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pictorial groupings. At present the Bodmin monastic shield of Edgar seems unique, want other instances of Edgar's emblems.

W. IAGO, B.A.

S. MILES, WATCHMAKER. Can any one give me information regarding a Septimus Miles whose name appears in an old watch, and whose address is given as Ludgate Street, London ? G. H. W.

[Septimus Miles, apparently one of the firm oi Miles & ^Morgan, was in business at 32, Ludgate Street, 1790-4, was a member of the Clockmakcrs' Company in 1816, and was at 8, Little Carter's Lane, Doctors' Commons, 1825-42.]

CHARLES READE IN BOLTON Row. Did Charles Reade the novelist ever live in Bolton Row or Bolton Street, Mayfair? If so, can you state the number of the house, and in what years he lived there ? Was there a street in London called Bolton Row in I860? HALL.

[Bolton Row was in existence in 1860, and for more than a century previous. Reade lived at No. 6, but we cannot say at what precise period.]

CAPT. PETER PUGET. Biographical details, portraits, place of interment, tfcc., desired regarding this officer of H.M. Discovery, sloop of war, 1791-6. He accompanied Capt. George Vancouver on his North- West coast expedition during the period named.

F. V. J.

RED PLAYBILLS. We read that on 4 November, 1629,

"certain vagrant French female players, who had been expelled from their own country, did attempt thereby giving just offence to all virtuous and well- disposed persons in the town, to act a certain las- civious and unchaste comedy in the French tongue at Blackfriars."

It appears that they were hissed and hooted ott the stage, though in less than three weeks afterwards these same French players ap- peared at the Red Bull for a day. Probably it was a little later than this that Drvden wrote :

A brisk French troop is grown your dear delight Who with brand bloody-bills call you each day io laugh, and break your buttons at their play. Would these be, as the epithet " brand " might seem to indicate, the first coloured posters or playbills that appeared in England ?

II. W.

Stewart of Scotland, and Marjory his wife, daughter of Robert the Bruce (1274-1329), King of Scotland. What is the proof of this marriage, and what were the names of the contracting parties? What is the line of descent from Sir Robert Logan, who died following the heart of Bruce, and what the particulars of this historical incident ?

James Logan (1674-1751), agent of William Penn in America, born 20 October, 1674, at Lurgan, co. Armagh, is described as a son of Patrick Logan, a grandson of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig. Is this the Sir Robert Logan who forms the subject of chap. xii. in Mr. Lang's work, and affords an interesting contretemps for a subdivision of his 'Dis- entanglers'? Where is Fast Castle, and in which of Scott's novels is it described ? Were not the Logans also of royal descent through other alliances 1

Who is the Matthew Logan repeatedly referred to as ally of Sir Robert, i.e., what was the relationship between the two? A John Logan came from the north of Ireland with the Scotch Presbyterians who founded. the church at Ekonk in Voluntown, State of Connecticut. His sons were James, John, Robert, and Matthew, of whom Matthew Founded a line of that name at Washington (Old Judsea in Antient Wood bury), Litchfield County, Conn.

Where may pedigrees or other records of Laird of Restalrig be found ?
 * his Scotch-Irish family descended from the

HOLLISTER LOGAN.

27, William Street, New York City, U.S.

[Fast Castle is a ruin on the coast of Berwick- shire. It is the "Wolfs Crag" of 'The Bride of Lam mer moor.']

"THE SOLENT." What is the etymology of this word ? My books on place-names say nothing. Perhaps ' Hampshire,' in the " Vic- toria County History" series, may give an answer, but I have not access to it

H. P. L.

PANNELL. I shall be very glad of any in- formation that your readers can give me about the family of Pannell (Pannel in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) before

the year 1636.

CHARLES PANNELL.

LOGANS OF RESTALRK; AND LURGAN, L -o ARMAGH.-It is stated by Mr. Andrew Lang

, the Gowrie Mystery loO) that the Logans were "

(p.

descent, through a marriage of a

- daughter of Robert II.

of royal with

. war

and King of Scotland, son of Walter III.

East Street, Haslemere, Surrey.

ORDERS OBTAINED BY BRIBERY. Can you or any of your readers refer me to any publi- cations which contain articles or cases relat-

L n ?u o e sub J ecfc of orders obtained by bribery ? H j R *

PRIORY OF AUSTIN FRIARS, STANDON.-Sir Thomas Sadleir, Knt, built himself a stately