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Arabic figures and an " H " dashed off with a brush in black, the "H" two and a half inches high, done about one hundred and fifty years ago? QUERIST.

REV. SIMON ROGERS. Rector of Stour- mouth, Kent, 1606-8. Was he the same as Simon Rogers, a prebendary of St. Paul's, 1602-4? On 14 June, 1608, administration to his goods was granted to his widow Winifred Rogers. Any additional information will be very acceptable. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Wingham, Kent.

JOHNSON. Can any one give me a pedi- gree of a family called Johnson, described as of Minster in the Isle of Sheppey, and also of Loans in Surrey? The mother of George Byng, first Viscount Torrington, was Phila- delphia Johnson of this family.

HARFLETE.

THOROTON GOULD'S MARRIAGE. In Groves's ' History of Mansfield ' it is stated that from a house near Mansfield Woodhouse, in which Major Rooke lived and died, "Thoroton Gould eloped with the daughter of the last Earl of Sussex, and, riding over the border, was married to her by the blacksmith of Gretna Green. The lady succeeded to the title of Baroness Grey de Ruthyn on the death of her father." In the 'Complete Peerage' it is said that the pair eloped from an inn at Barnet to Gretna Green, where they were married. No reference is given with either statement. Can any of your readers inform me which of the statements (if either) is correct 1 The Major Rooke named above was an eminent anti- quarian writer on Sherwood Forest and the neighbourhood. The Gould family (his neighbours) were people of consideration who resided at Mansfield Woodhouse. The marriage took place in 1775. The descend- ants of E. Thoroton Gould and this lady (Lady Barbara Yelverton) are found among the most eminent families in the kingdom. JOSEPH RODGERS.

St. Hilda's Terrace, Whitby.

THE Six CLERKS IN CHANCERY. In 1540 the six clerks had their offices in a building known as " Harflu (or Hereflete or Harflete) Inne " in Chancery Lane " over against the Rolls House." Tnis building was destroyed by fire in 1621, but was rebuilt the following year, and they continued there till 1778, when apparently they removed to a building still in Chancery Lane, but nearer Holborn. Here they remained till the office was abolished and replaced by the Records and Writs Clerks' Office in 1842. I shall be much

obliged to any one who can tell me where I am likely to find views or engravings of the Harflu Inn and of the building that replaced it, and also of the other building in Chancery Lane nearer Holborn. I shall also be glad of any references to books or pamphlets giving a history of the six clerks and of their names.

E. A. FRY. 172, Edmund Street, Birmingham.

DUCHESS OP KENDAL. Can any one give me particulars of the Duchess of Kendal ; her name before she was raised to the peer- age and her children (if any) ?

MRS. STEPHENSON.

Warley Barracks, Brentwood.

[Thereneverwas a secoudDukeof Kendal. Charles Stuart, third son of James, Duke of York, was created Duke of Kendal in 1666 and died in 1667. George IV. when Regent promised the dukedom to Prince Leopold, afterwards King of the Belgians, but the creation was never made. See 8 th S. i. 356 ; iv. 227 296 : also, under ' Melesina Schulenberg, 8 th b. i. 27, 98, 152, 197, 212, 237, 281.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

Said Day to Night, " I bring God's light ;

What gift have you ? "

Night said, " The dew." " I bring bright hours," quoth Day, " and flowers."

Night said, " More blest,

I bring sweet rest."

My recollection is that they are by some titled lady (perhaps Lady Lindsay). In any event could you inform me the oest means of ascertaining this? I have set them to music, and desire to obtain the requisite permission to publish them.

PHILIP H. WILLIAMS.

Wo sind dieschonen Tage hin, dawir so unglucklich waren ?

The lovelight in her eyes. T. G.

[This is in some popular Irish poem.]

La mort est le baiser de Dieu.

WASKY STKRRY.

Ingratitude, thou, child of hell, Wert born when the archangel fell.

United States, your banner wears

Two emblems : one of fame. The other one, alas ! it bears

A token of your shame. 'Tis true your constellation types

White freedom by its stars, But what 's the meaning of the stripes ?

They are your negroes' scars. B.

"Thinking of these things, and kneeling before the altar, my heart became filled with gratitude ; and no petition suggested itself to me save one, and that was ' Let me believe and love. I thought of the fair, strong, stately figure of Christ standing out on the world's history like a statue of pure white against a dark background ; I mused on the endurance, patience, forgiveness, and perfect inno- cence of that most spotless life which was finished on the cross, and again I murmured, Let me believe and love.' " M. BROOKE.