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spondent should consult the valuable articles in the 'D.N.B.,' vol. xlvii., from which the above particulars are taken.

CHAS. H. CROUCH.

5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

His father, who was M.P. for Wareham in 1558 and 1559, was buried in the church of St. Mary Major, Exeter, on 23 February, 1580/1, aged about eighty-five.

W. D. PINK.

This question is very full of difficulty. Your correspondent should consult the many valuable papers on this family written for the Devonshire Association by your old correspondent and my valued friend DR. BRUSHFIELD, who (as our best living authority on Raleigh) is the fittest person to answer this query. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.

Lancaster.

THE ALPINE CLUB : ITS FOUNDERS (9 th S. xii. 406). There are a few inaccuracies in MR. ROBINSON'S interesting note on the Alpine Club and its foundation, which a reference to the late Mr. William Longman's paper on the * Formation of the Alpine Club ' (see Alpine Journal, vol. viii.) and Mr. C. E. Mathews's * The Annals of Mont Blanc ' may serve to correct. The late Mr. William Mathews, writing to his friend the Rev. F. J. A. Hort on 1 February, 1857, first suggested the idea of an Alpine Club. In August following the subject was discussed by a party of mountaineers in Switzerland, consisting of Mr. W. Mathews, Mr. B. St. John Mathews, the Rev. J. F. Hardy, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. E. S. Kennedy, all Cambridge men, and on the occasion of the dinner at the Leasowes to which MR. ROBINSON refers it was decided to carry the idea into execu- tion ; but the club was not " established," in the strict sense of the term, till 22 December, when, at the first meeting at Ashley's Hotel, Henrietta Street, Co vent Garden, various can- didates were enrolled ; and at an adjourned meeting, 19 January, 1858, at the same place, all who had previously joined, or who were elected on that occasion, were considered as original members of the club. Mr. Longman writes :

"The club appears to have been 'definitely constituted ' at the first dinner, Thatched House, St. James's. Street, 3 February, 1858, on which occa- sion the office of President was left in abeyance. Mr. E. S. Kennedy was chosen Vice-Presiclent, and the first Committee of the Club was represented by Mr. Eustace Anderson, Mr. E. T. Coleman, Mr. (now Mr. Justice) \Vills, and Mr. Robert Walters, with Mr. T. W. Hinchliff as Hon. Secretary, at whose chambers, No. 3, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, a meeting was held 31 March, when Mr.

John Ball, the distinguished traveller, scientist, and politician, Under-Secretary of the Colonies, 1855-1857, was elected as first President, Mr. Ken- nedy following him in the office 12 December, 1860. Mr. Longman further adds, on the subject of the foundation of the club :

"To the various members of the Mathews family belongs unquestionably the honour of first putting forward the idea of the club, and to Mr. Kennedy the merit of actively carrying that idea into execution."

To this happy summary might with equal justice be appended the rider that to Mr. Longman's cordial co-operation and un- flagging energy in matters of detail must be attributed the sudden success of the club, in whose welfare he was intimately associated.

Of the thirty-one original members of the Alpine Club the following are still to be found on the list : Mr. C. E. Mathews, Mr. Justice Wills, Mr. G. V. Yool, and your humble servant. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

CAPT. PETER PUGET (9 th S. xii. 248). An inquiry for this officer of H.M. sloop of war Discovery (1791-6), who accompanied Capt. George Vancouver on his North-West Coast Expedition, appeared in 'N. & Q./ 9 th S. ii. 207, but no reply has been given. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

JOHN SOUTH, LL.B. (9 th S. xii. 309, 395). On p. 254 of Davids's * Annals of Evangelical Nonconformity in the County of Essex ' there is a note referring to this clergyman, which states :

" The Rev. J. E. Sewell, B.D., the present Warden of New College, Oxford, kindly informs me that he [John South] was presented to Writtle by his col- lege in February, 1624. He was sequestered after

his desertion of his livings He recovered his

living at the Restoration."

ALFRED T. EVERITT.

High Street, Portsmouth.

WILLIAM UPCOTT (9 th S. xii. 389). About 1,200 of the autograph letters whieh had been in Upcott's collection are now in the Bodleian Library, having come there in 1864 as part of the valuable bequest of books and auto- graphs of Capt. Montagu Montagu, R.N., who died at Bath 3 July, 1863.

W. D. MACRAY.

CHI-RHO MONOGRAM (9 th S. x. 49, 116). MR. McGovERN may be referred also to an article on ' The Development of the Christian ' Monogram,' by W. Meijer, which the English HistoricalRevieiv(yiv\\\.%Sfy reports as printed in the Nederl. Arch. Kerkgesch., N.S., ii. 2.