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This family long held a respectable position at Stratford-on-Avon, and was of sufficient importance to be entered in the Warwick- shire Visitation of 1682. At that time the head of the family was Richard Quiney, of Shottery, near Stratford, but his next brother, Adrian, was " Lieutenant-Colonell of the Green Regiment in y e Citty of London," and a younger one, William, was also resident in London. These brothers, who all died bachelors, were the sons of Richard Quiney, grocer, of London, by his wife Eleanor Sadler, and were connected with Shake- speare through the marriage of their uncle Thomas with Judith, younger daughter of the

I should liave been inclined to identify the Quiney of Chalcot with Richard Quiney, the grocer of London, but as the latter was born about the year 1586, he was only a boy when Norden's book was published in 1593, and there is no evidence that his father Adrian Quiney had any connexion with London. Richard came up to London from Stratford as a youngster, apparently in emulation of his friend and fellow-townsman John Sadler, who had established himself as a grocer at the "Red Lion" in Bucklersbury. He entered into partnership with Sadler, whose brother- in-law he became, and soon made his fortune. His claim to coat-armour was allowed at the London Visitation of 1634. His wife Eleanor, daughter of John Sadler, of Stratford-on- Avon, died about 1655, aged fifty-six ; and he himself died in May, 1656, aged about seventy. His next brother, Thomas Quiney, who had married Judith Shakespeare on 10 February, 1616, a few weeks before the death of the poet, had come up to London in 1652, and nad shortly afterwards died there ; and his widow followed her husband and children to the grave on 9 February, 1661/2.

The brothers-in-law were not unmindful of their native town, for in August, 1632, as we learn from the Corporation records, they presented two "fayre gilte maces" to the borough of Stratford-on-Avon, which are still preserved in the museum attached to the

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Hampstead possesses many literary memories, and it would be interesting if we could associate with the name of Keats that of the immortal poet whose profile on the title-page of the ' Poems' of 1817 introduced to the world the first-fruits of the Muse of Adonais. Chalcot and Belsize, as I remember them as a boy, could have been little different

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in the days of Elizabeth ; and if the Quineys of Chalcot were connected with the Quineys of Stratford, it requires no effort of imagina- tion to picture Shakespeare pacing the fields and green lanes which up to fifty years ago brought the " flowers o' the spring " within the verge of London. W. F. PRIDE ATJX.

MARKS FAMILY. I should esteem it as a favour if any West-Country reader could for- ward to ' N. & Q.' some particulars concerning Robert Christopher Marks, vicar of South Petherton and Marriott, co. Somerset, in 1617, and William Marks, also vicar of South Petherton, 1660-1705, in respect of their ancestors and descendants to the present times. The former, according to Anthony a Wood, ' Alumni Oxonienses,' matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, 5 July, 1606 ; M.A. 23 June, 1609 ; created D.D. 31 January, 1642/3. The latter became B.A. at Wadham College, Oxford, 2 July, 1642. The only mention of the first named in contemporary writings is in Walker's 'Sufferings of the Clergy,' wherein a brief notice is given of the pains he endured at the hands of the Long Parliament. No particulars are given in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' It seems a rather singular fact that such should be the case.

A. G. MARKS.

DEYDEK'S BROTHER IN AMERICA. In the notice of Francis Scott Key in ' Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography,' 1887, iii. 529, it is stated that his ancestor "Philip Key came to this country from England accompanied by Dryden, brother of the poet, who died soon after his arrival, and is buried in Blakiston's Island in the Potomac."

The difference of age between a brother of Dryden and Philip Key would be very great, and it may have been a Dryden of a later generation. Key was born in London in 1696. What is known of this tradition 1

T. H. M. Philadelphia.

DUELS. Can any one say where accounts of duels which took place late in the seven- teenth century and early in the eighteenth entury can be found ? Were authoritative inquiries held after all cases of duelling, more especially when death occurred ; and if I records of such inquiries or inquests are still preserved and available for reference, where are they to be found 1 G. A. C.

SONG WANTED. Very, very many years ago, in my early manhood, I was the possessor of a "National Song-Book" published early in the last century an oblong quarto, marbled covers. I have irrecoverably lost that, to me,