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Roper it is said that he married her " about 1525." No authority appears to be given in either case for the approximate date. I have just finished the monotonous task of reading completely through the ' London Marriage Licences,' and it is worth noting that under date of 2 July, 1521, is an entry of a licence issued from the Bishop of London's office in the names of William Ropar, of St. Andrew, Holborn, and Margaret More, of St. Stephen, Walbrook (Foster's ed. and Harl. Soc.'s ed.). Is this a coincidence of names, or does it refer to the marriage of Sir Thomas More's daughter ? U. V. W.

LiEUT.-CoL. DE STORFF. In the King's Library at the British Museum there are several painted pen-and-ink plans (mostly on parchment) of castles, forts, towns, &e., in England, and signed with pen and ink " Le Lieutt. Col. de Storff" (sometimes De Stroff) "fecit." Who was he, when so employed, and by whom 1 C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

''Goo's SILLY VASSAL." By whom or to whom was this epithet applied ? Can any of your correspondents tell me ? R. A. POTTS.

HANGING CENSERS. In the poem on the Basilica of Bugge, attributed both to St. Aldhelm and Alcuin, the following lines occur :

Hicquoque thuribulum capitellis undique cinctum, Pendet de summo, fumosa foramina pandens, De quibus ambrosia spirabunt tura Sabsea Quando sacerdotes missas offerre jubentur.

How was the fuel in this hanging censer kept alive ? It seems that to swing a censer hanging from the roof with sufficient impetus to create a draught would be very awkward, and the fuel in a stationary vessel would soon die out. C. S. TAYLOR.

Banwell.

EPIGRAM ON MADAME DE POMPADOUR. Carlyle in chap. iv. of his 'History of the French Revolution,' ' The Bastille,' writes :

" Do the five hundred thousand ghosts who sank shamefully on so many battlefields from Rossbach to Quebec, that the Harlot [Madame de Pompadour] might take revenge for an epigram, crowd round thee at this hour ? " &c.

I venture to ask, if the subject be not too delicate to handle, What are the words of this epigram 1 and where are they to be found 1 I am aware that at 3 rd S. vi. 533 a somewhat similar inquiry was made, for, quoting Lord Mahon's historical essay on ' The Last Years of Frederick the .Second,' D. W. S. asked where the satirical attacks on Madame de Pompadour, which led to the Seven Years'

War, could be found ; but no answer was given, though many notes on the Pompadour are published in the twelve volumes of the Third Series. Is it possible that the particular epigram which Carlyle mentions refers to the appellation of Cotillon the Second, which Frederick of Prussia bestowed on Madame de Pompadour, in allusion to her having succeeded Cotillon the First (Madame de Chateauroux), or to something else 1

JAMES WATSON.

JOHN DENMAN was admitted to West- minster School 31 January, 1815. Can any correspondent of * N. & Q.' help me to identify him? G. F. R. B.

THOMAS UPTON, BORN 1677. I shall be very grateful to any of your readers who can give me information concerning the issue and de- scendants of Thomas Upton, paternal uncle of the first Lord Templetown. He was born 4 August, 1677 : M, P. for Antrim and for Londonderry, Recorder of Londonderry, and K.C. . W. P. UPTON.

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J. OSCAR PARKER. A spirited poem en- titled ' The Legend of Dolbadarn,' from the pen of this gentleman, appeared in the Man- chester Quarterly in 1888. Is anything known of the author 1 I remember him at the time. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

STERNE : PARODY. In 1797 was published 'Fragments in the Manner of Sterne,' without name of author clever, sympathetic, and human as Sterne himself. Who was the author 1 One of the foot-notes tells the story of a Pevensey jury who, having brought in guilty a man for stealing a pair of leather breeches, were so alarmed at finding that the sentence must be death that they sent off a messenger to the then Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who replied, "Instruct them to reverse the verdict and bring it in man- slaughter," and a new verdict to that effect was the consequence. Where may any other reference to this incident be found ?

XYLOGRAPHER.

"QUESTIONNAIRE." This word is not given in the ' Century Dictionary/ but the Council of the London Chamber of Commerce has recently been called upon " to consider the desirability of issuing a questionnaire ^ to members with a view to the replies being tabulated and reported upon at a general meeting," and it was reported to that body that both the Birmingham and Glasgow Chambers had issued a questionnaire on this matter to their respective members. The