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Connexion and Mulberry Gardens Chapel Eatcliffe Highway, London, published number of theological works ^between 179"J and 1832, was accorded a public funeral, and buried in Bunhill Fields Chapel close to John Bunyan. A portion, at any rate, of the funds constituting the Nicholson Charity* accrued through this branch of the family, and full particulars of its origination are very desir- able in the interests of all poor Nicholsons, as it would seem to have been started under a scheme of the Court of Chancery for dealing with certain unclaimed moneys in the family, pending discovery of the rightful owners. The Rev. Mr. Nicholson was probably of the Cumberland stock, and he or his descendants were connected with the Brocklebanks of Liverpool inter alia.

An English newspaper t paragraph, pub- lished in 1895, gives an account of one Peter Nicholson who settled himself on the centre of an island in Georgia, U.S.A., and while reputedly wealthy was of most miserly habits. One day a friend surprised him in the act of bending over a heap of gold which filled Nicholson's rude table, and consisted of 10 and 20 dollar pieces, besides many "slugs," or octagonal pieces of Californian gold, at one time in circulation on the coast, and valued at fifty dollars each. After this Nicholson kept his cabin under lock and key, fortified his door with a spring-gun, and closed his window with a heavy shutter. One day he died suddenly, and although every foot of ground on his small estate was subsequently turned over times without number, the trea- sure had not been found. A professor of geo- logy searched foritin March, 1895, and another subsequently prepared to do so.

JAMES TALBOT.

Adelaide, South Australia.

A MISSING POEM OF WECKHERLIN. Per- haps some of your readers can inform me as to the whereabouts of an exceedingly scarce, if not unique poem written in English by the German poet Georg Rudolph Weckherlin in 1619. The title runs as follows :

"A Panegyricke to the most honourable and renowned Lord, The Lord Hay : Vicount of Don- caster, His Maiesties of Great-Brittaine Ambassa- dour in Germanie. Sung by the Rhine, Interpreted by George Rodolfe Weckherlin, Secy to his High, of Wirtemberg. Printed at Stutgart by John Wyrich Rosslin. Anno 1619." 4to. 4 leaves. A copy of this work, the only one known to exist, was bought by Thorpe the bookseller, probably on commission, for 51. 12s. 6d at the

256, 324. t Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, 16 Nov., 1895.
 * Vide <N. & Q.,'5 th S. x. 87; xi. 155; 8 th S. x.

Bright sale in 1845. It was unknown to Conz, who published an elaborate memoir of Weckherlin in 1803 : and Prof. Hermann Fischer, of Tubingen, has recently edited the poems of this celebrated man without this desideratum, notwithstanding his many en- deavours and researches to discover it.

W. B. RYE, Jun.

COOKE FAMILY. (9 th S. ii. 88, 254, 314 ; iii. 74.) THE information given in Le Neve's 'Knights' (Harl. Soc. vol. viiL), and re- produced therefrom (without stating its source), is indeed (as stated) "meagre," being, in fact, but a continuation of a by no means meagre pedigree of the family recorded, 8 Sept., 1692, in the Visitation of London, 1687-92. At that date both Sir Thomas and his elder brother, John Cooke (six of whose children by Catherine, his wife, are there set out), were living at Hackney. This pedigree gives the names of their parents and grandparents in full (with numerous descendants), as also that of their great-grandfather, John Cooke, of Greeting, co. Norfolk. In it Sir Thomas sets forth twelve children of his own, viz. (1) Thomas, dead (2) Elizabeth, married Josiah Child ; (3) Tnomas, dead ; (4) Ann, dead ; (5) John, first surviving son ; (6) Mary, dead ; (7) Jane ; (8) Ann; (9) Katherine ; (10) Mary, dead; (11) Thomas, dead ; (12) Josiah, second son living. The Hackney registers give the baptisms of Mary, 3 Aug., 1682 ; of Jane, 2 May, 16*84 ; of Anne, 11 June, 1685 ; of Katherine, 23 Aug., 1686; of Mary (the second), 3 Nov., 1687 ; of Thomas, 1 Jan., 1690/1 ; of Josiah (doubtless so named after tiis brother-in-law, Josiah Child), 31 Jan., 1691/2, as also of Hannah (who, of course, is not in the pedigree of 1692), 6 Nov., 1695 ; also the burials of " Mrs. Mary Cooke, a child," 22 March, 1685/6; of "Mrs. Mary

boke, an infant," 21 Nov., 1687, and of

Mr. Thomas Cooke, an infant," 21 Jan., 1690/1 ; also the marriage above mentioned of "Josiah Child, of Wansted, co. Essex, Esq.," with Elizabeth Cooke, 10 March, 1690/1 ; the burial of the said Josiah, as " Sir Josia

hild," 4 Feb., 1703/4, that of "Jo. Chad wick, Esq., in the chancel" (probably the second lusband of the said Elizabeth), 8 Dec., 1713, and, finally, that of "Dame Elizabeth Child, widow," 26 Jan., 1740/1. It should be mentioned that Sir Thomas was an alderman

f London (Queenhithe), and Sheriff, 1692-3,