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traditions call the mighty sportsman Hackel barend, Hackelbernd, Hackelberg, and Hackel block. See vol. iii. p. 921 (Stally brass's edi tion). In 'Legends and Tales of the Har, Mountains,' by Toofie Lauder, he is Hackel berg (pp. 123-5). ST. SWITHIN.

MONKEYS (9 th S. vi. 507).' Monkeys in the New World ' appeared in Cassell's ' Natura History,' vol. i.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

DARCY LEVER (9 th S. vii. 1). It is nc doubt obliging in MR. PHILIP KENT to have given the readers of 'N. & Q.' so much infor mation about the Levers of Alkrington Hall In some respects, however, it is deficient, as he himself says, from want of knowledge : a reference to the not very recondite pages ol Burke's 'Landed Gentry' would have made his notes fuller and more accurate. In case any reader should have an interest in the matter, I give the following as taken from Burke. I am not responsible for it. It sets forth rather curious intermarriages of families, Darcy Lever had by his wife Elizabeth Murgatroyd five daughters ; of these the third, not the youngest, Frances, not Dorothy, married Archibald Watson Goldie, W.S. The sole child of this marriage, Frances Elizabeth, married first, not a captain in the army, but a surgeon in the army, who happened to be her own cousin. Dr. Thomas Goldie Scot. He did not tack his father-in-law's name on to his own. His mother was Helen Goldie, the sister of his wife's father, who had married a Dr. William Scot, private physician to the Rajah of Travancore and secretary to the Medical Board at Madras. Thomas Goldie Scot died in 1874, and his widow married in 1883 another cousin, though not so nearly related the Rev. Michael Maude Simpson, rector of Usworth, co. Durham ; of him hereafter.

The other daughter of Darcy Lever whom MR. KENT mentions, Bessie, married Patrick Hendrick, and had by him a daughter, who married the Rev. Michael Henry Simpson, vicar of Towlaw, co. Durham. The issue of this marriage was the above - mentioned Michael Maude, who married Mrs. Goldie Scot, the granddaughter of his great-grand- father.

Another curious fact in the family history is that the issue of the marriage between Frances Elizabeth Lever and Thomas Goldie Scot, Archibald Murgatroyd Goldie, married illen Gertrude, fourth daughter of the above- mentioned Rev. Michael Henry Simpson, so that mother and son have married a brother

and sister. Mrs. Simpson of Craigmuir, co. Kirkcudbright (a property which was pur- chased by the Goldies in 1679), is still, so far as I know, alive. J. B. P.

In his most interesting note MR. PHILIP KENT has given us some valuable information about Lever which would have been of use to his biographer in the * D.N.B.' (see vol. xxxiii. p. 140). In this notice I fancy ME. KENT will find some facts new to him, which may probably induce him to give us some more exact facts and dates. His antipathy to exact dates and titles has given me some trouble to find what he calls Lever's 4 Seamanship.' No doubt he refers to ' The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor,' 1808. I have looked at the copy in the Bodleian, which is in the original boards and uncut. It is a quarto, with a full - page engraved plate drawn by the author to each of the hundred and eleven pages. I can quite believe it cost the 1,OOOZ. mentioned, and was well worth it too. So thoroughly is the work done that I feel certain it can never be superseded.

Will MR. KENT refresh his memory with my note (9 th S. iv. 13), and then tell us if he still thinks the plates are engraved on steel 1 To my eye they are engraved on copper. If be still thinks they are steel, and will give bis proofs to the " best of his knowledge and ability," he may establish a very early example of steel engraving.

RALPH THOMAS.

In another form Darcy Lever "D'Arcy Lever" is the pen-name of a present-day writer whose name appears, I believe, in Who 's Who ' for 1900 and 1901. This name was taken, it is said, from his association with the Lancashire parish of Darcy Lever, aear Bolton. N. P. L.

SIK LAWRENCE PABEINHAM (9 th S. vi. 429). He was the son of Sir Thomas de Pabenham, >f Pabenham and Thenford, co. Northampton, ind was eleven years old at his father's death n 1344. He died in 1398, leaving an only "aughter Catherine, who carried his estates n marriage to Sir William Cheyne, of Fen )itton ( see Bridges's ' History of North- mpton shire '). W. D. PINK.

Sir Lawrence Pabenham was the son of lr Thomas (d. September, 1344) and Alice,

aughter of Ufford, his wife, and grand-

on of John (d. 1331) and Elizabeth, daughter nd heiress of Nicholas de Crioll and Margery e Clifford. His first wife was Elizabeth, aughter of John de Engayne and Amicia, aughter of Walter de Fauconberg, and sister