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shire, who died in 1815 or 1816 1 Martin had a sister Susanna, who married Miles Lowley, of Burley, and died in 1802 at Stamford. He had an aunt Jane Sandys, and cousins Arabella and Susanna Sandys.

CHARLES J. BELLAIRS GASKOIN. 55, Rhadegund Buildings, Cambridge.

LOCAL SOCIETY IN DEVON. Can any one furnish information as to the Devon and Exeter Graphic Society ? When was it founded ; does it still exist ; who have been its presidents ; and did it publish any Transactions ? T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

Lancaster.

HENRIETTA MARIA PRICE. She was Maid of Honour in the time of Charles II. I should be glad to know if any portrait of her exists, and to obtain any account of her life.

A. ARDEN CRALLAN.

Valence House, Godalming.

" 29, UPPER GROSVENOR STREET. I am anxious to identify the above house, occupied by Mrs. Carter in 1796. I am tola the numbers in this street have been altered, and perhaps some reader learned in London topography could tell me which corresponds with No. 29 in the year 1796.

J. PARKES BUCHANAN.

TETE-A-TETE PORTRAITS. Has any attempt been made to identify the curious series of portraits that appeared in the Town and Country Magazine towards the end of last century to illustrate the cryptic scandals of the day ? J. M. BULLOCH.

COGAN: BARRY: ROCHE. John Fitzgerald, fourth baron of Offaley, married Margery, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzanthony. Is anything known of the latter's family ? John Fitzgerald's son Maurice married Julian, daughter of John, Lord Cogan ; his grandson Thomas, fifth baron, married Margaret, daughter of John, Lord Barry ; his great- grandson John, first Earl of Kildare, married Blanche, daughter of John, Lord Roche, by his wife Eleanor Fitzmaurice. I shall be glad of any information about the Cogan, Barry, and Roche peerages.

R. WATERFIELD.

Nagpur.

BIRD FAMILY. Wanted the maiden name of the wife of Thomas Bird, of Barton, co. Warwick, whose daughters Elizabeth and Mary married respectively Robert Wilber- force, of Hull, grandfather of the late Bishop of Winchester, and Abel Smith, M.P.

C. DEEDES. Brighton

AUTHOR OF POEM. Who wrote the poem, quoted by Mr. William Sharp in his ' Fail- Women,' in the Portfolio of July, 1894, as from "one of the youngest and as yet scarce known " poets, called ' No Saint ' ? It begins :

Sometimes her mouth with deep regret

Is grave, I know ;

Sometimes her eyes with tears are wet, As a bedewed violet,

And overflow.

She has her human faults, and yet I love her so.

MARY LYON HAGAR. Burlington, Vermont, U.S.

PORTRAITS OF GENERAL DESBOROUGH AND LADY CLAYPOLE. I shall be thankful to any one who can tell me where the portraits of Desborough and Lady Claypole, exhibited respectively by Mr. G. B. Lambert and Miss Disbrowe in the Loan Exhibition of 1866, are now to be found. SAMUEL R. GARDINER.

SPANGO. This is a farm near Inverkip, Renfrewshire. Is this place-name known anywhere else ? What does it mean 1

J. B. MONTGOMERIE-FLEMING.

GIBBET IRONS. In a museum at Skeg- ness, Lincolnshire, some gibbet irons were exhibited, and I shall be glad to learn where they originally came from.

WILLIAM ANDREWS

The Hull Press, Hull.

MICHAEL ARNOLD, M.P. FOR WESTMINSTER, 1685-7. Who was he ? His son John, who matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, in 1670, aged sixteen, and was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1678, was M.P. for Monmouth, 1680-1, and Southwark from 1689 to 1695, being described in 1689 as " of Llanvihangell Crewcorney, co. Monmouth." I suspect the father to have been a younger son of Nicholas Arnold, of Llanthony Abbey, Monmouth, who was living in 1638, and then married to Lettice, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Moore, and granddaughter of the first Viscount Moore of Drogheda (see ' Visitation of Gloucester,' 1623, Harl. vol.). I should be obliged to any correspondent who wouid confirm this suspicion. W. D. PINK.

CHARLES I. RINGS. Can any reader explain the following apparent inconsistency ? 1. Mr. Syer Cuming, on exhibiting a basket-hilt of a Jacobite claymore to the British Archaeological Association on 7 January, 1846, observed : :

" Friends and partisans have in all ages manifested an anxious desire to possess some relic or memento of those to whom they have been attached, and