationery Office and Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1902, price 2^d), p. 3.1 :

" Considerable progress was made in 1901 with the preparation by the Government of a Standard Maltese - English Dictionary, and the following scholastic publications were issued from the Govern- ment printing office :

Bidu tal Kari Malti (Maltese Primer), in 1898.

It-Tieni Ctieb tal KE.TJ Malti (Second Book), with a literary English translation, in 1899.

A Short History of Malta, in 1899.

Outlines of English Grammar, in 1901. Taghlim fuk Id-Dinja (Earth Knowledge), in 1901. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, in English and Maltese, in 1901."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

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.

ROCHESTER : VON ROGESTER. I should feel much obliged if I could ascertain through your interesting and valuable paper any facts which may be known regarding the family and descendants of the Earl of Rochester (1647-80). A Bavarian family whose name is Von Rogester seem to trace their descent from a Rochester who, going from Belgium early in the eighteenth century to Bavaria, was ennobled there in 1740. Could he have been a son or grandson of the notorious earl 1 Any information will oblige. IGNORANT INQUIRER.

FEMALE SUICIDES, &c., BEFORE A.D. 70. Would any reader furnish me with names, and references to simple accounts, if possible, of noted women of all times down to A.D. 70 who have died violent and tragic deaths, especially by suicide, to escape some imminent peril or disgrace, as in the case of Cleopatra ?

F. E. P.

Portsmouth.

VIS-DE-LEW. Has the Vis-de-Lew family of Berkshire, temp. William I., ever been worked up ; and can any of your readers kindly refer me to authorities on the subject?

H. M. BATSON.

Hoe Benham, Newbury.

NICHOLAS METCALFE OR MIDCALF. He was a son of Francis Metcalfe (knighted in 1618), of Louth Park, co. Lincoln, was baptized at Keddington, in the same county, in 1602 ; B.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 1622 ; M.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1626, and S.T.B. in 1637 ; but though he is stated in Garbet's ' History of Wem ' to have been a D.D., I cannot find the record of his having taken that degree. He was presented to the rectory of Wem in 1643 (by Thomas Howard, second Earl of Arundel 1), but was almost immediately ejected by the Puritans. In 1647 the Committee of Plundered Ministers listened to a complaint from Andrew Parsons, to whom the rectory of Wem had been sequestered, that Margaret, wife of Nicholas Metcalfe, had concealed the fact that her