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Denton ; Jane of Shirley, and Martha was

unmarried in 1651 and 1661.

W. H. B. BIRD. Devereux Chambers, W.C.

ST. EDMUND (9 th S. viii. 103, 134, 193). I should like to say that this saint's biographer, Dora Boniface Mackinlay, to whom R. S. refers as " a member of the Italian mission in England," is, as a matter of fact, a monk of the English Benedictine community which has been seated at St. Edmund's Monastery, first at Paris and then at Douai, for nearly three hundred years. May I add that, to my own knowledge, the publication of the book in question was not, as R. S. insinuates, part of a deep-laid plot (to be consummated eight years later !)for the conveyance of the saint's relics to a "large new edifice in Westminster," but was simply a tribute the outcome of years of patient research of a devoted son of St. Edmund's to the memory of the Eng- lish saint who had been the patron of his Alma Mater for three centuries.

I venture to hope that, if the discussion of this interesting subject cannot be carrier] on without the theological animus imported into it by anonymous correspondents, it may be continued in the columns of the so-called "religious press" rather than in the un- controversial pages of 'N. & Q.'

OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Fort Augustus, N.B.

MS. PLAYS BY WILLIAM PERCY, 1600 (9 th S. viii. 183). Now in the library of the Duke of Devonshire. Two of the plays are in print : ' The Cuckqueans and the Cuckolds Errant,' issued by the Roxburghe Club, and 'The Fairy Pastoral,' edited by Haslewood in 1824. Mr. A. H. Bullen has promised a full edition, but I believe that it has not yet appeared. PERCY SIMPSON.

BONAPARTE QUERIES (9 th S. viii. 185). The direct descendant of the Empress Marie Louise by her second husband, Count Neip- perg, is her grandson Alfred, Prince (Fiirst) of Montenuovo, second Grand Maitre (Lord Steward) of the Imperial and Royal House- hold, Knight of the Golden Fleece, &c. The title which was bestowed on Marie Louise's son (father of the present prince) is a play on the name of Neipperg = Neuberg equal to, in the more euphonious Italian, Montenuovo.

LAC.

Caroline Murat did not marry again after the death of her husband in isis, when she was thirty-three years of age. She retired first to Vienna a.nd afterwards to Trieste,

where she lived with her sister Elise (Princess Bacciocchi), whom she survived nineteen years. She died in 1839.

There are numerous living descendants of Marie Louise of Austria by her second hus- band, Count Neipperg. The count was created Prince de Montenuovo in 1864, and had a son William (born 1821), who succeeded him in that title, married Countess Julienne de Batthyani, and had three children, who are all living. The second of these children is married and has a family.

OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus, N.B.

See * The Marriages of the Bonapartes,' by the Hon. D. A. Bingham, 2 vols., 1881 (Long- mans), also the genealogical table in 'The Court and Camp of Buonaparte' (Murray's "Family Library"), 1829. W. H. PEET.

NATIONAL PECULIARITIES (9 th S. viii. 203). MR. MARCHANT is wrong in thinking that Turgeniev "looked upon Germany as his second fatherland." He lived in Paris and in Baden ; but at Baden, which before 1870 was cosmopolitan, he lived with the French and Spaniards. D.

LITTLE GIDDING : STOURBRIDGE FAIR (9 th S. viii. 204). About a mile north-east of Cambridge a very large fair was formerly held once a year, and was called Stourbridge Fair. It was opened by the Vice-Chancellor. An eye-witness has told me that there used to be "an acre of earthenware there." It was, however, extinct in the forties, when I was an undergraduate. Is not this, rather than one of the fairs at Stourbridge in Worcestershire, likely to be Master Ferrar's "SturbridgFaire"? H. J. MOULE.

Dorchester.

In your note at the foot of this question you mention the fair as being at Stourbridge. I am inclined to think that it is the fair so called at Cambridge. There is no village in Cambridgeshire from which it could derive its name. It derives its name from the little stream called the Stour, situated on the eastern side of the fair. This fair is reputed to have been the largest in Europe. Roy sen says, in his Cambridgeshire history, that it is supposed by some to be of greater antiquity, and that it was to this that the Irish merchants brought cloth and other goods in the reign of King Athelstan. It has just been proclaimed, but it is a fair that is gradually falling away. It now lasts only three days, instead of several weeks as before. One day is set apart as horse-fair day, and the rest is devoted to confectionery, cheap-