2'>'' S. V. 117., Mar. 27. '68.] 



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liam Blount, Lord Montjoy, and sole heiress of 

 Charles Blount, the last Lord Montjoy, created 

 Earl of Devonshire ; and 2. Elizabeth, dauj^hter 

 of Anthony Sandys of Kent, Esquire, and tliat 

 she survived him, his will being made at Brew- 

 ton on Feb. 10, 1581. CoUinson's introduction of 

 the name of the Earl of Devonshire, who did not 

 die until 1606, is evidently widely wrong; but I 

 find that William Blount Lord Montjoy, great- 

 grandfather of the Earl of Devonshire, had by his 

 first wife Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir 

 William Say, two daughters (and coheirs of their 

 mother), 1. Catharine, married first to ■ Cham- 

 bourne (Champernowne ?), and secondly to Sir 

 Maurice Berkeley ; and 2. Gertrude, who became 

 Marchioness of P^xeter. 



Sir Maurice Berkele^^'s second wife was a lady 

 wlio is mentioned by Foxe in his Actes and Monu- 

 ments, as one of the instances of Protestants saved 

 by God's providence in the reign of Mary. She 

 was gentlewoman-waiter to the Lady Elizabeth 

 (afterwards Queen) during her imprisonment in 

 the Tower ; and subsequently, as Foxe states, one 

 of the exiles for religion at Geneva and Basle. 

 She was at Geneva, in the family of Sir William 

 Stafford ^of Grafton) and his wife Dorothy, the 

 daughter of Henry Lord Stafford, and grand- 

 daugliter of Edward Duke of Buckingham. In 

 the Livre des Atiglois a Geneve, edited by Mr. J. 

 S. Burn in 1831, she occurs at p. 7. as " mystres 

 Sandes al' Foster their coosen." Whence was the 

 name of " Foster " derived ? And was her father 

 Anthony Sandys a brother of Edwin the Arch- 

 bishop of York ? 



A monument supposed to exhibit the effigies of 

 Sir Maurice Berkeley and his two wives remains 

 in the church of Bruton, but it has no inscrip- 

 tion. (Phelps's History of Somersetshire, i. 238.) 

 John Gough Nichojos. 



Roger North. ■ — In Baker's MSS. at Cambridge 

 is preserved an autobiography of Roger North, 

 author of the Examen, of the Lives of the Norths, 

 and other books. I have undertaken to edit this 

 for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, and shall 

 be grateful for any information about the original 

 MS., or about North's life and studies, beyond 

 what is given in Chalmers, and in the prefaces to 

 his lately published works. J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Letters of Governor Thicknesse. — The Rev. F. 

 KiLVEET will be thankful for the communication 

 of any unpublished letters of the well-known 

 Governor Thicknesse, or for any original account 

 of, or anecdotes respecting that eccentric cha- 

 racter. 



Olavcrton Lodge, Bath. 



Leopold von Berchthold. — Can any correspon- 

 dents of " N. & Q." communicate any original in- 

 formation, or direct to any published account in 

 detail of Count Leopold von Berchthohf, the cham- 

 berlain and friend of the Emperor Joseph II. of 

 Germany ; who, following the example of our 

 own Howard, devoted much of his life to the re- 

 lief of human misery ; and who, in the subsequent 

 reign of the Emperor Francis, fell a victim to his 

 benevolent exertions as inspector of military hos- 

 pitals r' K. 



Irish Yellow-coats, — I have lately met with 

 the following sentence in the Memoirs of Edmund 

 Ludlow, Esq , Commander in Chief of the Forces 

 in Ireland, vol. i. p. 77. (Edinburgh, 1751) : — 



" Those who stormed on my side were the Irish yellow- 

 coats, commanded by Capt. Leicester." 



What more is known of this class of soldiers ? 



Abhba. 



Pacenius. — Has the following rare work been 

 reprinted : 'h^erao-is, EpistoloB nomine Regis Mag. 

 Britanice ad omnes, etc., a Bartholo Pacenio, J. C. 

 Montihus, Impressore Adamo Gallo, anno 1610? 

 If only existing in the original edition, I almost 

 despair of its perusal, as it has long evaded my 

 inquiries. The late Joseph Mendham long sought 

 for it before he was able to procure a copy, which 

 he at length did through Mr. Thorpe. Whei'e 

 shall I find the fullest account of it ? Enivri. 



Fivemiletovvn, co. Tyrone. 



Thackeray's Humowists. — At p. 197. (ed. 1853) 

 Mr. Thackeray prints, in a note, the celebrated 

 letter of Pope describing the death of his friend 

 Wycherley. This letter, from Curll's edit, of 

 1735, where I believe it first appeared, down to 

 Roscoe's (the latest) edition, has always been ad- 

 dressed to " E. Blount, Esq." Mr. Thackeray, 

 however, has headed it " To Mr. Alcourt." I 

 should feel much obliged if Mr. Thackeray would 

 tell us his authority for this new address ? I have 

 no note of a " Mr. Alcourt " as in any way con- 

 nected with Pope. T. 



Dr. Spiers' French- English Lexicon. — This 

 was recommended to me as the best by one of the 

 principal Cambridge booksellers, a few years ago, 

 but is, I think, not so complete or accurate a guide 

 for the older French authors (Moliere, &c.) as 

 Chambaud. A French teacher in a public school, 

 who contemplated publishing an abridgment of 

 Chambaud (which if well done would be extremely 

 serviceable) informed me that he had reviewed 

 Spiers' Lexicon some years previously in the Revue 

 des Deux Mondes, but he could not remember the 

 year or number, and I have been unable to find 

 it. I should feel obliged to any reader who could 

 refer me to any such review. F. J. Leachman. 



20. Compton Terrace, Islington. 



