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must have died before 1795, as his son, of the 

 same name, had succeeded him in that employ- 

 ment, and took a conspicuous part in the Maroon 

 war of 1795. 



Any particulars bearing on the personal history 

 of these military engineers, and of the actual dates 

 and places of their decease, will be very accept- 

 able. M. S. K. 



Turkish Baths in London. — In Timbs's 

 Curiosities of London^ allusion is made to the 

 establishment of Turkish baths in Newgate Street, 

 Chancery Lane, and Covent Garden, in the seven- 

 teenth century. Can any of your readers give 

 any farther information on this subject? Stow 

 says the Newgate Street bath was much used for 

 sweating, and " approved by our physicians." 

 Now that these baths are being revived, it would 

 be curious to know when they were first esta- 

 blished here, and why they fell into disuse. 



T. Spencer Wells. 



Bakket of Essex. — The following arms are 

 engraven in the margin of Warburton's large 

 Map of Middlesex, Essex, &c., under the head of 

 '•Essex Arms" : " Barret, Esq." ■ 



Quarterly, Ist. Or on a fesse gu. 3 fleurs-de-lis 

 of the field. 2nd. Az. 3 lions rampant arg. 3rd. 

 Gu. 3 escallops arg. 4th. Arg! a chev. engi-ailed 

 between 3 trefoils slipped gules. 



I cannot find these arms (or any resembling 

 them) assigned to the name either in Burke or 

 Berry, and I should feel much obliged to any 

 forrespondent of " N. & Q." who could give me 

 information as to this family, its arms and quxxr- 

 terings. 



I have an old impression from a seal, about a 

 century old, bearing 3 lions rampant on a field 

 azure. I have never been able to ascertain to 

 whom these arms could belong, as none of the 

 families to whom they are assigned in Mr. Pap- 

 worth's Ordinary are, so far as I can discover, in 

 any way related to the family who made use of 

 this seal. As, however, there ivas a connexion 

 with a family of Barret, I hope, through the ex- 

 cellent medium of " N. & Q.," to identify this 

 Essex squire with some progenitor of my prO' 

 positu^. H. S. G. 



Ben Jonson's Grave : Sir T. Vaughan's 

 Monument. — In the Handbook of London pub- 

 lished by Mr. Peter Cunningham, and under the 

 article " Westminster Abbey," I find a reference 

 to the original stone in which was cut the in- 

 scription " O Rare Ben Johnson " (Jonson), 

 which states that this (original) stone has been 

 removed altogether, and a modern one substi- 

 tuted ; this is confirmed by Mr. Charles Knight 

 in his book on London *, but the statement, I am 



* " The stone ver^- unnecessarily was taken away at 

 the late relaying of the pavement." 



disposed to think, is erroneous : as it will be found 

 that in addition to the modern stone, which is in 

 the walk of the north aisle of the Abbey imme- 

 diately below the very handsome brass recently 

 laid to the memory of John Hunter, there is 

 another, bearing every appearance of being ori- 

 ginal, let into the wall close to the ground, and 

 immediately opposite to that referred to. I shall 

 be glad to be confirmed in my view that this may 

 be the original stone. Mr. Knight, also, in his 

 book has an illustration of a very handsome brass 

 from the tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan (at page 

 129., being the heading of Chap. 84.), but upon 

 examination of the tomb in the Chapel of St. 

 Erasmus I find an altogether different brass, viz. a 

 figure recumbent, with the hands clasped in 

 prayer, and the lower part from the knees alto- 

 gether wanting. Mr. Knight represents a figure 

 in armour, the right hand resting upon the sword- 

 hilt, and the left sustaining the shield containing 

 the arms of the knight. Can 'any of your cor- 

 respondents inform me where this latter brass is 

 to be found, or explain the error into which Mr. 

 Knight appears to have fallen ? I trust that be- 

 tween the two Knights referred to I may have 

 made my meaning clear. E. H. Lowrie. 



Praed's Verses ascribed to Mother Ship- 

 ton. — In a debate at the Cambridge Union, 

 Praed, replying to a speaker who had several 

 times repeated, " I prophesy," extemporised some 

 verses which he ascribed to Mother Shiptou. 

 One who was present described to me the effect, 

 but could not remember the verses, which he 

 said were very clever and effective. Did any one 

 " make a Note " of them ? E. J. P. 



Oxford Honorary Degrees. — Where can I 

 find a list of the persons who have been compli- 

 mented with honorary degrees by the University 

 of Oxford ? Cantabrigiensis. 



Woollett's Monument. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me of the state of the monument 

 which was erected to the memory of W. Woollett, 

 the celebrated engraver, in St. Pancras church- 

 yard ? As there has been probably great altera- 

 tions at that church since its erection, it may 

 have been I'Cinoved or injui-ed. There is a tablet 

 to his memory in the cloisters of Westminster 

 Abbey. !*• 



"History of Jamaica." — Who was the au- 

 thor of a 12mo. volume, published anonymously 

 in Dublin in 1741, and entitled A New History of 

 Jamaica, ^c. ? It is, I presume, a reprint of an 

 8vo. which appeared in London the year before, 

 and is mentioned by Bohn in his edition of 

 Lowndes' Bibliographers' Manual, vol. iii. p. 1179., 

 but without any author's name. . Abhba. 



