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 9* s. V.JAN. 6, loco.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Of this church there are some interesting particulars in S tow's 'Survey.' Geo. H. Birch's 'London Churches of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ' contains a ground plan, with some architectural details, and an illustration of part of the tower. Also W. Niven's * London City Churches ' contains an excellent etching of the exterior.

RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

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.

PORTRAIT OF MADAME LAFFITTE AND HER DAUGHTER. I have two life-sized pastels of Madame Laffitte, wife of M. Lafntte, a celebrated banker in Paris during the reign of Louis Philippe, and her daughter, who became the wife of an English gentleman, Mr. Lock wood; and afterwards the wife of a gentleman in the English army named Jen- kins or Jenkyns. Can any one give me the artist's name or any other information 1 The first named is a three-quarter figure, and the last a little girl, whole figure, with large hat. A. W. HANCOCK.

The Limes, Magdala Road, Nottingham.

CORRESPONDENCE OF ENGLISH AMBASSADORS TO FRANCE. What correspondence has been published by English Ambassadors to the Court of France from 1620 to 1648, and what were the names of such?

G. J. LE TEXIER.

ISSbis, Boulevard Pereire, Paris.

'ON A PINCUSHION.' I wish to know the publisher of a child's book called * On a Pin- cushion,' consisting of five or six separate stories, one entitled * Jacky through the Fire.' I bought it twenty years ago; it was supposed to have been written by Miss De Morgan, but published anonymously. DORA LLOYD.

The Coppice, Hindhead, Hasleinere.

GENERAL LAMBERT IN GUERNSEY. I have often endeavoured to learn something of the later life of this great Parliamentary leader in the Civil War, who was exiled to Guernsey, and it is said died there, broken in mind and spirit, in 1683. But I have seen it stated that he died at Plymouth. Is the place of his interment known; or is it known where in Guernsey he lived 1 H. S.

[Mr. C. H. Firth, an admirably competent authority, in his life of Lambert in the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' says that General Lambert died a

prisoner in the winter of 1683. The context seems to imply that it was in the Island of St. Nicholas, in Plymouth Sound. From ' N. & Q.,' I 8t S. iv. 339-40, it is evident that he died there after being imprisoned there from fifteen to sixteen years. What is said at this reference merits your close attention. Other interesting references to Lambert are traceable in the Indexes to ' N. & Q.']

"THE DUKES."- -Stablemen, &c., refer to the itch in horses as " the dukes." " A dukey horse" means a horse suffering from itch. What is the origin of this word? The itch affects the hands, or " the dukes," hence the name. This is the only explanation I can invent, but it is far-fetched and probably erroneous. Perhaps some of your readers can help me. Dictionaries do not give it, and I know of no word in French, German, &c., which would afford a clue.

GEORGE PERNET.

' METHODIST PLEA TO A CHURCHMAN; or, the servant's reply to his master on deriding him for being become a Methodist.' The above is the title of a poem sixty-five lines long, of which I possess a written version. The opening lines are : Master I beg you pardon while I speak That I with you such liberty should take But thinks the subject your about to hear Will please if you will please to lend an ear.

The concluding lines are : He strives to sooth himself but strives in vain Till God to him the mis try explain He sees and feels the deadly strokes of sin Nor can ougt ease the grief that he is in Until he hears the cheering still small voice That quits his fears and bids his soul rejoice.

I have not altered the spelling of the original or placed stops, as in the copy there are none. The time the poem was written is about 1822. I should be glad of any information referring to the above. GEO. D. HARBRON.

MARRIAGE GIFT. What does a wooden spoon, given as a wedding present, signify in popular custom 1 I have been asked whether it does not carry with it some implication of a iocose or gibing nature.

G. W.

AUTHOR WANTED. Who wrote "The Home Life of English Ladies in the Seventeenth Century. By the author of 'Magdalen Stafford.' London, Bell & Daldy, 1860," 12mo.? The same author wrote also 'The Romance and its Hero.' C. W. S.

MOSELEY HALL. Will any one kindly tell me who now owns or lives at Moseley Hall, the property of the Whitbreads 1 I am very anxious to know. E. A. STRONG.

Windermere Bank, Bowness-on-Windermere.