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The dial bears the name "Hendericks 1 Malmes." Can any correspondent tell me the exact date of this maker, or where I can obtain this information ? J. L. TRUSCOTT.

3, Ferncl iff Road, Dalston.

[Is this Aaron Hendricks, 1760-8, mentioned in Britten's 'Old Clocks/ &c., just published?]

VERSES BY SERJEANT HOSKINS. " Cabalisticall verses, which by transposition of words, syllables, and letters malte excellent sense, otherwise none :

In Laudem Authoris,

Even as the waves of brainlesse butter'd fish, With bugle home writ in the Hebrew tongue, Fuming up flounders like a chafing-dish, That looks asquint upon a Three-mans song : Or as your equinoctiall pasticrust Proiecting out a purple chariot wheele, Doth squeeze the spheares, and intimate the dust, The dust which force of argument doth feele : Even so this Author, this Gymnosophist, Whom no delight of travels toyle dismaies, Shall sympathize (thinke reader what thou list) Crownd with a quinsill tipt with marble praise."

These lines, which are prefixed (with so many other whimsical compositions by the wits of James I, 's Court) to Cory at's 'Crudities,' are noticed in the life of Hoskins in the 'D.N.B.' Are they sheer nonsense, or can any ingenious reader of ' N. & Q. ! supply a key, and evolve the "excellent sense'"? They are followed by " Encomiological

Antispasticks dedicated to the vndeclin-

able memory of the antarkesticall Coryate," and other more or less brilliant scintillations of Hoskins's wit. C. DEEDES.

"BLACKCAPS." In reference to the elec- tioneering tactics of Frederick, Prince of Wales, Horace Walpole writes to Sir Horace Mann (25 Feb., 1750, Cunningham's edition, vol. ii. p. 195) :

" You will be delighted with a l>on-mot of a chair- maker whom he [the Prince] has discarded for voting for Lord Trentham ; one of his blackcaps was sent to tell this Vaughan that the Prince would employ him no more," &c.

What is the meaning of blackcap in this sense ? It is not given in the ' H.E.D.'

H. T. B.

JOHN SEAMAN, LL.D. (Chancellor of Dioc. Gloucest.), was promoted about 2 October, 1600. Thomas Edwards, LL.D., occurs with him in this office 10 August, 1608 ; but upon what account it does not appear. He died in 1623, and was buried in the chancel of Painswick, where there was a handsome monument of alabaster and black marble erected for him, placed, as the inscription showed, by his most pious and faithful wife. He was aged fifty-nine at his decease. His arms were (1) Gules, three bears' heads couped

argent ; (2) Argent, on a bend between two lions rampant sable three escallops of the field, for Norton (see Rudder's 'Gloucester- shire,' p. 163). Any information concerning his life, will, or proof of his place of abode, would be welcome. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

THOMAS HULL. Information is asked about Thomas Hull, who was Lieutenant-Colonel of Wade's Horse, now 3rd Dragoon Guards, in 1730, having served at Blenheim, 1704, and! who is, I have reason to believe, an ancestor of I mine. If so, his daughter, Miss Hull, married a Mr. Livingston(e), said to be descended from one of the Earls of Linlithgow, and their daughter, Catherine Livingston(e), married my great-grandfather, William Brent, soli- citor, of London. If any of the descendants of the above Hull, or any of your readers who may know anything of his family, will com- municate with me I shall be much obliged, and I can, perhaps, give them some details of his career which they may not have. I am most anxious for purely family reasons to establish the above Livingston(e)-Hull and Brent - Livingston(e) marriages, which, so far, I have been unable to trace. The former must have taken place about or prior to 1740, arid the latter (probably in London) about or prior to 1774. ARTHUR BRENT.

38, Leadenhall Street, E.G.

' AYLWIN.' (See ante, pp. 124, 174, 256.) In connexion with the subject treated at these references I beg permission to ask a question. In the list of gipsy books printed at the end of Mr. W. Brockie's interesting little work 'The Gypsies of Yetholm,' Kelso, 1884, is the following entry :

"Aylwin: An Open-air Romance for Poets, Painters, and Gypsies, with a dedicatory sonnet to the beloved memory of George Borrow, the great high-priest of the ungenteel." The names of author and publisher are not given, nor are the date and place of publica- tion. From the title I should guess this book to be the first sketch of the novel by Mr. Watts-Dunton which was published last year, and I should be glad to know if this impres- sion is correct. I have never come across the work, though, as an old member of the Gypsy Lore Society, I have interested myself for many years past in gipsy literature, and have a large number of books dealing specially with the history and language of the Bomany. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

45, Pall Mall, S.W.

WILLIAM KNOX. Can any correspondent inform me regarding the above, who was a son of Henry Knox, merchant in Dunbar,