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value ; I wish to know that of his references to 

 Milton, Barrow, and Browne. A. E. 



Dean Dixie. — Any information about Edward 

 Dixie, Dean of Kilmore, during the Revolution, 

 and his connexion with the Bosvvorth family, and 

 his own miirriage and issue, and particularly whe- 

 ther he had a daughter Anne, who married Capt. 

 Nicholas Coddington of Holmpatrick, county 

 Dublin. On January 22, 1672, said Nicholas got 

 administration of the goods of Wolstan Dixie of 

 Holmpatrick, Esq., as his principal creditor, and 

 he called his eldest son Dixie. The dean had a 

 son Wolstan, who was treacherously slain, March, 

 1689, by "Bloody Piers Butler," Viscount Gal- 

 moy. Dodo. 



Temple. 



The Law respecting Change of Name, — I should 

 like to be informed as to the following points : — 



1. Is a man able to obtain permission to take 

 tlie name, arms, &c-, of a relation (e. g. his grand- 

 mother) without any will or bequest necessitating 

 him to do so ? 



2. Who is the proper authority to whom ap- 

 plication ought to be made for information as to 

 a change of name ? N. S. P. 



Leigh of Cheshire, — Ormerod gives pedigrees 

 of the various branches of Leigh, differing in 

 many essential particulars from the pedigree 

 given in the Ilarl. MSS. 2187. and others. The 

 Leighs of Ridge (e quo those of Stockwell, Sur- 

 rey, and of Westwood, co. Southampton, which 

 are not alluded to in Ormerod, as they ought to 

 be) are descended, if the Ilarl. MSS. are right, 

 from Jenkyns Leigh, second son of Sir Pierse 

 Leigh of Hanley, a younger son of Robert Leigh 

 of Adlington, third son of Sir John Leigh of 

 Boethes, whose father, John Leigh of Bcethes, was 

 the patriarch of the family. Ormerod makes the 

 Leighs of Ridge a branch of the Leighs of Lyme. 

 Which account is the correct one ? Y. S. M. 



Sergeant- Surgeon Troutbeckof Bramham, York- 

 shire, married Frances Gandy of Norfolk ; he died 

 in 1684. Any particulars of his descendants 

 would much oblige your constant reader 



James Coleman. 



Col. Robert Chaire, — Any account of the an- 

 cestors of Col. Robert Chaire or Chayer, to whom, 

 with Axtell and Huncks,"the death-warrant of 

 Charles I. was addressed. Who was his first wife? 

 Was his second (Elizabeth) a daughter of Sir 

 Thomas Herbert? and if so, was Sir Thomas the 

 first Baronet of Tinterne, who married Lucy Alex- 

 ander ? Col. Chaire had a daughter Lucy, and a 

 son Alexander Herbert by the second marriage. 



DOBO. 



Cabry Family. — What is known of Joseph 

 Cabry, portrait-painter, said to be of Cumberland, 



and related to the RadclifF and Petre families ? 

 Any particulars would greatly oblige 



James Coleman. 



Gays Works. — Watt, in Biblio. Brit, says, 

 " Gay's Miscellaneous Works were published in 

 1773, in 4 vols. 12mo." Mr. Cunningham tells 

 us the last edition " is that in six vols." Were 

 there two such editions ? T. 



Eclipses in last Century. — On the 15th instant 

 will be visible a very extraordinary eclipse of the 

 sun. As this is a phenomenon not often wit- 

 nessed, perhaps it might interest your readers if 

 a correspondent could give an account of the 

 great eclipse which took place, and interrupted 

 Ormskirk races, during the last century ; or in- 

 form us where such an account may be found. I 

 cannot now recall the date of the year. E. S. W. 



Norwich. 



[There were two total eclipses of the sun during the 

 last century. The tirst on April 22, 1715, when the dark- 

 ness was so great that the birds went to roost at noon. 

 On this occasion two eminent French mathematicians 

 came over to this country to make exact calculations of 

 the nature and duration of it. Dr. Stukelej', the anti- 

 quary, thus describes that of 1724, in a letter to Dr. 

 Halley: — "I chose for my station Haradon Hill, near 

 Amesbury, east from Stonehenge Avenue. It Avas half- 

 past five by my watch when they informed rae that the 

 eclipse had begun. We watched its progress by the 

 naked eye, as the clouds performed for us the service of 

 coloured glasses. At the moment when the sun was half 

 obscured, a very evident circular rainbow formed at its 

 circumference with perfect colours. When the sun as- 

 sumed the appearance of the new moon the sky was tole- 

 rably clear, but it was soon covered with deeper clouds. 

 The rainbow then vanished ; the hill grew very dark, and 

 on each side the horizon exhibited a blue tint like that 

 at the close of day. Scarcely had we time to count ten, 

 when Salisbury spire, six miles to the south, was enve- 

 loped in darkness. The hill disappeared entirely, and the 

 deepest night spread around us. We lost sight of the 

 sun, whose place till then we had been able to distin- 

 guish in the clouds, but whose trace we could now no 

 more discover than if it had never existed. It was now 

 35 minutes past 6 ; shortly before the sky and the earth 

 had assumed a livid tint; "there was also much black dif- 

 fused through the clouds, so that the whole picture pre- 

 sented an awful aspect that seemed to announce the 

 death of nature. We were now involved in a total and 

 palpable darkness : 1 distinguished colors in the sun, but 

 the earth had lost all its blue, and was entirely black. It 

 was the most awful sight I had ever beheld in my life. 

 All the change I could perceive during the totality was 

 that the horizon by degrees drew into two parts, light 

 and dark ; the northern hemisphere growing still longer, 

 lighter, and broader, and the two opposite dark parts 

 uniting into one, and swallowing up the southern en- 

 lightened part. At length, upon the first lucid point 

 appearing in the heavens where the sun was, I could dis- 

 tinguish pretty plainly a rim of light running alongside 

 of us, a good while together, or sweeping by our elbows, 

 from west to east; just then, having good reason to sup- 



