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 9"-S. VI- Dm. 29. 1900-] NOTES AND QUERIES. 517 of Paul Dombey took place in the old church of St. Marylebone? Dickens does not specify the church in which the ceremong' took place and from his description the e ifice would seem to have been on a more important scale than the old church-then the (parish chapel. Mr. Dombe ’s house was situate in the region between Rlortland Place and Bryanston Square, and a gentleman with his stately ideas would have been more likely toselectthe parish church than the tiny chapel, which 1 imagine in early Victorian da5s was little used by %ersons of his class. ickens, whose house in evonshire Terrace (in which ‘ Dombey and Son ’ was written) was within a stone’s throw of the little old church, was scarcely likely to locate a font in it if such a receptacle did not exist. It is, at any rate, certain that the marriage of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett did not take place in the old building which is under discussion, but in the present parish church of St. Margfebone. Mr. Clinch, in his ‘ arylebone and St. Pancras,’ says that Bacon was married in the old church of St. Marylebone-that in which Tom Rakewell was united to his antiquated bride. I am not able to look up this question at present, and should be much obliged if any correspondent of ‘ N. & Q.’ could kindly furnis an authority for the statement. I trust that MR. JOHN T. PAGE may be induced to favour the readers of ‘N. & Q.’ with some more of the notes which his con- versation with the late incumbent enabled him to take. W. F. Pmnmux. THE RUINED CHAPEL xr Roscorr (9*“ S. vi. 346, 433).-Many things are said about Mar Stuart, at Roscofl' as well as elsewhere which are not to be received. I was told that the print of her foot was still to be seen on the shore. According to history she landed at Brest ; and she certainly left France not from Roscoff, but from Calais. Brantome who was with her, records her repeated exclamations of grief: “Adieu, la Fra.nce, cela est fait: adieu, la France; je pense ne vous voir jamais plus.” This, no doubt, supplied the foundation for the lines on the subject formerly attributed to her, but now known to be a forgery, and also for Béranger’s oem ‘ Adieux de Marie Stuart.’ R. D. DU'r'roN FAMILY (9"° S. vi. 409).-The only authentic information concerning the early Duttons of Cheshire now extant is, I imagin to be found in Sir Peter Leycester’s ‘ Historicafl Antiquities,” pt. ii., relating to Cheshire (1673). He must have had access to the Dutton archives before the extinction of that family in Cheshire. Sir Thomas Dutton, who lived temp. Ed. III., seems to have been the first known Dutton to use the fret on his coat of arms, dyet Sir Peter makes no mention of the legen, nor of any Hugh Dutton who could have been one of the four squires. Indeed, it would seem that the Duttons used the fret before the battle of Poictiers, as, according to Ormerod, the best antiquaries hold that an early Dutton migrated to Northamptonshire and there foun ed the Despencer family. As regards the descent of the Duttons from Rollo, it all depends whether the five brothers Nigell, Baron of Halton, brought with him were his own brothers or not. But it does seem that an ancient roll concerning the church of Runcorn states that N igell gave it to his brother Wolfaith, the priest, w o was the youngest of the five brothers. Snnnnonmz. MR. Cnxsnns STEWART will find much in- formation anent the Dutton family in such works as Ormerod’s ‘Cheshire,’ John Paul Rylands’s ‘Visitation of Cheshire, 1580’ (Har- leian Society), Canon Morris’s ‘Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns,’ the Transactions of the Chester Antiquarian Society and the Chetham Society (see their indices), and the wills at Chester, index by the late Mr. J. P. Earwaker, F.S.A. (Record Society). I can send him, if he wishes, a list of Duttons who were freemen of Chester and of those educated at Chester School. He may be interested to learn that the ancient oflice of Sheriff of Chester was on 9 November conferred on Mr. Edlgar Dutton, a member of the old Chester fam' y. T. CANN Huonlzs, M.A. Lancaster. The pedigree of the family given in the ‘Visitation of Cheshire, 1580, is from “ Hud- dard, cosin to W. Conqueror=- ...... Lady of Dutton,” whose son is named Hugh de Dutton. 0rmerod’s ‘Cheshire’ may give de- tails; this ‘Visitation ’ gives only the plain pedigree. B. FLORENCE bcx1u.1=:'r'r. “ PIDCOCK AND Ponrro ” S9"‘ S. vi. 387, 437). -Henry Morley (‘ Memoria s of Bartholomew Fair,’ n.d.) says :- “At this eriod [1769] of the Fair’s history, the great Wild Beast Show in the Fair was Pidcock’s, consisting of animals brougiht from the Menagerie in Exeter Change. Pidcoc, whose charge for ad- mission was a shilling, afterwards gave up attending and to his place of honour there succeeded a Wild Beast Showman named Polito.” Timbs (‘ Curiosities of London,’ 1855) says : “The upper rooms of Exeter Change were occupied by a nxentzgerie successively by _1dcock, Polito, and Cross; mission to Pidcock’s in 1810, 29. 6d. The roar of the lions and tigers could be