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Guelph Family : Family Name of Emperor of 

 Austria. — The dynasty of the Guelphs will cettse 

 at the death of our present sovereign. What will 

 be the hatiie of the next dynasty; or, in other 

 words, what is the family name of the house of 

 Saxe Cobourg ? 1 cannot find it in the Almatlach 

 de Gotha. 



Also, what is the family name of the Emperor 

 of Austria P Hapshurg was the title of his an- 

 cestors ; was there no name besides ? Stylitbs. 



MS. Note in Locke. — I have a folio edition of 

 Locke, in the broad margin of which are many 

 notes, in what I conceive to be a hand of the early 

 part of the last century. The writer toust have 

 been a man of much reading. At B. i. c. ii. § 23., 

 is written : 



" Some hare maintained that the sahie thing may be 

 and hot be, and j^et have called themselves natural phi- 

 losophers. Wo hold that it is obviously impossible for 

 the same to be and not, and that ignorance alone seeks 

 demonstration of what is incontrovertible; everything 

 cannot be demonstrated, as to do it we must go backward 

 infinitely." 



This is marked as a quotation. If it is one, 

 who is the author, and who are the natural philo* 

 sophers ? R. A4 



Mother of the late Czar of Russia. — I have 

 been long endeavouring to discover something of 

 the history of the mother of the late Czar of 

 Russia ; would you be good enough to supply me 

 ■with the information P TftEBOR. 



Oxford. 



Princess Charlotte de Rohan. •— I have been 

 very desirous to know what the fate of Prin- 

 cess Charlotte de Rohan was. I mean the ill-fated 

 young lady who was engaged to the Due d'En- 

 ghien, who was shot at Vincennes in 1804. Could 

 you insert in your columns a brief narrative of 

 her life ? Tkebob. 



Macistus. — "Where were the MaKiVrov a-Koira], 

 mentioned in ^schylus, Agamemnon, v. 289. (ed. 

 Dindorf) ? I presume that reference is made to 

 Some mountain in Euboea, but I can find nothing 

 about it in Stnith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman 

 Geography. Is Mount Macistus of Eubcea men- 

 tioned by any other author ? Resupinus. 



Family of Mayhem. — The arms of this family 

 are registered thus : 



"Mayhew, Ilemingston, co. Suffolk, gu. a cheveron 

 vairtf between three crowns, or ; crest, a unicorn's head, 

 erased, gu., armed and maned, or, charged on the neck 

 with a cheveron, vaire." 



Can any of your correspondents state when these 

 arms were granted ? what motto has ever been 

 used with them ? and who are the present repre- 

 sentatives of the family ? Also, in what part of 

 Sufi'olk Hemingston is situated ? S. W. 



Edmonton, Middlesex^ — Are there any collec- 

 tions relative to this parish beyond what is pub» 

 lished in Dr. Robinson's History ? 



A Constant REAt)EB4 

 "CaradflZZa.*'— Who is the author of Caracalla, 

 a Tragedy, by H. T. T. ? Published itt 1832 P 



X. 



" A Royal Demise." — Was Thomas Hood or 



Theodore Hook the author of the following lines : 



" A Royal Demise. 



" How monarchs die is easily explain'd. 



And thus upon the tomb it might be chisel'd. 

 As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, 

 And then he mizzled." 



Harry Norton. 



"-4 Regal croton." -^ Where shall I find the 



following ? 



" A Regal crown is but a crown of thorns." 



J. C. E. 



Gilding the Beard at Funerals. — In The Olio, 

 viii. 333., it is stated that — 



" the manner of the death of Charles the Rash has been 

 differently described by historians ; it appears tliat he fell 

 b)' the treachery of his favourite, Nicolas de Campadossa, 

 who was mainly instrumental in causing his death by thd 

 poniards of hired assassins. The Duke of Lorraine, 

 Charles's mortal foe, took pains to show decent regard 

 towards his breathless body ; he paid the singular respect 

 of walking in the fiineral procession with his Imirdcovefed 

 with leaf gold.'* 



Where is the authority for this statement ? and 

 is it the first instance of gilding the beard at 

 funerals ? G. Creed. 



Museum Streeti 



William Fell, of London, circa 1640-50, proba- 

 bly either a merchant or a lawyer. Anything re- 

 lating to him would be useful. 



James Knowles. 



Turner. — The ancient family of this name, 

 resident since the reign of King Edward VI. at 

 Througham, in the parish of Bisley, Gloucester- 

 shire, bears, Ermine on a fesse, gules, three lyons, 

 rampant, argent. This coat Is so widely different 

 from those of other families of the same name in 

 the county, and so nearly resembles the arms of 

 Barrett, that information on the subject is re- 

 quested from your correspondents skilled in 

 questions of heraldry. E. D. 



Crusade of Children. — E. Crowe, in liis tttstorp 

 of France (Lardner's Cabinet Library, vol. i. 

 p. 71.), speaking on the subjeet of the Crusades^ 

 observes : 



" Both (Barons and Clergy) were considered unworthy 

 to advance the cause of Heaven. It was for the innocent 

 and the humble, for those untainted with the vices of the 

 time — luxury, avarice, violence, and pride — to come 

 forth, and support the standard which they did not dis- 

 grace. The same idea had formerly prevailed, when many 



