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 380 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. iv. Nov. v sale catalogue of "the library of Thomas Heath," sold by Samuel Baker in 1757, this same Thomas is described as the author of both works. Now Benjamin was certainly living full eight years after the appearance of this catalogue, and, unless I am greatly mistaken, his brother Thomas also, and Baker must surely have known which of the two it was whose library he was selling, and must also have had some authority for describing Heath as the "author" of the two works I have mentioned. But now comes another puzzle. Supposing even that the auctioneer, through sheer inadvertence, put " Thomas " for Ben- jamin on the title-page of the catalogue (both brothers being probably well known to him*), how can we account for his describing either of them in 1757 as author of two books, neither of which was published until 1765, and even then anonymously ? Fb. Norgate. Bracebridge Hall.—Sir F. Dwarris, in his paper in Archceologia, vol. xxxiii., calls Brere- ton Hall, Cheshire, the Bracebridge Hall of Washington Irving. He gives no authority for the statement. Is it correct J P. H. Li. B. [There seems every reason to believe that Brere- ton Hall, where Washington Irving loved to stay, was the original of Bracebridge Hall, See N. & y., 8'" S. ii. 288, 371, 471, 518 ; iii. 273, 412.] Sepia Etchings.—I have in my possession a book of 125 sepia etchings, entitled "De- vises dessignees a la Plume, par Monsieur Babel ; given ray mother, the Lady Le Gros, by Sir Willyam Fasten, her neere kinsman- Frances Burwell, a lover of drawings and pictures." Any further information concern- ing these persons from those learned in art or genealogy will be much appreciated. A. R. Bayley. St. Margaret's, Great Malvern. [Short lives of Jean and Daniel Kabel, father and son, are in Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters and Engravers,' and in other works of biographical reference.] Rugby School Register.—The following names remain unidentified, and I shall be greatly indebted to any leader who can throw any light upon them. The boys were not on the foundation, and therefore did not come from the immediate neighbourhood of the school. The date of entrance follows the name: Huntingdon, 1695: Wyatt, 1695; Davies, of Dongray, Flintshire, 1702 ; Bar- well, of Marston, 1749 ; Wright, of Carolina, 1751; Llewellyn, of Brecknockshire, 1815 ; a great book collector. Haigh, 1819; Bacon, 1820; Beard, 1821 ; Holworthy, 1828 ; Boddington, 1853 ; Naden, J. G., 1871. Answers may be sent direct. Arthur Michell. Rugby. 'Sesame and Lilies.'—Can anyone explain this passage from Buskin's 'Sesame and Liliess ?— " Guiltily and darkly, as the idolatrous Jews with their pictures on cavern walls, which men had to dig to detect."—P. 89 in the edition of 1892. Edward E. Morris. The University, Melbourne. Wigmore Family. —At the time of the Great Rebellion Daniel Wigmore, Archdeacon of Ely, retired to his manor of Little Shel- ford, co. Cambridge. The manor house, a red- brick mansion in the Italian style, surrounded by a moat, was built in the middle of the six- teenth century by Sir Toby Pallayicino. The archdeacon died there sine prole in 1646, and by his will, dated 13 August, 1646, mention is made of his having previously settled the manor upon his "kinsman " Gilbert Wigmore, D.D., rector of Shelford Parva. Richard Wig- more, his brother, is also named in the will. In a pedigree in Heralds' College (visitation of Lincolnshire in 1666) Daniel and Richard, with another brother, Henry, are stated to have been sons of " Wigmore in Com. Norf." On reference to the visitation of Norfolk, Robert Wigmore (son of John Wigmore, of Lucton, in Herefordshire), whose will was proved in the C.C., Norwich, 1571-2, had three sons, viz., John, Robert, and Bartholo- mew. I am anxious to discover whether either of these, and which, was the father of Daniel, Richard, and Henry, and also to establish with certainty that Henry was the father of Gilbert Wigmore, D.D. The family is a particularly interesting one, as having been intimately connected in its earlier history with the Mortimers, Lords of Wigmore, and from its descent from Turstin de Wigmore, whom some genealogists identify with Turstin Fitz Bolf, a near relation of the Conqueror. The family includes such eminent persons as John Wigmore, Abbot of Gloucester; Dame Catha- rine Wigmore, O.S.B., the first Abbess of Boulogne ; and her niece, Winef ride Wigmore. co-foundress of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Replies may be sent direct to Wm. Sancroft Randall. 23, Wellington Road, Old Charlton, Kent. Portrait of Flaxman.—Can any of your readers tell me where a portrait of John Flaxman at work, a youth sitting sketching
 * Especially Benjamin, who was for many years