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hood's lessons. Here we are shown the repentant dying man looking for the light of the twenty-third Psalm, 'Hemakethme to lie down in green pas- tures.' And the kindly meant comfort given to him as he so ' babbled,' as well as the satisfaction felt in recounting it, is quite characteristic. So the old dame weeps womanly tears for the departed, while even the graceless Pistol sympathising says, ' Go ! clear thy crystals.' "

Mr. Neil, it may appropriately be stated, took a peculiar interest in the Shakespearean researches and work of Mr. Sidney Lee.

JOHN GRIGOR.

105, Choumert Road, Peckham.

THE LATE MR. JOHN TAYLOR, OF NORTH- AMPTON. It is fitting that mention should be made in ' N. & Q.' of the decease of Mr. John Taylor, the well-known antiquary and bibliophile. He ever betrayed the greatest interest in its columns, and his name as a contributor thereto is often to be met with in its indices. His last reply will be found at 9 th S. vi. 374. For several months he had been laid aside by serious illness, and only lately started work again, apparently with all his wonted vigour. On the 19th ult. he suffered a serious relapse, and on Sunday evening, 25 August, he passed away. To all who are interested in the history and antiquities of the county of Northampton the name of Mr. John Taylor is familiar " as household words." It would be impossible to mention here a tithe of the work he performed. Suffice it to mention a few of his greatest productions. Chief among these is the * Bibliotheca North- antoniensis,' which took him forty years to compile, and which contains the title-pages and collations of 30,000 Northamptonshire books. In 1884 he projected Northamptonshire Notes and Queries, a quarterly journal which has run into six valuable and unique volumes. Another of his best efforts was the reproduc- tion in facsimile of old pamphlets and broad- sides relating to the county. Many of these were afterwards bound together and issued in volumes as ' Tracts relating to the County of Northampton.' His latest volume of 'Antiquarian Memoranda' appeared only a few days before his death. The Northampton Mercury of 30 August and the Northampton Herald of 31 August both contain full and interesting biographical notices of Mr. Taylor.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

MARIE ANTOINETTE. A paragraph which I have noticed in the Irish Times of 10 Aug. seems worth preserving in the pages of

" An historical relic of much interest has just been discovered among the archives of the Department of

the Seine. This relic is a list of the articles found in he pockets of the dress that the ill-fated Marie Antoinette wore at her execution. The articles were put to public auction for the benefit of Sanson, the public executioner. The first lot consisted of a small pocket-book in green morocco, containing a pair of pincers, a small corkscrew, a pair of scissors, a comb, and a tiny pocket looking-glass. The second lot was made up of three little portraits n green rnorocco cases, one of them being sur- rounded by a metal frame. The two lots fetched a total of lOf. 15c."

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

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest jO affix their names and addresses to their queries, n order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

lt YOUR PETITIONERS WILL EVER PRAY, &C."

Petitions always end " And your petitioners will ever pray, &c." What are the actual words of the prayer covered by the " &c." ?

SHERBORNE.

[Various endings are given at 8 th S. ix. 377, with several references to the First and Third Series.]

CLANG ARTY PEERAGE : MACCARTHY. Who was "the Honourable Justin MacCarthy," who married " Mrs. Margaret Dalzell of the ity of Canterbury " at Aldershot on 18 Febru- ary, 1762? SIGMA TAU.

ASHFIELD OF SHADWELL. Wanted the business successors of a solicitor named Ash- field of Shad well, circa 1800. A son named Thomas Ashfield lived, I understand, some years ago with a Mr. Price, who was clerk to Stepney Parish Church. R. M. P.

64, Olive Road, Cardiff.

ALFRED NOBLE. Information wanted about Alfred Noble, son of George, 13, St. Augus- tine's Road, Camden Town, who entered Owens College, Manchester, in 1855.

HENRY BRIERLEY.

Mab's Cross, Wigan.

BIRD FAMILY. Can any one tell me any- thing about the Bird family of Clopton besides what is to be found in the ' Visitation of Cheshire'? And did any of the Bird family ever live at Ightfield, in Salop? I very much want some information about Richard Bird and his wife, said to be of Hunt House in Salop, a place which I cannot identify. R. H. BIRD.

CAPT. R. H. BARCLAY, R.N. Is there any portrait extant of this officer, who was com- mander of the small Canadian fleet on Lake