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\\ E must request correspondents desiring infor- mal on on family matters of only private interest to a fix their names and addresses to their queries, In < rder that the answers may be addressed to thei i direct.

A INIATURE OF CHARLES II. Will one of

lour numerous correspondents favour me leit i a reply to the following question ? A nir iature of Charles II. is in the possession hide of the portrait is a skull resting on a )0ok and the date 1664. Written above are he words "Memento Mori." The back has ui F on it, and the case is of gold. Were nirdatures of this description given to people ibout the Court of Charles II. ? JACOBIN.
 * )f g member of my family. On the left-hand

fl PARODY ON ' ALICE IN WONDERLAND.' Can Lny of your readers assist me in my quest for L parody upon ' Alice in Wonderland,' which Appeared, so far as I can remember, in one of he comic journals? I think the skit was ailed 'Alice in Blunderland.'

S. D. COLLINGWOOD. I The Chestnuts, Guildford.

THE INVENTION OP THE GIMBAL. Will you ,r some of your readers kindly let me know /hen and by whom the construction of the imbal was contrived for the first time ?

K. MINAKATA.

[Gimbols are mentioned so early as 1577. See H.E.D.']

BLIGH. Admiral William (Bounty) Bligh larried Elizabeth Betham. I shall be grate- ul for any information as to her parents nd family. I believe that her mother's ame was Campbell. M. L. F. PARNELL.

13, Bryanston Square.

LIST OP KNIGHTS. Can any one inform le whether there is a work giving a list of be names of those on whom knighthood has een conferred (from fourteenth and fifteenth snturies) and the reasons therefor ?

B. HARRISON.

" PASSING THE TIME OF DAY." Can any of our correspondents throw any light upon iie origin of this phrase ? J. H.

HOLY COMMUNION. We read in Dr. Sebas- an Evans's 'High History of the Holy raal' ("Temple Classics") that when Sir ancelot was in peril of instant death at the ands of the knight of the Waste City (ii. 81), e " taketh three blades of grass and so eateth lereof in token of the Holy Communion, then gneth him of the cross and blesseth him." 'as this ever generally considered an effi-

cacious substitute for Holy Communion in such cases 1 The date of the story is believed to be about 1220. C. C. B.

FRENCH WEST INDIAN FAMILIES. I should be glad to receive any information about the two families Dauchamp or D'Auchamp and Beltgens or De Beltgens, both holding much property in Dominica, Guadeloupe, and other islands in the West Indies during the last century. Failing direct information, would any reader kindly indicate foreign genea- logical sources likely to prove useful ? The Beltgens family is said to be Flemish or Dutch. References to any French, Dutch, or Flemish genealogical sources would be gratefully received.

(Dr.) H. DE B. GIBBINS.

6, Newsham Drive, Liverpool.

THE BROWNING SOCIETY'S PUBLICATIONS. Songs by Browning, set to music by a mem- ber of the Browning Society, wanted.

E. M. S.

19, Grove Road, Harrogate.

THE WELSH JUDGES. I should be much obliged for any information concerning the parentage, dates of birth and marriage, or any other particulars, of the following Welsh judges: Thomas Webb, Serjeant-at-law, 1705, died June, 1732 ; Francis Winnington, Bencher of Middle Temple, 1720; William Beard, died 26 Feb., 1789 ; Samuel Compton Cox, died 25 March, 1839 ; George Singleton, flourished 1608-17; Edward Whitaker, died 30 Dec., 1731 ; Henry Proctor, died Feb., 1745 ; John Hervey, of Beechworth, died 30 July, 1764 ; Stephen Hervey, died 24 May, 1707 ; William Whitaker, Serjeant-at-law, died 17 Oct., 1777; Michael Nolan, K.C., died 26 Dec., 1827 ; Samuel Marshall, Serjeant-at-law, died 10 Sept., 1823 ; John Pocklington, died about 1732 ; Richard Pottenger, died 26 Nov., 1739 ; Sir Marma- duke Lloyd, died about 1650; John Platt, Bencher of Gray's Inn, 1635 ; Thomas Harris, Bencher of Inner Temple, 1667 ; John Matthews, admitted to Gray's Inn 1657 ; Thomas Martin, died 17 May, 1750 ; Rogers Holland, died 17 July, 1761 ; James Hayes, died 9 Sept., 1800; Thomas Potter, died 14 Nov., 1801 ; Robert Steele, died 10 July, 1817 ; and William Kenrick, died 21 Oct., 1829. W. R. WILLIAMS.

Talybont, Brecknock.

HENDERICKS, CLOCKMAKER. I am inter- ested in ascertaining the probable date of a "grandfather" clock. It can be traced in the present family for about 150 years, and tradition asserts it was bought second-hand.