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FRODSHAM. In Mrs. Raine Ellis' s edition
of Frances Burney's Diary in her preface
to the "Tingmouth Journal " there is an
obscure reference to a Mrs. Frodsham, ap
parently a cousin of Mrs. Gast's (Mr. Crisp's
executrix). Can any one tell me if there are
any living descendants of the Frodsham
family ? If so, particulars would be wel-
come. GWENDOLINE GOODWIN.
THE Two RYHOPES, co. DURHAM. According to Surtees, King Athelstan gave or restored South Wearmouth to the See of Durham about the year 930, and the grant included amongst other vills the two Ryhopes. Can any reader explain what the grant was intended to convey when it mentioned the two Ryhopes ? A. E. OTJGHTRED.
Castle Eden.
/WILLIAM PENN'S SCHOOL. A contem- porary states that about 1658-9 JVVilliam Penn, the Quaker, " went to a private school on Tower Hill." What is known of this school ? ALBERT COOK MYERS.
Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, E.G.
STEWART FAMILY. Early in the eighteenth century the Hon. Oliver Lambart, brother of the Earl of Cavan, married Frances Stewart. Can any of your readers kindly give the names of her parents, and, if possible, say to which family of Stewarts they be- longed? Mrs. Frances Lambart died Jan. 3, 1750, aged 67, and was buried at Westminster Abbey. Her youngest daughter and co- heiress, Sophia, married, in 1745/6, her cousin, the sixth Earl of Cavan, but left no issue. A. H. MACLEAN.
14 Dean Road, Willesden Green, N.W.
MEMORY AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH. 1. It is said that in the hour of death, especially by drowning, every event of the person's past life is usually recalled. Is there any authentic evidence about this ? Two friends of mine, each of whom has been nearly drowned, tell me they had no such experience. Neither got so far as being unconscious, and one thought this might account for his not passing his life in review. In what percentage of such cases of escape from imminent death as have been recorded is the experience noted ?
2. Is being frozen to death a very painful process ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
DEATH WARRANTS. Does the King of England still sign " death warrants," and if not, when was the practice discon- tinued ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
PORTSMOUTH : SOUTHWICK. Is anything
known of the following churches or chapels
that existed in the Middle Ages in Porte-
mouth or the Island of Portsea, which are
practically synonymous : St. Mary Colewort,
St. Lawrence, St. Andrew, St. Mary Mag-
dalen, and Little Gatcombe Priory ?
There is a good deal of history attached to the Augustinian Priory of Southwick, about seven miles from Portsmouth, founded at Porchester 1133, moved to Southwick about 1145-53, but is there any picture or description of the buildings ? What were the books Leland found there and mentioned in the * Collectanea ' (? vol. iv. p. 148) ?
FRANCIS.
SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DUTCH PRINT. I desire to trace a Dutch print I presume anonymous of a group of women fighting for a pair of breeches. I cannot find it at the British Museum, either in the Print Room or Library. The only reproduction of it I know is in a book by J. Grand-Carteret, entitled 'La Femme en Culotte,' which appears impossible to procure just now. The period is Elizabethan. Perhaps one of your many readers can put me in the way of finding it. F. M. KELLY.
FRYER. Can any reader throw light on bhe descendants of Mark Fryer and Margaret his wife ? He had the following children : Robert of Aldermanbury, London ; Ralph of Guildhall Yard and Edmonton ; Richard ; Sarah, wife of Thomas Umpleby ; Margaret and Elizabeth.
The above Robert Fryer had children, Susanna, Sara, and Mark. Richard Fryer had a daughter, name unknown, who
married Deacon. Robert was alive in
1788. GERALD FOTHERGILL.
PIGOTT OF HARLOW. Information is re- quested as to the issue (if any) of Thomas Pigott of Harlow, Essex. He was alive in 1775 as he occurs in a tithe rental for that ear. His children may have been born in Condon, as his father was Thomas Pigott f St. John the Baptist, London, grocer.
GERALD FOTHERGILL. 11 Brussels Road, S.W.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad of details concerning the life and works of the following: (1) Joannes Funccius, flor. 1550. (2) J. G. Sparfuenfeld, linguist, 1655-1727. (3) Jean Petit, printer at Paris, late fifteenth century. Where could a list of the books Petit printed be found ?
C. J. HOWES.
