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Troinp's, and persist in speaking of " Van " 

 Tromp. Do the English think, that, by their 

 augmenting the latter and diminishing the former, 

 the hero of Chatham will be eclipsed by Monk's 

 antagonist, the hero of ter Heyde (Aug. 1653) ? 



J. H. van Lennep. 

 Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



The French Alphabet, a Drama (2 nd S. i. 

 284.) — The French pun your correspondent F. 

 C. H. refers to, is not " a nursery rhyme," or " a 

 fragment of some French verses on the Alpha- 

 bet," but a French Drama in one Act, composed 

 out of the letters of the Alphabet, as they follow 

 in order. It should be read thus : — 



"Abbe! ceilez! Eh-eff, j'ai hache! Ikae'l aime Enno; 

 Pe'ciu est reste'! uvx, ygreczed ! " 



Pequ, the hero, addresses and threatens the 

 Abbot, who is the tyrant of the piece. Eh-efF, 

 one of the Abbot's creatures, is going to fly to his 

 master's aid, but retreats, warned by a show of 

 Pequ's axe. Now comes the development of the 

 plot : Ikael loves Enno ; Pequ, who was thought 

 to be far away, is there to protect .them ! Uvx 

 and ygrec-zed don't " do something," as F. C. H. 

 has it, but are Pequ's foreign guards, and are 

 perhaps expected to act the part of your melo- 

 dramatic sailors in opposing the Abbot's menials. 



For further particulars, I must direct you to 

 the Encyclopedic du Catembourg, which I quote 

 from recollection. J. H. van Lennep. 



Zeyst, near Utrecht. 



Anne Bolevn's Ancestry (2 nd S. vii. 147.) — 

 Queen Elizabeth was the great-great-grandchild 

 of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, as will appear from the 

 follosving pedigree compiled from Blomefield's 

 Norfolk, vol. iii. pp. 626—628. 



Geffrey Boleyn. Will: 

 proved 2 July, 1463. 



Anne, daughter and coheir 

 of Thomas Lord Hastings. 



Sir William Boleyn, buried in=Margaret, daughter and coheir of 

 Norwich Cathedral, 1505. I Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond. 



Sir Thomas Bullen=Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 

 buried at Hever. I Duke of Norfolk. 



Ann Boleyn=King Henry VIII. 



Queen Elizabeth. 



Extraneus. 



Saint E-tiian or Y-tuan (2 1 " 1 S. ix. 222.) — 

 The only known saints whose names approach to 

 the above, are St. Elha, an anchorite at Crie, near 

 fork, who died in 767 ; and St. Etha alias Tcthu, 

 or Theha, in whose name a church is dedicated in 

 Cornwall. Whether the former of these, or either 

 of them, can be the saint whose name is given to 

 a well in Scotland must I fear be left to conjec- 

 ture, p. C. II. 



The saint, about whom Mr, Macdonald asks, 

 is, I make no doubt, the S. Ethenanus com- 



memorated in the Aberdeen Breviary on the 2nd 

 of December, where it is said of him : — " Ether- 

 nanus episcopus ex Scotis non ignobili familia 

 genitus — ecclesiam de Rathine in Buchanias 

 finibus omnipotenti Deo consecravit qua? usque 

 hodie in honore ipsius in presens dedicata est." 

 For a further account of this saint, Mr. Mac- 

 donald, whose Query has preserved some valu- 

 able records of him, may look into the Aberdeen 

 Breviary, a book which will afford our northern 

 antiquaries much valuable information on most 

 questions connected with Scottish hagiology, and 

 does so much credit to the spirit of its English 

 publisher, Mr. Toovey, for the splendid way in 

 which he has brought it out. D. Rock. 



Brook Green, Hammersmith. 



Passage from Coleridge, the Elder (2 nd S. 

 i. 254. 403.) — It is remarkable that neither the 

 querist nor the respondent (H. B. C.) seems to be 

 aware that the "learned and pious" divine re- 

 ferred to was none other than the father of Samuel 

 Taylor Coleridge. H. B. C. appears to possess 

 the Dissertations arising from the Seventeenth and 

 Eighteenth Chapters of the Book of Judges, 1758. 

 I am very anxious to peruse this work. Would 

 H. B. C. object to lend me his copy ? If not, 

 and he would say where he would leave it out for 

 me, I should be only too happy to call or send for 

 it. Clammild. 



Athenaeum Club. 



Excise Office : William Robinson (2 nd S. 

 vi. 326. ; ix. 271.) — Mr. Papworth, in discover- 

 ing the name of the architect of the Excise Office, 

 has partially answered my request for informa- 

 tion respecting William Robinson. Can he oblige 

 me with the names of any other buildings de- 

 signed by this architect, of whom I shall be happy 

 to give him all the particulars with which I am 

 acquainted ? The west side of the old Royal 

 Exchange was rebuilt by him in 1767, and I be- 

 lieve that he was associated with Sir W. Cham- 

 bers in building Somerset House. C. J. R. 



Sir Walter Raleigh's House (2 nd S. ix. 243.) 



— Lysons says that Sir Walter Raleigh had a 

 house and estate at. Mitcham, Surrey ; but he is 

 doubtful whether he inherited the property from 

 Sir John Ralegh (whose widow held lands in this 

 parish), or in right of his wife, who was a daughter 

 of Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, and had been maid 

 of honour to Queen Elizabeth. The house and 

 lands were sold in 1616 (when Sir Walter was 

 preparing for an expedition to Guiana) to Thomas 

 Plumer, Esq., M.P. for Hertfordshire, for 2500/., 

 and were eventually let to John Bond, Esq., whose 

 widow was in the occupation of them in 1811. The 

 house must not be confounded with the house in 

 Mitcham called " Raleigh House," formerly in 

 the occupation of Mr. Dempster, who kept an 

 academy there about 1796. Dysons does not men- 



