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of England an engraving, about twenty by thirty inches in size, of Cromwell's Parlia- ment ; it had neither printer's nor publisher's name to indicate its origin. I shall feel obliged if any of your readers can inform me where the original painting can be found, and also the name of the printer or publisher of the engraving, as I am anxious to procure a copy. WILLIAM HOLMS.

THOMAS MODESLEY, DEAN OF CHESTER. Information is desired respecting Thomas Modesley, Madesley, or Maudesley, Dean of Chester, 1580-89. F. SANDERS, M.A., F.S.A.

Hoylake Vicarage, Cheshire.

A "WRITING ENGINE." In the selection from the Athenian Oracle, edited by the late John Underbill, and issued in the "Scott Library," there are given, in an appendix, a few specimen advertisements from the Athe- nian Mercury. Among these is the following (p. 258) :

" The Writing Engine, for taking several copies of the same thing at once, invented by Mr. Geo. Ridpath, being now brought to perfection by the assistance of Mr. Alexander Urwin, Clock-maker in St. Martin's Lane, over against the Church, such as have occasion for any of the said Engines may see the same at Mr. George Ridpath's, at the Blue Ball in Little Newport Street, near Leicester-Fields, and be accommodated, according to agreement, with Engines for 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 copies."

Was this " Engine " of the nature of a type- writer or a copying-press 1 Is anything more known of it, or of George Ridpath ? I shall be very glad of any further information.

G. L. APPERSON.

KING'S LANGLEY PRIORY, HERTS. Has any separate history of this Dominican priory been published ; or in what works can I find most information about the priors, who were governors or supervisors of Dartford priory in Kent, the prioress of which house was patron of Elmeston rectory in this county 1 Kings Langley Priory owned land in the adjoining parish of Preston next Wingham, from 1387 to 1538. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

CARDINAL Kossi. Is it known how Car- dinals Rossi and Jules de Medicis offended Raphael, so that he placed them amongst the condemned in his picture of the ' Last Judg- ment'? YDOLTOREE.

MASTER. Can any one give me a pedi- gree of Margaret Master, wife of George Byng, first Viscount Torrington-. Her family are described as of East Langdon, Kent.

HARFLETE.

COLONEL WALL,

(9 th S. i. 508.)

Thisofficerappeared in two well-known cases, In Wall v. Macnamara the plaintiff brought an action against the Lieutenant-Governor of Senegambia for confining him nine months in an African prison. The imprisonment itself was legal, but it was attended by such barbarity that the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with 1 ,000/. damages. In course of time Capt. Wall became Lieutenant- Governor of Senegambia, and committed a crime which was similar in nature to the, very offence for which he had himself re- covered damages. The crime was the murder of a sergeant of the African Corps by inflicting on him 800 lashes with such cruelty as to cause his death (28 Howell's 'State Trials,' 51). The legal aspect of these two cases is discussed in the ' Manual of Military Law ' (War Office, 1894), pp. 194-5 and 206-8. The story of Wall's trial has been so often told that it need hardly be repeated. For in- stance, in Jackson's 'Newgate Calendar' forty-two pages are devoted to " The inter- esting trial of Joseph Wall, Esq., late Governor of Goree, at the Old Bailey, for the wilful murder of Benjamin Armstrong, 10 July, 1782, with authentic particulars of his family, and behaviour previous to his execution, 28 January, 1802, twenty years after the com- mission of the crime." The narrative is em- bellished by three engravings : " The cruelty of Governor Wall at Goree," " Governor Wall contemplating on his unhappy fate in the condemn'd cell," and " The execution of Governor Wall." It was politically expedient that Wall should suffer death, otherwise it appears not improbable that he would have received a pardon. Just before his trial .a batch of seamen had been executed for mutiny by order of a naval court-martial. Popular feeling became excited, and it seems to have been considered necessary to vin- dicate the impartiality of the law, lest it should be said that there was one code for the officer and another for the man. Wall was hanged at Tyburn. GUALTERULUS.

According to the Editor's reply to an in- quiry made thirty-three years ago, Col. Joseph Wall was the son of a farmer at Abbeyleix, in Queen's County, Ireland. He entered the army about 1760, and was at the taking of Havannah. He afterwards obtained a command in the service of the East India Company, and proceeded to Bombay. He subsequently accepted the unenvied post of