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 9th S. IV. Nov. 4, 381 NOTES AND QUERIES. and watching him. is? The youth was Flax- man's nephew, John Flaxman Denman, and the painting is said to have been at one time at Bow. Is it engraved 1 A. Denman. 1, Hare Court, Temple. MohammedanSermons.—Are Mohammedan sermons, in the main, hortatory or expository ? Do they deal with the conduct or with the understanding? Richard H. Thornton. Portland, Oregon. " Emmas."—In the Era of 21 October, under the heading 'The Showman World,' I read that at the. autumn fair at Hull "there was the usual huge crowd of Emmas." What are "Emmas"? A. F. R. Atterbury Family. — The Rev. Lewis Atterbury, brother of the bishop, married Penelope Bedingfield ; their daughter Pene- lope married George Sweetapple, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, brewer, and they had a daughter, also Penelope (Lysons, ' Environs of London,' under ' Hornsey'). The querist will feel greatly obliged to any one who can tell him whether Mrs. Penelope Luccock (orLuckock), who died 1782, est. sixty-two, was a descendant of Penelope Sweetapple (supposing her to have married). Dr. Atterbury died 1731, and his wife Penelope in 1723. R. F. S. Earl Marshal's Court. — Where are the records of this Court preserved ? I find it noted in an old memorandum that in Janu- ary, 1624, the Lord Marshal's Court degraded one Harris, he " being no gentleman." Was this an unusual occurrence ? Lobuc. Portrait of Edward Edwards. — I am extremely desirous of procuring a portrait of the late Edward Edwards, the author of ' Free Town Libraries,' 'Memoirs of Libraries,' «fec. Can any of your readers aid me ? Thomas Greenwood. Frith Knowl, Elatree, Herts. "Zimmerm.,'Icon."'—Musgrave's 'Obituary' makes constant reference to " Zimmerm., 'Icon.'" No such work is mentioned in the catalogue of Sir William Musgrave's library, nor can be found in the British Museum among the writings of Eberhardt August Wilhelra von Zimmermann, or any other Zimmermann. Can any one give me infor- mation about this work ? P. E. Gertrude Girdlestone. Mr. Gladstone and the Metaphysical Society. — Can any one tell me whether Mr. Gladstone ever read any papers at the meetings of this long defunct society, and, if so, were they ever printed ? Mr. James Knowles, now editor of the Nineteenth Cen- tury, was its founder in 1869, and it ceased in 1880. The roll of its members bore many names illustrious in every department of culture as in every school of thought, such as those of Huxley, Tyndall, Leslie Stephen, John Morley, Prof. Clifford, Cardinal Man- ning, Dean Stanley, F. D. Maurice, Dean Church, Dr. Martineau, Gladstone, Tennyson, Ruskin, Froude, and the Duke of Argyll. Purcell says, "The society, after a brilliant career, died of natural exhaustion"—what- ever that may mean. J. B. McGovern. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-ou-M., Manchester. [Some interesting details of the society and re- cords of papers read are given in Lord Tennyson's 'Life' of his father, vol. ii. pp. 166-71, but no paper of Gladstone's is mentioned.] Dieskau.—I should be glad to know where to find information as to Dieskau, a Saxon in the French service, defeated by General Johnson near Lake George in 1755. H. T. B. Wharton Barony by Patent. — Where would this official document be enrolled ; and is it likely the patent itself can be in exist- ence in any library ? What became of the Duke of Wharton's family MSS.? A. C. H. Price : Alexander.—At St. Paul's Cathe- dral were married, 6 September, 1737, Lis- combe Price and Mary Alexander. Wanted any information concerning them. Please reply direct. James Dallas. Exeter. Lord Mayor Pennington. — Had Isaac Pennington, Lord Mayor of London, who died a prisoner in the Tower in 1661, any daughters married, and to whom ? Wm. Jackson Pigott. Dundrum, co. Down. " Dipsall."—The 'H.E.D.' records the word dipsey, -sie, -si/, and explains it as "var. of deep-sen (apparently associated with dip), esp. in dipsy-lead, -line." It also records from Hakluyt, ' Voy.,' i. 435, a form dipsin, which, it says, is "app. mispr. for dipsie, dipsey, deep-sea." This may be so ; but I would point out that in the' Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe,' recently issued by the Hakluyt Society, another and very curious form of the wora occurs. On p. 6, under date 5 June, 1615, the diarist says : "heaving the dipsall we had 35 fadorae"; and on p. 25, under date 16 August, 1615, he says : " we heaued the dipsall and had no ground." How is the termination -sail to be accounted for 1 Donald Ferguson. Croydon.