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 iv. DEO. 30, mj NOTES AND QUERIES. 537 p. 60) is a letter from George Gilpin to the Earl "of Essex, dated 12 February, 1596/7, which opens thus :— "Since the despatch of ray last, bearing date the 27 January, here is arrived from the King of France a porte-manteau, who brought the ratification under the great seal of the agreements and treaty here made by the Duke of Bouillon at his last being in these parts." This is indexed " Porte-manteau, a, bearer of the ratification of a treaty " ; and it would be interesting to know whether this is not the true meaning of " port-mantick " in the extract from Bishop Hacket above given. POLITICIAN. WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. "HoYT."—I am told that the wands for- merly used by beadles and other officials were called in Lancashire "hoyts." The word does not seem to be known elsewhere. What is its etymology ? A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford. O'MoRE FAMILY.—Would some contributor, possessed of O'Hart's ' Irish Pedigrees,' kindly help me with the O'More family 1 I want the connecting link or links between Rory O'More, Lord of Leix (ob. 1536), who married Margaret Butler, daughter of Hon. Thomas Butler (Ormonde), and Roger O'More, who married, circa 1600, Frances O'Reilly, daughter of Philip O'Reilly, of co. Cavan. Were they by any chance father and son i KATHLEEN WABD. ENGLISH TRAVELLERS IN SAVOY. — Je rassemble depuis quelques annees les recits des divers voyageurs qui ont pu, notamment en se rendant en Itahe, traverser la Savoie. Les re'cits les plus interessants sont de beau- coup ceux des voyageurs anglais. Vous m'obligeriez infiniment, Monsieur, en me don- nant 1 indication d'une bibliographic recente et serieuse des recits de voyages exe'cute's par les anglais ou public's en Angleterre. MAX BEUCHET. Annecy, Haute Savoie. THE ORDER op THE BATH. — I have a portrait of a member who sat in Parliament in the time of Charles I., and also, after the Restoration, in the time of Charles II. He was during the Commonwealth a member of the Council. He is represented wearing the broad ribbon of the Bath en sautoir. But he is only described as KB., probably by a modern error, as K.B. means the inferior order of Knight Bachelor. What was the proper description of a Knight of the Bath ? THE OLD CHURCH AT CHINGFORD.—When and why was the old parish church of Ching- ford, co. Essex, allowed to fall into its present state of picturesque, but utter ruin 1 R. MAKSHAM-TOWNSHEND. [It was dismantled on account of its condition, already insecure, when the new church was erected on Chingford Green, on what was held to be a more convenient site.] REV. ALPHONSE ROSE.—I should be obliged if any of your readers could give me in- formation respecting the Rev. Alphonae William Henry Rose. He is said to have been of the Callisse family, and certainly lived at Nigg, Ross, before 1836. He became a student at Cambridge, and in 1841 appears as curate of St. John's, Waterloo Road, after- wards at St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row. His aunt was a Mrs. Sutherland. He was born in Middlesex, D. M. R. R. ' NEW CRITICAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC BUILD- INGS, <fec., IN LONDON.'—Who was the author of this work ? The question was asked by the late MB, WYATT PAPWORTH (3rd S. vi. 9), but does not appear to have been answered in a satisfactory manner. The authorship has been commonly attributed to James Ralph, poet and miscellaneous author (1705- 1762), but there does not appear to be any ground for this. DE. RIMBAULT (3rd S. vi. 72) writes:— " My copy of the fourth edition has the following note on the fly-leaf: ' This volume was edited by William Nicholson, the translator of Fourcroy's " Chemistry," &c., and is included amongst the author's works in the " Dicty. of Living Authors," 1816.' William Nicholson, chemist and physicist, was born 1758 and died 1816, and could not have been the author of the ' Critical Review,' which was first published in 1731, although he may have edited it. In a copy of the work in my possession, dated 1736, foolscap 8vo., dedicated to the Earl of Burling- ton, with an ' Essay on Taste' as a preface, which was formerly in Mr. John Fenn's collection, and has his autograph with the date 1783, is this MS. note, apparently in Fenn's handwriting: ' This is a curious, entertaining, and authentic little Book. The Author James Kalph, EsqV" JOHN HEBB. Canonbury Mansions, N. CONVENTS OF THE ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS. —Can any of your readers give me the addresses of convents of the Order of St. Francis, and also inform me if the one founded by Catherine Clare Bolton, 1737, is still in