2» d S. IX. June 16. '60.] 



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explanation, which I am persuaded is wrong ; and 

 yet I cannot give a better one. Will some one 

 of your many Irish readers kindly assist me ? 



Abhba. 

 Seize Quartiers. — Some time since, a gentle- 

 man named Bridger, of Keppel Street, Russell 

 Square, advertised a work on the Sixteen Quar- 

 ters, to be published I believe by subscription. 

 Can anyone give me information as to the work 

 and its progress ? or whether Mr. Bridger is still 

 living ? P. P. 



" Mousquetaires Noirs." — In the history of 

 the First or Royal Dragoons I read that that re- 

 giment captured the standard of the " Mousque- 

 taires noirs" at the battle of Dettingen, in 1743. 

 Any information about this circumstance would 

 be very acceptable. Who were the " Mousque- 

 taires noirs"? "Were they as terrible fellows as 

 the Black Brunswickers ? Templar. 



Westminster Hale. — I should feel exceed- 

 ingly obliged if any of your correspondents would 

 furnish me with the correct admeasurements of 

 Westminster Hall, or say which of the following 

 data are to be relied upon : — 



Single Supporter to Arms. — King Charles I. 

 is said to have granted to the Lord of the Manor 

 of Stoke Lyne, Oxfordshire, the privilege of bear- 

 ing his arms on the breast of a hawk, in acknow- 

 ledgement of services rendered him in those 

 troublous times while holding his Parliament at 

 Oxford. (Curiosities of Heraldry, p. 142., and 

 Hone's Table Book.) 



Would Ma. Lower, or some other of your'cor- 

 respondents, oblige me with the name of the family 

 thus honoured ? 



I should be glad to be informed of any other 

 instances, English or foreign, in which a single 

 supporter has been used. Of course I know how 

 Counts of the Holy Roman Empire bear their 

 arms. J. W. 



Wm. Rennell. — Notwithstanding the dili- 

 gence displayed by the compilers of the Hiogra- 

 phia Dramatica, we occasionally meet with an 

 unlucky dramatist who has been shut out of the 

 record. One such is William Rennell, Esq., of 



the Bengal Civil Service, who wrote Experimental 

 Philosophy, or the Effects of Chemistry, a Play in 

 Three Acts, Calcutta, 1804. In this Mr. 11. calls 

 himself author of the Choice of a Wife ; Maid 

 of the Cottage, §~c, Src, Src. Anything about him 

 or his works will be acceptable. J. O. 



Rev. J. Leslie Armstrong. — Can any of your 

 readers give me any information regarding the 

 Rev. J. Leslie Armstrong, author of Scenes in 

 Craven, York, 1835 ? I think he is also the au- 

 thor of a curious volume of poems, having the 

 title of Hart Pearles, published about 1847 (?). 



A. Z. 



Rev. John Walker. — In the Gentleman's 

 Magazine, 1807 (pp. 1085. 1170.), there is a short 

 biographical notice of the Rev. John Walker, vicar 

 of Bawdesey, Suffolk, who died at Norwich, 12th 

 Nov. 1807. Mr. Walker is there described as 

 " an admirable scholar, and possessed of a very 

 brilliant imagination and' most refined taste." 

 Proposals were published for printing his col- 

 lected works. Can any one who may have seen 

 these "Proposals" give me any information re- 

 garding those works of Mr. Walker which were 

 to have appeared in this collected edition ? A. Z. 



Stolen Brass. — A letter, of which the follow- 

 ing is the substance, appears in the Leicester 

 Journal of March 30th. Perhaps some correspon- 

 dent of " N. & Q." can give the required informa- 

 tion : — 



" To the Editor of the Leicester Journal. 



" Sip., — Can any of your readers inform me where the 

 brass, with the inscription given below, is taken from ? 

 I found it on a broker's stall in our market a few weeks 

 ago ; and should be happy to restore it to its legitimate 

 locality. Yours, respectfully, Thos. F. Sap.son." 



" ' Here lyeth bvryed Ye body of Rob. 

 Le Grys, Esqr., sometimes Lord & Pa- 

 tron of this CHVRCH, sone to Christo- 

 pher Le Grys, Esqr. He marryed Svsan, 

 Daughter & Coheir to Tho. Ayre, Esqr., 

 by whom he had issue Christopher, 

 dyed the 9th of Februarie, 158-.' 

 " The last figure in the year is too much defaced to be 

 distinguished." 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 



eaucmS tottlj STttJ»o)cr$. 



"Logic: or, The Chestnut Horse." — Who 

 was the author of a humorous piece entitled "The 

 Chestnut Horse," and beginning : 



" An Eton stripling training for the law, 

 A dunce at syntax, but a dab at taw"? — 



And where is it to be found ? S. B. 



[This amusing piece will be found in Scrapiuna, or 

 Elegant Extracts of Wit, edit. 1819, p. 377., where it is 

 entitled " Logic." The authorship was inquired after in 

 our ■•>»•* S. v. 411. We have heard it attributed to George 

 Colman, Juu.] 



