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clined " Mr, Jones's " offer of marriage solely be- 

 cause she was engaged to Mr. Masefield, and not 

 because of the mystery attaching to the other's 

 means and mode of life. Mr. Jones constantly 

 wore the disguise of a peculiar wig. Miss Hoggins 

 was not a beauty ; " she was fat, good tempered, 

 and amiable, but could never adapt herself to the 

 position to which she was raised." Her father 

 was a labourer, and her mother was a washer- 

 woman ; she assisted her mother in her occupation, 

 and Mr. Jones first saw her, and fell in love with 

 her, over a washing-tub ! He did not lodge with 

 her parents. On the wedding-day they left Bolas, 

 and did not return to it ; nor did Mr. Jones live 

 at the house he had built there, which was called 

 " Burleigh Cottage." A family of the name of 

 Tayleure lived there, and it is now the residence 

 of Mr. Taylor, a nephew of Mrs. Masefield. Miss 

 Hoggins was educated, at Mr. Cecil's expense, 

 before her marriage to him. 



CUTHBEET BeDE, B.A. 



Dr. Griffiths and the " Monthly Review " (2'"! S. 

 ii. 351. 377.) — I believe, on reference to the ar- 

 ticle in the Monthly Revieiv, that it will be found 

 to be a " catalogical " notice of a novel founded 

 on Cleland's unfortunate work, and not of the 

 work itself; such novel being exempt from all the 

 shameful details with which the other abounds. 



D.S. 



J. Huddlestone (2"^ S. ii. 57.) — James -II. in- 

 troduced this priest into the Bath Abbey for the 

 purpose of saying mass, but he was so boldly 

 opposed by Ken the bishop, that he was obliged 

 to retire. In passing, James drew his sword and 

 struck off the nose of the monument of Sir W. 

 Waller, who was Governor of Bath for Cromwell. 



O. C. P. 



Father John Huddleston was of the ancient 

 family of that name at Sawston, though he was 

 born in Lancashire. He aided Charles II. in his 

 escape in 1651, after the battle of Worcester, and 

 he reconciled his Majesty to the Catholic Church 

 on his death-bed in 1684. F. C. H. 



John Henderson (2"0 S. ii. 408.) — See Croker's 

 Bosivell, p. 763. (ed. 1848) and Hannah More 

 {Life,i. 194.) for all that, in addition to Cottle's 

 notice and Agutter's funeral sermon, is, or pro- 

 bably can be, known of Henderson's short and 

 obscure life. C. 



Gually's Dragoons (S""^ S. ii. 288.) — W. finds 

 that Captain Robert Browne was on half-pay of 

 Gually's Dragoons from 1712 to 1815! This 

 officer certainly appears to have enjoyed half-pay 

 for a lengthened period : he was a captain in the 

 infantry, and exchanged to half-pay of cavalry 

 previous to 1771, from which date to 1816, in- 

 clusive, his name adorns the half-pay list. In 



1816, at the termination of the war, the A)-niy 

 List was thoroughly examined in the War Office, 

 with a view to remove from the half-pay list the 

 names of such officers as had died, or to whom no 

 half-pay had been issued for seven years previous. 

 In consequence of this measure, the names of 

 Captain Browne and of several other half-pay 

 officers were removed from the list, on which they 

 had apparently been forgotten. Gually's Dra- 

 goons were disbanded in 1712, but one of the 

 officers then placed on half-pay must have ex- 

 changed, many years afterwards, into an infantry 

 regiment with Captain Robert Browne, who then 

 took that officer's place on the half-pay of the 

 dragoon regiment, but only received half-pay as 

 captain of infantry. He was probably many years 

 dead when his name was omitted from the Army 

 List in 1816. The name of my late friend Major 

 J. G. Ferns, on retired full-pay of the 76th regi- 

 ment, appears at p. 30. of the Army List for Oc- 

 tober, 1856, although that officer died on the 26th 

 of May, 1856, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. His death 

 has probably never been officially notified to the 

 Horse Guards, and therefore his name is not 

 omitted from the Army List. 



As W. possesses annual Army Lists of 1814-15, 

 will he oblige me by stating who held the office of 

 Drum Majoi'-General, and what were the duties 

 connected with that office ? He will find it no- 

 ticed at p. 77. of the Annual A7'my List for 1815, 

 where Colonel Digby Hamilton also appears as 

 " Waggon-Master General," a situation the duties 

 of which must have been equally arduous. 



On a future occasion I shall say a few words to 

 my valued friend the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott 

 and other correspondents who have lately written 

 on regimental titles. M. A. 



Dream T'estimony (P' S. viii. 287.) — The Red 

 Barn Murder was an instance of the kind ; the 

 murderer's name was Corder. It happened in 

 -1830-4. I cannot find any account of it in the 

 Annual Register. I should be glad of any of the 

 particulars, or of a reference to a detailed account 

 of the affair. C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



Claret and Coffee, were they known to Bacon ? 

 (2"*^ S. ii. 371.) — Coffee was certainly known to 

 him, as the following extract from his Sylva Syl- 

 varum will testify : 



" They have in Turltey a drink called Coffa, made of a 

 Berry of the same Name, as Black as boot, and of a 

 Strong Sent, but not Aromatical ; which tliey talce, beaten 

 into Powder, in Water, as Hot as they can Drink it : And 

 they take it, and sit at it in their Coffa-Houses, which 

 are like our Taverns. This Drink comforteth the Brain, 

 and Heart, and helpeth Digestion. Certainly this Berry 

 Coffa ; The Root and Leaf Betell ; The Leaf Tobacco ; 

 and the Tear of Poppy (^Opiuin), of which the Turks are 

 great Takers (supposing it expelleth all Fear;) do all 

 Condense the Spirits, and make them Strong, and Aleger. 



