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your Ladyship and me.' There is not a circum stance of her whole life she has not related to me, L' 1 Barkley settled 800/. a year upon her, which she returned when she left him, yet she lived to be denied the loan of 20 guineas from the Noble Lord when she wanted bread, and was obliged to be con tent with my purse, which contained only four or five, but I always despised her after she gave ' P. Pickle ' to Lord Vane to read. She treated him, however, as he treated a most indulgent Father and Mother. He died mad, but after her, and she lived forty years praying for his death."

45. St....pe, Earl of Ch d.

" D r Dodd was his Tutor. He seemed delighted to hang him for forging his name, and he thereby rendered his own Infamous. Dodd was a better Rogue than his Lordship, for Dodd was a humane good Tempered Rogue, his Lord p an ill tempered silly Fellow/'

51. Lieut. Gen. and Lady C J"ohnson."

60. Dowager C of H.r...gt.n.

"Her Ladyship piqued herself upon one point of honour, viz. : never to be false to her Lord's bed til she was breeding by him."

96. Cl S n, Earl of M"azarine."

In addition to the above, names have been inserted in pencil by another hand in all cases except Nos. 27, 86, 91, 93, and 101. These names are identical with those in MR. PIER- POINT'S copy, with the following exceptions :

1. Lady " Bridget Talmash."

9. C s "Thanet."

17. Lord "Archer."

21. " Ad m Kennet," Lord M"ayor " of "London."

25. St. R 1" Howard."

26. F, D keof "Bedford."

37. El of "Denbigh."

40. Note/ Now Lord " Walsingham."

43. Dow. C-ss of "Litchfield."

49. "Shute Barrington," B p of " Durham."

53. SirH.... " Houghton."

56. Lady V ss "Townshend."

61. Dowager C ss of " Chatham."

63. " Sir G. and L. Warren."

64. Sir J... "Lade."

75. S " Barrington," Bishop of L....ff.

77. Lines 12 and 13. Whether " Wilkes," Lord "Sandwich," or "Paul Whitehead." 82. " Lady Carmarthen."

92. Lady '" Dunhoff," sister to L (l Tankerville. 99. C ss Dow r of " Strathmore."

1. The number of dots shows that Lady Bridget Tollemache is meant.

9. Thanet and Talbot both satisfy the dots.

17 and 26. No dots to guide us.

43. The dots are too few for Lanesborough, but would indicate Litchfield' if one be reckoned as a stop.

49. This commences "One of the truest shots," which seems a play on the name Shute ; but Barrington was not made Bishop of Durham till 1791, and No. 75 is un- doubtedly meant for him.

51, 53, 56. The dots indicate the spelling in MR. PIERPOINT'S copy.

61. The dots show that Chatham is wrong.

Charlemont has one letter too few ; possibly the writer spelt it Charlemount.

82. Amelia D'Arcy, Baroness Conyers, the divorced wife of the Marquis of Carmarthen, married Capt. Byron, the father of the poet, in 1779. W. H. DAVID.

In his first communication MR. PIERPOINT gave references to my contributions, 3 rd S. viii. 455 ; 4 th S. i. 353. At the second of these I had already mentioned the author- ship of Sir Herbert Croft, on the authority of the Gent. Mag., as quoted now by himself. W. C. B.

Miss CHARLOTTE WALPOLE (9 th S. xii. 128, 151, 171, 254, 311). This lady, according to Genest, made her debut at Drury Lane, 2 October, 1777, as Kosetta in 'Love in a Village, and is frequently found in the bills for two seasons. She took her benefit, 16 April, 1779, as Sir Harry Wildair in Farquhar's ' Constant Couple,' and the last record of Genest is on the 19th of the same month, as Clarinda in Gibber's * Double Gallant. 5 As the season did not close till 1 June, this may not have been her last appearance. Miss Wai pole was married to Mr. Atkyns on 18 June (not May), 1779. I find no mention of her as Mrs. Atkyns. The engraving by Bunbury to which your corre- spondent refers evidently represents Miss Walpole in the character of Nancy, disguised in male attire as a young recruit, in 'The Camp,' a musical entertainment attributed bo Sheridan, but the work of his brother-in- law, Richard Tickell. This piece de circonstance was produced at Drury Lane 15 October, 1778, and owed much of its success to Miss Walpole's adroitness in military exercises, [t was written for the sake of exhibiting a epresentation of the military manoeuvres at Joxheath, near Maidstone, where 15,000 troops were encamped ; the scene was attractive as a fashionable resort, and honoured by royalty. ROBERT WALTERS.

Ware Priory.

FLAYING ALIVE (9 th S. xii. 429). This cruel ! orm of torture and execution seems to have 3een peculiarly Oriental, or almost so. Sir Walter Raleigh feared being flayed alive by the Spaniards, but even they, perhaps, learnt which, although it did not occur in England, an Englishman was concerned, was that which relates to the archer who shot that ' splendid savage," Richard L, while he was aying siege to the Castle of Chaluz. Although the king had previously, and with charac- teristic generosity, given orders to spare him,
 * he atrocity from the Moors. An instance in