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DR. PARKINS. I am in search of informa tion concerning a Dr. Parkins, of Little Gonerbj 7, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, who wrote two curious volumes bearing the titles of 'The Universal Fortune - Teller ; or, an Infallible Guide to the Secret and Hidden Decrees of Fate,' &c., and 'The Book of Miracles ; or, Celestial Museum : being an Entertaining and Instructive Treatise on Love, Law, Trade, and Physic with the Bank of Heaven, containing a Never-failing Method for Ladies to obtain Good Husbands, and Gentlemen Good Wives,' &c. The former was published in 1822 and the latter in 1817. Parkins was also the writer of several books of a similar nature. A. E. C.

CHARLES KEMBLE. Can any of your readers inform me where I can find some verses I think by J. Hamilton Reynolds reminiscent of this actor's performance in various cha- racters, in which there occurs the line (refer- ring to his Falconbridge), "And lounged into Angiers with indolent grace " ?

WM. DOUGLAS. 125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.

" SERENDIPITY." A shop has been recently opened at No. 118, Westbourne Grove, with the extraordinary name of " Serendipity Shop." What is the meaning of "Serendi- pity " ? I may add that the shop appears to be intended for the sale of rare books, pictures, and what Mrs. Malaprop (was it Mrs. Malaprop?) calls "articles of bigotry and virtue." JOHN HEBB.

" AVARY." This word is defined as lack of hands for the manning of fishing vessels. In the dictionaries to hand in my library I fail to find it, though I chance to come across it in Beaujon's ' Dutch Sea Fisheries.' I should gratefully appreciate information as to the linguistic origin and the detailed meaning^) of the word, and desire to know whether it is a legal term in any language or is a Dutch or English term used by fishermen. J. LAWRENCE-HAMILTON, M.R.C.S.

30, Sussex Square, Brighton.

HOUSE OF LORDS AND QUEEN CAROLINE. I have a print of Robert Bowyer's " View of the Interior of the House of Lords during the Trial of Queen Caroline, 1820. Painted by Geo. Hayter. Engraved and published by Bowyer & Parker, 46, >Pall Mall, March 1, 1832," and want a key to tell me who the people are. If I cannot buy a key, can I see one anywhere? The original painting was in possession of the then Lord Dover.

F. C. CARR GOMM.

LORENZO DA PAVIA. Miss Julia Cart- wright (Mrs. Ady) tells us a great many in- teresting things about him in her 'Beatrice d'Este' (London, 1899), but gives no refer- ences except a pigra massa of them in the shape of a list of books, &c, used in com- piling her tale. I should like to find the original authority for the following state- ment :

" In 1494 the Pavian master [Lorenzo] moved to Venice, where he found it easier to procure materials for his trade [as maker of instruments] and was able to carry on his work on a larger scale. By this time his fame had spread far and wide through Italy. He made an organ for Mathias Coryinus, the King of Hungary, and another which he himself took to Rome for Pope Leo X."-P. 154.

But "by this time " Mathias Corvinus was dead, having died four years before. The lady's book is full of such loose statements.

L. L. K.

PRONUNCIATION. Has any philologist been able to discover why words and names in Erse, in Welsh, and, above all, in Irish, are spelt in one way and pronounced in quite a different one 1 ? For instance, the name of the king at Tara to whom, tradition states, St. Patrick explained the mystery of the Trinity by means of the shamrock, is spelt Leogaire, and is pronounced Leary* JBuidhe, yellow, is pronounced bwee. Lamb,, the hand, is pronounced lauve, and hundreds of other examples might be given. I think it was Southey who said it was done to make reading the language impossible.

FRANCIS ROBERT DAVIES, K.J.J.

[The query seems to take it for granted that the ordinary English pronunciation is the only right one, but even that is not consistent.]

PLAY ACTED AT TRIN. COLL., CAMB., 1632. What was the play acted before Charles I. and his queen at Trinity in March, 1632 1

LOBUC.

"OUR APPREHENSIONS MAR OUR DAYS."

Where are these lines to be found ? Our apprehensions mar our days More than our sorrows do.

A. C. CusTANCEi

SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Were Sir Walter Raleigh's parents alive in 1576, when he returned from France 1 Did they still reside if alive at that date) at Hayes, and what book gives any particular account of them ? Jayley, Edwards, and Ty tier contain nothing of note regarding them. A D S.

Edinburgh.

FRANCES JENNINGS. I desire to know the date of the death of Frances (Thornhurst) Jennings, wife of Richard Jennings, of