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lities by cultivation and " too much forcing ; " 

 being consequently " far less hardy " than the 

 parent stock. 



I would feel obliged if Mb. Henbt Stephens, 

 or any of your readers, would endeavour to give 

 some minuter evidence of Sir Francis Drake's 

 claim to the aforesaid honour. 



D. MacGeeqoe Peter. 



How of Angus. 



The Descendants of Edmund Dudley. — Can 

 any of your correspondents give me any particu- 

 lar information respecting the descendants of Ed- 

 mund Dudley, Privy Councillor of Henry VII., 

 and beheaded in the first of Henry VIII., besides 

 those of the Northumberland branch and the 

 female lines ? The Peerages mention Andrew and 

 Jerome as sons of Edmund and brothers of Nor- 

 thumberland. Were they sons of their father's 

 first or second wife, and did they leave posterity ? 

 If so, what is known of their descendants? D. D. 



Governor Bradstreet. — Simon Bradstreet, the 

 ninth Governor of the Massachusetts Colony 

 under the first charter, was the son of Rev. Simon 

 Bradstreet, a minister in Lincolnshire, whose 

 father was " the son of a Suffolk gentleman of fine 

 estate." The Rev. Simon was one of the first 

 Fellows of Emanuel College, Cambridge. I am 

 desirous of learning other particulars of this family. 

 The arms borne by the Governor were. On a fesse, 

 three crescents ; in base, a greyhound courant. 

 The tinctures are not indicated on the seal from 

 which these bearings are taken. D. D. 



Onslow Gardyner. — This individual possessed 

 a large collection of genealogical MSS., and was 

 living in 1648. Some of his MSS., I think, fell 

 into the hands of the Earl of Anglesea. Can any 

 of your readers give any account of him, or tell 

 when he died ? G. 



Nanson Family. — Any information about the 

 family of Nanson of Kendal would be very ac- 

 ceptable to me. Lee mentions it thus : "Nanson, 

 1564, Council of Trent, 6 Queen Elizabeth, Ken- 

 dal, Westmoreland. He beareth sa. a chevron 

 between 3 amulets, argent." I am informed that 

 Gwillim asserts there is an old monumental in- 

 scription to one of this family in Kendal Church. 

 Is there any notice of the above family, or that of 

 Preston of Hugill in the same county in Nicolson 

 and Burn's Hist, of Westmoreland f * 



Rd. B. Carlisle. 



Emmett Family. — Can any of your numerous 

 correspondents favour me witn further particulars 

 regarding the Emmett family? When did the 

 family settle in Ireland ? Was it a branch of the 



[• There are several notices of the Preston family in 

 Nicolson and Burn's Westmoreland, vol. i. pp. 210, 211. 

 238,239.] 



Emmott family of Emmott, near Colne, Lanca- 

 shire ? When was the name changed ? In fact 

 any information regarding the family, or where I 

 should be likely to find any, would greatly oblige 



M. C. R. 

 Orir Old Psalter Tunes. — The first edition of 

 the Metrical Psalms, by Sternhold and Hopkins, 

 was without music. The edition of 1562 contains 

 the forty tunes, or the " apt notes to sing them 

 withall." Who made these melodies? and why 

 did the English people refuse to accept them or 

 sing them P Edmund Howes calls them " Gal- 

 liards and Measures." They are now distinguish- 

 able from the supplemental tunes by the term 

 " Proper Tune." Gamma. 



Pa?iiculars wanted respecting Samuel Hartlib, — 

 Milton, it will be remembered, published his 

 Tractate of Education in 1644, " at the request of 

 Mr. Samuel Hartlib." I beg to repeat the senti- 

 ment of the Rev. J. H. Todd, who remarks, " A 

 Life of Hartlib Is a destderatum in English bio- 

 graphy." Perhaps some of your readers can fur- 

 nish me with a few notes respecting this remark- 

 able person. Of course I am acquainted with the 

 notices of him in Warton's edition of Milton's 

 Minor Poems, Kennet's Register, and other com- 

 mon sources of information.* 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Casa Bianco. — Where can I find the original 

 narrative of the act of youthful heroism immor- 

 talised by Mrs. Hemans in her well-known and 

 beautiful little poem beginning — 



" The boy stood on the burning deck, 

 Whence all but he had fled." 



He is said to have been the son of the Admiral 

 of the "Orient;" and at the battle of the Nile, 

 having remained at his post after the ship had 

 taken fire, and all the guns had been abandoned, 

 to have perished in the explosion of the vessel. 



T. F. B. 



iilin0r caujrtCiS Intft ^niSto^riS. 



Commonitorium of Du Pin. — Where shall I 

 find the work of Du Pin on the XXXIX. Articles, 

 which, under the title of Commonitorium, he sub- 

 mitted to the Sorbonne, and then sent to Arch- 

 bishop Wake as what might be the basis of a 

 union between the Anglican and Galilean churches ? 

 William Fbaser, B. C. L. 

 Alton, Staffordshire. 



[This work is entitled Commonitorium de modis ineundte 

 pacts inter Ecclesias Anglicanam et Gallicanam, and does not 

 appear to have been printed in extenso. The original corre- 

 spondence between Abp. Wake and Du Pin was, in 1812, 

 in the possession of Dr. Osmond Beauvoir, Master of the 



[* There are eight articles relating to Samuel Hartlib 

 among the Birch and Sloane MSS. See the Index to 

 Ayscough's Catahgue.2 



