- gud §, No 7, Fes. 16, °56.) 
Bristol Tolsey.— Can any of your, readers in- 
form me in what part of Bristol stood the Tolsey, 
so often mentioned in the records of Bristol during 
thé sixteenth and seventeetith cetituries? Also 
whether any engraving of the building is extant ? 
None of the local histories that Lam acquainted 
with contain any representation of it. T. E. R. 
. Allport Family. — Can any of your correspon- 
dents furnish.me with a pedigree of the family of 
Allport, of Cannock, Staffordshire; and Sutton 
Coldfield, Warwickshire ? 
Prior Rosert oF SAtop. 
Stothard’s Mother. —In Mrs. Bray's most in- 
terestitig Life of Thomas Stothard, R.A.; it is 
stated; p.1., that his mother’s maiden name was 
“ Reynolds, a. native of Shrewsbury, highly re- 
spectable both in her family.and connexions.” 
Cah any one state more particularly who this lady 
was P Prior Rozsert or Satop: 
Landing of the French in 1621.— Extract from 
the register-book of Grappenhall; Cheshire: 
“ 1691. Collected for, Mr. Tremaine, whose shop was 
burnt, and his father-in-law, James Hatch, Doctor in 
divinity, was murdered by y¢ French yt landed, and burned 
his house, 8s. 6d.” 
Query; Is there any historical record of this 
descent of the French ? J.K. 
Heaven in the Sense of Canopy.— Was the word 
heaven at any time used to express “a canopy” ? 
as, in the German at the present day, Thron- 
himmel, literally, “a throne-heaven;” means the 
canopy over a throne. is 
_Dr, Johnson, in Lives of the Poets (vol. i. p. 54.), 
whilst criticising Cowley, says, “ he offends by ex- 
aggeration as much as by diminution,” and gives 
the following instance : 
* The king was placed alone, and o’er his head * _ 
A well-wrought heaven of silk and gold was spread.” 
To a person conversant with German, there is 
some difficulty in seeing at a glance what exag- 
geration is contained in these lines; and should 
the word heapent have been used at any time in 
England in the sense I have suggested, Cowley 
will be freed; in this instance at least, from the 
accusation. B. §. Kennepy. 
Slaidburn. é 
Col. Tal, P. Shaffner.—I recollect this per- 
sonage’s marriage, forming the subject of a para- 
graph which went the round of the newspapers 
some few years ago. It was remarkable for the 
immense nuniber of titles atid letters, filling some 
Me which fillowed the Goldnel’s natne; and it 
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United States, although not formally acknow- 
ledged as such by Conyress. If I Fendtlest aright, 
the full name is Taliaferro; though, from his 
expertness in making “noses of wax” for the 
Russians, one might imagine he was named after 
the “ learned” Taliacotius. Eb. G. BR. 
The Champneys Arms.—Did any English family, 
besides Champneys, bear per pale a lion ram- 
pant, within an engrailed border? TI can find no 
other in Berry’s Heraldic Dictionary. Also, cat 
any of your antiquarian readers tell me if a lady 
of this family married a Bowes, between the yeats 
1550—1690? ‘There were Lord Mayors of Lon- 
don, I have ascertained, in both house§, circ. temp. 
Edw. VI. or Elizabetli. A reply would confer a 
great obligation, as it is wanted to fill up an hiatus 
valde defietus. A: B: 
BMrs. Middleton and her Portraits. —G. 8S: 8. 
who is putting together some notes relating to the 
celebrated beauty Mrs. Middleton, wishes to learn 
in whose gallery of paintings is to be found her 
portrait by Gascar, with a lamb; which has been 
engraved in mezzotinto; and who engraved it. 
He would like also to know, where the full-length 
portrait by Lely is, which has been engraved by 
Browne in mezzotinto ; and where the original by 
Lely, which has been engraved by Thompson in 
the same style. Perhaps the latter is from the 
Windsor portraits. The date and place of Mrs. 
Middleton’s death; and of her burial, are required. 
Defence of Charles I. — Who was the author 
of the following work ? ; 
“A Just Defence of the Royal Martyr King Charles L, 
from thé matiy false and malicious Aspersions.in Ludlow’s 
Memoirs, and from Some other virulent Libels of that 
kind. Motto from the Psalms, Plal: [sic] xxxv. 11; 12. 
Cicero ad Herent:; &e. 8vo.; London; 1699.” 
~ YBN 
_Mollerus.—I lave a copy of Southey’s Minor 
Poems; in which some former possessor has written 
in vol. iii. p. 66.; at the end of “ God’s Judgment 
on 4 Bishop”: ¢ 
“ Though Southey, quotes Coryat at length, and men- 
tions ‘other authors,’ he does not name Mollerus, from 
whose poem nearly every thought in this is literally 
translated.” o7 ; ; 
T shall be glad to kriow the title of Mollerus’s 
poein, and where it is to be found. T. M. 
A Life Peerage Query..— Perhaps a genealo- 
gical correspondent of “ N. & Q.” would inform 
me, what change, if any, would occur in the pre- 
cederice of children ofa life peer after his death ? 
For instance, .if Lord Wensleydale had a son, 
would lie be still Honourable 2? and would he hold 
place a8 eldest son of a baron ? LE: M: M. 
Mrs. Meehe, alias Gabrielle. — Can. any of your 
readers give any account of Mrs: Meeke; whi, 
about the end of the last centuty; and the begin- 
