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 9* s. iv. Nov. i8,m] NOTES AND QUERIES. 427 pride of the ocean'; and what words in the supposed original took the place of ' Briton's ' in the third line 1" A. F. R. Epitaph in Prittlewell Churchyard, near Southend (9* S. iv. 326).—As I gave an accurate transcription of this epitaph in ' N. & Q.' as recently as 8th S. vii. 6, it would hardly seem necessary that it should again be reprinted at the above reference. This duplication of information is all the more re- grettable from the fact that Mr. John Hebb's transcription of the lines is by no means literal. This can easily be proved by taking the two copies together and comparing them with the lines upon the stone. But for Mr. Hebb's decisive prefatorial words I need not have drawn attention to this matter. I am, however, compelled to utter a modest protest in the face of his hint that previous copyists have taken liberties with the text. I can only say that I did my best to give an exact transcript, and I believe 1 paid a special visit to Prittlewell in order to compare the proof with the original. John T. Page. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. Sepia Etchings (9th S. iv. 380).-Frances Burwell was the wife of Nicholas Burwell, of Gray's Inn (marriage licence dated 7 May. 1666). She was one of the four daughters ana coheiresses of Sir Charles Le Qros, of Crost- wick, co. Norfolk, by Muriel, daughter of Sir Thomas Knevet. Lady Le Gros's sister Katherine married Sir Edmund Paston, whose son, Sir Willyam Paston, is the person in- quired for. H. S. V.-W. 'The Telegraph' (9'h S. iv. 348).—No doubt the Telegraph Mr. Robbins asks about was the threepenny daily paper called the London Telegraph, which was published in 1848, at 180, Fleet Street, next door to the original office of 'N. k O.'—the house where the late Mr. George Bell was then establishing the publishing firm, which is now well known as George Bell & Sons, York Street. This paper was started before the repeal of the stamp duty, and so it may be said to have been a twopenny daily. Perhaps—repeal not only of the stamp, but of the paper duty being then in the programme of the free trade party's remissions—the idea was to occupy the ground in advance. Albert Smith was said to be the editor; and 1 think he pub- lished a serial novel in it. The paper was published "at 12 o'clock daily," with a second edition later in time for the evening mails. (Query. Was it published' on Sunday X) I remember seeing the front of the office placarded with the newsof the French Revolu- tion of 1848. The shop was afterwards a pie and stewed eel shop, and later it became the place of business of Mr. Reeves, the book- seller, whose son, succeeding, rebuilt the old house and still carries on business thero. The old house was one of the two bow-win- dowed houses so long notable between St. Dunstan's Church and the corner of Fetter Lane. Both have gone now. J. W. M. Gibbs. Lord Mayor Pennington (9th S. iv. 381).— Of his daughters, Abigail, Bridget, Judith (all three living in 1634), and Anne, the last was married (in or before 1659) to Richard More, of More and Larden, co. Salop, some- time a member of Parliament. G. E. C. Hordon (9th S. iv. 348).—A similar surname to the above was borne by the late Bishop of Moosonee. He, however, used an e in place of the second o. The Right Rev. John Hor- den, D.D., was a native of Exeter. He spent the last forty-two years of his life in Rupert's Land, being consecrated first Bishop of Moosonee in 1872. His death took place at Moose Fort on 12 January, 1893, at sixty-five. John T. Page. west Haddon, Northamptonshire. In 1876 there was a boy called Hordern at Tettenhall College, Staffordshire. His home was in some Midland locality. He entered the navy. The college books would record further particulars. Arthur Mayall. For Hildebrand Horden and his parentage see ' N. & Q.,' 7th S. viii. 507; ix. 54. Everard Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. Lord Nelson's Diary (9th S.iii. 388).—At the United Service Museum, Whitehall, I noticed among the Nelson relics now being exhibited a small page of MS. in Lord Nelson's hand writing. This is doubtless the piece of the private diary respecting which an inquiry was made at the above reference. Is it possible that the remaining portion of the diary can have been lost ? G. P. Compensation to Bryan, Lord Fairfax (9th S. iv. 399).—See ' The American Loyalists,' by Lorenzo Sabine, under " Fairfax, Bryan," and " Fairfax, Lord Thomas" (should be Thomas, Lord). The odd thing about this one of the many families of loyalists com- pensated by Parliament is that they seem not to have left America except to get their money. They are there now. Bryan was not even a Tory, but a Whig, and a great friend/ of Washington. He was a parson. The Fair- fax claim was 98,000/., reduced by the Select