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 9» s. vi. NOV. 10, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 369 account says, " This is the first of this con- struction which has undertaken a voyage across the Atlantic." Can any correspondent furnish a detailed account of the Rising Sun, or refer me to any work in which particulars concerning this vessel may be found ? EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. " JINNET": " JINTED."—One of my brothers heard this expression used about a dappled- bay horse a few days ago, and learnt that it was also applied to a brown or grey horse showing dapple marks through the ground- colour of its coat. Although he has long been familiar with the vocabulary of Lincoln- shire horse-breeders and horse-dealers he has never met with the term before. He is anxious to knew whether the word has any connexion with jennet, a small Spanish horse. LINCOLN GREEN. ONE-VOLUME NOVEL.—Reading the preface to an edition of 1856 of one of L. E. L.'s novels, I find in the opening words " in the usual form of three volumes." Changes glide so, especially recent changes, that I nave to ask when the change to the one volume came in. Was it 1880, or later ] R, B. S. [The change was. of course, gradual. So recently as 1893 novels of Miss Braddon ap]>eared in three volumes at half-a-guinea each. Grant Allen's 'Scallywag' was issued at the same price in 1893.] MARGARET OF BAVARIA. — I have been unable to trace any details regarding Mar- garet of Bavaria, who marriea Jean sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy (1419). Can any reader oblige me with the dates of her birth and death f MEGAN. ' JAMES ; OR, VIRTUE REWARDED.'—Who is the author of this and of ' Muggleton Col- lege ' ? The date of the former is 1806. M.A.OXON. MEDALLION.—I have a small oval medallion engraved with a harp, crowned ; a Cupid seated, playing on it; front part of harp, full-length figure of woman ; to the right a spinning-wheel; over all a wreath of roses arid motto, " Good lack, how we have turned about 1" To what does it allude ? O. C. 'HAMLET'AMELIORATED.— ThelateMr.Lacy, of the Strand, in the preface to one of the plays published by him, mentions a feat of •Shnksperean revision which must have surpassed all those achieved by Davcnant or Ciboer or Garrick. It seems that, early in the present reign, there was produced at one of the minor London theatres a three-act version of ' Hamlet,' in which the agony, instead of being "piled up," was reduced to a minimum. Polonius did not die. Ophelia, instead of dying, recovered her sanity and married Hamlet. The play ended with the coronation of King Hamlet and Queen Ophelia. It is added that a Mr. Cooham played the part of the Prince of Denmark, and the piece was produced by a Mr. Milner. Do these names enable us to fix the theatre where the production took place; and does any copy, or any critique, of the drama still exist ] CYRIL. [Thomas Cobham, 1786-1842, played at many London theatres, from Covent Garden to the Coburg. See life in 'D.X.I',.' Ma/lilt attacked him mercilessly, but he was long regarded as a rival to Ki-aii.J SIR JEREMIAH MURDEN, SHERIFF OF LONDON 1725-6.—This officer died in his year of office, and probably received a quasi-public funeral. Could any one give the place of his burial, and state if a hatchment is over his monu- ment 1 A. M. B. STANLEY FAMILY OF PAULTONS. — Hans Stanley, diplomatist and politician, who died in 1780, left his estate in Hampshire between his two married sisters. One of them was Anne, second wife of Welbore Ellis, created Lord Mendip in 1794. What was the name of the other, and whom did she marry 1 H. T. B. MICHELANGELO'S MASK OF MARY.—Where is the original, and where can one find any descriptions or criticisms of it J COLONN A. CALLAWAY. — Can any one give me informa- tion of a certain John Callaway or inform me to what part of the country the family belong 1 What are their arms t GENEALOGIST. "PtracHACBS."—The 'Liber Custumarura' of the Borough of Northampton, a compilation of about the year 1460, opens thus :— "Vsages and the lawes of the town of Northt conformed bi the Charteres of diuerse kyngcs of Knglond bi the Purchaces of olde wise men of the same town which theise ben her namea writen here. That is to seyn. Peris Adam his gone," and many more names. What is the meaning of the word " purchaces " here ] K. WESLEY.—What was the name of the grand- mother of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism] His grandfather, John Wesley, of Winterbourn, Whitchurch, Dorset, 1658-62, is said to have married the niece of Thomas Fuller, of 'Worthies' fame, but Charles Wesley wrote, " You know Mr. White, some-