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Thomas Sydenham. — Some time about the 

 commencement of the present century, there was 

 a Thomas Sydenham, Esq., in the East India 

 Company's Madras military establishment. He 

 was afterwards Resident at the Court of the 

 Nizam at Hyderabad, and subsequently returned 

 to Europe. I am desirous of learning where and 

 when he died ; if possible, also, where and when 

 he was born ; if he was married, and left any 

 children, and what became of them. I wish be- 

 sides to discover in what part of England his 

 parents resided prior to his going otit to India. 

 If any reader of " N. & Q." will kindly furnish 

 the above information, I shall be much obliged. 



E. Y. H. 



Rev. Christopher Chilcott, M.A. — I should 

 be greatly obliged for any information respecting 

 this clergyman, the name of his cure, &c. He 

 was of Magdalen Hall, Oxford; B.A. 1687, M.A. 

 1690, and is believed to have settled in one of the 

 western counties. C. J. Robinson. 



" Bregis," etc. — In an inventory of the goods 

 of the church of Bodmin delivered over to the 

 churchwardens, a. d. 1539, occur the following 

 items, concerning which I would ask information : 



" It. too coopes of white Satyn of bregis. 

 It. too coopes of red satyn of bregis. 

 It. a pere of vestments, called molybere. 

 It a front of molyber. 

 It. 3 vant. clothes. 



It. a boxe of every with a lake of sylver. 

 It. one Jesus cotte of purpell sarcenett. 

 It. 4 tormeteris cotes." 



The document is transcribed in the Rev. John 

 "W'allis's " Bodmin Register." Thomas Q. Couch. 



John Do Quesne. — Who was Johannes Du 

 Quesne, Baro de Crepon, of whom there is an 

 engraving by Drevet. Arms, a chevron between 

 three oak branches bearing acorns ; supporters, 

 two greyhounds gorged. F. D. 



"The Black List." — A work in my posses- 

 sion is intitled — 



"The Principles of a Member of the Black List set 

 forth by way of Dialogue, London : Printed for George 

 Stralian, at the Golden Ball, near the Royal Exchange in 

 Comhill. 1702. 8vo. pp. 575." 



It is dedicated to — 



" Robert Harley, Esq., late Speaker to the House of 

 Commons, and to all the Honourable and Worthy Mem- 

 bers of the late Parliament whose names are inserted in 

 a Paper commonly called the Black List." 



At first sight one would take it as a book of a 



Eolitical complexion, whereas it is on the whole a 

 ody of " Christian Meditations," or in other 

 words, a kind of system of divinity ; and if all 

 the members of the " Black List " espoused its 

 sentiments, they were not by any means a dan- 

 gerous class in the nation. I think, however, 

 there must have been some political reference in- 



tended by the designation " Black List," and if 

 any one can clear up why so called, it will add 

 to the interest of the reader as rather a curious , 

 book of the period. G. N. 



Mence Family. — Rev. Benj. Mence, B.A., 

 Merton Col. Oxford, 1746 ; M. A. King's Col. 

 Cam. 1752 ; Vicar of St. Pancras, and Cardinal 

 of St. Paul's, 1749 ; Rector of All Hallows, London 

 Wall, 1758 ; ob. 19 Dec. 1796. 



" In whom the classical world have lost a scientific 

 genius, and whose vocal powers as an English singer re- 

 main unrivalled." {Gent. Mag. vol. lxvi. 1116.) 



" 20 Feb. 1786. Died, Samuel Mence, one of the Gen- 

 tlemen of H.M. Chapel Royal, St. James, and one of the 

 Lay Vicars of Lichfield, brother of the Rev. B. Mence of 

 St. Pancras." {Gent. 3Iag. vol. lvi. 276.) 



Information respecting the character of these 

 brothers will be acceptable to W. Mence. 



Liverpool. 



Foxe's Book of Martyrs. — Notwithstanding 

 the careful inquiries of Mr. Nichols and your 

 other correspondents, there still remains one point 

 connected with the early history of the Book of 

 Martyrs which stands in need of investigation. 

 Indeed, I am rather surprised that the point has 

 not been investigated by some of your contribu- 

 tors, as it involves a question of some literary 

 interest. Many of your readers are aware that 

 doubts have been from the first entertained of 

 the genuineness of Knox's History of the Reforma- 

 tion. The first book of that history, written, ac- 

 cording to M'Crie in 1571, contains long extracts 

 from Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and on this ground 

 alone Archbishop Spottiswoode denies that Knox 

 ever wrote the History, for, as he asserts, no edi- 

 tion of Foxe had then appeared. The archbishop's 

 argument we now know rests on a false founda- 

 tion ; but it establishes a very curious fact, that, 

 within a century of the publication of the first 

 edition of the Book of Martyrs, the edition of 

 1563 was become so scarce as to be unknown 

 even to so accomplished a scholar as Spottis- 

 woode. I would propose therefore for investi- 

 gation the following points : — 



Is there any copy in Scotland of the edition of 

 1563, whose existence in that country can be 

 traced back to 1570, or thereabouts? 



Were any means used to destroy the copies of 

 the early editions ? as we can scarcely ascribe to 

 time alone their extreme rarity. 



Can any evidence be adduced to prove (what I 

 believe to have been the case) that the accounts 

 of the Scotch martyrs were furnished to Foxe by 

 Knox ? . R. D 



Aberdeen. 



Dinner Etiquette. — The writer of some very 

 agreeable criticism, in one of our late Reviews 

 (but I cannot now lay my hand on it) respecting 

 Miss Austen's novels, observes on the traits of 



