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Duke of York, K.G. and K.B., Colonel 2nd Foot 

 Guards; Lieut.-Gen. and Adjutant-Gen. Sir Wm. 

 Fawcett, K. B., 3rd Dragoon Guards ; Lieut.- 

 Gen. David Dundas, Quarter- master- General, 

 7th Light Dragoons; Major-Gen. Goldsworthy, 

 First Equerry, 1st Royal Dragoons. Narro. 



Lewis and Sewell Families (Vol. viii., pp. 388. 

 521.). — C. H. F. will find M. G. Lewis's ances- 

 tors, his family mausoleum, the tomb of his ma- 

 ternal grandfather, &c., incidentally mentioned in 

 " M. G. Lewis's Negro Life in the West Indies," 

 No. 16. of Murray's Home and Colonial Library, 

 1845. The pedigrees of the Shedden and Lush- 

 ington family would probably afford him some 

 information upon the subject of his Query. 



The Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell's second wife 

 was a Miss Sibthorp, daughter of Coningsby 

 Sibthorp of Canwick, Lincolnshire. By her he 

 had one child, which died young. The Rev. 

 George Sewell, William Luther Sewell, Robert 

 Sewell, Attorney- General of Jamaica, and Lieut.- 

 Col. Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, were sons of 

 the Right Hon. Sir Thos. Sewell by his first wife. 

 Thomas Bermingham Daly Henry Sewell, son of 

 the above Lieut.-Col. Thomas Bailey Heath Sewell, 

 died March 20, 1852, set. seventy-eight; and was 

 buried in Harold's Cross Cemetery, near Dublin. 

 Two daughters, the Duchess de Melfort, and Mrs. 

 Richards, wife of the Rev. Solomon Richards, still 

 survive him. (See Burke's Commoners, Supple- 

 ment, name Cole of Marazion ; and Burke's Die. 

 of Peerage and Baronetage, 1845, title West- 



MEATH.) W. R. D. S. 



Blue Bell and Blue Anchor (Vol. viii., p. 388.). 

 — Your correspondent 32et. inquires the origin of 

 the sign-boards of the " Blue Bell" and the "Blue 

 Anchor?" I have always understood that the 

 sign of the Bell, painted blue, was intended as a 

 substitute for the little Scotch flower bearing the 

 name of the blue-bell. I believe it is either the 

 blue flower of the flax, or that of the wild blue 

 hyacinth, which in shape much resembles a bell. 

 It was probably much easier to draw the metallic 

 figure than the flower, and hence its use by the 

 primitive village artists. As to the "Blue Anchor," 

 the anchor is the well-known symbol of Hope, 

 and blue her emblematic colour. Hence this 

 adaptation is less a solecism than that of the bell 

 for the hyacinth. W. W. E. T. 



66. Warwick Square, Belgravia. 



Sir Anthony Wingfield : Ashmans (Vol. viii., 

 pp. 299. 376.). — The portrait of Sir Anthony 

 Wingfield, " with the hand on the girdle," was, a 

 few years ago, in the collection of Dawson Turner, 

 Esq., at Yarmouth. A private etching of it was 

 made by Mrs. Turner. The original was rescued 

 from among the Letheringham pictures at Ash- 



mans, where they appear to have been sadly neg- 

 lected. 



The late Robert Rede, Esq., whose father, 

 Thomas Rede, purchased of Sir Edwin Rich, 

 Bart., in 1805, the manor of Rose Hall and Ash- 

 mans, erected upon that estate the mansion called 

 Ashmans. The place is not styled Ashmans Park, 

 nor does its extent warrant such a designation. 



This property, on the death of Mr. Robert 

 Rede in 1822, passed to the late Rev. Robert 

 Rede Cooper, who assumed the surname of Rede'; 

 and on his death, without male issue, the estate 

 devolved upon his four daughters, Louisa Char- 

 lotte, wife of Francis Fowke, Esq. ; Anne Cooper, 

 wife of Robert Orford Buckley, Esq.; Mary Anne 

 Sarah Bransby, wife of Charles Henry Tottenham, 

 Esq. ; and Miss Madeline Naunton Leman Rede. 

 The property has not been sold. Its most in- 

 teresting antiquarian feature is the old house 

 called Rose (or more properly Roos) Hall, which 

 belonged successively to the Colly, Suckling, Rich, 

 and finally the Rede, families. 



The pictures which remained at Ashmans were 

 removed from thence within the last year; but 

 whether any of those from the Letheringham gal- 

 lery were among them, I know not. S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



Derivation of the Word "Celt" (Vol. viii., pp.344. 

 651.).— Job xix. 24. In the Cologne (Ely) edi- 

 tion of the Vulgate, 1679, the word is Celt. In 

 Mareschal's Bible (Ludg. 1525), the word in the 

 text is Celte, but the marginal note is " al s Certe." 

 In the Louvain (or Widens) Bible (Antw., apud 

 Viduam et Hasredes Joannis Stelsii, 1572, cum 

 priv.), the word in the text is Certe. This latter 

 being an authorised edition of the Vulgate, it 

 seems probable that Celte, or Celt, must have 

 been an error. R- L R- 



The Religion of the Russians (Vol. viii., p. 582.). 

 — Your correspondent J. S. A. has mentioned 

 under the above head the worship of " gods," as 

 he calls their pictures or images, by the Russians. 

 I am sure he will find no such name or meaning 

 given to them by the Russians in their writings : 

 for an account of what they really believe and teach 

 I would refer him to Mouravieff's History of the 

 Russian Church; The Catechism of the Russian 

 Church Translated; Harmony of their Doctrine 

 with that of the English Church ; all translated by 

 Mr. Blackmore, late Chaplain to the Russian Com- 

 pany. G. W. 



French Translation of the " London Gazette" 

 (Vol. vi., p. 223.). — A correspondent describes a 

 French edition of the London Gazette, which he 

 had met with of the date of May 6, 1703; and 

 considering it as a curiosity, he wishes some reader 

 would give an account of it. It has occurred to 

 me to meet with a similar publication, which ap- 



