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visit her from time to time," as he shall see fit. As he is deemed a "person of gravity and learning" by the Council, who refer to "our knowledge and experience of your sufficiency and discretion," he appears to have had some position and repute. Any one who can give further particulars regard- ing him such as his native place, family, residence ; where he graduated as D.D. ; whether he was a Roman Catholic or Pro- testant, or the holder of any office or cure ; if he was concerned in Arabella's clandestine marriage ; or what became of him or his family will greatly oblige.

(Sir) THEODORE C. HOPE. 21, Elvaston Place, Queen's Gate, S.W.

MACARONI : HARP IN SOUTHERN ITALY : THE OLIVE. Can any reader interested in Italian ways and customs kindly inform me when and where macaroni was first intro- duced as a popular form of food 1

Was the harp unknown in Southern Italy in the eighteenth century ?

Are there any old legends connected with olive, orange, or lemon trees in the Neapolitan district ]

Any information on these points would greatly oblige. S. F. G.

Paris.

WILL READ PUBLICLY IN PARISH CHURCH.

Is it possible to find out in which church a will has to be read at certain dates until a claimant appears? Money was, it is said, left to the clergyman to do this. I am told that such an event occurred within the last three months, but cannot remember where the statement is made. EMILY BOYCE.

6, West Hill, St. Leonards.

LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY OSBORN. There is an interesting oil picture of him at Chicksands, with a later legend on it, " Henry Osborn, Esq r, Lt.-Col. of foot. Killed at y e battle of Naseby," which was fought on 9 June, 1645 ; yet in November of that year Prince Rupert sends his request to the Parliament for a pass out of the country, by Lieut. -Col. Henry Osborn ; and letters from him to the prince are in the Rupert MISS, in the B.M., and are printed in Warburton's 'Life of Rupert.' The signatures to these letters are as like as they can be to those of Henry Osborn, Dorothy's younger surviving brother (Robert, the youngest, lived till August, 1653), but I hesitate to identify him, at twenty-five or twenty -six, with Rupert's lieutenant- colonel, as he never alludes, in his petitions to Charles II., to service in Charles I.'s forces though we know he was in them, and the text of the lieutenant-colonel's letters is much

bigger than Henry Osborn's usual writing. Still, as Dr. G. F. Warner says that the letters are young Henry's, I can only conclude that there were two Lieut.-Col. Henry Osborns under Rupert. If so, who was the second, the one killed at Naseby ? Or is the legend on the Chicksands portrait wrong?

Can any one tell me when Henry Osborn was knighted 1 Charles II. would not give the sons any compensation in money or places for their father's loss of 40,000^. in Charles L's service, but he made the elder son (John) a baronet, and the younger (Henry) a knight.

F. J. FURNIVALL.

EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY CHARACTERS. Can any one kindly tell me anything of the persons named in the following list, all of whom were living about 1790 ? 1 quote the names as they appear in some Latin registers :

Rosalia Maggi.

Maria Taylor (wife of a Thos. Taylor).

Joannes Gul. Rose, Eques.

Dominicus Candidus Boyer.

Edwardus Maxwel Brown.

Benel de Boyne, Generalis.

Michael Cromy.

Georgius de Liviez.

Josephus de la Nave.

Georgiana Riley.

Some of these persons were perhaps con- nected with the operatic stage.

CHARLES SWYNNERTON.

CHILDREN'S CAROLS AND LULLABIES. I shall be glad to know where I can obtain information concerning carols and lullabies of and for the nursery, and particulars as to collections and the history and origin thereof. I do not refer to Christmas carols.

S. J. A. F.

CHARLES WARD. In the Monthly Magazine, or British Register, for May, 1806, appears an account of the death of ft Charles Ward, Esq., at Lewes, barrack-master of that place." The editor adds :

" He was the representative of one of the most ancient families in Great Britain, who were of con- siderable note in the days o? Egbert, from which remote period Mr. Ward had manuscripts in his possession at the time of his death. Early in life he was appointed a captain in the militia of his native county, Warwick, in wnich he possessed an handsome patrimonial property," &c.

Can any of your readers afford me infor- mation as to the family referred to, or as to what has become of the manuscripts which Mr. Charles Ward possessed 1 Ward of Pillerton is the only Warwickshire family of that name of any antiquity which I can trace from the usual sources, but they do not carry very far back. F. WARD.