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 g» s. iv. oCT. i4, mi NOTES AND QUERIES. 317 most of my friends are bad arithmeticians, they are all good book-keepers." In the same paper I found the following witty lines :— I of my Spenser quite bereft, Last Winter sore was shaken : Of Lamb I 've but a quarter left. Nor eould I save my Bacon. They ]>ick'd my Locke, to me far more Than Bramah's patent worth, And now my losses I deplore Without a Home on earth. They still have made me slight returns, And thus my grief divide ; For, oh ! they ve cured me of my Burns, And eased my Akenside. But all I think I shall not say, Nor let my anger burn, For as they have not found me Gay, They have not left me Sterne. Chakles Green. 18, Shrewsbury Road, Sheffield. Calvert Family (9th S. iv. 207).-The Peter Calvert whose daughter Honor be- came the wife of William Calvert, of Fur- neaux Pelham, married Honor Bates, of Hert- ford. The Calverts of Nine Ashes and Furneaux Pelham are descended from the Calverts, or Calverds, of Lancashire. When I visited Furneaux Pelham Church in the summer of 1896 I copied the following two inscriptions, which were under stained-glass windows, the first being beneath the east window:— 1. This window was given | by friends in memory | of Nicolson Calvert | who died 27th Jan. A.B. 1873. 2. The gift of Elizabeth | Calvert in memory of | her husband, who died | 18 June, 1866. Your correspondent will find a pedigree of the Calverts of Furneaux Pelham, Nine Ashes, and Albury Hall in Burke's 'Commoners,' vol. iii. p. 400. Chas. H. Crouch. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. Mr.Felix Calvert, of Furneaux Pelham Hall, near Buntingford—the eldest son of the late Mr. Edmond Percy Calvert and grandson or grandnephew of Mr. Nicolson Calvert, whose ancestor is referred to in Gay's 'Trivia' in the lines Where Calvert's butt and Parsons' black cham- Regale the drabs and bloods of Drury Lane- would, I daresay, furnish your correspondent with any information in his power with regard to the Calvert family. John Hebb. Canonbury Mansions, N. Nicolson Family (9th.S. iv. 207).—Accord- ing to Burke it was Richard Calvert (06. 1782), of Hall Place, Bexley, Kent (son of Felix Calvert, of Nine Ashes, by Elizabeth White his wife, and brother to Honor Cal- vert above mentioned), who married on 9 December, 1741, Mary, third daughter and coheiress of Josias Nicolson, of Clapham. She was relict of John Verney, eldest son of Ralph, Lord Fermanagh, and at her death, which took place in 1789, left two sons, who died without issue, and one daughter, Catharine, who afterwards became the wife of the Rev. Robert Wright, rector of Middle Claydon, co. Bucks. Mr. Wright assumed the surname of Verney. Mr. Hamilton in his 'National Gazetteer,' 1861, says that there is a monument to Sir H. Calvert, and also one to Sir H. Verney, in Middle Claydon Church. Chas. H. Crouch. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead. Law and his Mississippi Scheme, 1720-22 (9th S. iv. 84).—In the Print Room, British Museum, and duly described under the dates in the Trustees' 'Catalogue of Satirical Prints, there is a large collection of important engravings concerning the Mississippi scheme which should interest your correspondent. W. I. R. V. speaks of the Rue Quin- campoix as if it no longer existed. Such is not the case ; he will find it—and be well rewarded for looking for it—still in good condition, and consisting of comely and very lofty houses of c. 1700-10, a little to the north of the tower of the church of St. Jacques de la Boucherie, Paris. F- G. S. Terms used at Cards (9th S. iv. 268).— The terms are probably used by some players of shit, a game of German origin for three players. In it the second player, and not the elder, who is passed over, begins the declaring, by what is called " provoking ' the elder ; and in some of the games embraced in the pastime, the skat, or two undealt cards, is " taken in " by the declarer (i.e., into his hand), while in others it is left on the table. J- s- M- T- Napoleon : Marbeuf (9th S. iv. 188, 255).— I venture to think that no exception can be taken to the statement that up to the time of his death the interest the Comte de Marbeuf took in the Bonaparte family was simply extra- ordinary. It was owing to the patronage of Marbeuf that Joseph Bonaparte obtained free admission to Autun and Napoleon to Brienne. Attention may also be directed to the fact that the Comte's standing godfather to Louis Bonaparte irritated the anti-French people so much that it may have been the .source of much of the slander about Marbeuf being more than a mere sponsor to the future King of Holland. It is right, however, tq