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j writer being Philip Astle, great-grandson Philip Morant, the historian :

Drogheda In the churchyard are some curi-

figures carved in stone against the east wall, i is three martlets, and the following epitaph, ich does honor to the country : ! cruel Death, how could you be so unkind 'o take him before, and leave me behind ; To i should have taken both of us, if either, Which would have been more pleasant to the survivor. Patrick O'Neil obiit an: set: 30."

W. GURNEY BENHAM.

WE must request correspondents desiring inf or- ation on family matters of only private interest i affix their names and addresses to their queries,

In order that the answers may be addressed to

Dhem direct.

THE FLEETWOOD CABINET. I should be ,-ery grateful if any of your readers could $ive me information concerning the where- abouts of an interesting historical relic, known is the Fleetwood cabinet. This cabinet be- onged to Bridget, daughter of Oliver Crom- vell, who married, as her second husband, jieut.-General Charles Fleetwood. At her leath she left it to her niece, Mrs. Sarah Seville, who was married in 1684 to Mr. "homas Burkitt, of Sudbury. In 1852 it was till in the possession of the Burkitt family t Sudbury. A full account of the cabinet ppeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for >ctober, 1841, and also in the 'History of .11 Saints' Church, Sudbury ' (1852), by the ey. Charles Bad ham, whogivesan illustration E it, and speaks of it as " a fine specimen of 3corative furniture of the date of the latter art of the sixteenth century, and remark- Die for the good state of preservation of the borate ornaments which profusely adorn e interior." He describes fully " the outer se of ebony," and " the highly finished oil in tings on copper by ' Old Franks ' " (giving e subjects), "the silver scroll work," "the awers and compartments composed of rious woods inlaid, and highly decorated th ornamental work, chiefly silver, and ^playing superior taste and arrangement." ivate inquiry has failed to trace the tinet, and it seems a thousand pities that ch an interesting relic should be lost sight Should any of your readers be able to ve me^any clue as to where it may be found, hould be most grateful.

A. P. CRAWFORD BURKITT.

ROWLAND WETHERALD. An account of the inting press established in Sunderland,

about 1760, by Wetherald, would be appre- ciated ; also title of book containing his portrait. B. R. HILL.

" GULDIZE." The harvest home feast is said to be so called in West Cornwall. Can any Cornish scholar tell me whether "Guldize" means properly "the feast of the end (of harvest)," in Celtic Cornish goil diwedd ?

A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

WIND INDICATOR AT PECKHAM. I am told that about one hundred years ago there wan at Peckham an " automatic wind indicator," concerning which I can get no further in- formation, in spite of local and other inquiries. Perhaps some reader of * N. & Q.' may possess some. C. W. HECKETHORN.

[It sounds very like the description of a vane.]

BROWNE-MILL. If there is a living de- scendant of George Gavin Browne-Mill, an Edinburgh doctor of medicine, in practice about 1820, I have some interesting docu- ments, including an illuminated French patent of nobility on vellum, which I should be glad to hand over to their proper custodian.

ANDREW W. TUER.

The Leadenhall Press, E.G.

"Dedications to ignorant men are as absurd as
 * THE SPECTATOR ' : " BULFINCH."

any of the speeches of Bulfinch in the Droll."

No. 188 (Steele's).

Who is Bulfinch, and what is the "Droll" alluded to? "Droll," I suppose, means a farce or burlesque ; sotie in old French. See Pierre Gringoire in ' Notre Dame de Paris,' livre i. ch. ii. JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

[Bulfinch is a character in Brome's ' Northern Lass,' played, at the original production in 1684, by Joe Haines, and subsequently taken by Estcourt, whom Steele praises in the character on the occasion of his death. See Spectator, No. 468. Brome's piece was presumably, like many others, shortened into a droll, for which see 'Hist. Eng. Diet.']

" CONSERVONS LE CHAOS." I shall be obliged if any one can enable me to trace to its source the following allusion in Mr. Richard Grant White's 'Every-Day English,' Boston, 1888, p. 172 :

" I for one have no sympathy with the gentleman whose voice was heard on a certain occasion, coming out of the darkness that was upon the face of the deep, crying, ' Mon Dieu ! conservons le chaos ! ' "

A. SMYTHE PALMER. S. Woodford.

LAUDER. Sir Robert Lauder, of Quarrel- wood, at the close of the fourteenth century, is said to have been a son of the " Justiciar "