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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. v. MAY 19, 1900.

assigned the origin of the phrase to Lord Chatham. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

FAMILIAR FRENCH QUOTATIONS (9 th S. v. 336). Col. P. H. Dalbiac says in his preface to his ' Dictionary of English Quotations/

"It is hoped to complete the work with

a volume dealing with modern continental writers." Wood's 'Dictionary' gives 50,000 references, many of which are to continental writers ; and in a book just published, ' New Dictionary of Foreign Phrases' (Deacon & Co.), there are references in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. These two last-named books give the names of the authors, but do not give the chapter and verse, as in Bartlett and Dalbiac. H. T. no doubt knows of Hain Friswell's 'Familiar Words,' a book like Dalbiac and Bartlett. I have been informed that Dalbiac's new volume will not be ready until the end of the year. H. B. P.

Inner Temple.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY 'HISTORY OF ENG- LAND ' (9 th S. v. 127, 189, 276). There is a copy of Sydney's history in the British Museum Library. The date is 1775. It is folio, morocco bound, gilt bordered and lettered (the name on the back incorrectly spelt "Sidney"). The book is slightly larger than Russel's, but it contains sixty-six pages less. Although Russel's history is a distinct imita- tion, it is not the same either as regards letter- press or cuts, though we now and then spot a sentence which has been transplanted with some trifling change. The same designs are occasionally seen, but always re-engraved, and sometimes reversed. The same map is used, but the title-page, preface, list of sub- scribers are different. In the Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum (1880) appears a still later edition : "Russel, Wrn. Augustus. ' New History of England ' (to 1783). London. (178-.) Fo."

These histories, like their authors, seem quite forgotten now. I cannot find either Sydney or Russel in any biographical work of reference. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

"MAYFAIR MARRIAGES" (9 th S. v. 65, 137, 256). If the records of Curzon Chapel end in 1754, the later years, containing King George's name, with his brother the Duke of York as witness, must have been sup- pressed. I think the law against royal marriages must have had a motive. Moreover, he thought it necessary, after three of his sons had been born, to have a second

marriage with Queen Charlotte. Cunning- ham's account of Keith's chapel is quite incomprehensible. It could not be "opposite May Fair Chapel or Curzon Chapel, and within ten yards of it," as Curzon Street is above twenty yards wide, and the house opposite is behind a garden with old trees.

E. L. G.

MR. G. YARROW BALDOCK rejoices that the fine old oak pulpit so long used in the doomed church known as Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, W., has been presented to the parish church of Penn, in Buckingham. He does not appear aware, however, of the shameful vandalism that made such a gift possible. Penn is visited largely parti- cularly by our Transatlantic cousins from the fact that it was the old home of the Penns of Penn. There lay the bones of the ancestors of the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and there too, in the little graveyard of the Quakers' Meeting House at Jordans, near Penn, was buried, after a somewhat sorrowful ending, William Penn himself. In the church, standing in the north-east corner of the nave, was a carved oak fifteenth -century pulpit hexagon on plan and at the east of the south aisle a high -backed pew of about the same date, also in carved oak, always known as the old ancestral pew of the Penn family. It' will scarcely be believed that this historical pulpit and pew, together with a pulpit cloth quaintly worked by Martha Penn, and bearing the date of A.D. 1721, were actually sold last September by the present vicar, the Rev. Benjamin J. S. Kerby, to a London dealer, and by the latter duly carted away. Hence, alas ! the vacancy for the Curzon Chapel pulpit. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

DISCOVERIES OF CAPT. EDGE (9 th S. v. 209, 343). I am obliged to MR. MARTIN for his reply. I am now desirous of biographical particulars of Edge and of knowing where he is buried. RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

KEMPS OF HENDON (9 th S. iii. 7). The will of Richard Kempe of Wil(le)sden, which was proved in the Court of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, 9 July, 1539, mentions " Humfrey Kempe my 3rd son." It appears from the records of St. Bartholomew's Hospital that Humfrey Kempe took a lease of the manor of Clitterhouse in 1556. In 1609 the will of this Humfrey Kerape of Clitterhouse (de- scribed as in the parish of " Wilsden ") was proved in the above Court (Register D, fo. 22), and in it the testator bequeaths to his " sonne