'2nd s. VI. 153., Dec. 4. '58.] 



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de Portraits, et de Plans, 2 vols. 8vo., Paris, 1852, as 

 to place bej'ond debate all farther questions respecting 

 that prince's identitj' and miserable end. The name of 

 the late Rev. Eleazar Williams, who died at Hogansburg, 

 U. S., on the 8th Aug. last, must be added to the already- 

 long roll of Faux- Dauphins, whose pretensions to lapsed 

 royalty have excited from time to time the sympathies of 

 the over-credulous. We doubt not the late Rev. J. H. 

 Hanson was a highly respectable, talented, and conscien- 

 tious gentleman, but, without having perused his work, 

 entitled (we believe) The Lost Prince, we are persuaded 

 that no arguments he may have adduced in it could dis- 

 prove the authentic details contained in the Memoirs 

 of MM. Hue, Cle'ry, and Turgy, and of the Duchesse 

 d'Angouleme (who were inmates of the Temple during the 

 captivity of the Royal Family of France), much less dis- 

 turb the 3femoires Historiques of M. Eckard, which is a 

 judicious and interesting summary of all the fore-named 

 authorities. A " Lost Prince " is a very rare kind of trea- 

 sure-trove, and hence, we presume, the passionate desire of 

 • a certain class of individuals to go in quest of it. The late 

 Mr. Williams, whether mad or sober, appears to have been 

 less successful in his claims to identity with poor little 

 Louis, the Dauphin, than the many pretenders who pre- 

 ceded him.] 



Marshall Queries. — Can any reader of " N. & 

 Q." give any information relative to Sir George 

 Marshall, Knight, Equerry to King James I., and 

 his daughter, who married Marmaduke Marshall of 

 Morton-upon-Swayle in the county of York, by 

 whom she had four children. What became of 

 them, and what their names ? 



There is a pedigree of this family in Harleian 

 MSS. No. 1487. p. 291. b— 2. The name of the 

 residence of Sir George Marshall is illegible in the 

 manuscript.* Were these Marshalls members of 

 the family of Marshall of Carleton in the county 

 of Notts ? 



I should also be glad to get some information 

 respecting the " two Marshalls " mentioned in 

 Lysons' Cheshire. They were daughters of Mr. 

 Marshall, chaplain to Lord Gerard, and were 

 famous women-actors in London in 1 672 ; one of 

 them was the original Roxana in Lee's Alexander 

 the Great, and was decoyed into a sham marriage 

 by Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford. It is said 

 that Charles II. insisted upon his settling a pen- 

 sion upon her, and she never appeared on the 

 stage after. Had she any children, and what 

 became of them ? G. W. M. 



[There is a little obscurity in the biography of these 

 two celebrated actresses. Sir Peter Leycester, who mar- 

 ried a daughter of Lord Gerard of Bromley, observes, in 

 his History of Cheshire, that "the two famous women- 

 actors in London were daugliters of Marshall, chap- 

 lain to Lord Gerard, by Elizabeth, bastard daughter of 

 .John Dutton of Dutton. Sir Peter, being connected by 

 marriage with the Duttons, ought to have known the 

 facts connected with the parentage of these ladies. From 

 an entry in Pepys's Diari/ (2()th Oct. 1607), it would 

 seem, however, that Anne and Rebecca Marshall were the 

 daughters of Stephen Marshall, a Presbyterian minister. 

 But, as Lord Br.iybrooke observes in a note on this passage, 

 " it does not seem likely that Lord Gerard, who was a staunch 

 Boyalisl, would have selected a Presbyterian minister for 



[* Sometime of Cole Park, co. Wilts.] 



his chaplain. If Nell Gwyn's story was untrue, the re- 

 mark would have lost all its point." Pepys says, " Mrs. 

 Pierce tells me that the two INIarshalls "at the King's 

 house are Stephen Marshall's, the great Presbyterian's 

 daughters: and that Nelly [Gwyn] and Becke Marshall, 

 falling out the other day, the latter called the other my 

 Lord Buckhurst's mistress. Nell answered her, ' I was 

 but one man's mistress, though I was brought up in a 

 brothel to fill strong waters to the gentlemen ; and you 

 are a mistress to three or four, though a Presbyter's pray- 

 ing daughter.' " 



Again, the story narrated by Hamilton, in his Memoirs 

 of Count Grammont, of a trick played off by Aubrey de 

 Vere, Earl of Oxford, on a player of the part of Roxana, 

 does not relate to either of the Marshalls, but more pro- 

 bably to Mrs. Davenport. Geneste, who seems to have 

 investigated the origin of this story, states, that " The 

 Memoirs of the Count de Grammont were translated by 

 Boyer in 1714. At p. 246. we have a story, which is 

 briefly as follows : The Earl of Oxford fell in love with a 

 handsome plaj'er, belonging to the Duke's Theatre, who 

 acted to perfection, particularly the part of Roxana in the 

 Rival Queens, insomuch that she was afterwards called by 

 that name. The Earl, not having succeeded in his at- 

 tempts to seduce her, had recourse to the stratagem of 

 marrying her by a sham parson. When the cheat was 

 discovered, she threw herself in vain at the king's feet, to 

 demand justice : she was fain to rise up again without 

 redress, and to be contented with an annuity of .300/. 

 Curll, in his History of the Stage, 1741, says Mrs. Mar- 

 shall was more known by the name of Roxalana from her 

 acting that part. He then gives an account of her sham 

 marriage with the Earl of Oxford. It does not, however, 

 appear that Mrs. Marshall acted Roxalana in any play. 

 Davies, in his Miscellanies, vol. iii. p. 278., repeats the 

 story of Mrs. Marshall and Lord Oxford. Malone sup- 

 poses that Roxalana was Blrs. Davenport, who acted 

 Roxalana in the Siege of Rhodes at Lincoln's Inn Fields 

 in 1661, and Roxalana in 3Iustapha in 1663: this is 

 highly probable. In a new translation of the Memoirs 

 which was published in 1818, we find a material difference 

 from Boyer's translation : we there read that the actress, 

 of whom the story is told, had acted ' Roxana in a very 

 fashionable new play.' Boyer appears to have falsified the 

 text in a most unjustifiable manner; he ought to have 

 translated the words as he found them, and then have 

 given his supposed information as to the name of the 

 play in a note. The author of the Memoirs had evidently 

 forgotten the name of the play : he seems to have called 

 the actress Roxana, by mistake, instead of Roxalana. 

 The name of Roxana does not occur in any play that 

 came out between the Restoration and 1667, when the 

 Rival Queens was printed. An actress in the Duke's 

 Theatre could not possibly have acted Roxana in the Ri- 

 val Queens, as that play came out at the King's Theatre. 

 Besides the Rival Queens was not written till some years 

 after the pretended marriage — so that there seems no 

 reason whatever for supposing that the actress mentioned 

 in the Memoirs was Mrs. Slarshall ; and there is the 

 strongest reason for concluding that she was Jlrs. Daven- 

 port. Downes expressly says that Mrs. Davenport was 

 erept the stage by love : she was probably decoyed into a 

 sham marriage ; and, as she had an annuity of 300?. 

 a-year, she did not return to the stage. The very fashion- 

 able play was, in all probability, Mustapha." — Some Ac- 

 count of the English Stage, i. 48.] 



Dunelvessel. — Is Dunelvessel the modern name 

 of Dunilbrissel ? 



In a note from Sir Walter Scott to the late 

 Thomas Uvvins, the names of Dunelvessel and 



