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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Oct. 6. 1855. 



Has any credible, trustworthy statement ever 

 been made regarding the number of copies of the 

 four folio editions respectively supposed to exist 

 at the present time ? H. C. K. 



Wheble the Printer. — Can any correspondent 

 of " N. & Q." furnish information as to who are 

 the personal representative or representatives in 

 business of Mr. John Wheble, the well-known 

 printer, and who was for many years publisher of 

 The County Chronicle? Mr. Wheble died in 

 Sept. 1820. W. P. 



Ellises of Kent. — From the time of Edw. II. 

 there flourished at Stoneacre, in Otham, near 

 Maidstone, and at Burton in Kennington, near 

 Ashford in Kent, a family of the name of Ellis, of 

 whom was William Ellis, Esq., M.P. for Canter- 

 bury, and Attorney- General to Richard II., which 

 at an early period bore for arms, Or on a cross 

 sable, five crescents arg. ; and for crest, a female 

 piper, her hair dishevelled, or. These were the 

 arms and crest of the Ellises of Kiddall in York- 

 shire, said to be first assumed by Sir Archibald 

 Ellys during the Crusades ; and it is presumed, 

 therefore, that the Ellises of Kent are descended 

 of this stock. 



During the reign of Elizabeth, Burton was 

 alienated by Stephen Ellis, or by his son Thomas 

 Ellis, who with his brother, Thomas Ellis, of 

 Hertingfordbury, co. Herts, were living 1597. 

 In 1710 Stoneacre was sold by Edmund Ellis, its 

 then owner. 



I should be much obliged for any information 

 of the descendants (if any) of the aforesaid 

 Thomas Ellis of Kennington, and of Edmund 

 Ellis, who left a large family. 



In parts xv. and xvi. of the Topographer and 

 Genealogist, are published all the known pedigrees 

 of the Ellises and Fitz-Ellises. W. S. Ellis. 



Hurst-Pierpont. 



Dr. Johnson's Brother Nathaniel. — Some years 

 ago, I purchased at a sale in this city, with other 

 Johnsonian relics, a letter, written by Nathaniel 

 Johnson (a brother of our Dr. Johnson) to his 

 mother at Lichfield ; in whibh he makes mention 

 of his brother " scarcely using him with common 

 civility," and other interesting family matters ; 

 among them he says, " I believe I shall go to 

 Georgia in about a fortnight." Can you inform 

 me when he died, or if he went to Georgia ? His 

 death is recorded on the slab which covered his 

 father's and mother's grave, in St. Michael's 

 church in this city. T. G. L. 



Lichfield. 



Ukases. — I shall be obliged if any of your 

 readers can tell me what levies have been made 

 in Russia since 1849, or will refer me to ukases 

 on this point. R. J. A. 



No, 31 0.] 



"Elliott's Library has been sold " (" Times" 

 Sept. 20th, p. 1.). — Can any of your readers inform 

 me whether the above refers to the library of the 

 late eccentric Worcestershire clergyman and anti- 

 quary? if so, I should like to know through what 

 man of business it has been sold, and if a catalogue 

 could be seen. J. K. 



Hatton Garden. 



Towns in the Crimea and the Caucasus. — No- 

 tices of, or references to the same, will oblige. 



R. J. A, 



Thomas Perceval, F.S.A. — Can any of your 

 readers favour me with the time of decease of the 

 well-known antiquary, Thomas Perceval, Esq., 

 F.S.A., of Royton Hall, Lancashire, born, I be- 

 lieve, in 1719, and living in 1762? Alpha. 



The Martiniere College at Calcutta. — I am 

 informed that there is in Calcutta a college called 

 " The Martiniere," founded by a " liberal " Roman 

 Catholic, for the combined education of Roman 

 Catholics and "the four denominations" of Pro- 

 testants : and that at a meeting of representatives 

 of the five " denominations " (including Dr. D. 

 Wilson, the Bishop of Calcutta), a standard of doc- 

 trine for the regulation of the religious teaching 

 in the said " Martiniere " college was actually 

 agreed upon, to the satisfaction of the Jive de- 

 nominations ! A former " principal " of this Mar- 

 tiniere college is now one of the association secre- 

 taries of the Church Missionary Society. Can 

 any of your readers supply full and authentic in- 

 formation as to the origin, history, progress, and 

 present position of this said " Martiniere " college, 

 at Calcutta ? And can they supply a copy of 

 that remarkable doctrinal document which could 

 satisfy churchmen (including Bishop D. Wilson), 

 four denominations of Protestant dissenters, and 

 Roman Catholics ? C. H. Davis, M.A., Oxon. 



Rev. C. Love. — Who were the descendants of 

 the Rev. Christopher Love, Presbyterian minister, 

 who was beheaded about the middle of the seven- 

 teenth century, and where is the best account of 

 his life and labours to be met with ? Inquirer. 



[The longest biographical account of Christopher Love 

 is contained in No. 3945. of the Birch and Sloane MSS. 

 in the British Museum. For printed sources consult 

 Neal's History of the Puritans, vol. iv. pp. 39 — 46., edit. 

 1822 ; Brook's Lives of the Puritans ; Crosby's History of 

 the Baptists ; Thomas Manton's Funeral Sermon for 0. 

 Love ; and a modern work called The Gospel Atlas, 

 No. L] 



" History of William TIL" — Who is the author 

 of the following work. The History of King Wil- 

 liam III., in three parts, London, 1702, 8vo.? The 



