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form a most picturesque object. Is there any- 

 other such specimen among our English churches? 



R. L. 



Songs. —What song is it that the following 

 words are takeh from ? — 



" We're the boys 



That fear no noise, 

 • Where thundering cannons roar." 



The above words are sung by Tony Lumkin 

 in She Stoops to Conquer, but they are much older. 

 I have always heard them sung to the same notes, 

 which are evidently the fag end of a tune. 



Where is the following song to be found ? — 



" My wife's at the Marquis o' Granby, 

 Drinking Ale and Brandy, 

 And she's as drunk as can be, 

 And can't come here to me. 

 So I wont go home till morning," &c., &c. 



Stephen Jackson. 



Robert Courthose dr Curt-hose. — What became 



of the progeny of this unfortunate prince ? In 



Vhe reign of Charles II. there was a family in 



Wiltshire claiming direct descent from him : the 



name was Shorthose. The Rev. John Shorthose, 



Vicar of Stanton-Barnard and Uphaveh, Wilts, 



was also a prebendary of Salisbury cathedral. In 



the beginning of last century (1710), a son of his 



was incumbent [lecturer] of Chelsea, and died 



there in 1734 *, upon which occasion some wag, 



with more wit than feeling, wrote an epitaph of 



which I only remember the following : — 



Here lies, ^c. 



" Who lived sine — sine — sine riches. 



And died sine — sine — sine breeches." 



Perhaps some of the very numerous and very 

 widely spfead readers of " N. & Q." may not only 

 be able to fill up the hiatus, but also to commu- 

 nicate some information relative to the Shorthose 

 family. The name does not appear in Heralds' 

 Visitations, nor in Burke's Landed Gentry, nor in 

 any other of the many lists of names which have 

 fallen under my observation, and only incidentally 

 in the text of Lower's work on Surnames (i. p. 

 224.), not in his index. 



A friend of mine travelling iri Scotland some 

 years ago saw the name over the door of a small 

 shop in a country town, but which she has forgot- 

 ten. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Von Pritzen Family. ^-^ Any information rela^ 

 tive to the Pomeranian family of Von Pritzen 

 will much oblige. Were any of them settled Ih 

 Ireland at or about the time of William III. ? 

 A ring, on which their arms are very beautifully 

 engraved, has been in the possession of ray family 



[_* A Bhort Account of the Rev. Hugh Shorthose, Lec- 

 turer of Chelsea, is prefixed to his Sermons on Several Oc- 

 caiioni, 8vo., 1738. — Ed.] 



for about 150 years ; it came to us by an inter- 

 marriage with the family of Peard, of Cool Abbey, 

 CO. Cork, Ireland. There is a family tradition 

 (not very trustworthy) that the original possessor 

 of the ring was in the service of King William III., 

 and fought at the battle of the Boyne. F. R. D. 

 Mozglas Mawr. 



Bombardment of Algiers hy Lord Exmouth. — 

 I have in my possession a large picture of this 

 subject, which I understand to have been painted 

 by subscription for the officers engaged, and after 

 being engraved was raffled for, and fell to the 

 lot of a Lieut. Thorpe, of the Royal Navy, from 

 whom it passed to his brother, the borough trea- 

 surer for Manchester, about twenty years ago. 

 In consequence of a sale of his property, this 

 picture was sent up to London, and, like many 

 other works of art, lay hid until about two years 

 ago, when I got possession of it. I have ob- 

 tained so much of the above information from the 

 solicitor to Mr. Thorpe, who believes the picture 

 to have been painted by one of the Vernets, but 

 I have in vain endeavoured to obtain an engraving 

 which is positively stated to have been taken from 

 it. Perhaps some of your readers could give me 

 sotne information. The Crescent Tower in ruins 

 is the pritlcipal object on land ; frigates and line* 

 of-battle-ships with their sails furled, and top- 

 masts not struck, are in action with a gUn-boat 

 firing rockets near the spectator. The water is a 

 perfect calm, and the sky dark. The arsenal to 

 the left of the Crescent Tower is in flames. 



SErilMUS. 

 London. 



Stonehenge. — I visited Stonehenge In October, 

 1850. A man with one leg, who got his living 

 by lionising visitors, told me that one of the larger 

 stones had recently fallen (being the third that 

 had done so within the memory of man) : pointing 

 to the prostrate giantj he said, in his fine old 

 Saxon, " nly brother was at work drawing yon 

 barroW ; and he was handy and saw it sWerVe." 

 What I Want to query is, on what partictilar day, 

 month, and year, did this tri-lith fall ? 



C. MaSsi-ield Isglebt. 



Birmingham. 



•Judge Walcot. — Sir Thomas Walcot, Knt., 

 became Judge of King's Bench, October 2i, 1683. 

 On his demise Sir Robert Wright succeeded, 

 October 16, 1685. What were his arms, and of 

 what family Was he ? 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Rev. Dr. Thackeray. — This Well-knowrl divine 

 ob. 1760, being at the time Head Master of Har- 

 row ; it is stated that he left a numerous issue : 

 one of his sons was Mr. Thomas Thackeray, an 

 emineiit surgeon at Cambridge, who died in 1806 ; 

 and was also fattier of a large fatnily. I shall be 



