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et les Manuscrits qu'il a laisses,' par S. Cauet, Evreux, 1900. There is also much information to be found in the ' Nouvelle Bio- graphie Generale,'and other French works of a similar character. Should your correspondent care to drop me a line, I should be pleased to place at his service any information I may nave handy. As, however, all the works I have seen treating of this subject are in French, I should like to know whether translation would be essential.

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

The story of the chequered career of Philip d'Auvergne, titular Duke of Bouillon, who was at the same time a peer of France and a British admiral, is fairly well known. See Burke's 'Vicissitudes of Families,' 1869 Ansted's 'Channel Islands' (Allen, 1893).

J. L. ANDERSON.

If your correspondent INNES will write to me, I think 1 can give him the information he asks for. C. P. LE CORNTJ, Col., F.S.A.

La Hague Manor, Jersey.

THE LAST MALE DESCENDANT OF DANIEL DEFOE (9 th S. vii. 86). It appears that a surviving sister of the deceased is in receipt of a Government pension on account of her supposed descent, but the details have not been proved. It is known that the prefix " De " is an imposture, for one Foe or Fooe, of Elton, Northamptonshire, was father of the butcher James Foe, of Cripplegate, whose eminent son named Daniel assumed the noble prefix. He had two sons, of whom Daniel emigrated, and his descendants have been reported in America ; the younger son, known very notoriously as "Norton," had a son named Samuel (no doubt after the progenitor Dr. Annesley), who died in 1782, and two grandsons, of whom Joseph was executed as a homicide in 1771, while James survived and left two married daughters. I do not know that any authentic pedi- gree has been carried further, so have regarded a very respectable family named Baker as the true representatives of the author of * Robinson Crusoe ' ; one is a cleric, whose name may be traced in the ' Clergy List,' and who is perhaps in posses- sion of fuller details. A. H. [See also 7 th S. iii. 450 ; iv. 194.]

the quotation appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette; arid also for information as to the ' Poet,' as I have been unable to trace their whereabouts, which accounts for my lateness of appeal again to the ubiquitous 'N. & Q.' RICHARD HEMMING. Ardwick.

ARCHBISHOP WHATELY'S * LOGIC ' (9 th S. vii. 69). The following extract from a communi- cation which appeared in 'N. & Q.', 1 st S. xii. 508, may be of assistance to F. M. :

" The only perfect collection of the works of Archbishop Whately extant, is that in the library of the Royal Dublin Society. To this collection his Grace has mainly contributed by donations, and has promised to maintain it by a donation of every future publication."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"FRAIL" (9 th S. iv. 436, 507; y. 51, 158; vi. 378; vii. 33). Gruella avence is oatmeal ; hence our modern " gruel." A gurdus of "gingebrade" or "gingebrar"(see 'N.E.D.' on the last word) must be, I think, a gourd of preserved ginger, which may have weighed 28 lb., seeing that gourds sometimes weigh 30 lb. I cannot explain the bad oatmeal g given "pro Deo," or the word " vveidise." " Racemorum " is the usual and right form ; racemus, a cluster of grapes, is a classical word. " Frails " of figs and of raisins occur frequently in Durham Account Rolls.

J. T. F. Durham.

"BRAZEN-SOFT" (9 th S. ii. 86). The Berlin folk use, for the same sort of people who are said to be called " brazen-soft " in the Mid- lands, the adjective brdgenklilterig (pron. brajen-kluterich\ Bragen being your brain, and kluterig = clotty. Soup or porridge is contemptuously so styled when there are clots in it. Now the sounds of z and y are nearly related ; I beg leave to invite more competent scholars than I am to answer the question whether they are not interchange- able in some English dialects : the Scottish capercailzie is certainly pronounced either yi or zi. DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

' BOOK- WORLD ' (9 th S. iv. 48, 95, 251). I am much obliged to MR. GRIGOR and M. W. for the information given, but must lean to belief in MR. GRIGOR, he is so circumstantial. I should be glad to know more of the ' Lords of Labour,' by Macfarlan, if only the date when

GLADSTONE STATUE (9 th S. vii. 108). The statue about which MR. McGovERN inquires was erected in one of the niches in St. George's Hall, Liverpool, in 1870. It is 6ft. 11 in. in height, and cut from a block of Grestela marble selected from the Carrara quarries by the sculptor himself. It was modelled in Rome and finished in London, and during its progress Mr. Gladstone gave Mi\ Adams-