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these particulars, except as regards the arms of Sir Thomas Fleetwood, and that she died concerning which, however, I have some about sixty years ago. Her body was re- doubt. There appears to be a difficulty in moved from the vaults at Moorfields last the matter, which it would be well to^ solve, | year. Can any one put me in the way of

if possible.

E. C. finding out her history

J. E. LAWS.

"FOULRICE": "LOCK ELM": "CHINCHERER." I ROULSTON FAMILY. I should be glad of Foulrice " is in common use in Rutland- any information about this family, which shire to designate the shoots of the was of some importance at Helperby (Braffer- dogwood (Cornus sanguined). The second ton), co. York, a hundred years or more ago. syllable is evidently cognate with the Ger- The Brafferton registers were unfortunately man Reis, twig. Does the first syllable convey destroyed by fire in 1790. Any references to the same idea as sanguined ? In an old Ger- printed or MS. pedigrees of the family which man dictionary (Kaltschmidt, 1855) I find | may be in existence are desired.

under 'Twig': "the bloody ," "der

rothblatterige Kornelbaum." And, lastly, is the name " bloody twig " still in use in any English dialect for the dogwood ?

"Lock elm " is in common use in Rutland

BERNARD P. SCATTEROOOD. Moorside, Far Headingley, Leeds.

HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO MANN. While the new edition of Horace Walpole's

1.OJ-; HI 1 t> 14. UJ.CV1 11 4 I 1 -I 1*J*

to designate the Ulmus campestris mminalis. correspondence is being prepared it is very What is the etymology of "lock "? desirable that the source of the tmbhshed

A friend of mine informs me that " chin- Metters-whether from the original letters or cherer"is of common occurrence in old East from a, transcript and it the latter, from Anglian registers as a trade appellation. Is ^hose transcript-should be settied. As re- it possibly a corruption of the French quin- 8* the. Otters to Mann, Lord Dover in his caillier, ironmonger] G. CHRISTIAN. P 1 ^ ? 5. the firsfc senes of these letters >

Uppingham. ' M - 1 ^ " ia -

ANTONIO GUADAGNOLI. What is known about the above? I gather, from a rather long poem by him, 'II Naso,' in the 'Teso- retto della Poesia Italiana ' (Firenze, G. Bar- bera, editore, 1899), that he flourished between 1798 and 1858, and appears to have been a medical man as well as a poet, as he says in the course of this poem :

Anzi, vi giuro sulla mia parola Parola di poeta e di dottore,

and to have been celebrated for the extra- ordinary size of his nose, of which he declares,

il qual, se non mi gabbo

Si puo chiamare di tutti i nasi il babbo. I can find no entry with regard to Gua- dagnoli in the British Museum Catalogue.

JOHN HEBB.

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[A short sketch of Guadagnoli will be found in not intended by his the eighth volume of the new edition of * Meyers scr ibed or printed I Konversations - Lexikon ' His poem ' II Naso ' is vou wil i destrov the i

stated to be translated from Heyse.j

NELL GWYN. Can any of your readers kindly inform me if there are any notable descendants of Nell Gwyn now living, and the name of such 1 ? CURIOUS.

[There is one ducal family at least which owns the descent.]

MARY, COUNTESS DE FRONT. There is a brass in the Roman Catholic church of Dover

erected to the memory of Mary, Countess de possession, but I think I found it among Front. It is supposed that she was the sister some tracts bought by me of Mr. John Sal-

published in 1833, says :

"He [Walpole] had them copied very carefully in three volumes, and annotated them with short notes explanatory of the persons mentioned in them, with an evident view to their eventual pub- lication. It is from these volumes that the present publication is taken."

These volumes were contained in the box which Walpole directed to be preserved un- opened until one of Lady Waldegrave's sons should attain twenty-five, and then to be delivered to him. This happened in 1810. A curious memorandum is in my possession relating to a collection of extracts from these letters, which were destroyed in the same year 1810. It is as follows :

'11 Dec., 1810. To Mr. George P. Harding. Understanding that the collection of extracts of letters from Lord Orford to Mr. Horace Mann at Florence (which extracts were in the possession of my Father, the late Mr. Kirgate, at his death) were ' Lordship to be eidier tran- hereby authorize and desire

you will destroy the same extracts in the presence of the Honourable Mrs. Darner, the executrix of his Lordship. Eleanor Thomas.

12 December, 1810. The ex tracts above referred to were destroyed in the presence of us. Anne Seymour Darner, George Perfect Harding. Witness, M. Hoper(?)."

The paper is endorsed, "Memorandum con- cerning the destruction of extracts of letters of Lord Orford, &c., by J. Kirgate."

This memorandum is, I think, evidently the original. I am not sure how it came into my