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 v-svr. Nm-.1v.m>.1 NOTES AND QUERIES. 395 COUNT GIUSEPPE Psccuio (9"“ S. vi. 308).- This exile (see also ante, p. 326) is said, at the latter reference, to have lived in 5011011 Bank, St. Johns Wood, about 1835, a suburban district which is wonderfully altered since those days. 1 do not know whether a work of fiction may be considered as an authority, but, at any rate, the graphic description of the places may be regarded as faithful. Much ot ,the scene of ‘ 1`he Woman in WIIIUB; which was eagerly read on its appearance in 1860, is laid at riampstead and St. John’s Wood. Perhaps the author intended to describe Pecchio in the well-known Count Fosco. JOHN Pickronb, ALA. Newbourne Rectory, W O0(1Dl'ldgB. The two persons named at this reference are one and the same, but the Chevalier Pecchio (who died 4 June, 1835) had no claim to the title of count. See a memoir of him by K., z.e., John lxenrick, in DDB Monthly ztcposztory, 1835, p. 590. V.tl.l.L.l.C.l.V. GENERAL Sm JOHN Cora (9‘*‘ S. vi. 329).- This orhcer was appointed colonel of the 7th (the ¢llBt$U'8) Uragoons in 1741, and coin- lIl!:|»lldUI'-U1°Ulll0I in Scotland in 1744. tle was not °'court-martialled,” but his conduct of military operations in 1745 was the subject of inquiry by a board of General Utiicers, who reported in his favour. nad they re- ported adversely, no doubt he would have been tried by court-martial. A Jonathan Cope was appointed cornet in the lst (the King’s) Uragoon Guards in March, 1775-the only Cope in the 'Army List' of the year 1776-but 1 do not know to what family he belonged. W. S. Forty-four years ago a similar question’ to which no reply 118.8 been given, appeared in ‘ N. ct Q5 �°“ S. ii. 68). '1'he Scottw/1. Ant¢q'u.ary,° or, A/orc/ze1'n Notes and Queries, of 1898 also contained a request for information respect- ing 1118 l)1l'Dllpl&O0, family, or portrait, but to DDU present date WIDIIULID success. EVERABD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. FRENSHAM CAULDRON (9"” S. ,vi. 329). -I am informed by a lady lately returned from a mtteyg-¢u.tura. in f'I'¢:3I18Il8lI1 that the cauldron, WhlUIl is of copper, is carefully preserved in the space below D110 belfry of D116 church, and that an account of it is to be found in a little book entitled 'Farnham and its Surroundings,” and obtainable from the local booksellers for sixpence. Perhaps the following particulars concerning this relic will sutlice for your correspondent. Aubrey, in his ‘ltemaines of 1 Gentilisme ’ (p. 123), mentions a conversation with Elias Ashmole, in which the latter “spake of a cavous place, e.g., that at [Borough- hillj' in Surrey, where people, against Weddings or atc., bespoke Spitts, pewter, &c.: and they had it ; but were to returhe it, or els they should never be supplyed any more.” A propos of this the editor prints at p. 235 the subjolned quotation from the ‘Natural His- tory and Antiquities of Surrey]  366 :- “1n the vestry here [Frensham], on the north side of the chancel, is an extraordinary great kettle, or caldron, which the inhabitants say, by tradition, was brought hither by the fairies, time out of mind, from Borough-hill, about a mile from hence. To this place, if any one went to borrow a yoke of oxen, money, &.c., he might have it for a year, or longer, so he KBPD his word to return it. There is a cave, where some have fancied to hear musick. On this l5orough~hill (in the tything of Cherte, in the parish of Erensliam) is a great stoneT lying along, of the length of about six feet; they went to this stone, and knocked at it, and declared what they would borrow, and when they would repay, and a voice would answer, when they should come, and that they should nnd what they desir’d to borrow at that stone. '1‘his caldron, with the trivet, was borrow’d here after the manner aforesaid, but not return'd according to promise ; and though the caldron was afterwards carried to the stone it could not be received, and ever since that time no borrowing there. 'l`he people saw a great tire one night (not long since); D110 next day they went to see if any heath was burnt there, but found nothing. But 1 do believe that this great kettle was an ancient utensil belonging to their church-house for the use of the 'Aya-irai, or love-feasts, or revels.” Has MR. CURTIS consulted Murray’s ‘Hand- book to Surrey and tlants ’ 'l F. ADAMS. ns, Albany nose, sis. PEYTO, PETTO, PBITO, on PETO FAMILY or Wsnwicxsninn (ew S. vi. 290).-At 7“' S. 128 Mn. JOHN J. STOCKEN asked a similar question to the one propounded at the above reference. lt was suggested by MB.. STOCKEN that Samuel Peyto was "supposed to belong to the ancient family of Peyto of Chesterton, near Leamington, co. Warwick.” I would therefore suggest that application should be made to the incumbent of Chesterton for the register to be searched. I visited Chesterton Church in 1887 and copied the Peyto (the name is invariably thus spelt) inscriptions, but 1 do not find the name of Samuel Peyto amongst them. JOHN T. PAGE. W est Haddon, Northamptonshire. GIPSIES OF SPAIN (9“‘  vi. 309).-Perhaps ‘Gypsies of Granada’ in the English lltus- tratcd Magazine, vol. xvii. ; ‘Spanish Gypsies’ 1' “Simons Stone” is marked as close by Frens- ham Pond in Cary’s ‘English Atlas,’ 1787, map of Hampshire.
 * The brackets are the editor’s, James Britten.