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brought down from Bangalore and buried in the church. The application was granted, as the vestry proceedings record ; but probablj the great distance prevented the projeci from being carried out, His body was buried outside the Bangalore Fort. No monument marks its resting-place. Col. Moorhouse was married at the Fort church in 1785. No children are recorded to have been born or baptized between that date and the date of his death, 1791. In Mrs. Penny's book on Fort St. George the date of his marriage is given as 1735 ; this is a printer's error. FRANK PENNY, LL.M., Senior Chaplain. Fort St. George.

GEORGE ELIOT (9 th S. vi. 287). As no reply so far has appeared to the inquiry by Q. V., might I remind him that Ruskin expresses an almost similar sentiment at the conclusion of Letter ii. in ' Fors Clavigera,' " To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death"? RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

IRISH WILLS (9 th S. vii. 9). Copies or ex- tracts can be had at the Record Office in Dublin, which is near the Four Courts ; but they cannot be bespoken by post. Some one has to search the indexes, and find the refer- ences and bespeak the copies or extracts, and pay the fees for them before they are given out. The charges made at the office are Is. for liberty to search, Is. for each record pro- duced, and 6d. per "folio," i.e., seventy-two words, for copies or extracts.

F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART. Craigston Castle, Turriff, N.B.

GENEALOGICAL TREES (9 th S. vii. 27). CHEVRON will find a specimen tree in Strohl's 'Heraldic Atlas' (Stuttgart, 1899), and pro- bably in many other heraldic works. Strohl's example, however, runs to some half a dozen generations only. I have a much larger specimen, showing the descent of the Dukes of Neuchatel, drawn up by my friend M. J. Grellet, President of the Swiss Heraldic Society, which I shall be glad to send to your correspondent for inspection.

J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC, Colonel and A.D.C. to the Queen.

Schloss Wildeck, Switzerland.

PASSY OR PASSEY (9 th S. vi. 429). The arms of the family of Passy or Pawsey of Hawsted, in Suffolk (which came originally from France, and suffered much during the persecution of the Huguenots, a branch of it emigrating to England shortly after the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1568), are, Gules, a cross vair between four lions rampant or. Crest, a

tiger couchant Motto, "Pausey, pour

accomplir." See Burke's 'Gentry,' 1849, vol. iii. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

"INUNDATE "(9 th S. y. 395, 497; vi. 52, 112, 192, 218, 251, 354). Be it observed that Long- fellow accented inundate on the second syllable in his rendering of the ' Paradiso,' c. iv. 119 :

'* love of the first lover, divine,"

Said I forthwith, " whose speech inundates me."

ST. SWITHIN.

THE 'D.N.B.' (9 th S. vi. 466, 518). There is yet another side to this question. Mr. George Smith has expended some 150,000/. on pro- ducing the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' I understand that the Clarendon Press may easily spend nearly as large a sum on the ' New English Dictionary ' before they have issued the last part. In neither case did the publishers expect anything but a heavy loss when they undertook the work. At the same time, it is the duty of those who wish similar enterprises to be possible in the future to use every endeavour in order that the loss may be as small as possible. No one would suggest that every correspondent who wishes a single item of information should, for that item, empty his pocket and load his shelves with either of these, literally, monumental works. But your correspondents have all of them some and many of them very much influence with the authorities entrusted with the management of public libraries. In season and out of season, and by every possible pressure, such authorities should be driven bo show their appreciation of the enlightened patriotism that has given us two works un- squalled in the world, and to buy both books. Surely the terms offered by Smith, Elder & Co. are easy enough ; and a subscription of bwo guineas a year buys the 'New English Dictionary ' in its monthly parts. I sincerely lope that you will gallantly do your share, as you have done in the past, in indirectly creating a public opinion that will make people ask for each of these books in the Dublic libraries of their own towns, and (as
 * he pill-men say) see that they get it.

Q. V.

It is difficult to avoid a certain feeling of sympathy with the complaint of MR. JOHNT. PAGE, fiut surely there is a vast difference Between consulting the ' Dictionary ' and laving "thoroughly ransacked the British Museum or the Bodleian." The ' Dictionary ' exists precisely for the use of persons unable x> ransack those and other libraries, and I enture to think that if inquiry were made t would be found that copies are available in