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of Venice." In 'L'Art de V.' (1784) it is said that Peter owed his election to the intrigues of Gisela, Stephen's widow, but in regard to parentage the book is silent. It mentions no son born of Doge Otton, and gives no name to Stephen's sister, his wife. C. S. WAED. Wootton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke.

" NECK-HANDKERCHIEF." In ' Night and Morning,' book iii. chap. xii. p. 272 of "Kneb- worth Edition," Lord Lytton writes :

" The woman opened the door, went to the other side of the room and sat down on an old box, and began darning an old neck-handkerchief."

The novel was published in 1845, second edition in 1851. Is this form still in use ?

THOMAS BAYNE. Helensburgh, N.B.

[It is or was more common in the West Riding than "neckerchief."]

FiTzSiEPHEN FAMILY. Can any of your Irish readers give me any information con- cerning the descendants of Robert FitzStephen, who went to Ireland with Strongbow ? The smallest information will be gratefully re- ceived. P. A. F. S.

WILLIAM BARKER, DEAN OF RAPHOE, 1757- 1776. From a pedigree in one of the Harl. Soc. vols. 37-40 it appears that the dean married Mary Halton, and he had a son Alexander, a clerk. Will any reader inform me whether this Alexander is the same per- son as the Rev. Alexander Barker, whose marriage with jVIiss Burnham of Shirland is recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1789; and also as to the parentage of the dean's wife ? GEO. W. WRIGLEY.

68, Southborough Road, South Hackney.

SAMPLERS. I have a collection of these articles, bearing dates ranging from 1794 to the middle of the present century. My latest acquisition was picked up in the town of Wigan a few weeks ago, and bears, in addi- tion to the usual shepherd, birds, trees, &c., the inscription " Alice Cockburn, 1855." Has any reader of 'N. & Q.' anything of this character of a later date ? M. N.

ELEANORA DI TOLEDO. Who were the parents of Eleanora di Toledo, wife of the Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici (he died A.D. 1574) ? Was her mother of the blood royal of Spain? M. E. G.

MAP OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Will any i-eader of ' N. & Q.' kindly direct me to a very early map of Nottinghamshire or a private survey which contains in the district between Styrrup and Blyth a meadow named "Ter-

mingings"? I shall expect to find it near "Whitewater Common." I have consulted twenty-four Notts maps in my own collection without success. ROBERT WHITE.

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GAMBOLD. Can any one give me any parti- culars of the Gambold family of whom was Rev. John Gambold (the Moravian bishop), son of the Rev. William Gambold of Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, whose father was another William Gambold ? There was an Anne Gambold who in 1754 married Benja- min Millingchamp. HARFLETE.

FAGGOTS TO BURN HERETICS. Were be- quests for the purpose of buying these at all common 1 One such was left (I speak from memory) by the widow of a City freeman, who bequeathed a tenement, the rent of which was to be applied for the purchase of faggots for the aforesaid purpose. For many years, I believe, the rent went into the pockets of the parochial clergy. It is now applied for the purchase of coals for the poor, " to warm their bodies instead of burning them," as it was wittily said. W. B. GERISH.

Hoddesdon, Herts.

THE LETTERS OF JUNIUS. (8 th S. i. 512 ; if. 57, 218, 393, 481 ; iii. 49, 111

189, 331 ; 9 th S. ii. 155.) ON my presuming to offer some notions of Junius not acquired through

Investigation calm, whose silent powers Command the world,

for in early years I had been cautioned against wasting time over Junius and the Iron Mask, but rather my incidental im- pressions MR. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY (8 th S. iii. 331), fairly animadverting on my teme- rity, counselled me to be guided in this matter by Roscoe's, or such like, laws of evidence. To this I demur, because I am led to agree with Freeman that " lawyers' ways of looking at things have done no small mis- chief, not only to the true understanding of our history, but to the actual course of our history itself." MR. INGLEBY treated too lightly " the hearsay evidence of a steward " of Boconnoc, an exceptional man of business, too prosaic a votary of Mammon for romanc- ing, one skilled in conveyancing and dodging forensic quibbles, whose shrewdness was mani- fested in the case of the Burnham Beeches.

The demand for picturesque sites on the Grenville property led him to discover that a good thing might be made of a